INDIAN MEDIA REPORTS
Menon came to warn Hasina of assassination plot
Courtesy Neew Age 19/4/09
Staff Correspondent
New Delhi has warned Dhaka of a possible assassination plot targeting the Bangladesh’s political leadership, including the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, during the April 12–13 surprise visit of Inida’s external affairs secretary Shiv Shanker Menon to the capital city.
Quoting Indian home ministry sources, the Indian media, including the Indian Express and Anandabazar, on Saturday reported:
The Indian Express reported there was specific intelligence on a plot to target the new Sheikh Hasina government in the conversations intercepted by Indian intelligence agencies.
‘Given the sensitivity of the information, Menon himself rushed to
The Kolkata-based daily newspaper Anandabazar reported the
Radical and terror groups in
During his second visit to Dhaka after the Awami League-led alliance had assumed office on January 6, 2009,
The Indian Express also mentioned as
It said, ‘In the first high-level contact with
Both the dailies said
‘This is what is believed to have triggered these radical groups to plan an assassination,’ reports the Indian Express.
Anandabazar, meanwhile, said Islamist outfits as well as anti-Indian elements such as the United Liberation Front of Assam were very much active to strain good ties between the two next-door neighbours as Sheikh Hasina took ‘tough stance’ against them.
Referring to the
‘On that day [of border skirmishes between the BDR and the BSF], an activist of the Jamaat-e-Islami
Anandabazar claimed after that incident, Skeikh Hasina immediately telephoned to the then Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and said ‘sorry at least 12 times’ in that single call for the untoward incident along the border.
__._,_.___
[Disclaimer: ALOCHONA Management is not liable for information contained in this message. The author takes full responsibility.]
To unsubscribe/subscribe, send request to alochona-owner@egroups.com
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe
__,_._,___