Bangladesh Terrorist Abdus Salam Pintu: A Bangladesh court docket has given reduction to a different anti-India individual. Last Tuesday (24 December), former minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) member Abdus Salam Pintu was released from jail after 17 years. Abdus Salam Pintu is accused of funding terrorists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK) and Bangladesh. Abdus Salam assisted Pakistan-based terrorist group Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) in finishing up terrorist assaults against India. He was sentenced to dying for plotting a grenade assault on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2004.
Abdus Salam has performed a key function in terrorist assaults in India by serving to HUJI in POK’s arms procurement, recruitment and coaching programme. He was accused of serving to HUJI present coaching in weapons and explosives to madrassa college students and elevating funds and arms for terrorists in Kashmir. Pakistan-based HuJI is a delegated terrorist group not solely in India but additionally in Bangladesh, Israel, New Zealand, Britain and the US.
According to the Dhaka-based Daily Star, Abdus was acquitted by the High Court. He was in jail since 2008. According to a PTI report, the investigating officer within the 2004 grenade assault case advised a Dhaka court docket in 2021 that Abdus Salam Pintu, who assisted the banned group HuJI. He had helped the group buy weapons to be used against India.
Recruitment of Bangladeshi terrorist in POK
Apart from Abdus Salam Pintu, Bangladesh had not too long ago additionally released one other former BNP minister Lutfozaman Babar, who was accused of making an attempt to assassinate Sheikh Hasina in 2004. In 2011, the investigating officer additionally advised the court docket that Abdus and Babar had skilled many youth, primarily madrassa college students, in dealing with weapons and bombs. All these folks had been from Bangladesh solely.
Pakistan based mostly HuJI carried out terrorist assaults in India
HUJI performed a key function in finishing up terrorist assaults in India as a part of the Pakistani institution’s “Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts” doctrine. This included a number of smaller assaults, such because the 2006 Varanasi court docket advanced bombing, the 2007 Ajmer Sharif Dargah bombing and the 2011 Delhi bombing. HuJI is thought to work intently with different terrorist teams like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) and has assist and safety from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
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