12:00 AM, February 13, 2019 / LAST MODIFIED: 12:10 AM, February 13, 2019
'DEROGATORY REMARKS ON BANGABANDHU'
Dhaka summons Pak envoy
https://www.thedailystar.net/city/news/dhaka-summons-pak-envoy-1701376
Diplomatic Correspondent
Dhaka has angrily reacted over objectionable comments about Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in an official website of Pakistan government.
Diplomatic sources said the Pakistani website “defence.pk” published highly objectionable remarks about Bangabandhu, which is not acceptable at all.
They said the website is mainly administered by the Pakistan government.
However, content of the comments could not be known immediately.
To lodge a formal protest, the foreign ministry yesterday afternoon summoned Pakistan's Acting High Commissioner in Dhaka Shah Faisal Kakar and handed over a strongly-worded protest note, asking the country to take immediate steps in removing such derogatory comments about Bangabandhu and to refrain from such acts in future.
During the summon, officials said foreign ministry's Director General (South Asia Wing) Tareque Muhammad wanted to know from the Pakistan Charge d' Affairs why such comments were made in a government website, whether anyone can make comment in any official website and is there any authority in Pakistan to monitor or censor such
comments.
They said the foreign ministry expressed serious disappointment and dissatisfaction over the comments on the Father of the Nation in an official website and asked Islamabad to stop such activities.
On receiving the diplomatic note verbale, the Pakistan envoy said he would convey the message to his government.
Emerging from the office of Director General, Faisal Kakar avoided waiting journalists and denied any summoning to him.
He said he had a meeting with the Director General and discussed various issues of common concern.
Dhaka and Islamabad have in recent years witnessed escalation of diplomatic tensions, following trial and execution of war criminals, Pakistan's interference in internal affairs of Bangladesh, expulsion of Pakistani diplomats stationed in Dhaka for their direct involvement in terror financing and circulating fake Indian currency, Pakistan Foreign Ministry's propaganda campaign by distorting some established facts about the Liberation War, resolution by Pakistan national assembly and provincial parliaments about trial of war criminals in Bangladesh.