Mohammad Jamil Khan

Militant outfit Ansar al Islam, which has not carried out any attack since 2016, is apparently pursuing an aggressive strategy and has accordingly appointed new leaders in its military wing, counterterrorism officials said.

Nuruzzaman Raju owned a mobile phone repair shop in the capital’s Gulistan.

After using his connections to make fake NID cards of his political opponents and buying several SIM cards using those, Shahidul Islam Maznu, UP chairman of Faridpur’s Ishan Gopalpur, rented a flat in the capital’s Jatrabari.

Libya’s “game ghar”, an establishment where migrants are tortured and extorted, is operated by the father, wife and sister-in-law of a transnational trafficking syndicate. They were coordinating the activities on the Bangladesh end, like trapping migrants and collecting ransom money from the victims’ families.

Fearing sabotage ahead of the BNP's Dhaka rally on December 10, law enforcers have beefed up security at all entry points and other key locations in the capital.

Police launched a countrywide drive five days ago following the escape of two militants on death row on November 20, but they are yet to get any trace of the two.

A terrorism case filed years back against some Ansar Al Islam operatives has come to the fore again after the November 20 snatching of two death-row convicts from police custody.

A terrorism case filed years back against some Ansar Al Islam operatives has come to the fore again following the November 20 snatching of two death-row convicts from police custody.

Whenever targeted killings and the resurgence of extremist outfits enter the conversation, the name of sacked army major Syed Ziaul Haque comes up. This has been the case for over a decade.

The condemned militants snatched from police on Sunday received the master key to the handcuffs and android phones inside the jail early this month.

Ansar Al Islam’s military wing members snatched their fellows from police custody so that they could execute a plan to launch a major attack, Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime officials told The Daily Star yesterday.

There used to be a time when movie posters and banners were hand-painted by artists.

Rafat Chowdhury, son of Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman, is the Sylhet regional coordinator of Al-Qaeda-inspired militant outfit Ansar Al Islam and has been inspiring youths to leave their homes for so-called jihad, claimed police yesterday.

The transnational trafficking syndicate that operates Libya’s “game ghar”, an establishment where migrants are tortured and extorted, has at least 40 agents in different areas of Bangladesh.

They call it the “game ghar (house)”.

With at least seven Rohingyas, including three of the community leaders killed last month, police have started a combing operation to bring back peace in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps. So far, at least 75 Rohingyas have been arrested in the drive called “Operation Root Out” that started on October 29. But why did law and order deteriorate there in the first place? What should be the next steps? In an interview, Maj Gen ANM Muniruzzaman (retd), president of Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies, shared his views about the issue with The Daily Star yesterday.

The men on the ground, the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) members, have time and again stated that after every incident of violent crime in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps, the refugees point to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa).

Amid the armed conflicts along the border over the last two months, gang members living in the no-man’s-land entered Bangladesh and engaged in criminal activities, including murders, at the refugee camps, police and locals said.

As drives to clamp down on narcotics trade intensify, drug dealers are developing innovative techniques and finding new routes to dodge arrest.

Rohingya crime gangs have resorted to murder, abduction and extortion to establish their supremacy at Cox’s Bazar refugee camps and control drug trades.