Fakhrul accuses Joy of branding Bangladesh as militant country

Acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday accused the prime minister's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy of trying to brand Bangladesh as a militant country.
He claimed that Joy in one of his articles had mentioned that around 35 percent members of the Bangladesh Army were militants.
“It is a deep-rooted conspiracy [against the army],” Fakhrul said at a mass campaign programme at Sadar upazila in Thakurgaon.
He urged people to resist "such conspiracies" against the country.
Fakhrul said democracy and people's life were not safe in the hands of the Awami League-led government.
“Innocent orphan boys were shot dead during a crackdown on a peaceful Hefajat rally in the dead of night. And the media was kept away from the scene at the behest of this government,” he said.
The BNP leader, however, said his party did not support Hefajat-e Islam's 13-point demand.
A vested quarter has been propagating that the BNP backed Hefajat's demands, said Fakhrul.
He said his party had always believed in the freedom of women, and the BNP government set up a separate ministry for women in its tenure between 1991 and 1996.
Those who want to bring foreign soldiers into the country are busy labelling the country as a haven of militants, he said.
There will be no election in the country unless it is held under a non-partisan government, said Fakhrul.
He alleged that the government had been running the country by force, ignoring all laws and people's sentiments.
“It [the government] has given transit to India but failed to get anything from the neighbouring country in return,” said the BNP leader.