Rejecting the news of ISI funding to Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) during general elections in 1991, a Spokesman of Foreign Ministry of Pakistan said the news is baseless and a part of mischievous efforts to damage the brotherly and mutually beneficial relationship between the two countries..
The release reads that ‘Responding to a question about news reports in some sections of the Bangladeshi press to the effect that a former Director General ISI had admitted that the ISI had financed the Bangladesh Nationalist Party during the general elections in Bangladesh in 1991, the Spokesman said that these news reports were not only totally baseless but also part of mischievous efforts to damage the brotherly and mutually beneficial Pakistan-Bangladesh relationship. He added that Pakistan strictly adhered to the principle of non-interference in internal affairs of other countries and that it would be ill-advised to give credence to such false, misleading, and self-serving stories.’
Earlier on March 15, a news of London-based newspaper the Dailymail reported that--Former chief of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Asad Durrani confessed to funding the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) during the 1991 general election.
Asad Durrani came up with the confession during a Pakistan Supreme Court hearing on the spy agency’s mandate on March 14.
On March 3, UAE-based daily Khaleej Times published news titled ‘Asghar Khan’s petition finally comes-up for hearing’ which reads that ISI paid BNP chief Begum Khaleda Zia Rs 50 crore ahead of the 1991 elections "to help her in polls against Hasina’s Awami League generally perceived by Pakistan’s security establishment as pro-India".
Earlier Pakistan’s former Air Force commander-in-chief Air Marshal Asghar Khan filed a petition against funds doled out by the establishment through the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to a select group of anti-Benazir Bhutto politicians in 1990.
In a 14-party grand rally held on March 14, indicating opposition leader Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, “You have been taking money from Pakistan to survive, so go there and don’t try to pollute the country.”
Terming Khaleda as ISI paid agent, Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam alleged that ISI gave money to BNP leader Khaleda Zia during general election of 1991.
But later on March 15, challenging allegation against opposition leader Khaleda Zia of taking money from Pakistan, acting secretary general of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir challenged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to show the evidence in this regard
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