Hasina slams intelligence agents

Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina Sunday said the role of an intelligence agency was not to break up political parties. “It cannot be accepted that intelligence agents in a civilised society will run the show, detain political leaders and make them say what they like to hear,” Hasina said. An angry Hasina fired the barbs of blame on intelligence agents and, largely, the government in a briefing to reporters after she had visited music icon Sabina Yasmin in LabAid Hospital. Hasina categorically blamed the DGFI (Directorate General of Forces Intelligence) for “intimidating political leaders into divulging details”. “Stop it,” she asked the emergency government. She said: “I asked my colleagues to say what they have to say to save their lives.”