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Inna Lillahi was inna ilaiha Rajiun


Fri, May 4th, 2012 1:31 pm BDST

Dhaka, May 4 (bdnews24.com) – A BRAC official was killed early Thursday in the western Afghan province of Ghor, Pajhwok news agency reported quoting the local police chief.

Mohammad Mohiuddin, area manager for the BRAC's Community-Based Livelihood Improvement Project, was killed when the Taliban stormed the BRAC office in Chaghcharan, the Ghor capital, just before dawn.

"It is a grave loss for me as well as the organisation," BRAC Afghanistan chief Khondoker Ariful Islam told bdnews24.com on Friday.

Islam said Mohiuddin had headed the project for BRAC in Ghor for the last two years and a half. "He was a close associate and was doing really good work," said the grieving BRAC country representative

He said notifying the family would be coordinated from Dhaka.

In Dhaka, BRAC media manager Zia Hashan told bdnews24.com that the Mohiuddin family, from Mymensingh, had been informed on Thursday morning.

Islam said he hoped that the body would be flown to Dhaka by Saturday. "We only managed to fly Mohiuddin's remains from Ghor to Kabul today."

BRAC chartered a UN flight to bring Mohiuddin's body to Kabul. The flight from Ghor had arrived a little before bdnews24.com contacted Islam, he said.

The Afghan police reportedly said that a wounded insurgent who had been arrested admitted the group's intention was to kidnap the Bangladeshis for swapping their associates.

The militants sought to swap the foreigners for their detained fighters, according to one escapee, Samiul Haq.

"The office head was killed on the spot, but I succeeded in fleeing soon after the assailants entered the building," Pajhwok quoted Haq as saying.

Samiul told the news agency that an Afghan BRAC employee, who was sharing the room with the office head, escaped unhurt.

According to Islam, there had been no warnings about any security threat from Ghor. "Nor did Mohiuddin give us any such indication."

The BRAC head in Afghanistan said the world's largest NGO had gained acceptability. "This is only the second such instance in over 10 years of our working here."

Considering that BRAC has 150 Bangladeshis working in its 3,000- strong workforce in the war-torn country, the frequency is admittedly low, Islam pointed out.

Set up as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee in 1972, BRAC has operations from Afghanistan to South Sudan to Haiti, working in as diverse areas as livelihoods, education, microfinance.

bdnews24.com/trb/ta/1400h.
Taliban kill Brac manager | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com
 
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Rest in peace....

If i am not wrong BRAC is a very active NGO right?
 
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ohooo this time no Pakistani caught ?? :S oh bad... naa.. tomorrow any Pakistani will link with this ... otherwise this news will never ever launch on US and Indian TV channels!
 
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Inna Lillahe Wa Inna Ilaihe Razeun. As far as I know even Taliban as a group do not detaste BRAC schools where Afghan girls study. Talibans had initially thought BRAC as something from a Crusader Christian country. But, when they found that BRAC is basically a Bangladesh based volunteer organization and the schools it operates in Afghanistan respect muslim traditions in dress codes and do not teach any topic that goes against Taliban-brand of Islam, they accepted BRAC and its schools.

Now, an accident hppened whereby a top BRAC official from Bangladesh has been killed. I hope, BRAC will not discontinue their volunteer works in that country. However, it should seek dialogue with the local Taliban to get an assurance from them that not any more killing or firing at BRAC schools will ever happen. A disengagement from Afghanistan by BRAC will cause the happy Afghan school girls and boys to abandon the pursue of learning.

I think, Taliban is more in a position than the local govt people to issue such an assurance.
 
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Rest in peace....

If i am not wrong BRAC is a very active NGO right?

BRAC is world's largest NGO. They have been successful in Afghanistan too in developing human index so far I know. It's a matter of sorrow that Afghan origin people are killing a BRAC guy. One BRAC official was abducted before though he was released later. I think BRAC should now stop its activities there in Afghanistan.
 
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