Bangladesh authorities suspect that the Hizbut Tahrir (the Liberation Party), banned in October 2009, had links with the 16 middle-level officers of the Bangladesh army involved in the plot to stage a coup against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina which was foiled in December, say sources.
The banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir has in the last one decade made three attempts to penetrate the Pakistani military. Its latest bid resulted in the conviction of Brigadier Ali Khan and four other army officers for links with the outfit. On August 3, a military court convicted Khan and majors Sohail Akbar, Jawad Baseer, Inayat Aziz and Iftikhar for having links with the HuT and gave them prison terms ranging from five years to 18 months
It'll be nothing short of a recipe of disaster when dreaded Indian Mujahideen gets linked up with international terror outfits like Palestine-based Hizbut Tahrir, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
NIA officials told rediff.com that they have intimated both the Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing to seek more information from Bangladesh regarding the operational capabilities of an outfit named Hizbut Tahrir, which since the past three years has been working closely with the Indian Mujahideen.
The attack on the Mahabodhi temple is a precursor before Pakistan-based terror outfits launch a major 'war' in support of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, reports Vicky Nanjappa
The Indian Mujahideen follows the same pattern as its creator, Lashkar-e-Tayiba.