As per intelligence report, there is no threat of a militant attack in the country, said a member of the core committee from the Home Ministry.
“The intelligence agencies placed the report at the meeting of the core committee at the home ministry yesterday,” a member, who attended the meeting told this correspondent over phone seeking anonymity.
The core committee with all the heads departments under the Home Ministry was held with State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan in the chair at the ministry yesterday.
Home Ministry Senior Secretary Mozammel Haque Khan, Inspector General of Police Hasan Mahmood Khandaker, Border Guard Bangladesh BGB Director General major General Aziz Ahmed Khan, Dhaka Metropolitan Commissioner (DMP) Benzir Ahmed, chiefs of RAB, DGFI, NSI, among others, were present at the meeting. After the recent threat of al-Qaeda, this was the first meeting on militant activities in the country.
“We have discussed militant issue; I could not complete the meeting as I have to go to the parliament,” Asaduzzaman told the Dhaka Tribune after the meeting at his office yesterday.
“We have found nothing linked to the announcement of al-Qaeda leader,” the minister added.
About the report of The Times of India on Saturday that four Hyderabad youths were crossing over to Bangladesh to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Asaduzzaman said it is not true that they were coming to Bangladesh; in fact they were going to Iraq.
Top Indian police officers said the recent al-Qaida video threat and the startling revelation of the four city youngsters trying to get in touch with a jihadi in Bangladesh have left the security agencies in jitters, according to the Times of India.
