Lawyers loyal to both the opposition BNP-led 18-party alliance and the Awami League-led grand alliance on Sunday in their separate meetings condemned the resolution adopted in Pakistan National Assembly expressing concern over the execution of Abdul Quader Mollah of Jamaat-e-Islami, a convicted war criminal.
In their meeting held at the South Hall of the Supreme Court Bar Association building, BNP MP Barrister Mahbubuddin Khokon, also the secretary general of Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum, said, “We censure the Pakistan National Parliament resolution on executed Quader Mollah and hail Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s comment denouncing Pakistan and steps taken by her government in this regard.”
Terming Hasina’s stance double standard, Khokon said, “The Prime Minister is following double standard taking her position against Pakistan, but we don’t see her any step when the US Senate and British House of Commons discussed Bangladesh affairs.”
The meeting, chaired by adv Zainul Abedin, adviser to the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, was addressed, among others, by Nitai Roy Chowdhury, Saifur Rahman, Rafiqul Huq Talukder Raja, Farid Uddin Khan, Ragib Rouf Chowdhury, Arifa Jasmine Nahin, Sharif U Ahmed and JR Khan Robin.
Another separate roundtable, titled ‘The trial of war criminals, execution of judgment on Quader Mollah and naked interference of Pakistan’, was held on the SC premises organised by Gonotantrik Ainjibi Samity.
In their roundtable, Barrister M Amir Ul Islam, former president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), said Pakistan through adopting the resolution in its National Parliament on Quader Mollah justified the trial of war criminals.
The impugned resolution has proved that Quader Mollah acted for Pakistan during the 1971 Liberation War and recognised the genocide committed in occupied Bangladesh, he added.
The roundtable, presided over by AKM Jaglul Haider Afriq, was addressed among others, by journalist Shaheen Reza Noor and adv Subrata Chowdhury.
Source: UNBConnect
