Pakistan’s Foreign Office Wednesday ordered a Bangladeshi female diplomat to leave the country within the next 72 hours.
According to media reports, the FO has issued an order for Bangladeshi diplomat Moushumi Rahman’s expulsion. Moushumi has been asked to leave because she was found violating diplomatic norms.
The move comes two weeks after Pakistan recalled a female diplomat from Dhaka after she was accused of unlawful activities, a charge which FO rejected as ‘baseless’.
The Foreign Office (FO) has termed the allegations against the diplomat baseless. The office stated that she has been called back on the request of Bangladeshi authorities.
In a statement issued, the FO spokesperson said that Bangladesh’s media levelled baseless allegations against Pakistan’s second secretary Farina Arshad.
Previously, Idris Sheikh, a suspected member of the banned Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh, told a Dhaka court about his ties to Ms Arshad, saying he received funds of 30,000 taka ($380), according to police detectives.
After Sheikh’s claims against the diplomat were widely reported in the Bangladeshi media, the Pakistani mission issued a statement dismissing what it called “utterly baseless media reports… maligning a female diplomat stationed in Dhaka”.
Bangladesh’s Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said that the government would take action against Ms Arshad if the allegations against her were proved, local media said.