DHAKA: Gonojagoron Mancha submitted a memorandum to Foreign Minister Abul Hasan Mahmud demanding postponement of diplomatic relations with Pakistan.

Police protested the activists of Gonojagoron Mancha around 12:45pm while they started to march from Shahbagh Projonmo Chattar to foreign ministry.

Later, a five-member delegation of the Gonojagoron Mancha entered foreign ministry with police escort.

Emerging from foreign ministry, Gonojagoron Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker told journalists that they demanded that the diplomatic relations would remain postponed until Pakistan government apologized for their intervene over internal affairs of Bangladesh.

In response to a question, Imran H Sarker said, “We also have a plan to submit a memorandum to SAARC secretary general.”

BDST: 1555 HRS, DEC 22, 2013

Edited by: SM. Mostafijur Rahman Nasim, Newsroom Editor/M. Mahbub Alam, Asst Output Editor