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Dhaka tells Delhi not to point fingers
While condemning the serial blasts in India's Assam state, which claimed 77 lives and left over 300 injured, as a "cowardly act of terrorism", the Bangladesh government is bristling at the Indian charge that the blasts were the handiwork of Harkat Ul Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) militants based in the country.
- IANS
- Published: 22:58 November 1, 2008
Dhaka: While condemning the serial blasts in India's Assam state, which claimed 77 lives and left over 300 injured, as a "cowardly act of terrorism", the Bangladesh government is bristling at the Indian charge that the blasts were the handiwork of Harkat Ul Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) militants based in the country.
Indian government agencies have alleged that banned organisations based in Bangladesh have been coordinating acts of violence with their modules in India, but Bangladesh has denied it.
Dhaka also denies Delhi's charge that scores of militants from the Indian northeastern region are operating from safe havens in Bangladesh and have also made investments in business and industry.
"Unfortunately, whenever a bomb blast took place in India, more often than not, an Indian state government, even the central government, had not hesitated to point finger to one Bangladeshi outfit or the other. Such comments were not substantiated later, or were not found to be true. They are neither helpful to good neighbourly relations nor to any effort to track down the real culprits," the Daily Star newspaper said yesterday.
"If India could come out with any concrete evidence of a cross-border linkage, it should by all means have come forward and shared it with Bangladesh government rather than foisting unsubstantiated blame.
"If, however, there are fresh and substantive new evidence of any cross-border link between terrorists, such evidence should be presented to our government for appropriate action. We would like to reaffirm our commitment to fight terrorism at the intra-country and inter-country levels," it added.
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