UNB, Dhaka :
Bangladesh intelligence agencies have yet to confirm the claim by Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent’s (AQIS) the responsibility for the murder of Bangladesh-born US citizen blogger Avijit Roy.
When his attention was drawn to the AQIS’s claim, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday told UNB that the intelligence agencies have not yet confirmed the reported claim.
“I can’t say anything over the claim before being clear about,” he further said.
The junior minister also
said he will speak about the claim only after knowing about it.
Indian English daily the Indian Express in its online edition released a report on Sunday that said Asim Umar, the Indian-born head of AQIS, has claimed responsibility for a string of attacks that killed several secular writers and intellectuals in Bangladesh and Pakistan, including the prominent writer and secular activist Avijit Roy who was hacked to death on a Dhaka street in February.
Avijit Roy, son of noted physicist Ajoy Roy and founder of Mukto-Mona blog, was killed and his wife Rafida Afrin Banya injured seriously as unidentified criminals stabbed them near TSC on the Dhaka University Campus on February 26.
“Like the companions of the Prophet who defended him with their lives,” Umar said in the statement adding, “The mujahideen of al-Qaeda have dispatched to hell many who blasphemed against God, and insulted the Prophet.”
In addition to Roy, Umar named slain Bangladeshi intellectual Ahmad Rajib Haidar and Rajshahi University scholar AKM Shaiful Islam as victims of al-Qaeda hit squads, the Indian Express in its online report said.
AQIS is an Islamist militant organisation which aims to fight the governments of Pakistan, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh in order to establish Islamic state.
Earlier on 3 September 2014, Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of al-Qaeda, announced the establishment of AQIS, a new branch in the Indian subcontinent, in a 55-minute video posted online.
Bangladesh intelligence agencies have yet to confirm the claim by Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent’s (AQIS) the responsibility for the murder of Bangladesh-born US citizen blogger Avijit Roy.
When his attention was drawn to the AQIS’s claim, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday told UNB that the intelligence agencies have not yet confirmed the reported claim.
“I can’t say anything over the claim before being clear about,” he further said.
The junior minister also
said he will speak about the claim only after knowing about it.
Indian English daily the Indian Express in its online edition released a report on Sunday that said Asim Umar, the Indian-born head of AQIS, has claimed responsibility for a string of attacks that killed several secular writers and intellectuals in Bangladesh and Pakistan, including the prominent writer and secular activist Avijit Roy who was hacked to death on a Dhaka street in February.
Avijit Roy, son of noted physicist Ajoy Roy and founder of Mukto-Mona blog, was killed and his wife Rafida Afrin Banya injured seriously as unidentified criminals stabbed them near TSC on the Dhaka University Campus on February 26.
“Like the companions of the Prophet who defended him with their lives,” Umar said in the statement adding, “The mujahideen of al-Qaeda have dispatched to hell many who blasphemed against God, and insulted the Prophet.”
In addition to Roy, Umar named slain Bangladeshi intellectual Ahmad Rajib Haidar and Rajshahi University scholar AKM Shaiful Islam as victims of al-Qaeda hit squads, the Indian Express in its online report said.
AQIS is an Islamist militant organisation which aims to fight the governments of Pakistan, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh in order to establish Islamic state.
Earlier on 3 September 2014, Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of al-Qaeda, announced the establishment of AQIS, a new branch in the Indian subcontinent, in a 55-minute video posted online.
