The home ministry has directed immigration authorities to be more cautious when checking documents of Pakistani nationals entering the country.
The directive comes following a recent intelligence report that a section of Pakistani nationals may be carrying out acts of violence in Bangladesh.
The order, signed by deputy home secretary Md Habibur Rahman, was sent to the Directorate of Passport and Immigration on January 15.
A senior home ministry official said such a step was taken so that “hostile elements” cannot come into the country.
“We have no intention to make poor relations with any country, but we cannot allow any foreign national to carry out terrorism in our country,” Kamal Uddin Ahmed, additional secretary (political) of the home ministry, told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
The law enforcing agencies were closely monitoring the movement of a section of Pakistani nationals who may be planning to carry out terrorist acts in the country, Kamal added.
On Sunday night, the detective branch of police arrested three Pakistanis outside Dhaka’s Shilpakala Academy and seized bomb-making manuals and training methodologies from their possession.
The men, identified as Usman, 23, and Fakrul Hasan, 50, of Kourangi district, and Mehmud, 26, of Malir district, are suspected to be trained members of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, a Pakistan-based terrorist group.
Two separate cases were filed against the suspects with Ramna police station under the Anti-Terrorism Act-2009 and Foreign Act-1964.
