| Submit your comments on this article |
| India-Pakistan |
| RAB probing explosion links to Bangladesh |
| 2014-10-11 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Law enforcement officials are investigating alleged links between Bangladeshi Islamist turbans and the October 2 kabooms that shook the Indian town of Bardhaman and could send shock waves to the West Bengal political establishment. The director of the RAB intelligence wing, Lt Col Abul Kalam Azad, yesterday told the Dhaka Tribune that his organization had started an investigation into the kabooms and that Sherlocks were trying to verify the names and identities that had emerged from the ongoing Indian investigation. In a statement yesterday to journalists at Banglabandha Land Port in Panchagarh, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan said India had not officially informed Bangladesh about the nationality of the two people killed in the blasts. "We are always against terrorism. We will not allow anyone to use our land to conduct krazed killer or terrorist activities against our country or neighbouring India," Asaduzzaman added. Indian officials investigating the October 2 blasts in the town of Bardhaman have said the detonated explosives were being manufactured in order to commit acts of terrorism in Bangladesh, according to a Hindustan Times report. On Thursday, the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry asked the Indian High Commission in Dhaka for details of the investigation. On Friday, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said Bangladesh had sought India's cooperation in this regard. "We have asked our intelligence officials to gather the information and we will provide it to Bangladesh officials as soon as we have it," Akbaruddin said. The Indian police's criminal investigation department (CID) findings are likely to cause the Mamata Banerjee government, already under fire for failing to crack down on anti-Bangladesh terrorist groups operating out of her state, embarrassment. This is the first instance of hard evidence showing that Indian territory was being used as a base for terrorist operations against Bangladesh, the Hindustan Times said. In the aftermath of the October 2 kabooms Indian police tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... turbans allegedly belonging to the banned terrorist outfit Jama'atul Mujahedin Bangladesh, amid allegations that the government was attempting to play down the Bangladeshi connection and criticism that the CID was not handling the investigation properly. The Indian central government intervened on Thursday, handing the investigation over to the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), after one of the four people arrested in connection with the kabooms allegedly told Sherlocks that the bombs were being assembled for terror strikes in Bangladesh. |
| Posted by:Fred |