Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan has alleged that the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka is patronising militant activities in Bangladesh.
He said on Sunday, “An official named Fareen at the Pakistan High Commission is patronising militancy. That has resulted in the explosions in a mosque inside the naval base in Chittagong.”
For the first time, a minister has directly accused Islamabad of backing militancy.
Police came upon evidence of the alleged terror links of a Pakistani diplomat based in Dhaka.
Earlier, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed had claimed that Pakistan was behind the BNP-led 20-Party Alliance’s violent agitation early this year.
In January this year, Mazhar Khan, a Pakistani official at his country’s diplomatic mission in Dhaka, was expelled after Bangladesh intelligence accused him of funding Islamist radicals.
Some Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activists arrested recently in Dhaka admitted that they had links with Fareen Arshad, Second Secretary (political) at the Pakistan High Commission.
Shajahan Khan said at a meeting at Sayedabad bus terminal that Pakistan is “conspiring to ruin the economy of Bangladesh.”
He demanded that Pakistan apologise to Bangladesh for the atrocities committed during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
Khan said 195 Pakistani soldiers accused of war crimes would face ‘symbolic trials’ at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Mar 26, the Independence Day of Bangladesh.
He slated Pakistan’s government and politicians, including Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan, for their reactions to Bangladesh’s trials of several local war criminals.
“Do you know who this Imran Khan is? Imran Khan is the nephew of shrewd (General Amir Abdullah Khan) Niazi who plotted the genocide (in Bangladesh),” he said.
For the first time, a minister has directly accused Islamabad of backing militancy.
Police came upon evidence of the alleged terror links of a Pakistani diplomat based in Dhaka.
Earlier, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed had claimed that Pakistan was behind the BNP-led 20-Party Alliance’s violent agitation early this year.
In January this year, Mazhar Khan, a Pakistani official at his country’s diplomatic mission in Dhaka, was expelled after Bangladesh intelligence accused him of funding Islamist radicals.
Some Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activists arrested recently in Dhaka admitted that they had links with Fareen Arshad, Second Secretary (political) at the Pakistan High Commission.
Shajahan Khan said at a meeting at Sayedabad bus terminal that Pakistan is “conspiring to ruin the economy of Bangladesh.”
He demanded that Pakistan apologise to Bangladesh for the atrocities committed during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
Khan said 195 Pakistani soldiers accused of war crimes would face ‘symbolic trials’ at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on Mar 26, the Independence Day of Bangladesh.
He slated Pakistan’s government and politicians, including Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan, for their reactions to Bangladesh’s trials of several local war criminals.
“Do you know who this Imran Khan is? Imran Khan is the nephew of shrewd (General Amir Abdullah Khan) Niazi who plotted the genocide (in Bangladesh),” he said.
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