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Bangladesh
Pakistan envoy summoned over minister's comments
2014-11-07
[Dhaka Tribune] The Foreign Ministry summoned the Acting High Commissioner of Pakistain in Dhaka yesterday, to formally convey the government's disappointment over comments made by a Pak minister about the war crimes verdict on Motiur Rahman Nizami
...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them...
Ahmad Hussain Dayo was called to the ministry to be apprised of the government's position on comments made by Pakistain Home Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture...
regarding the International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh verdict, said a Foreign Ministry blurb.

Nisar Ali Khan said last week it was highly unfortunate that almost 45 years after that tragic chain of events, the Bangladeshi government still seemed to be living in the past and ignoring the time-tested virtue of forgive and forget.

The Pak politician said he believed the government of Bangladesh had misused the process of law as a political tool against the Jamaat leader.

Terming the comments unwarranted and inappropriate, the additional foreign secretary (bilateral) said the comments amounted to directly interfering with the internal affairs of Bangladesh, the blurb said.

Vested quarters in Pakistain were advised to mind their own business and set their own house in order rather than try to interfere with matters which fall within Bangladesh's domestic jurisdiction.

The additional secretary pointed out that the trials enjoyed the support of the people in Bangladesh and of the wider international community to break the culture of impunity for crimes against humanity and genocide committed in 1971.

The government of Pakistain was requested to take serious note of all these issues, the blurb said.

Noting the holding of demonstrations and provocative statements by Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
in Pakistain, the additional secretary further stated that Bangladesh expects that as a friendly neighbour, Pakistain will refrain from such activities as may hurt the sentiments of the people of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh, in December last year, strongly protested a resolution adopted by the Pakistain National Assembly on the death sentence of another Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Abdul Quader Molla.

Nizami was sentenced to death on October 29 for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
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