Dhaka: Army-backed interim government in Bangladesh has lifted a curfew imposed on the capital Dhaka and five other cities with widespread student unrest more or less contained, the home ministry said.
The curfew was imposed on last Wednesday after protests by students of the Dhaka University against the presence of army troops at a campus football match spread across the country. One person was killed and nearly 300 injured in the violence.
Authorities indefinitely shut universities and colleges in Dhaka and five other main cities and ordered a judicial probe into the violent incidents.
"There will be no curfew after midnight on Monday as the country has returned to complete peace," the home ministry said.
Army role defined
Meanwhile, the army chief General Moeen U. Ahmad said the armed forces were only a part of the country's independent caretaker government and not holding the strings of power.
"The present government is not a national government supported by the army. It is an independent, non-partisan caretaker administration," he said.
"The armed forces are part of the government and work for the welfare of the country and its people," he said.
The government's law and information adviser Mainul Husain said on Monday that his government was an army-backed national administration and that any attempt to thwart its plans could threaten the survival of the perpetrators.
