ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria has said that Pakistan is deeply saddened over the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Mir Quasem Ali for the alleged crimes committed before December 1971.
With Ali’s death, all five top leaders of the Jamaat party have been hanged. The 63-year-old was hanged at the Kashimpur high security jail in Gazipur, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Dhaka, amid stepped-up security outside the prison and in the capital.
In a statement issued late on Saturday, the spokesperson expressed deepest condolences to the bereaved family and said that the act of suppressing the opposition, through flawed trials is completely against the spirit of democracy.
Ali was executed after being convicted by a controversial war crimes tribunal for offences committed during the 1971 independence conflict with Pakistan.
Urging Bangladesh to uphold its commitment, as per the Tripartite Agreement of 1974, wherein it “decided not to proceed with the trials as an act of clemency”, the spokesperson said recriminations for political gains are counter-productive.
“Pakistan believes that matters should be addressed with a forward looking approach in the noble spirit of reconciliation,” it said.
Six opposition leaders have now been executed for war crimes after the secular government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina set up a domestic war crimes tribunal in 2010.
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