A second arrest warrant has been issued against former Bangladesh Prime Minister and Opposition leader Khaleda Zia’s fugitive son Tarique Rahman for calling Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman a “friend of Pakistan.”
The warrant against the 50-year-old senior vice-president of the Bangaldesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was issued in a case filed for calling the Bangabandhu a “Pakbandhu” (friend of Pakistan) at a programme in london on September 29 last year.
Bangabandhu Foundation President Moshiur Malek, who filed the case, said Tarique’s claim was “false and intentional.” Such remarks amounted to a distortion of the history of Bangladesh’s liberation war against Pakistan, he said.