“One of my well-wishers said that New Delhi has insisted that the verdict can’t be delivered today (Tuesday) as the Indian foreign minister is coming tomorrow (Wednesday),” a senior BNP leader ASM Hannan Shah told a discussion on Tuesday.
“Everything in Bangladesh now is controlled from the neighbouring country, from the South block,” he said.
According to the BNP leader, a strike during the Indian foreign minister’s visit would spoil the relation between the government and India.
Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj is expected to reach Dhaka on Wednesday on a three-day visit.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT) was set to pronounce the verdict on charges of ‘crime against humanity,’ committed during 1971, against the Jamaat-e-Islmai chief on Tuesday, but it was deferred as the prison authorities informed that Nizami was physically unfit to be produced in the court.
