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Dhaka, Jan 21 (bdnews24.com)—The local government minister on Saturday said the recent incidents at the border were everyday matters that the state was not too concerned with.
When asked by a reporter at an event about the alleged torture of a Bangladeshi at the hands of the Indian Border Securit y Force, Syed Ashraful Islam said, "The state is not worried about incidents at the border. These are everyday incidents,they've happened in the past, are happening now and will happen in future."
"The smugglers there are doing so many things," the Awami League general secretary said. "Cattle theft, drugs smuggling, these things are commonplace at a border between two countries," he continued.
"I don't think there is any need to make mountains out of molehills about this," he remarked.
He then commented that there were many things going on at the border that 'cannot be tried by the state'.
"Cattle theft, drug smuggling and many other things are involved. We hear these things from people living at the border as well as outside."
Asked whether these acts of torture and killing at the border were provocative, Ashraf said, "The state is not too much concerned about it. It is not true that the state is focusing only on the issue forgetting other businesses either."
Indian border guards BSF suspended eight of their men the very same night after a video, showing a Bangladeshi man being stripped, kicked and beaten by them, was aired on Jan 18 on some Indian TV channels.
The 'tortured' youth was later identified as Habibur Rahman, 22, son of Saidur Rahman of Satero Rashia village under Durlavpur union council of Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district.
Habibur told bdnews24.com the next day that he was assaulted by the BSF while returning to Bangladesh with cattle through Khanpur border of Paba upazila in Rajshahi district on Dec 9 last year.
Meanwhile, Indian smugglers had abducted havilder Lutfar Rahman of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) after one smuggler, identified as Shah Alam, 40, died during a clash with a BGB team at Dalkia village in Sadar Dakkhin upazila on Friday morning.
They turned him in to the BSF who eventually handed him over to BGB at the Akhaura border around 3am Saturday. He is currently under treatment at the BGB headquarters hospital at the capital's Peelkhana.
The LGRD minister was speaking with the reporters after inaugurating and addressing a training workshop of the newly appointed district council administrators at National Institute of Local Government auditorium at the capital's Agargaon.
Border incidents are normal: Ashraf | Politics | bdnews24.com
When asked by a reporter at an event about the alleged torture of a Bangladeshi at the hands of the Indian Border Securit y Force, Syed Ashraful Islam said, "The state is not worried about incidents at the border. These are everyday incidents,they've happened in the past, are happening now and will happen in future."
"The smugglers there are doing so many things," the Awami League general secretary said. "Cattle theft, drugs smuggling, these things are commonplace at a border between two countries," he continued.
"I don't think there is any need to make mountains out of molehills about this," he remarked.
He then commented that there were many things going on at the border that 'cannot be tried by the state'.
"Cattle theft, drug smuggling and many other things are involved. We hear these things from people living at the border as well as outside."
Asked whether these acts of torture and killing at the border were provocative, Ashraf said, "The state is not too much concerned about it. It is not true that the state is focusing only on the issue forgetting other businesses either."
Indian border guards BSF suspended eight of their men the very same night after a video, showing a Bangladeshi man being stripped, kicked and beaten by them, was aired on Jan 18 on some Indian TV channels.
The 'tortured' youth was later identified as Habibur Rahman, 22, son of Saidur Rahman of Satero Rashia village under Durlavpur union council of Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district.
Habibur told bdnews24.com the next day that he was assaulted by the BSF while returning to Bangladesh with cattle through Khanpur border of Paba upazila in Rajshahi district on Dec 9 last year.
Meanwhile, Indian smugglers had abducted havilder Lutfar Rahman of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) after one smuggler, identified as Shah Alam, 40, died during a clash with a BGB team at Dalkia village in Sadar Dakkhin upazila on Friday morning.
They turned him in to the BSF who eventually handed him over to BGB at the Akhaura border around 3am Saturday. He is currently under treatment at the BGB headquarters hospital at the capital's Peelkhana.
The LGRD minister was speaking with the reporters after inaugurating and addressing a training workshop of the newly appointed district council administrators at National Institute of Local Government auditorium at the capital's Agargaon.
Border incidents are normal: Ashraf | Politics | bdnews24.com
