LOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE A secret meeting of top serving and retired army officers in Dhaka has raised the heckles of the Hasina government. The meeting took place on Saturday between 6 and 7.30 pm at the DOHS house of Lt Gen (retd) Harunur Rashid. Those present included former army chief Gen Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan, Lt General…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT Bangladesh authorities arrested nine people, including two leaders of the extremist organization Jamaat-e-Islami, for planning to harm people and disrupt the government on September 29. Bombs, explosives, machetes and jihadist books were confiscated from the house in Dhaka where the arrests were made. Police said the group had been planning violence from the…
Read moreSUBIR BHAUMIK Yangon/Delhi Their troops are involved in periodic stand-offs on a long disputed Himalayan border, but India and China seem to be on the same page on the Rakhine conundrum in Myanmar, easily the most sensitive of regional issues at the moment. Both the Asian powers have veered round to back Myanmar strongly in…
Read moreDHAKA: Bangladesh has tightened security along its western border with India amid concern that hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees could be pushed into its territory, officials said on Sunday. Patrols have been stepped up along the frontier with India’s West Bengal state, where border guards say they have been ordered in recent weeks to steer…
Read moreThe Indian home ministry has ordered withdrawal of as many as 1,000 paramilitary personnel, including 300 women, deployed in Darjeeling to maintain law and order during the agitation for a separate Gorkhaland state. In a communication, the ministry said seven companies of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), including three women companies, and three companies…
Read moreFormer UN chief Kofi Annan urged the Security Council on Friday to push for the return to Myanmar of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas who have been driven out in an army campaign. Annan, who led an advisory commission to the Myanmar government, said world powers must work with the country’s military and civilian…
Read moreIn a communique, which is in line with government’s unflinching policy regarding Rohingya Muslims despite criticism from domestic and international community, security forces have been asked to enhance vigil in the border. This has been done to foil attempts by Rohingya Muslims to enter India, a home ministry official said in Delhi. In a communication, the…
Read moreA top UN official said that Bangladesh’s plan to build the world’s biggest refugee camp for 800,000-plus Rohingya Muslims was dangerous because overcrowding could heighten the risks of deadly diseases spreading quickly. The arrival of more than half a million Rohingya refugees who have fled an army crackdown in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state since August…
Read moreLOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE Bangladesh’s military intelligence agency DGFI has started backing jihadis of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) without taking the country’s political executive into confidence. Even as the country’s detective branch and counter-terrorism officials hunt for ARSA who are said to enjoy close links to Bangladesh’s own Islamist terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (Bangladesh) or JMB, the…
Read moreDHAKA Finance Minister Arun Jaitley encouraged developing countries to emulate India’s initiatives towards a less cash-based economy, saying excessive cash harms the poor, supports corruption and leads to terror activities. Jaitley, who is on a three-day visit to Bangladesh, inaugurated a cashless service at India’s visa application centres in Dhaka’s Shyamoli and Sylhet localities before…
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