ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office said on Friday that Pakistan hoped that Bangladesh would respect tripartite 1974 agreement and forget the past and look towards future.
In her weekly media briefing in Islamabad on Friday, the Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said the resolution adopted by the Pakistani parliament regarding the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) senior leader Abdul Qadir Mullah in Dhaka was not interference in the internal affairs of Bangladesh.
The spokesperson said that the resolution reflected the desire to move beyond the past and look towards future.
Tasneem Aslam said that the government was in contact with the Bangladeshi Foreign Office, adding that the Bangladeshi government was providing security to the Pakistani High Commission in Dhaka.
Meanwhile, anti-Pakistan protests in Bangladesh continued for the third consecutive day on Friday as protesters burnt Pakistani flags and effigies of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in various cities of the counties including the capital Dhaka and Chittagong.
Police barred the angry protesters from entering the Pakistani High Commission. The law enforcers resorted to baton charge to stop the protesters.
The security around the Pakistani High Commission was beefed up while thousands of troops were also deployed in the wake of January 5 elections.
The anti-Pakistan protests in Bangladesh erupted after the Pakistan’s National Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution expressing concern over hanging of the JI Bangladesh leader Abdul Qadir Mullah for his loyalty with Pakistan during the events of 1971.
The resolution moved by the JI lawmaker Sher Akbar Khan had also expressed condolences with Bangladesh and family members of Abdul Qadir Mullah.
