Pakistan does not want to make any comment over the verdicts delivered by the International Crimes Tribunals (ICTs) against Jamaat top leaders as it does not feel like interfering in the internal affairs of Bangladesh, said an official.
“…we don’t interfere in the internal affairs of Bangladesh,” Pakistan Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry told reporters in a regular briefing at Islamabad on Friday when comments were sought regarding the event in Bangladesh where a Jamat-e-Islami leaders have been sentenced.
The Spokesman said they have also noted that concerns are being raised by human rights organizations and international legal community on this matter, according to Pakistan Foreign Ministry website.
So far six verdicts have been delivered by the ICT-1 and ICT-2 in a series of convictions against persons tried for crimes against humanity in 1971.
In the preceding verdicts, four got capital punishment, while two received jail terms. The Tribunal-1 on July 15 awarded 90-year jail term to former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam for his war time offences.
The Tribunal-2 awarded expelled Jamaat leader Abul Kalam Azad alias Bachchu Razakar and Jamaat Assistant Secretary General Muhammad Kamaruzzaman death sentence and another Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah life sentence, while the Tribunal-1 awarded Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee the capital punishment.
Meanwhile, the ICT awarded death penalty to Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid for offences during Bangladesh’s war of independence 42 years back.
Source: UNBConnect
