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Mollah Execution

Pak Taliban enraged, issue threat

Protests against Pak stance continue in Bangladesh

Staff Correspondent
Riled at the execution of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah, banned militant outfit Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has threatened to attack Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad.
Agitations rose across the country yesterday demanding Pakistan make an apology for its reaction to the execution.
Demonstrators demanded the government cut off diplomatic ties with Pakistan if it does not apologise for adopting a parliamentary resolution against Mollah's execution and thus meddling in Bangladesh's internal affairs.
Pakistani newspaper The Nation yesterday reported that although security arrangements around the Bangladesh mission in Pakistan have been enhanced manifold and fresh security directives have been issued to the ambassador of Bangladesh, law enforcement agencies still fear terrorist attacks on the mission.EROM PAGE 20
According to well-placed sources, law enforcement agencies have submitted a report to the interior ministry saying that the Taliban have expressed annoyance with the Bangladesh government over the execution of Mollah and could attack the Bangladesh embassy.
Security agency officials had called for preventive measures in the wake of the threats, added the report.
Talking to The Nation, a senior security official said they have drafted an elaborate security plan for the Bangladesh embassy, located at a posh residential neighbourhood in Islamabad.
"We've also deployed police commandos at these sensitive places to avoid any untoward incident during Ghristmas holidays, while patrolling has been enhanced around them," the official added.
GOUNTRYWIDE PROTESTS
Activists of Gonojagoron Mancha, which spearheaded a youth movement for trying suspected war criminals, gathered in the capital's Gulshan area yesterday to lay siege to the Pakistan high commission demanding the government sever diplomatic ties with Pakistan.
Law enforcers charged batons on the protesters as they tried to break through a police barricade. The agitators vowed to
continue the movement to press home their demand.
Journalists and different professional groups strongly condemned and protested Pakistan's reaction to the execution of Mollah.
Speaking at a protest rally in front of the Jatiya Press Club, journalist leaders demanded Pakistan make an apology for committing genocide during the Liberation War in 1971 and also for meddling in the trial of warcriminals.
There were also demonstrations in Mymensingh, Bagerhat, Chittagong, Dinajpur, Munshiganj, Narsingdi and Rajshahi University. Protesters brought out processions, formed human chains and burnt effigies of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan.
Reacting on the issue, Finance Minister AMA Muhith told newsmen at the secretariat, "Pakistan had been a country of hordes of barbarians and they still remain the same. I'm lost for words to condemn them. They are yet to stand up as a nation."
The ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday announced a three-day demonstration programme protesting the parliamentary resolution. The alliance will stage protest rallies in upazila and district headquarters on Sunday and Monday and a
protest rally in the capital on Tuesday.
"Adopting the resolution, Pakistan has proved that Mollah was their ally and a real war criminal," Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told a press conference at his office.
The aggression and brutality Pakistan had resorted to in 1971 has yet to be changed, he added.
DHAKA EXPRESSES CONCERN
As the news of Taliban threat spread, Dhaka communicated with Islamabad and expressed concern over the threat.
A foreign ministty high official talked with a senior official of the Pakistan foreign ministry and sought adequate security for the high commission in Islamabad and the consulate in Karachi.
The official said Islamabad assured Dhaka of ensuring all-out security for the Bangladesh mission and its officials.
Subsequently, Islamabad also voiced concern about the security of its mission in Dhaka. Bangladesh assured Pakistan of arranging full-scale security for the mission.
Convicted war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah was hanged on December 13. The Pakistan National Assembly on Monday adopted a resolution expressing concern that Mollah had been "hanged for supporting Pakistan in 1971".