The government has protested a resolution adopted by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Provincial Assembly of Pakistan expressing concern over the conviction of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity and genocide during the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh against Pakistan.
The Foreign Ministry yesterday sent a diplomatic note to the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka in this regard.
The ministry deplored the resolution which it said was a “brazen denial of justice for the victims” of the heinous crimes committed by the convicted individuals and that the KPK Assembly chose to speak for Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
The KPK Assembly was advised not to make such sweeping, biased, misinformed and politically-motivated remarks about the independent legal system of a foreign country.
Through adopting the resolution, Bangladesh considers that the KPK Assembly has seriously undermined the standing as a responsible, credible and representative body speaking on behalf of its constituency.
The resolution was “tantamount to direct interference in the domestic affairs of Bangladesh,” the note said.
The Bangladesh government expressed deep sorrow as the repeated overtures made by the Pakistan side by misleading, motivated and malicious campaign against the trials of the crimes against humanity and genocide in Bangladesh.
In December last year, the Pakistan National Assembly and the Punjab Provincial Assembly adopted resolutions expressing concern over Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla’s execution. The Foreign Ministry of Bangladesh later summoned the Pakistan High Commissioner in Dhaka and sought an explanation over the matter.
Later in January, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Masood Khan at a meeting with the Bangladesh permanent representative to the UN, AK Abdul Momen, said it would not make any comment on the war crimes trial process of Bangladesh in the future.
