It said Dhaka has conveyed its ‘strong protest’ against the statement posted on the website of Pakistan’s foreign ministry. Mir Quasem was a prominent leader of Jamaat-e-Islami that sided with Pakistan in Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971. In the latest statement posted on the foreign ministry's website, Islamabad said it was “deeply saddened” by the execution of Mir Quasem. The foreign ministry said, in the protest note, the government strongly rejected Pakistan’s claim that these are “recriminations for political gains”. “In fact, he was tried for specific crimes he committed during the war of liberation of Bangladesh,” it pointed out.

Source: bd News24 September 04, 2016 11:42 UTC