The detective branch of police arrested a leader of the Bangladeshi chapter of the Pakistan-based militant organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed from the capital’s Fakirapool area on Thursday.
The Jaish-e-Mohammed’s primary motive is to separate Kashmir from India.
The organisation has been banned in Pakistan since 2002 and is regarded as a terrorist outfit by several countries, including India, the US and UK.
In a press briefing at DMP media centre on Thursday, DB deputy
commissioner (south) Monirul Islam, said that they arrested Mowlana Md. Younus, 48, form Fakirapool after receiving information from arrested Rohingyas that he was trying to organise the group in Bangladesh.
Younus is a teacher at Adarsha Dakhil Madrasa in Moulovirkata of Ramu upazila in Cox’s Bazar district. He is from Cox’s Bazar.
‘He acted as the local coordinator of the militant organisation and tried
to recruit Rohingya
refugees for the group in Bangladesh with the help of former principal of the Madrasa, Mowlana Saber Ahmed, who currently lives in Pakistan,’ the DC said.
‘Mowlana Saber also visited Bangladesh last month to supervise the organisation’s works,’ he said.
Yunus was running activities in collaboration with Saber, he added.
Police are trying to find out that whether the organisation only operated in Cox’s Bazaar or had wings in other places.
-With New Age input
