Joynal Abedin Khan :
A controversy has been raised between the government and the people over the prevailing law and order situation across the country.
People belonging to all shades of opinions, including the ruling Awami League, alleged that the government has failed to keep the law and order situation under control.
An AL leader who attended a meeting of the national intelligence coordination committee at PM’s official residence Ganobhaban on Sunday night said ruling party leaders and policymakers are anxious whether the government will be able to keep hold of people’s confidence.
The government is under pressure, having failed to stop miscreants’ attacks on freethinking people over the recent months, said the ruling party leader.
The meeting, presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was attended by the heads of intelligence agencies, law enforcers and top officials of PMO.
The criminals are now so desperate that they are now committing murders in houses, work places, markets and other crowded places amid the countrywide ‘so called’ tight security by the law enforcing agencies, claimed a number of anxious people.
Voicing deep concern over the latest killing incidents, many people said that they
have lost their confidence on the assurance of security by the government as killers can easily escape after committing crimes like murder.
However, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal reiterated that the prevailing law and order situation of the country is satisfactory. The minister made the assertion while briefing reporters at his office on the current law and order situation of the country on Tuesday morning.
Citing examples from the around the world, he termed the recent attacks on secular publishers and bloggers in Bangladesh as “isolated incidents”.
He said the law enforcement agencies are putting their all-out efforts in bringing the culprits under trial.
Replying to a query regarding a “hit list of Ansarullah Bangla Team” and the murders of four-five people of the list, Kamal said the law enforcement agencies are giving their all-out efforts in performing their duties.
“We arrested the mastermind of Ansarullah Bangla Team and several others are currently under trial. We will take action if another culprit is rising there,” he said.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that the government managed to tackle tough situations in the past and so the people should not be worried now.
The most important thing is that the government is probing these incidents with highest priority and law enforcers are also ready to face any situation, he said.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Joint Commissioner and spokesman Monirul Islam admitted at a press briefing on Sunday that, “It is impossible to tackle the target killing due lack of proper information prior to the incident, inadequate number of law enforcers as well as modern technology.”
Meanwhile, the task of investigation into the two cases filed in connection with Saturday’s attacks on two publishers that left one dead in the city has been transferred to the Detective Branch (DB) of Police.
Earlier, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque also confessed that police could not prevent the killing of two foreign nationals as they were victim of target killing.
The government is still clueless about the current spree of attacks on foreign citizens, Shia Muslims, bloggers and publishers. Faisal Arefin Dipan, who ran ‘Jagriti Prokashony’, was hacked to death in his office at Aziz Super Market in the city on Saturday evening.
On October 3, a Japanese national Kunio Hoshi was shot dead at Alutary village in Rangpur district. Earlier on September 28, Italian national Cesare Tavella was shot dead by armed criminals in the capital’s Gulshan diplomatic zone. On October 22, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Ibrahim Hossain Mollah was killed in city’s Dar us Salam area.
A controversy has been raised between the government and the people over the prevailing law and order situation across the country.
People belonging to all shades of opinions, including the ruling Awami League, alleged that the government has failed to keep the law and order situation under control.
An AL leader who attended a meeting of the national intelligence coordination committee at PM’s official residence Ganobhaban on Sunday night said ruling party leaders and policymakers are anxious whether the government will be able to keep hold of people’s confidence.
The government is under pressure, having failed to stop miscreants’ attacks on freethinking people over the recent months, said the ruling party leader.
The meeting, presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was attended by the heads of intelligence agencies, law enforcers and top officials of PMO.
The criminals are now so desperate that they are now committing murders in houses, work places, markets and other crowded places amid the countrywide ‘so called’ tight security by the law enforcing agencies, claimed a number of anxious people.
Voicing deep concern over the latest killing incidents, many people said that they
have lost their confidence on the assurance of security by the government as killers can easily escape after committing crimes like murder.
However, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal reiterated that the prevailing law and order situation of the country is satisfactory. The minister made the assertion while briefing reporters at his office on the current law and order situation of the country on Tuesday morning.
Citing examples from the around the world, he termed the recent attacks on secular publishers and bloggers in Bangladesh as “isolated incidents”.
He said the law enforcement agencies are putting their all-out efforts in bringing the culprits under trial.
Replying to a query regarding a “hit list of Ansarullah Bangla Team” and the murders of four-five people of the list, Kamal said the law enforcement agencies are giving their all-out efforts in performing their duties.
“We arrested the mastermind of Ansarullah Bangla Team and several others are currently under trial. We will take action if another culprit is rising there,” he said.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that the government managed to tackle tough situations in the past and so the people should not be worried now.
The most important thing is that the government is probing these incidents with highest priority and law enforcers are also ready to face any situation, he said.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Joint Commissioner and spokesman Monirul Islam admitted at a press briefing on Sunday that, “It is impossible to tackle the target killing due lack of proper information prior to the incident, inadequate number of law enforcers as well as modern technology.”
Meanwhile, the task of investigation into the two cases filed in connection with Saturday’s attacks on two publishers that left one dead in the city has been transferred to the Detective Branch (DB) of Police.
Earlier, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque also confessed that police could not prevent the killing of two foreign nationals as they were victim of target killing.
The government is still clueless about the current spree of attacks on foreign citizens, Shia Muslims, bloggers and publishers. Faisal Arefin Dipan, who ran ‘Jagriti Prokashony’, was hacked to death in his office at Aziz Super Market in the city on Saturday evening.
On October 3, a Japanese national Kunio Hoshi was shot dead at Alutary village in Rangpur district. Earlier on September 28, Italian national Cesare Tavella was shot dead by armed criminals in the capital’s Gulshan diplomatic zone. On October 22, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Ibrahim Hossain Mollah was killed in city’s Dar us Salam area.
