... aka
Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five...
seems to have been persuaded into believing that war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah, executed in Dhaka last week, was innocent of the charges levelled against him.
Khan, who heads the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is
Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
Party, told a session of his country's national assembly on Monday that Mollah's innocence had been testified to by a lawyer from the human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
group Reprieve. The lawyer, he said, was part of Mollah's legal defence team.
In his address, Imran Khan chose to ignore the various levels of legalities employed in Mollah's trial before the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition....
leader was finally convicted and hanged.
Mollah, originally sentenced to life in prison in February this year, had his conviction turned into one of execution by Bangladesh's Supreme Court in September. The sentencing prompted Mollah's lawyers to file two review petitions before the SC, which dismissed the petitions.
The Jamaat leader, convicted of killing a number of Bangalees in collaboration with the Pakistain occupation army, was hanged on December 12.
Pakistain's interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who continues to misinform Paks about what actually their soldiers did in Bangladesh in 1971, also spoke at the same national assembly session.
"We witnessed the fall of Dhaka forty-two years ago and we seem to have not learnt our lesson," he said but did not explain his statement.
The Pakistain assembly, in a fresh indication of the lessons not learnt by the country's establishment since Bangladesh's battlefield triumph in 1971, adopted on December 16 a resolution demanding that the Bangladesh government not resurrect the issues of 1971 but should end all cases against the Jamaat leadership in Bangladesh. It said not a word about the atrocities the Jamaat committed, in association with the Pakistain army, during the nine-month war.