Dhaka: Bangladesh Wednesday said Pakistan-based banned terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba is active in the country but law enforcement agencies have tracked down their network and kept them under “security vigil”
“We have already brought the LeT operatives under security vigil… With the cooperation of people,” Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir told newsmen after attending a function of police Detective School at Rajarbagh Police Lines.
He added, “It is the moral and legal obligation of the government to uproot them totally”.
The minister’s comment came as Bangladesh witnessed massive street violence during the past one month over the 1971 war crimes trial which convicted fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami stalwarts for carrying out atrocities and siding with Pakistani troops.
Law enforcement agencies had earlier said LeT and several other extreme right-wing militant groups were still active in Bangladesh while they used Bangladesh territory mainly for transit to neighbouring India for years together until 2006 but began to gradually lose their strength amid stringent security clampdown.
Earlier media reports said the militant organisations operated almost undisturbed from 1991 to 1998 and then between 2001 and 2006, the periods when ex-prime minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was in power with fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami being its crucial ally.
Security officials said some militant groups were generating funds for their operations by selling counterfeit Indian currencies in India while the counterfeit Indian rupees and US dollars were mainly being forged in Pakistan and carried to Bangladesh via Dubai.
LeT issue appeared prominently in media in April 2010 when elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said they arrested top LeT organiser as he was operating in Bangladesh in the guise of a businessman while another two Pakistani extremists were arrested last week during street violence triggered by fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami.
Police chief Hassan Mahmud Khondkar recently told PTI that “Bangladesh, however, is no more a comfortable place for local or foreign militants any way.”
Source: ZeeNews
That’s a lot of b–l s–t. Good try Mr. Home Minister. Keep it up. This way you and your party can really bigger up this country.
This is misinformation. The Home Minister is a cunning individual. He thinks he can fool all the people all the times. While he plays this game, the Jamaat will play religion and screw him. He has chosen to have a fight. Let’s see who wins. It’s a civil war. Awami League declared it.
Rubbish – this Home Minister’s behaviour, observations and statements are as credible as those of a street thug! Ths BAL government is doing everything possible to push the country to a state of anarchy so that an Emergency can be declared, 2014 election cancelled/postponed to an indefinite period, all opposition eliminated and its rule prolonged, without any challenge.
However, the good news is man proposes and God disposes. In the words of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, shall we say, “we shall see…(hum dekhenge…)”
He should be tried for war crimes. He was a dalaal of the Pakistani government in 1971.
Mr. Islam, In case you meant Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir (MKA), the Home Minister you are dead right. This guy is as much a hypocrite and an opportunity seeker as he is dangerous. He served the Pakistan government during the entire 1971 with full fury and devotion expected of a dalaal.
He also seved with equal zeal Ziaur Rahman’s BNP government and in case people do not know, his PhD thesis is based on Ziaur Rahman’s “Khal Kata” programme that he projected as an unique model of leadership, social mobilization and economic development. Needless to say that he secured government scholarship to do the PhD during Ziaur Rahman’s time.
He also served Ershad with similar devotion and things changed for him after the fall of Ershad and coming of BNP under Begum Zia. During Begum Zia’s 1990-1996 rule some of his own former SP colleagues sidelined him and this has been the main cause of rebellion while he was still a serving public servent, against the then BNP government and joining BAL. He is no patriot and certainly not a liberation hero, just the opposite of it.