Pakistan summons B’desh envoy

He was summoned at the foreign ministry in Islamabad by the director general (South Asia and SAARC Wing) on Friday evening, according to diplomats in the two capitals.
The Pakistan government wanted to know the details about the information minister’s statement and the Bangladesh government’s official position in this regard.
High commissioner Ahsan said over phone on Monday that he had a meeting at the Pakistan foreign ministry on Friday.
‘They wanted to know about the remarks of the information minister’, he said.
The high commissioner replied to Pakistan officials that he would consult with the headquarters in Dhaka and convey the Bangladesh government’s official position accordingly, diplomats said.
In his Independence Day speech on Monday, according to media reports, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi accused Islamabad of suppressing the people of Azad Kashmir and Balochistan, saying that ‘Pakistan shall have to answer to the world’ for the alleged atrocities committed against the people in these regions.
On Wednesday, Hasanul Haq Inu during a visit to India told The Hindu that Bangladesh backed Modi’s stand on the Balochistan issue and said that Dhaka would soon make a policy declaration on Pakistan’s human rights abuses in Balochistan.
Balochistan was facing the brunt of Pakistan’s military establishment, which ‘targeted’ the Bengalis in East Pakistan in 1971 before the creation of Bangladesh, he was quoted as saying by the Indian English daily.
The foreign ministry in Dhaka might consult policymakers of the government before communicating Bangladesh’s official position to Islamabad in this regard, officials said.
Bangladesh does not believe in the interference of the internal affairs of other countries, they said.
They said that the information minister’s view might be considered as personal and ‘does not reflect’ the state position of Bangladesh.