The government has always remained alert about al-Qaeda and other militant organisations, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said.
The junior minister made the statement while addressing a discussion of Dhaka City unit of Bangladesh United Islami Party (BUIP) at Uttara in the Capital on Friday afternoon, BSS reported.
“We are not ignoring the news on al-Qaeda message already published in different media and the ministry will conduct scrutiny about the objectivity of the news. But, now everything is in our control,” he said.
Assuring the countrymen of security, he said: “Nothing to be worried about the alleged message of al-Qaeda leader Zawahri, as the law enforcement agencies have always been put on alert against all sorts of militancy”.
On Thursday, in a 55-minute video posted online, Zawahri announced the formation of an Indian branch of his militant group.
al-Qaeda would spread Islamic rule and ‘raise the flag of jihad’ in Bangladesh and other South Asian countries, Zawahri said in the video.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
