Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami condemned India’s government over its alleged role in allowing former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to conduct anti-Bangladesh activities and conspiracies while in India. In a statement issued Friday, August 7, the party’s secretary general, Mia Golam Porwar, described India’s conduct as outside diplomatic norms and a serious violation of international diplomatic rules.

Porwar said Bangladesh is committed to respectful diplomatic relations with India and other countries on the basis of equality, while respecting all states’ independence and sovereignty. He alleged that India had not acted on Bangladesh’s diplomatic requests to stop Hasina’s activities in Delhi and had continued to provide her shelter. He said Bangladesh’s interim government had written to India several times requesting her return, while alleging that a bilateral prisoner-exchange agreement was being ignored.

Jamaat called on India to revise its position and hand Hasina over to Bangladesh. Porwar also urged the current government to take effective steps, seek an Interpol Red Notice and request United Nations assistance. He said the public should remain vigilant and united against what he described as fascist conspiracies.