Summary The Foreign Office has directed the High Commission staff in Dhaka to avoid unnecessary travel.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Hundreds of Bangladeshis protested outside Pakistan’s High Commission and protested against Pakistan for resolution against hanging of JI leader Abdul Quader Mullah.
Pakistan Foreign Office on Friday issued alert for its High Commission staff in Bangladesh. The High Commission staff has been directed to refrain from visiting public areas and unnecessary travel due to protests in Bangladesh.
Earlier, Foreign Office spokesperson, Tasneem Aslam said Friday that the Bangladeshi government was providing security to the Pakistani High Commission in Dhaka. She said that the government was in contact with the Bangladeshi Foreign Office.
Meanwhile, during the weekly Foreign Office news briefing, the spokesperson said that events in Bangladesh were an internal matter.
“Parliament’s purpose was not to intervene in the internal affairs of another country,” Aslam said in reference to the National Assembly resolution.
It is worth mentioning here that anti-Pakistan protests in Bangladesh continued on Friday.
On Thursday, protesters threatened to storm the Pakistani High Commission if Bangladesh did not suspend its diplomatic ties with Pakistan.
On Wednesday, Hundreds of Bangladeshis protested outside Pakistan’s High Commission and demanded to withdraw resolution against hanging of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh leader Abdul Qadir Mullah.
The protesters marched from Shah Bagh Chowk of Dhaka to Pakistani High Commission and entered into the Dipplomatic Enclave after crossing barricades.
Police failed to stop the enraged protesters while the mob torched Pakistani flag outside Pakistani High Commission and shouted slogans against Pakistan.
The protesters demanded the expulsion of Pakistani High Commission from Bangladesh and suspension of diplomatic relations with Pakistan.
The protest started after National Assembly of Pakistan passed a resolution against the hanging of Jammat-e-Islami Bangladesh leader Abdul Quader Mullah.
On Tuesday, Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Pakistan s high commissioner in Dhaka, after Pakistan s National Assembly passed a resolution expressing concern over the hanging of Bangladesh war criminal Abdul Quader Mullah.
The Pakistan National Assembly passed the resolution moved by the Jamaat-e-Islami party Monday expressing sympathy for Mullah s family.
The assembly demanded that the Bangladesh government should not resurrect issues of 1971 and end all cases against the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leadership in the spirit of understanding.
"We witnessed the fall of Dhaka 42 years ago and we seem to have not learnt our lesson," said Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan who earlier protested the hanging of Mullah.
However, some parties in Pakistan opposed the Jamaat-e-Islami’s resolution passed with a majority vote in parliament.
Bangladesh separated from Pakistan in 1971 after a nine-month war. The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami with Mullah as its leader had sided with Pakistan during the war.
Mullah was executed Dec 12 for alleged crimes against humanity including mass murder during the war. About three million Bangladeshis were killed in the war.
