Bangladesh hangs two opposition leaders for the war crimes committed during

Pakistan on Sunday expressed deep concerns at the executions of two opposition leaders over alleged war crimes during the country’s war of independence in 1971.

The Bangladesh government has summoned the Pakistan high commissioner in Dhaka after his government said it was “deeply disturbed” over the execution of two for war crimes, the media reported on Monday.

Sen was rushed to a hospital in Chittagong.

Ali Mojaheed was a senior leader in the Al-Badr, a paramilitary organisation associated with the Pakistan Army in 1971.

After news of their execution broke, supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League and activists of Gonojagoron Mancha took to the streets to celebrate the executions and also unfurled national flags near the prison. Bangladesh’s government says Pakistani soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed 3 million people and raped 200,000 women during the fighting.

Jamaat-e-Islam leader Abdul Quader Molla was the first to walk to the gallows in December 2013 while another leader of the same party, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, was executed in April this year.

While the other three were members of the largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, Chowd-hury was from the main Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

“He said they are killing him because they could not beat him in elections”, Chowdhury s son Humam Qauder Chowdhury told AFP after a final meeting with his father.

He was accused of responsibility for the killings of a number of pro-independence Bangladeshi leaders and intellectuals.

In a statement on Sunday the foreign office spokesman, Qazi Khalilullah reminded Bangladesh government of 1974 treaty in which India, Pakistan and Bangladesh agreed to disperse the situation by reconcile matters related to 1971 war in Bangladesh.

In their instant reaction to the Islamabad statement, Bangladeshi ministers, politicians, war crimes campaigners said it was a blatant violation of diplomatic norms and interference in Bangladesh’s domestic issues.

On Friday, one day before the executions were carried out, US lawmakers had described the war crimes tribunal as “flawed”, suggesting it had been exploited for political ends, with the U.S. State Department urging Dhaka to postpone the executions.

Freelance journalist Julfikar Ali Manik echoed Kabir and said that Hasina’s stand was commendable as the country was facing challenges similar to the ones it had faced during the 1971 war, when forces opposing the freedom of Bangladesh had driven a wedge among the people in the name of religion.

Such extremist violence was once rare in Bangladesh, which is mostly Muslim but with a strong secular tradition.