BNP-Jamaat acts link to global terrorism: Ashraf tells FF anti-hartal truck procession

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Staff Reporter :
Awami League General Secretary and LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam has said that the ongoing terror activities of BNP and Jamaat are linked with international militancy networks.
He said that the terror acts cannot be described as ‘isolated incidents’. Instead those are part of global terrorist activities by religious fundamentalists.
“At first, we have to understand what is the dynamics of Khaleda’s terror acts. It is a part of what is happening now in France, Syria, Denmark, Iraq and other parts of the globe. It’s not an isolated incident. The BNP, Al-Badr and Razakar [of Bangladesh] are no less than the international terrorists groups IS [Islamic State], Taliban and al-Qaeda,” he said.
Syed Ashraf came up with the observation while inaugurating an anti-hartal truck rally of Muktijoddha Sangsad central command council on the Manik Mia Avenue on Wednesday.
Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad Central Command Council organised a procession with around 100 trucks protesting ongoing violence and anarchy during the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s indefinite blockade and hartals.
The trick procession of around 1000 people holding flags of Muktijoddha Sangsad
paraded different city streets and ended at the National Parade Ground.
Ashraf said, “Like Dhaka, there have been bleeding in Libya, France, Denmark, Egypt and Russia and all are related to the international terrorism. We think, BNP Chief Khaleda Zia’s movement is neither for protecting democracy nor for taking part in the elections.”
He said that people of the whole world especially democracy-loving countries had been getting united and fighting against the international religious terrorism. “And so, if we fail to resist the enemies, there will be no civilization,” he said.
Ashraf also compared the activities of BNP-Jamaat with the atrocities of Pakistani occupation forces and their local collaborators Al-Badar and Rajakar during the War of Liberation in 1971. “I urge the people to be united once again and fight against those terrors,” he added.
Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan announced at the rally they would not return home before ousting BNP chief Khaleda Zia from politics.
Muktijoddha Sangsad Chairman retired Major General Helal Morshed Khan presided over the inaugural function of the truck rally while Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque addressed.
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