Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh will appreciate global community’s help to probe into the recent terrorist attacks as well as root out militancy from the country.
“We will welcome the global community’s offer to help investigate into the recent militant attack in the country as well as identify the masterminds behind the crimes,” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Kamal told The New Nation yesterday.
The minister came up with the statement when global communities, including the US, Japan, Italy and India, pledged that they would help Bangladesh to fight terrorism and militancy in the wake of deadly attacks at Gulshan restaurant in Dhaka and Solakia.
Terming the militancy a ‘global threat,’ Kamal said, Bangladesh wants to handle the issue with the help of global community.
When asked, the minister, however, denied of seeking help officially from a particular country.
“We would not seek such help from a particular country as we have already engaged with the governments of many countries to information and intelligence sharing regarding militancy and terrorism,” he said.
The home minister argued
that the global community’s help is necessary to enhance our counterterrorism ability. “We have lack of technology to conduct probe in accordance with the highest international standards. So, what’s wrong to take such assistance from our foreign friends,” said Kamal, adding, “Their help is also necessary to track down the masterminds of the terrorist activities in the country”. Earlier, the US authorities offered Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) help to probe the July 1 attack in Gulshan restaurant (the Holey Artisan Bakery).
Twenty two people, including nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian national, one Bangladeshi born US citizen and two police officials were killed in terrorists attack in the restaurant.
Thirteen hostages were rescued while six of the gunmen, who attacked the café, were killed in the army-led joint forces operation named “Operation Thunderbolt”.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the assault soon after it began and disseminated details and images apparently showing the inside of the restaurant during the nearly 12-hour siege.
On 7 July, at least four people, including a woman and two policemen, were killed in a bomb attack near the country’s largest Eid congregation at Sholakia in Kishoreganj.
Bangladesh will appreciate global community’s help to probe into the recent terrorist attacks as well as root out militancy from the country.
“We will welcome the global community’s offer to help investigate into the recent militant attack in the country as well as identify the masterminds behind the crimes,” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Kamal told The New Nation yesterday.
The minister came up with the statement when global communities, including the US, Japan, Italy and India, pledged that they would help Bangladesh to fight terrorism and militancy in the wake of deadly attacks at Gulshan restaurant in Dhaka and Solakia.
Terming the militancy a ‘global threat,’ Kamal said, Bangladesh wants to handle the issue with the help of global community.
When asked, the minister, however, denied of seeking help officially from a particular country.
“We would not seek such help from a particular country as we have already engaged with the governments of many countries to information and intelligence sharing regarding militancy and terrorism,” he said.
The home minister argued
that the global community’s help is necessary to enhance our counterterrorism ability. “We have lack of technology to conduct probe in accordance with the highest international standards. So, what’s wrong to take such assistance from our foreign friends,” said Kamal, adding, “Their help is also necessary to track down the masterminds of the terrorist activities in the country”. Earlier, the US authorities offered Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) help to probe the July 1 attack in Gulshan restaurant (the Holey Artisan Bakery).
Twenty two people, including nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian national, one Bangladeshi born US citizen and two police officials were killed in terrorists attack in the restaurant.
Thirteen hostages were rescued while six of the gunmen, who attacked the café, were killed in the army-led joint forces operation named “Operation Thunderbolt”.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the assault soon after it began and disseminated details and images apparently showing the inside of the restaurant during the nearly 12-hour siege.
On 7 July, at least four people, including a woman and two policemen, were killed in a bomb attack near the country’s largest Eid congregation at Sholakia in Kishoreganj.
