Pakistan Bangladesh Diplomatic Row; The Saga Continues
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016 5:43:03 by modousarr
Pakistan’s high commissioner in Bangladesh, was summoned by Bangladeshi authorities amid a deteriorating diplomatic standoff between the two countries.
Current tensions were triggered by executions of two Bangladeshi opposition leaders convicted of crimes against humanity during the 1971 war also known as the Bangladeshi Liberation war.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry subsequently condemned the executions and criticized the Bangladeshi government for breaking agreements formed after the war that included immunity from war crimes prosecution for war leaders.
After an exchange of rhetoric from state officials from both sides, a Bangladeshi diplomat was detained for hours by police on Monday.
In what appears to some as a retaliatory act, an official of the Pakistani’ High Commission in Bangladesh was detained in Dhaka by police for what they termed “suspicious movement”.
The Pakistani high commissioner was summoned hours after the official was in police custody and both officials were released within hours of being detained.
These incidents are the latest in a series of diplomatic disputes between the two countries.
In January a Pakistani Diplomat in Dhaka was expelled, on espionage allegations, shortly after, a Bangladeshi diplomat in Islamabad was also expelled.
Meanwhile, the Bangladeshi War crimes tribunal had continued with the prosecution and sentencing of two more men, convicting them of killing, kidnapping and looting during the war. Obaidul Haque Taher and Ataur Rahman Noni also face state execution.
The tribunal was formed in 2010 and has since convicted 25 people sentencing 21 to death.
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