In a tit-for-tat, Pakistan and Bangladesh both summoned each other's envoys on Thursday , as the row over execution of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for 1971 war crimes escalated.
“A strong protest was lodged at the unfortunate hanging of Mr Motiur Rahman Nizami on the alleged crimes committed before December 1971 through a flawed judicial process,“ Pakistan foreign office (FO) said in a statement. Bangladeshi envoy Nazmul Huda was on Thursday summoned to the foreign office a day after Pakistan issued a statement expressing sadness over the “unfortunate hanging“ and National Assembly passed a resolution condemning the execution.
The Pakistan FO said that the 1974 Tripartite Agreement is the cornerstone of relations between the two countries.
Hours later in Dhaka, Pakistan's high commissioner Shuja Alam was called at the FO where he was handed over a strong note verbale. Nizami was convicted for supporting Pakistan army in 1971 crackdown on dissidents.
Turkey on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Bangladesh for consultations after strongly protesting the execution in the country of a top Islamist leader. Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at a Dhaka jail late on Tuesday for the massacre of intellectuals during the 1971 independence war with Pakistan. Turkey’s ambassador to Dhaka, Devrim Ozturk, is due to arrive back in Turkey on Thursday.
The Turkish foreign ministry had already strongly condemned the execution, saying it did not believe that “Nizami deserved such a punishment”. It said that Turkey, which has abolished capital punishment, feared that the use of such methods risked creating “rancour and hatred between our Bangladeshi brothers”.
Meanwhile Turkey’s president strongly condemned the execution of Nizami in Bangladesh.
In a speech in Ankara on Thursday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country had recalled his ambassador from Bangladesh in protest.
“A strong protest was lodged at the unfortunate hanging of Mr Motiur Rahman Nizami on the alleged crimes committed before December 1971 through a flawed judicial process,“ Pakistan foreign office (FO) said in a statement. Bangladeshi envoy Nazmul Huda was on Thursday summoned to the foreign office a day after Pakistan issued a statement expressing sadness over the “unfortunate hanging“ and National Assembly passed a resolution condemning the execution.
The Pakistan FO said that the 1974 Tripartite Agreement is the cornerstone of relations between the two countries.
Hours later in Dhaka, Pakistan's high commissioner Shuja Alam was called at the FO where he was handed over a strong note verbale. Nizami was convicted for supporting Pakistan army in 1971 crackdown on dissidents.
Turkey on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Bangladesh for consultations after strongly protesting the execution in the country of a top Islamist leader. Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at a Dhaka jail late on Tuesday for the massacre of intellectuals during the 1971 independence war with Pakistan. Turkey’s ambassador to Dhaka, Devrim Ozturk, is due to arrive back in Turkey on Thursday.
The Turkish foreign ministry had already strongly condemned the execution, saying it did not believe that “Nizami deserved such a punishment”. It said that Turkey, which has abolished capital punishment, feared that the use of such methods risked creating “rancour and hatred between our Bangladeshi brothers”.
Meanwhile Turkey’s president strongly condemned the execution of Nizami in Bangladesh.
In a speech in Ankara on Thursday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country had recalled his ambassador from Bangladesh in protest.
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