NEW DELHI, Feb 18 – Bangladesh has said that it has “mutually agreed” with India to handover ULFA founder Anup Chetia, who has been lodged in a Bangladeshi jail since 1996, reports PTI.
“We have mutually agreed on the handover, now we have to decide on the formalities of how to handover,” Bangladesh’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hasan Mahmud told CNN-IBN. The mutual agreement “will also include handover of Bangladeshi criminals who have fled to India,” Mahmud was quoted as saying by the TV channel.
He accused the previous Bangladeshi government of the Bangladesh National Party of “nurturing” terrorist groups like the Harkat-ul Jehad Islami (HuJI). “Since 2001, the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami had ministers in their government who chanted slogans to turn Bangladesh into Afghanistan,” Mahmud said.
He said HuJI has cross-border linkages not only with Lashkar-e-Taiba but with other organisations also. “...there are cross-border linkages of these terrorists. Not only Lashkar and HuJI, but other terror organisations also. They trained in Afghanistan, they were in Pakistan, then they came here (in Bangladesh),” he said.source: assam tribune
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