03:24 PM, September 24, 2017 / LAST MODIFIED: 04:14 PM, September 24, 2017
Amu dismisses report claiming ‘plot to kill PM Hasina’
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu. Star file photo
Star Online Report
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu today ruled out a report broadcast on Indian television claiming “attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 24 by some of her bodyguards foiled”.
“We don’t have any evidence of this plot,” he told reporters after emerging from a meeting of the cabinet committee on law and order at the home ministry in Dhaka.
The remarks came this afternoon following reports carried out by a few Indian news outlets including
CNN-News18 on the “plot to kill Sheikh Hasina”.
According to the report that quoted four intelligence sources from Bangladesh and India, six to seven personnel of the Special Security Force (SSF) were preparing to attack Hasina on August 24.
However, her loyalists and top counter-terrorism officers in Dhaka foiled the “plot”, said the report, prepared by former BBC journalist Subir Bhaumik.
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04:07 PM, September 24, 2017 / LAST MODIFIED: 04:25 PM, September 24, 2017
Reports on plot to murder Hasina baseless, motivated: PMO
File photo of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Star Online Report
The Prime Minister’s Office today dismissed Indian media reports claiming there was a plot to assassinate Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last month.
“The reports are confusing, motivated and baseless,” said a press release signed by Mohammad Ashraful Alam, deputy press secretary to the premier.
The PMO requested the media to “exercise caution and judgement in distributing such confusing information that goes against the interest of national security”.
According to
the report that quoted four intelligence sources from Bangladesh and India, six to seven personnel of the Special Security Force (SSF) were preparing to attack Hasina on August 24.
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Amu dismisses report claiming ‘plot to kill PM Hasina’
However, her loyalists and top counter-terrorism officers in Dhaka foiled the “plot”, said the report, prepared by former BBC journalist Subir Bhaumik.
http://www.thedailystar.net/politic...-sheikh-hasina-baseless-motivated-pmo-1467031