After protests in Bangladesh, removed the image of the joint flags
The Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has removed the cover image of the Pakistan flag with the Bangladesh flag from its Facebook page at the request of the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The joint flag of Bangladesh and Pakistan was placed as the cover photo of the Facebook page on 21 July.
Later, when several organizations in Bangladesh reacted to it, the Foreign Ministry of Bangladesh requested the Pakistani High Commission to remove the photo.
"We didn't like it, so we asked you to remove it," Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momin said at a press conference in Dhaka on Sunday.
When asked the Pakistani High Commission in Dhaka why Pakistan posted such a picture and what the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry told them about the picture.
Pakistan High Commission did not give any answer to these questions.
In Sunday's press briefing, Bangladesh's foreign minister himself said that he asked Pakistan why the photo was posted, and also showed some photos sent by the High Commission to journalists on his mobile phone.
He said that the Pakistan High Commission had sent them these pictures as samples. He said that the Pakistan High Commission has put up a collage of the flag of Pakistan with the flag of that country on its Facebook page of the High Commission in many countries.
Why did Bangladesh object?
Although the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh said that Pakistan did not do this under any special plan, the reason behind asking for its removal was that Bangladesh did not want to get into any political controversy due to this image.
Since the image was uploaded, several organizations have issued statements criticizing it for insulting the Bangladeshi flag.
However, a few months ago on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's independence, many countries released their country's flag image with the Bangladeshi flag as a goodwill gesture.
Image removal request
Many countries have been releasing such pictures to show the good relations between the two countries, but in view of the protests in Bangladesh over the posting of such a picture on the Facebook page of the Pakistani High Commission, this matter has been decided by the Bangladesh Minister. Brought to foreign notice.
On Saturday evening, on the direction of the Foreign Minister, the Ministry raised the matter before the Pakistan High Commission and requested it to be removed from the Facebook page.
Later, the Pakistan High Commission sent directly to the Foreign Minister samples of photos they had made on the Pakistan High Commissions' Facebook pages with flags of other countries, which they believed represented the cordial relations between the two countries. were taken
A Dhaka-based official said the request to remove the photo was due to a political dispute.
Explanation of Pakistan High Commission
The Foreign Minister said that the Pakistani High Commission informed that they had posted similar pictures on the Facebook pages of countries like Singapore, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, which were made by combining the flags of Pakistan and those countries.
He said that the cover image of each of them was applied exactly as it was done with our flag. He did not do it under any wrong plan.
In response to a question, he said that he was satisfied with the explanation of the Pakistan High Commission.
The foreign minister also said that he thought that if he can put a Facebook cover page with the flags of other countries, he can also put a picture with the flag of Bangladesh. He (Pakistani High Commission) said that no other country has objected.
It should be noted that when the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh was holding a press conference, the Pakistan High Commission had removed the picture with the Bangladesh flag and replaced it with a picture with the Pakistan flag.