Bangladesh Tuesday summoned the Pakistani envoy in Dhaka and handed him a protest note amid renewed tensions in bilateral ties after the two countries “detained” each other’s diplomatic staff for hour
Bangladesh Tuesday summoned the Pakistani envoy in Dhaka and handed him a protest note amid renewed tensions in bilateral ties after the two countries “detained” each other’s diplomatic staff for hours over the 1971 war crimes trial.
Pakistan high commi-ssioner Shuja Alam was summoned, a foreign ministry spokesman here said but declined to elaborate immediately. The Pak envoy, emerging from the office of the acting foreign secretary Mohammad Khurshid Alam’s office, told reporters he was asked about the incident in which a Bangladesh high commission official in Islamabad went missing. “I have been informed of Monday’s incident and I will convey the details to the (Bangladesh) foreign ministry after discussions with the Islamabad authorities,” he said. A foreign ministry official said a “protest note” was handed over to the high commissioner on the “detention of our staff”. Bangladesh foreign ministry officials earlier said the personal officer of a Bangladeshi diplomat in Islamabad had gone missing but returned home “unhurt”.
“Our high commission-er in Islamabad briefly talked to Jahangir Hoss-ain. We are trying to know the details of what actually happened to him,” a foreign ministry spokesman said. The incident came hours after the police in Dhaka detained Abrar Ahmed Khan, an official of Pakistan high commission here for his “suspicious movement”. Mr Kh-an was detained for questioning and later handed over to officials of the Pakistan high commission after taking an undertaking from him, a spokesman of the Dhaka Metropolitan police said.
2 get death in Bangla for war crimes Two members of the notorious Razakar Bahini, an auxiliary force of the Pakistani Army, were Tuesday sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi war crimes tribunal for crimes committed, mainly against Hindus, during the 1971 liberation war. Obaidul Haq Taher, 66, and Ataur Rahman Noni, 62, are members of the Razakar force, an auxiliary force of the Pakistan Army. They face six charges, including murder and genocide. They had pleaded not guilty, Dhaka Tribune reported. They were given death penalties on two charges and imprisonment till death in two other charges by the country’s International Crimes Tribunal.
