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Pakistan summons Bangladesh envoy over Jamaat leader hanging

Xinhua, May 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

Pakistan on Thursday summoned Bangladeshi envoy over the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami chief, Motiur Rahman Nizami, who was hanged on Tuesday over alleged war crimes during the 1971 separation movement.

Nizami was sent to gallows after the Bangladesh Supreme Court rejected his plea to review the death penalty. Jamaat had opposed the separation movement.

"The Acting High Commissioner of Bangladesh was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today and 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," the Foreign Ministry said.

"The attempts by the Government of Bangladesh to malign Pakistan, despite our keen desire to develop brotherly relations with it, are regrettable," a statement said.

Pakistan recalled to the envoy that the 1974 Tripartite Agreement is the cornerstone of relations between the two countries and that, as part of the Agreement, the Government of Bangladesh "decided not to proceed with the trials as an act of clemency."

In an earlier statement the Foreign Ministry had stated that Pakistan has been following the reaction of the international community and human rights organizations to the "controversial trials in Bangladesh" related to events of 1971.

The Bangladesh Jamaat said last week that Nizami was innocent as he had "no links with war crimes" in 1971. The party also said "Nizami was deprived of justice."

In Pakistan, Jammat-e-Islami staged rallies in major cities to condemn Niazmi's execution.

Pakistani parliament also criticized the execution in a resolution on Wednesday. Endit