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Freepresskashmir.com – December 13, 2013
SRINAGAR: A senior separatist leader in Kashmir, Syed Ali Shah Geelani has castigated Pakistan for maintaining a “criminalsilence” over the execution of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Abdul Qadir Mullah.
Mr Geelani has said that Bangladesh has practically become a colony of India which she is using to demonize Islamist forces.
The pro-Pakistan octogenarian leader said Mullah was executed to appease anti-Islam elements.
“The secular forces present in Bangladesh has committed a heinous crime and history will never forgive them. India is helping and instigating Bangladesh to kill those Muslims who want to impose Islamic Sharia in Bangladesh,” he told a local news agency CNS.
“Anti-Islam elements dethroned even Ikhwanul Muslimoon in Egypt which was an elected government. Such forces are also present in Bangladesh.”
Earlier in the day, funeral prayers in absentia were held for the hanged Bangladeshi leader, although there have been no major protests anywhere.
Pro-Pakistan sentiment runs deep among people in Kashmir and Mr Mullah’s hanging is seen in that context.
The Bangladeshi leader was the first person convicted by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) to be executed for alleged crime committed during the 1971 war.
That year East Pakistan, as Bangladesh was then, become an independent country.
The war saw killings on a mass scale, the exodus of more than 10 million refugees and military intervention by India.
A senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, Mr Mullah was described by prosecutors at his trial as the “Butcher of Mirpur”, a suburb of Dhaka where he is alleged to have carried out his crimes.
These included the massacre of unarmed civilians and the killing of intellectuals who supported independence from Pakistan. Mullah always denied the charges.
Mr Geelani has said Pakistan must raise its voice against such elements and condemn the execution of Mullah Abdul Qadir.
The government of Sheikh Hasina had also come under pressure not to carry out the death sentence from the UK, US, the EU and the UN’s human rights body.
Four other leading figures in Jamaat-e-Islami have also been convicted by the ICT and face the death penalty.
India Using Bangladesh to Demonize Islamists, Says Kashmir’s GeelaniKashmir Latest News, Breaking News, Photos and Features | Free Press Kashmir#
SRINAGAR: A senior separatist leader in Kashmir, Syed Ali Shah Geelani has castigated Pakistan for maintaining a “criminalsilence” over the execution of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Abdul Qadir Mullah.
Mr Geelani has said that Bangladesh has practically become a colony of India which she is using to demonize Islamist forces.
The pro-Pakistan octogenarian leader said Mullah was executed to appease anti-Islam elements.
“The secular forces present in Bangladesh has committed a heinous crime and history will never forgive them. India is helping and instigating Bangladesh to kill those Muslims who want to impose Islamic Sharia in Bangladesh,” he told a local news agency CNS.
“Anti-Islam elements dethroned even Ikhwanul Muslimoon in Egypt which was an elected government. Such forces are also present in Bangladesh.”
Earlier in the day, funeral prayers in absentia were held for the hanged Bangladeshi leader, although there have been no major protests anywhere.
Pro-Pakistan sentiment runs deep among people in Kashmir and Mr Mullah’s hanging is seen in that context.
The Bangladeshi leader was the first person convicted by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) to be executed for alleged crime committed during the 1971 war.
That year East Pakistan, as Bangladesh was then, become an independent country.
The war saw killings on a mass scale, the exodus of more than 10 million refugees and military intervention by India.
A senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, Mr Mullah was described by prosecutors at his trial as the “Butcher of Mirpur”, a suburb of Dhaka where he is alleged to have carried out his crimes.
These included the massacre of unarmed civilians and the killing of intellectuals who supported independence from Pakistan. Mullah always denied the charges.
Mr Geelani has said Pakistan must raise its voice against such elements and condemn the execution of Mullah Abdul Qadir.
The government of Sheikh Hasina had also come under pressure not to carry out the death sentence from the UK, US, the EU and the UN’s human rights body.
Four other leading figures in Jamaat-e-Islami have also been convicted by the ICT and face the death penalty.
India Using Bangladesh to Demonize Islamists, Says Kashmir’s GeelaniKashmir Latest News, Breaking News, Photos and Features | Free Press Kashmir#
