Posts published in “Bangladesh”

by Shamim Ahamed in bdnews24.com, July 8, 2017 The Awami League started working out strategies two years before the 2019 general election which its general secretary says will not be ‘very easy ‘ to win. Obaidul Quader says there can be strategic changes in his party but it will never move away from its ‘roots’. Speaking to a group of reporters at the Setu Bhaban on Friday, Quader hinted at expanding the coalition it leads.…

by Pavel Haider Chowdhury & Salman Tarek Shakil in Dhaka Tribune, July 10, 2017 The ruling Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) are reportedly looking for ways to reach a compromise on participatory elections keeping Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as head of election-time government. Seeking anonymity, leaders from both parties have said there is a possibility they will come to an agreement on when to dissolve the parliament before the 11th parliamentary elections…

Experts suggest strict monitoring to check sale of ingredients by Shariful Islam and Mohammad Jamil Khan in The Daily Star, July 9, 2017 The deadly explosive triacetone triperoxide or TATP, used by terrorists in Paris, Brussels and London attacks, has of late become “Neo JMB” militants’ explosive of choice in Bangladesh, say bomb experts. The experts said they had found evidence of its use in militant dens in Rajshahi, Jhenidah and Moulvibazar. The trace of…

by Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, July 09, 2017 The Dhaka Metropolitan Police Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit has arrested one of the planners of the Gulshan Terror Attack, Abdus Sabur alias Sohel Mahfuz alias Hatkata Mahfuz alias Nasullah, as well as three of his accomplices, from Chapainawabganj on Saturday, a year after the attack on Holey Artisan Bakery. Sohel, who also goes by name of Hatkata Mahfuz – as he blew up…

Report in The daily star, July 8, 2017 by Shakhawat Liton, Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee and Mohammad Al-Masum Molla Two years ago, BJP, the ruling party in India, claimed to be the world’s largest political party with 8.8 crore members, surpassing the Communist Party of China, which has 8.6 crore. This goes to show that even the largest parties in the world were able to keep records of their members. Things are, however, different in the…

Rajshahi: Police claimed to have arrested four operatives of “Neo JMB”, an ultra-radical offshoot of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), from Rajshahi early today. The detainees were identified as Md Aslam, 37, Md Ali, 30, Babu Huzur, 28, of Durgapur upazila and Abul Kashem Rokon, 38, of Puthia upazila, reports Bangla daily Prothom Alo. Sumit Chowdhury, additional superintendent of Rajshahi Special Branch Police, said a team of police conducted an anti-militancy drive in Durgapur and Puthia…

Since last year’s terror attack on an upscale cafe in Dhaka, the law enforcement agencies of Bangladesh has been able to take down a major part of the local militant network, but the radical ideology that drives these militants still lives on, said Deputy Inspector General Monirul Islam, chief of the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). Speaking at a discussion on the aftermath of the attack on Holey Artisan…

The writer is a former IGP The actual and potential damage caused by religious militancy or the so-called ‘Islamist violence’ can no longer be brushed aside in our parlance. Owing to factors both internal and external, this writer believes that even the pragmatic objective of marginalising religious militancy would actually be an awesome task, not to speak of eliminating religiously motivated violence. The reasons for such a view are grounded in reality. One has to…

by Special Correspondent in Prothom Alo, July 5, 2017 at 19:00 hrs Poet, writer, and political commentator Farhad Mazhar had been picked up in a microbus, blindfolded and taken to Khulna. Who abducted him and why? Similar incidents have been occurring and in most cases, fingers are being pointed at the law enforcement agencies. At a press conference in Minto Road on Tuesday, joint commissioner of the police’s detective Abdul Baten said that Farhad Mazhar…

Report in Prothom Alo, July 5, 2017 at 22:38 hrs Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Wednesday thanked the law enforcers as well as the government for rescuing poet, essayist and political commentator Farhad Mazhar through their prompt action. In a statement emailed to different media outlets Wednesday evening, the Islam-based group also thanked the prime minister Sheikh Hasina for the rescue of Farhad. “The way the honourable prime minister played a role to save the life of…