Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon Muslim countries to join hands to launch a concerted campaign to eliminate terrorism. “Everybody who believes in peace should be united against terrorism,” she told a mammoth rally of Islamic religious leaders and scholars in the city’s Suhrawardy Udyan. The programme was organised marking the 42nd founding anniversary of Islamic Foundation. The PM said Bangladesh will be on Saudi Arabia’s side as it took the initiative to…
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by Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, Apr 7, 2017 Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained eight suspected members of a new faction of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) from Narayanganj and Comilla. The elite force did not disclose the identities of the detainees. RAB Legal and Media Wing’s Senior Assistant Director Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan confirmed the matter to the Dhaka Tribune Friday morning. He said: “They were detained from different areas…
Report in The daily star, Mar 30, 2017 Another day, another militant hideout. Three to be precise. Hours after the nearly five-day siege at a militant den in Sylhet ended on Tuesday evening, police said they tracked down three more terror hideouts — two in Sylhet’s neighbouring district Moulvibazar and one in Comilla. Police cordoned off the two Moulvibazar dens in Nasirpur and Borohat areas early hours yesterday and the one in Comilla in the…
By Mohiuddin Molla & Arifur Rahman Rabbi Comilla/Dhaka: Law enforcers on Wednesday discovered a den of terrorists at south Bagmara village in Kotbari of Comilla Sadar south upazila, while two other suspected militant hideouts in Borohat and Nasirpur areas of Moulvibazar Sadar upazila had already been cordoned off the same day. They have laid a siege to the suspected hideout, Superintendent of Police of Comilla Shah Abid Hossain told reporters. Preferring to be anonymous, an…
By Kamrul Hasan & Tarek Mahmud The Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of police suspects that one of the four militants killed during the joint operation of security forces in Sylhet’s Shibbari could be Mainul Islam Musa, the alleged chief coordinator of New JMB. CTTC investigators told reporters on Tuesday that a photo of one of the dead militants bore strong resemblance to Musa. On Monday, Bangladesh Army recovered two of the four bodies from…
By Aminul Islam Khan Rana in Dhaka tribune, March 28, 2017 at 9.28pm Sirajganj: Vandals desecrated three idols of Hindu goddesses at two temples in Belkuchi upazila of Sirajganj overnight on Monday. The unidentified miscreants decapitated the idol at Baroari Kali Temple and vandalised a Kali idol and a Sarashwati idol at the Kalipada Sarker family temple in Khidra Joknala village of Bhangabari union of the upazila. A team of police have already visited the…
Report In The daily Star, Mar 11, 2017 Militant outfit “Neo JMB” has at least three more dens in Chittagong, and has chosen the district as its base, finding it difficult to operate in the capital. Investigators have gleaned the information from two detained suspected militants — Mahmud Hasan and Ahmed Azwad Imtiaz Talukder alias Omi — who attacked police at a checkpoint in Comilla on Tuesday. Acting on information from the duo, police on…
by Nadim Hossain in Dhaka Tribune, March 11, 2017 Savar: Food Minister Advocate Qamrul Islam said ahead of the national election, militant activities were increasing. “The government has decided to stringently repress militant activity throughout the country, particularly since militants have become more active in recent days,” said Qamrul. Speaking at a prize giving ceremony at Savar’s Mirpur Mafid-E-Aam School and College on Saturday, the minister urged the students to be more cautious as a…
By Manik Miazee in Dhaka Tribune, March 11, 2017 Aiming at making all Islamic parties run for the next general election independently, Islami Oikya Jote, a religion-based political party, is working so that the parties do not contest the polls under any alliance, said party sources. The IOJ wants its like-minded Islamic parties to work together for Islam and the country’s interest, but is not interested to make any alliance with large political parties including…
By Shilajit Kar Bhowmik & Rafiqul Islam in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 10, 2017 Feni: Lance Nayek Nowsher Ali of Bangladesh Ansar was killed when a clash broke out during an anti-narcotics drive by a law enforcement team in a border area of Fulgazi upazila around 11pm on Wednesday. Indian authorities on the other hand are saying the incident was an attack on Indian villagers by intruders from Bangladesh. Executive Magistrate Sohel Rana, who led the…
By Monalisa Chaudhuri in The Telegraph, Mar 9, 2017 Kolkata: A Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh leader wanted in connection with the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Dhaka’s Gulshan was arrested from a central Calcutta hideout earlier this week. Mohammad Idris, one of the “most wanted” suspects in the July 1 café attack in which 20 people were killed, was hiding in the Burrabazar area, according to information passed on by a special cell of Delhi police to…