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Khaleda denied terrorism, Hasina uprooted it, says former Indian envoy

Wednesday, 12 November 2014


A former Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka has said Khaleda Zia had denied the presence of terrorists and Indian insurgents in Bangladesh when she was in power, but Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has uprooted them.
Veena Sikri, the only woman to serve as the Indian envoy in Bangladesh, recalled on Wednesday the challenging time she spent in Dhaka during her term from December 2003 to November 2006.
She is in Dhaka to attend the maiden India-Bangladesh High Commissioners’ Summit at Dhaka University slated for Friday.
During her tenure, she had seen the rise of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), synchronised bomb blasts across the country and 10-truck arms haul in Chittagong, among other incidents.
That was the time when India used to complain about Bangladesh sheltering Indian insurgent groups and letting terrorists use Bangladesh soil against her, according to a news agency.
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