TIL Desk/World/Dhaka/ Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI is trying to destabilize Bangladesh by strengthening the roots of Islamic terrorism in Dhaka, which was formed in 1971 as a secular country. Stressing on the role of the ISI besides the LeT, Bangladeshi minister Hasan Ul-Inu had said “Pakistan’s ISI is trying to destabilize Bangladesh from the time Bangladesh became independent and these aspects cannot be ignored,”.
The relationship between terror in Bangladesh and its support by Pakistan was established in 2016 Holey Artisan Bakery attack in the posh locality of Dhaka that killed 20 people from five different countries.The assault was carried out by a home-grown group called Jamat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). The post-attack raids on the terrorist group’s revealed that the group was supported by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
The ISI has often been accused of supporting various terrorist groups, including the LeT, in the form of training, funds, and protection. Soon after the 2016 Dhaka attack, the Bangladesh government found in the investigations that the JMB terrorists had gone to Pakistan and then to Afghanistan to receive military training, according to reports. The LeT has been instrumental in training the JMB and radicalization in Bangladesh. The JMB and LeT have also been found to have started assisting the Rohingya Muslims, who are living in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf and remote areas of Bandarban in Bangladesh.
