Bangladesh’s war crimes tribunal has finalised charges against Muhammad Shahidullah (75), a former member of Pakistan Army. He will become the first Pakistani military officer to face war crimes charges.

Shahidullah, a Captain in the Pakistan Army in 1971, has been linked to several incidents of crimes against humanity including murder, abduction, torture, arson and looting during the war, said the tribunal’s investigators at a press conference on Tuesday.

He allegedly joined the Pakistani forces at Dhaka Cantontment after the war broke out in March 1971.

He set up a camp at Daudkandi after getting transferred from Dhaka to Comilla Cantonment.