‘Tarique may have link in setting up Al-Qaeda network’

KUSHTIA, Sept 6 (BSS): Joint General Secretary of Awami League Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said here today that it could not be ruled out that BNP senior vice-president Tarique Rahman has link with setting up of the militant outfit Al-Qaeda network in Bangladesh.
"BNP founder Ziaur Rahman was an agent of Pakistan and the Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan assisted in floating the party following the gruesome killing of Bangabandhu in 1975 and the party has so far been run by ISI. There are evidences that Tarique Rahman has also been working as an agent of ISI. Everybody knows the history behind emergence of militancy in the country from Hawa Bhaban. Tarique Rahman might have link in suspected setting up base of Al-Qaeda network in Bangladesh," he said.
Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said this while talking to reporters after distributing relief materials among the flood-victims at the Bhagjot Nabagram Secondary School ground of Daulatpur Upazila in the district.