Bangladesh will stay beside India if attacked: Kamal

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said Bangladesh will stay beside India if the neighbouring country is attacked following the ongoing tension with Pakistan.

The home minister made the comment while replying to a query about Bangladesh's stance on the current unrest situation between India and Pakistan following the recent Uri attack and India's retaliatory surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC.

Meanwhile, Pakistan and India have agreed to reduce tensions after their National Security Advisors spoke over phone, top Pakistani diplomat Sartaj Aziz said yesterday.

On Tahmid

The home minister said law enforcers did not pray for fresh remand for Tahmid Hasib Khan, one of the Gulshan café attack survivors, as they did not get enough information in previous remands.

"We will be able to question him further if we need it," Kamal added.

On Sunday, the court granted bail to Tahmid, who was released at the same night.

It was widely reported earlier that Tahmid, a Canadian university student, and Hasnat Karim, a former private university teacher in Bangladesh, were taken in by detectives for interrogation immediately after the 11-hour bloody siege ended on July 2.

Hacking of Sylhet college student

The home minister firmly stated that the attacker, who stabbed Sylhet Government Mohila College student Khadija Akter Nargis yesterday, will be brought to justice, no matter what his political association is.

On Monday evening, Khadija, 23, a student of the college and daughter of Masuk Miah, a resident of Hausa village in Sadar upazila, was stopped on her way to home from college allegedly by Badrul Alam, 30, assistant secretary of BCL unit at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST).

Hearing screams of the victim, locals rescued Khadija and caught Badrul from the spot and handed him over to police after giving him a good thrashing.

On border killings by BSF

The government logged protests with Indian authorities every time a Bangladeshi citizen is killed by their Border Security Force (BSF), Kamal said adding both the countries are working to reduce such incidents.