B’desh summons Pak envoy

Jaswinder Singh Baidwan

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Bangladesh today summoned the Pakistani envoy in Dhaka and handed him a protest note amid renewed tensions in bilateral ties after the two countries 'detained' each other's diplomatic staff for hours over the 1971 war crimes trial.
Pakistan High Commissioner Shuja Alam was summoned, a foreign ministry spokesman here said but declined to elaborate immediately.
The Pak envoy, emerging from the office of the acting foreign secretary Mohammad Khurshid Alam's office, told reporters he was asked about the incident in which a Bangladesh High Commission official in Islamabad went missing.
"I have been informed of yesterday's incident and I will convey the details to the (Bangladesh) foreign ministry after discussions with the Islamabad authorities," he said.
Requesting anonymity, a foreign ministry official said a "protest note" was handed over to the high commissioner on the "detention of our staff".
Bangladesh foreign ministry officials earlier said the personal officer of a Bangladeshi diplomat in Islamabad had gone missing but returned home "unhurt" early this morning.
"Our High Commissioner in Islamabad briefly talked to Jahangir Hossain (who went missing). We are trying to know the details of what actually happened to him," a foreign ministry spokesman said.
The incident came hours after police in Dhaka detained Abrar Ahmed Khan, an official of Pakistan High Commission here for his "suspicious movement".
Khan was detained for questioning and later handed over to officials of the Pakistan High Commission after taking an undertaking from him, a spokesman of Dhaka Metropolitan Police earlier said, without elaborating.
 
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