Bangladesh police arrest Indian terror group top operative

October 3rd, 2009 DHAKA - Islamist militant activities in Bangladesh have "collapsed" following a series of arrests of suspected Indian militants, a police official here has claimed. The Detective Branch of Dhaka Police said that with Wednesday's arrest of 28-year-old Emdadullah alias Mahbub, a suspected member of the Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group's network had broken down, The News Today reported Saturday.

October 3rd, 2009 GUWAHATI - An influential tribal separatist group in Assam Saturday for the first time openly admitted to using Bangladesh as a base to carry out their hit-and-run guerrilla strikes in the region, a rebel leader said. He urged the neighbouring country to help them.

October 2nd, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh police have said they have arrested a sixth Indian national suspected to have links with a Pakistan-based militant organisation in the last five months and are looking for many more. These Indian fugitives were overseeing operations of the Islamist militant outfits in Bangladesh for the past many years, officials said, according to media reports Friday.

September 1st, 2009 DHAKA - Islamist militants fighting in Jammu and Kashmir have regularly used Bangladesh as a transit point to travel to Pakistan, an Indian militant nabbed by the police has said. Safe havens have been built in Bangladesh to shelter and train militants for terrorist operations in the South Asian region, detained Indian terrorist Mufti Obaidullah, a top leader of the India-based Asif Reza Commando Force (ARCF) has revealed.

July 30th, 2009 DHAKA - Islamic militancy is showing new signs of life in Bangladesh despite crackdowns. According to a Christian Science Monitor (CSM) report, terrorist groups are showing a persistence and resilience that has left local authorities worried.

July 22nd, 2009 DHAKA - Maulana Mansur Ali alias Habibullah, an Indian national suspected of being an organiser of the banned Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has been nabbed from Dhaka. The arrest comes within a week of another militant being arrested.

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 18th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh authorities claim that an Indian militant arrested here has been living in the country since 1995 and has links with Pakistan-based terrorist groups as well as underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, media reports said Saturday. Mufti Obaidullah, who was paraded before the media Friday, was described by Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner A.K.M.

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 25th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, has appealed to the international community to help Colombo arrest key LTTE operative Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP. Pathmanathan is the head of the LTTE's international wing, and is reportedly based in Bangkok, Thailand.

May 15th, 2009 DHAKA - Anti-crime force personnel in Bangladesh have arrested Jahedul Islam Sumon alias Mizan, a top militant of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), from the country's Mirpur area. The arrest took place after Mizan's wife set off a bomb that sent Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel running for cover on Thursday night.

March 9th, 2009 DHAKA - As agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived here to help probe last week's mutiny, rightwing Jamaat-e-Islami party Sunday accused India of being behind the killings inside the Bangladesh border guards' headquarters. 'The killing mission was executed from Indian intelligence headquarters through close monitoring,' Matiur Rahman Nizami, the chief of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, said while addressing a meeting of his party here.

February 6th, 2009 DHAKA - Dhaka has strongly condemned a Pakistani investigation agency's claim of a Bangladesh-based terror outfit's involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks. 'Militants and terrorists do not belong to any territory, country and nation.

January 18th, 2009 DHAKA - A joint task force to combat terrorism in South Asia, which was proposed by Bangladesh, will top the agenda during Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit here Feb 8. Although it is billed as a goodwill visit following the installation of a new government headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, India would like discuss the issue of terrorism as it pertains to the entire South Asian region.