- Urges rulers to move ICJ on the violation of tripartite agreement between Pakistan, India and Bangladesh
LAHORE, December 13: Speakers at a seminar in support of the pro-Pakistan leaders facing executions in Bangladesh here have stressed upon the Pakistan government to move the international Court of Justice on the violation of the tripartite agreement between Pakistan, India and Bangladesh assuring that there won’t be war crime trials.
Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, in his address, said if Islamabad took up the issue with the ICJ, the Muslim world would support her. He said the rulers in Islamabad had failed to stop the executions of Pakistan’s loyalists in Bangladesh so far. However, he said, if the government raised the issue at this stage, large number of others who had been pronounced death sentence, could be saved. He said that death sentence had been announced against twenty five people while more than 25000 others were behind bars. They also included thousands of youth who were not born in 1971, he added.
Those who addressed the seminar held at the Lahore Press Club, included senior journalists Ataur Rahman, Sajjad Mir, Akram Chaudhry, JI foreign wing chief Abdul Ghaffar Aziz and JI Information Secretary Ameer ul Azeem.
Sirajul Haq said, if the rulers had any sense of national honour and self respect, they would have aroused the world conscience at the very first execution in Dhaka. However, he said that Islamabad’s conscience was dead. Islamabad is just a graveyard and my voice has died down in this graveyard. The Lion has proved to be the lion caged in the zoo, he added.
He pointed out that Indian Premier Modi had during in his Dhaka visit, publicly confessed his role in the breakup of Pakistan. He said that Modi’s statement could have been made the basis for raising this issue.
He said that Hasina Wajid was sending those people to the gallows who did not want Bangladesh to become Indian colony.
