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| Mollah Execution: Dhaka protests Pak resolution |
| 2013-12-18 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Dhaka yesterday summoned the Pakistain high commissioner and strongly protested Islamabad's reaction to the execution of war criminal Quader Mollah, terming it interference in the domestic affairs of Bangladesh. In a two-page aide-memoire to the envoy, the government deplored the resolutions adopted by the Pakistain National Assembly and Punjab Provincial Assembly expressing concern over Mollah's capital punishment. It also sharply reacted to a senior Pakistain minister's calling the execution "a judicial murder". "Bangladesh finds such remarks completely untrue, biased and absolutely inappropriate," reads the aide-memoire. The statement was handed to Pakistain High Commissioner in Dhaka Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi Qureshi at the foreign ministry late in the afternoon. It says, "It is the expectations of the people of Bangladesh that decisions and stature of the highest courts and judicial bodies of Bangladesh are duly respected by all concerned in Pakistain and utmost restraint is exercised specially by the responsible quarters of the government." Later, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali told news hounds, "For where Bangladesh stands today, we are not afraid of anyone's threat." He said the hanging of Mollah is Bangladesh's domestic affairs. Pakistain must not meddle in it. The adoption of the resolutions in Pakistain assemblies was tantamount to interfering in internal affairs of Bangladesh and it was not right for Islamabad to do so. |
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