‘No passports to terrorists’: Bangladesh rejects Hasina’s request, pushes for extradition
Bangladesh has rejected former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s request for a new passport. Dismissing the request as ‘drama’, Foreign Affairs State Minister Humayun Kabir said Bangladesh does not issue passports to terrorists and called on India to extradite Hasina.
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Bangladesh on Monday rejected former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s request for a new passport.
Foreign Affairs State Minister Humayun Kabir dismissed Hasina’s request as “drama” and said Bangladesh does not issue passports to terrorists. He also called on India to extradite her — a longstanding demand of post-Hasina administrations.
“She fled the country. There is no scope now for staging a drama about returning with a new passport. If she genuinely wants to return, there is a specific legal process for that. Bangladesh and India have an extradition treaty. Let her ask the Indian government to hand her over to Bangladesh under that treaty. She can then return, surrender before the court and serve her sentence,” said Kabir in Bangla, according to Prothom Alo.
The remarks come after it emerged that Hasina has sought a new passport and National Identity (NID) card to return to Bangladesh.
Hasina has maintained that she would return to Bangladesh next month despite concerns she could be arrested and executed.
Separately, Home Affairs Adviser Salahuddin Ahmed said the matter was being examined by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Law.
Ahmed said the authorities were reviewing whether an application had actually been submitted, whether it had been filed properly, the legal basis for such an application, and whether Hasina was legally entitled to apply.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
