Jamaat slates Manmohan's remarks

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday condemned Indian premier Manmohan Singh's remarks for linking it with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
“The comment of Indian premier that Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is anti-Indian, and acts in accordance with advice of the ISI is false, baseless and it does not go with the status of the premier,” said the party's Acting Secretary General ATM Azharul Islam in a statement.
Talking to a group of editors at his residence in New Delhi on Wednesday, Manmohan Singh warned against the designs of rightwing groups like Jamaat-e-Islami and stressed that it was in the clutches of Pakistan's spy agency ISI, said a report of Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) on June 30.
“But we must reckon that at least 25 percent of the population of Bangladesh swear by the Jamiat-ul-Islami and they are very anti-Indian, and they are in the clutches, many times, of the ISI,” Singh said.
Jamaat in its statement said the party believes in the principle of having a good relationship with India maintaining Bangladesh's independence, sovereignty and interests.
Indian intelligence agency confused Singh with misinformation, the statement said.
It also hoped that Singh would refrain from making wholesale remarks on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.