DHAKA, Feb 17, 2020 (BSS) – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said
extremist groups are not getting foreign fund to run their terrorist
activities in the country as the government has taken surveillance measures
to prevent such financing.
Mentioning that the government has become succeed to control home-grown
terrorists successfully through extensive crackdown on militancy, he said,
“We took necessary steps, including stepping up vigilance on banks and other
financial organisations, to prevent extremism in our country.”
He was addressing a discussion titled “Violent Extremism Funding in South
Asia: A Comparative Study of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan”, organised by
Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU) at Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury
auditorium on Dhaka University (DU) campus.
The Minister said, “Currently, there is no foreign terrorist in
Bangladesh. All of them are home grown. They try to spoil the advancement of
the country in different ways under different banners”.
Nahiyan Khan Sabriet, a post-graduate student of DU International
Relationship (IR) department, presented a research titled ‘Violent Extremism
Funding and State Response in South Asia: A Comparative Case Study of
Bangladesh, India and Pakistan”.
Additional Commissioner of DMP and chief of Counter Terrorism and
Transnational Crime (CTTC) Md Monirul Islam mentioned that the terrorist
attacks that took place in Bangladesh cost low expenditure while the scenario
of India and Pakistan was different.
JMB, Ansar Ullah Bangla Team and other extremist groups in Bangladesh run
their activities with their own funding such as collecting fund from party
members.
He urged everyone to scrutinise properly while providing fund to any
charity organisation as extremists usually collect endowment in the name of
aid.
Chairman of DU International Relationship (IR) department Md Ruhul Amin,
Professor of IR Dr Delwar Hossain, Deputy General Manager of Bangladesh
Financial Intelligence Unit Kamal Hossain, also spoke on the occasion.
Hundreds of academicians and students were present at the event.