Egypt flays Pakistan’s intervention in Bangladesh’s internal issues

Pakistan cannot intervene in Bangladesh’s domestic issues, says the Egyptian Ambassador in Dhaka Mahmoud Ezzat.

“Egypt will be the first country to say ‘no’, if Pakistan intervenes in Bangladesh’s domestic issue,” he said, when journalists sought his comment on Bangladesh’s war crimes trial on Wednesday.

The ambassador, who is also the dean of diplomatic corps in Dhaka, hosted a ‘tea party’ at his office for the new executives of the Diplomatic Correspondents’ Association, Bangladesh (DCAB).

Pakistan has been criticising the ongoing war crimes trial as those who are being tried collaborated with them in the 1971.

Bangladesh won independence after the nine-month bloody war.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami who orchestrated the massacre of Bangladesh’s best brains in 1971 using his ruthless Al-Badr militia.

Egypt from the beginning has been supporting the war crimes trial. 

The ambassador said Cairo “cannot comment on internal issues” of a country.

“We always support Bangladesh,” he said, mentioning that Cairo established diplomatic ties with Bangladesh soon after its independence.

Bangladesh being an independent country has its own right to take its own decision and maintain independence, the ambassador said.

He said Bangladesh has its own right to protect it from any kind of intervention from any countries including Pakistan.