 A top Bangladeshi security officer has said that criminal gangs in neighbouring India were involved in last month's wave of bombings that killed two people, an allegation New Delhi angrily denied.
Major-General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, head of Bangladesh's border guards, on a visit to India for regular border talks, said on Friday the suspected culprits had links with Bangladesh's giant neighbour. He told a news conference in the Indian capital that security forces have traced the route of the attackers and the explosives used to a neighbouring country. Asked which neighbouring country he was referring to, he said: "It is you, it is you I am telling, India." Chowdhury suggested that criminals from both Bangladesh and India may have conspired with the militants to carry out the attacks.
India swiftly denied the charge. "The government of India is deeply shocked and dismayed at the remarks ... alleging that some persons had gone across from India and were involved in the serial bomb blasts," the Indian foreign ministry said in a statement. "This is a baseless and scurrilous allegation and is all the more shocking because it has been made against a friendly country," the statement said.
| I suppose there could be some sort of truth to it, since India's crooks seem to be willing to ally themselves with whoever walks in the door. But the headline, and the implication, seems to be that the Indian gummint's involved. |
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