BD soil won’t be allowed for smuggling: PM

Voicing her government’s firm resolve to turn Bangladesh into a secure abode for people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the country’s soil would not be allowed to be used for any arms or drug smuggling or any kind of terrorism act.
“We don’t want to let Bangladesh soil to be used by anyone for any anti-social, terrorist or any kind of subversive act. For this we’re taking adequate steps,” she said.
The Prime Minister said this while making her introductory remarks before the officials of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism and various organisations and institutions under the ministry at its conference room.
This was Sheikh Hasina’s first visit to the ministry since formation of her government for the second successive time. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon also spoke on the occasion.
Noting that gold smuggling had taken place very often in the past and that gone unnoticed, the Prime Minister said now security measures at airports have been strengthened for which there have been frequent incidents of gold hauls these days at the country’s airports, according to UNB.