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This is an archive article published on August 27, 2007

Dhaka rejects Indian claim on H’bad blast link

Bangladesh has described as 'baseless', the Indian claim that a terrorist group based on its soil was involved in the weekend bombings in Hyderabad.

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Bangladesh has rejected the Indian claim that a terrorist group based on its soil was involved in the weekend bombings in Hyderabad, describing it as “baseless”.

“The allegations are baseless, I reject them,” Foreign Affairs Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury was quoted as saying by media in Dhaka on Monday.

He was asked about Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s statement that available information pointed to the involvement of international terrorist organisations in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

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Earlier, the adviser condemned the attacks saying “such abhorrent violence is a blot on the conscience of humanity”.

“Our thoughts today are with those who lost their dear ones in this dastardly act,” he wrote in a letter to Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

Chowdhury told reporters that the Bangladesh government would never retreat from protecting the country’s interests in the face of any wrongful allegations.

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