The government will take initiatives to bring the 195 Pakistani army
personnel from the country and try them for war crimes in Bangladesh,
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said today.
“The government would take measurers through the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to bring those Pakistanis who had committed war crimes and put
them under trial,” the minister said at a programme of Industrial Police
at Sreepur of Gazipur’s Ashulia.
The minister was replying to a query of a journalist who asked as to
whether the government would be able to try those 195 Pakistani army
personnel for their crimes against humanity in 1971 as per the Simla
Treaty between India and Pakistan, Sharif Mahmud Apu, public relations
officer of the home ministry who was accompanying the minister, told The
Daily Star.
Khan received salute from 300 new members of the industrial police at
the end of their training and parade. Senior police officials from
Dhaka range were also present.
