Pakistan to approach UN over hanging of Jamaat leaders in Bangladesh

by ABC News Reports | September 22, 2010 10:21 am

Pakistan has expressed strong reservations over the hanging of Jamaat-e-Islami leaders in Bangladesh for war crimes.

Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said they are considering moving the UN over the issue.

According to a report published in the Daily Pakistan, Aziz while addressing the Senate on Friday, said that the country would raise the matter with the UN human rights council.

Urging the international community to take note of the executions, he claimed that the hangings were in violation of the tripartite agreement signed between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh during the liberation and were politically motivated.

His comments came in the aftermath of the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami on Wednesday.

Nizami was found guilty of atrocities, murders and rapes of liberation sympathisers, intellectuals and Bengali citizens during the Liberation War of 1971.

Pakistan had come out with similar statements after the hanging of Jamaat secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, and assistant secretaries general Abdul Quader Molla and Md Kamaruzzaman for their involvement in the war crimes, prompting many organisations in Bangladesh to demand severing of diplomatic ties with the country.Leader of the House Raja Zafarul Haq called on Muslim countries to join together to prepare a plan to deter Bangladesh from going ahead with similar executions, which he claimed to be politically motivated.

House members also praised Turkey for calling its envoy back from Bangladesh and said that Pakistan should also adopt a similar stand.

However, on Thursday Bangladesh’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said that Ankara had not conveyed anything on recalling of the envoy.

Dhaka has been terming such statements by Pakistan on the execution of ’71 war criminals as “unsolicited interference”.

On Wednesday following the hanging of Nizami, a Pakistan Foreign Affairs Ministry statement said that Nizami’s only crime was that he wanted to uphold the Pakistan constitution and law.

A motion of condemnation was also moved in the Pakistan senate after Nizami’s hanging on Wednesday and the Bangladesh High Commissioner in Islamabad was summoned.

This prompted the Bangladesh government to summon the Pakistani High Commissioner in Dhaka and convey to him that by coming out against the punishments and by making such statements Pakistan was only proving its involvement in the crimes committed in 1971 for which the Jamaat leaders were being hanged.

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