Indian President reiterates strong support to combat BD's militancy

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee reiterated that his government would stay with Bangladesh and provide strong support to help combat terrorism and militancy, reports the BSS.

 

“We support Dhaka’s zero tolerance policy against terrorism and militancy”, Mukherjee said when Bangladesh’s Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan called on the Indian president at Rashtrapati Bhavan here last evening.

 

Immediately after the terrorist attacks in a Gulshan restaurant in Dhaka and the Sholakhia in Kishoregonj, the Indian president strongly condemned the attacks and assured that New Delhi would extend “every support possible to enable the Bangladesh government defeat these forces whose goal is to spread hatred, chaos and instability”.

 

During Wednesday meeting with Khan, Mukherjee reiterated the same stance of India to Dhaka’s fight against terrorism and militancy.

 

Khan informed the Indian president that the recent terrorist attacks in Bangladesh were planned and carried out by the home-grown militants only to disrupt the development activities and destabilise the country.

 

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali, senior secretary of the home ministry Dr. Md. Mozammel Haque Khan, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) chief Major General Aziz Ahmed, Coast Guard chief Rear Admiral Aurangzeb Chowdhury and Director General of Department of Narcotics Control Khandakar Rakibur Rahman attended the meeting.

 

The home minister arrived in Delhi on Wednesday leading a 15-member delegation to Bangladesh and India home ministers level talks in New Delhi.

 

The minister is due to return home on July 30.