Bangladeshi Diplomat Declared Persona non Grata, Pakistan-Bangladesh Diplomatic Row Unfolds
Thursday, January 7th, 2016 5:43:01 by modousarr
Moushumi Rahman, a Bangladeshi Diplomat attached to the High Commission in Islamabad was declared persona non grata by the Pakistani government. She was a political attache and head of chancery in Islamabad.
No reason was advanced by the Bangladeshi Foreign Service about her exit from Pakistan but diplomatic sources in Islamabad claim she was involved in what they described as “anti-state activities”.
It has been claimed that the expulsion of Rahman from Pakistan is an apparent act of retaliation for the expulsion of a Pakistani official Farina Arshad at Dhaka’s request on December 23rd, she was accused of funding a suspected extremist currently on trial for espionage related activities on behalf of Pakistan.
Islamabad refuted these claims which it described as “baseless” and “spurious”.
Islamabad and Dhaka have had a volatile diplomatic relationship in the recent past.
The deterioration of bilateral relations between the two countries began after Pakistani Foreign Service officials issued a statement condemning the state execution of two former Bengali leaders, former senior Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-i-Islami’s secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid in November accused of war crimes by an international tribunal for genocide and rape during the 1971 war.
Under a tripartite agreement signed in 1974, Bangladesh had agreed not to put anyone on trial for crimes against humanity during the 1971 war in the interest of regional peace.
Pakistani Foreign Service officials made it a point to remind Bangladesh of this agreement in a statement saying it regretted the killing of the two leaders and this sparked a tense diplomatic row between the two countries since November 2015.
Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that Rahman as left for Dhaka onboard a Turkish Airlines flight via Istanbul.
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Posted by modousarr
on Jan 7 2016. Filed under Latest News, Pakistan.
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