NCP advices B'desh to complete investigation before reaching conclusion

The National Communist Party (NCP) on Monday advised the Bangladesh Government to wait and interrogate the arrested terrorist in connection with the Dhaka terror attack in which 20 hostages were hacked to death before deriving to any conclusion.

NCP leader Majeed Memon told ANI, "It is little too early to conclude because the probe would go on now since one the terrorist have been caught alive and I am sure that his sustained interrogation will throw substantial light on the background, the motive, the participation, the conspiracy all aspects of the crime."

"Although the advisor to the Honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already made a public statement that it was not foreigner's hands that were local terrorists who have done this. But I believe it is little too early to conclude. They have also said that there can be a possibility of Pakistan's hand in this. But I believe we should wait before giving any judgment and let the arrested boy be subjected to interrogation," he added.

Speaking to ANI, Bangladesh Information Minister Hasanul-Haq Inu said that the attack on the innocent people was made to embarrass the government and create a political situation which ferments conspiracy.

"This is an attack by the home-grown terrorists of Bangladesh and they are out to unsettle the elected constitutional government and install a pro-religious fundamental government," he said.

The Minister also asserted that the attack did not have any link with any international terrorist organisation.

"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.

Nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian, one Bangladeshi American and two Bangladeshis were among the 20 killed in the terror attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan on Friday night.

Two senior police officers-Banani Police Station officer-in-charge Salauddin Ahmed Khan and Detective Branch Assistant commissioner Robiul Islam also lost their lives while trying to rescue the hostages.

Meanwhile security continues to be tight at all sensitive points in the capital, with police checking all vehicles especially in the secured diplomatic area where the gruesome hostage killings took place.