If you listen to the interview of the guy (Hossain Toufique Imam) he says that the groups such as JMB have "close connections" to ISI/Pakistan. The time stamp is around 1:30 minute mark for those Pakistani members that are interested.
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/paks...cial-to-ndtv-1427408?pfrom=home-lateststories
Now I dont get why another Bangladeshi is denying having said this (Gowhar Rizvi), when the person in question is Hossain Toufique Imam who is also a political advisor to Hasina.
Can anyone link me to an Indian media article that states Gowhar Rizvi said this?
All I can find are these:
http://indianexpress.com/article/wo...e-grown-terrorists-pm-sheikh-hasinas-advisor/
http://www.aninews.in/newsdetail4/s...es-pak-039-s-isi-for-dhaka-terror-attack.html
Another ISI statement (in addition to Mr. Imam statement) was not attributed to Mr Rizvi....but rather the information minister Hasan-Ul-Haq Inu (the headline talks about both advisor and minister separately) who said:
"It is totally a home-grown terrorist network, but there is a fashion nowadays across the world, wherever there is attack, the attackers boast that they are connected with IS, Taliban or Al Qaeda," he said.
Speaking about the involvement of ISI, he said that the investigation agency of Pakistan did have connections with the Jamaat-e-Islami armed cadres in the past.
" Pakistan was a political enemy of Bangladesh for many years. When Sheikh Hasina came to power, they were very tough to home-grown terrorist networks and even on the cross border terrorism. She was dismantling the high doubts of the cross border terrorists and at the moment I can say that armed networks have been dismantled," he added.
So some media groups implied that past verified links according to the information minister could mean ongoing links in the latest attacks. It does not even concern Mr Rizvi in the first place (or it may have been a case of mistaking the person who gave the statement). Let the denials come from Mr Imam and Mr Ul Haq Inu first before Pakistanis point fingers at Indian media.