Dhaka Denies Terrorist Group in Bangladesh Linking with Bin LadenDhaka has dismissed as baseless a statement of the Indian External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh about presence in Bangladesh of a "terrorist outfit" named Harkat- ul Zihadul Islam having link with Osama bin Laden."No such terrorist outfit is operating in Bangladesh," said a spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry on Sunday terming the Indian allegation "untrue and baseless." In a statement refuting the complaint the Foreign Ministry reiterated that the government's policy is not to harbor or allow use of the country's territory by any terrorist group against the interest of any country. Jaswant Singh alleged the existence in Bangladesh of the terrorist outfit terming it as "a front organization" of Osama bin Laden. Singh's remarks, made at a press conference in New Delhi on October 11, a day after the new government of Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia was sworn in here, coincided with a warm message of felicitations sent by Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Khaleda Zia on her assumption of office as prime minister. |
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