Islamist hardliner Jamaat's ally NCP on Sunday termed as "deeply objectionable and humiliating" Bangladesh home minister Salahuddin Ahmed's statement that it was incorrect to label deaths resulting from border crimes or illegal trespass as "border killings."
This statement, even though there has been hostilities along the border, by the minister and BNP standing committee member is a matter of "profound national shame," NCP convener and opposition's chief whip in Parliament Nahid Islam said, a day ahead of the director general-level talks between Border Guard Bangladesh and Border Security Force in New Delhi.
He said Salahuddin has neither withdrawn nor clarified his remarks. Moreover, no condemnation or disapproval has come from the government regarding such statements.
NCP targeted the minister over his June 2 remarks that "if a foreign force enters our border or the zero line and carries out a killing, that can be termed a border killing. But if someone is involved in a crime within our territory or theirs, or illegally trespasses into another country, how their border force addresses it depends on their domestic laws. It would not be correct to call that a border killing."
