Dhaka has summoned Pakistani acting high commissioner Ahmed Hussain Dayo over the recent statement of the country's home minister, criticising the death sentence to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rehman Nizami.
Foreign Ministry has issued a press release in this regard on Thursday.
According to the press note, Bangladesh has handed over a letter to the Pakistani envoy, strongly protesting the remarks of Pakistani home minister.
Terming the comments as "unwarranted and inappropriate", Additional Foreign Secretary (Bilateral) M Mizanur Rahman said: "They amounted to directly interfering with the internal affairs of Bangladesh."
He said vested quarters in Pakistan were advised to mind their own business and set their house in order rather than try to interfere with the matters which fell within Bangladesh's domestic jurisdiction.
"It was only through ensuring justice that the wounds and trauma inflicted by those crimes in our national psyche can be healed and put behind," he added.
He also informed that the Government of Pakistan was requested to take serious note of all these issues.
Expressing concern over Nizami's death penalty, Pakistan's Home Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said 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 totally ignoring the time-tested virtue of forgive and forget.
In a statement, he said that though what happened in Bangladesh was that country’s internal matter, yet Pakistan could not remain divorced from references to 1971 and its aftermath.
Nizami was sentenced to death for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. Eight charges out of total 16, which include conspiracy, planning, complicity, incitement and active participation were proved, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 pronounced.
