‘Arms found in Bangladesh meant for Indian insurgent group’

September 12th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh says it will not hand over Indian separatist leader Anup Chetia, who served a jail term here for entering the country with fake documents, but stressed it would not allow its territory to be used by militants. Back from her visit to India, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni told reporters Friday that Chetia, a top leader of the United Liberation of Asom (ULFA), had already completed his sentence.

August 19th, 2009 AGARTALA - Security forces seized a huge cache of weapons, including some Russia-made AK rifles, from a village along the India-Bangladesh border, officials said here Wednesday. "In a joint operation, the Tripura police and Border Security Force led by BSF Deputy Inspector General A.K.

July 21st, 2009 DHAKA - Another militant, who is sought by India and is working for Pakistan based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba, has been arrested by Bangladesh Police. Maulana Mohammad Monsur Ali alias Maulana Habibullah was arrested on Monday night by the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, after information another arrested Indian militant, Mufti Obaidullah.

July 20th, 2009 DHAKA - An Indian trade delegation visiting Dhaka has urged Bangladesh to take steps to boost bilateral trade ties between the two countries. The appeal came at a seminar on "Bangladesh-India Economic Relations" at Hotel Sonargaon in Dhaka, reports the Daily Star.

July 15th, 2009 Sharm-el-SHEIKH - The use of Bangladesh territory by Indian insurgent groups, the contentious Tipaimukh dam, railway projects as well as other issues were on the anvil when Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina here Wednesday. The two prime ministers met for the first time since their respective electoral victories and congratulations were also in order.

June 29th, 2009 Somali insurgents to seize US arms supplyMOGADISHU, Somalia — A spokesman for radical Islamic insurgents says his group will seize weapons the U.S. has supplied to Somalia's embattled government.

June 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON/DHAKA - Several newspaper reports across South Asia have claimed that Bangladesh is emerging as the haven of choice for South Asian terror operatives, and that there stay is being facilitated by both Bangladeshi and Pakistani intelligence services. According to the Christian Science Monitor (CSM), in recent days, Bangladeshi police have uncovered a plot that used Bangladesh to transit thousands of weapons to an Indian separatist group, and followed up by arresting key members of that group in Dhaka.

May 19th, 2009 DHAKA - A banned Myanmarese insurgent group has been training Bangladesh's Islamist militants since the 1980s, a newspaper report said Tuesday. Banned Bangladeshi outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has had close links with the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), an insurgent group operating in the Arakan state of Myanmar, JMB's explosives' expert 'Boma' Mizan revealed during interrogation.

May 19th, 2009 DHAKA - Several ministers in the former Khaleda Zia government may be questioned in the sensational Chittagong arms haul that was meant for Indian insurgents, a media report Tuesday quoted the public prosecutor as telling a court. Two former Bangladesh Army generals, who oversaw the aborted operation in April 2004 and were nabbed last week, are 'tight-lipped' before the interrogators, New Age newspaper said.

May 18th, 2009 DHAKA - Two former Bangladesh Army generals, who headed the National Security Intelligence (NSI), will be prosecuted for facilitating the landing of Chinese arms meant for insurgents in India's northeast and for trying to smuggle these arms into India. Major General Rezakul Haider Chowdhury and Brigadier General Abdur Rahim, both retired, were picked up from their Dhaka homes Saturday night.

May 4th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh authorities have nabbed a former senior official of the National Security Intelligence (NSI) agency and charged him with providing transport and equipment for an illegal arms consignment meant for militants in India's northeastern region. Sahab Uddin's arrest Sunday followed a confessional statement by NSI's field officer Akbar Hossain Khan who is being questioned for his role in the off-loading of a large arms cache that arrived in Chittagong April 2, 2004.

May 3rd, 2009 DHAKA - The US government believes that Islamist militancy is still a major concern in Bangladesh, the US ambassador in Dhaka said Sunday. 'We do have disturbing indications.

February 27th, 2009 DHAKA - The mutinous troopers of the Bangladesh Rifles have laid down their arms, a government spokesman said here Thursday.

February 25th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh's border guards Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), whose troopers mutinied in Dhaka Wednesday, has a military history going back more than 200 years. Today a paramilitary force guarding the country's 4,427 km long border, the Bangladesh Rifles was raised in 1795 as the Ramgarh Local Battalion.

December 25th, 2008 DHAKA - Bangladesh Friday asked India to postpone a deep sea survey in its waters until a wartime maritime boundary between the neighbouring countries is settled by mutual agreement. 'Bangladesh is lodging a formal protest with the India government about activities of a survey ship in its (Bangladesh) waters,' a foreign ministry spokesman said.