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Explain how RAW arrested ISI agent from BD: BNP

Wednesday, 16 April 2014


BNP has sought an explanation from the government over the report of an Indian daily that India’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has arrested a Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI agent from a Bangladesh airport. “A report of Indian English daily The Times of India about picking up an ISI agent by RAW from a Bangladesh airport has been published in Wednesday's Prothom Alo. We seek an explanation from the government in this regard,” said BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Wednesday, according to a news agency. The BNP spokesman was addressing a meeting arranged by Swechchhasebak Dal at the Jatiya Press Club, demanding the release of its president Habibun Nabi Khan Sohel.
Earlier Tuesday, The Times of India reported that a small mistake on part of the ISI in preparing passport for Indian Mujahideen’s (IM) Pakistani operative Zia-ur Rehman alias Waqas landed him in the net of Indian agencies. Waqas had been hiding in Bangladesh and was supposed to leave for Pakistan via Nepal when he was apprehended by India’s external intelligence agency RAW. When Waqas reached the airport, Bangladesh’s immigration officials discovered that there was no entry stamp on his passport. Even as they set out to detain him, the commotion attracted the attention of a RAW staffer who swiftly used his smart phone to photograph one of India’s biggest tormentors and relayed it to his superiors, the news paper said. How the RAW men managed to get Waqas out of the airport and then to India remains unclear, it added.