India offers Dhaka help in identifying bombers

With blasts in Bangladesh fuelling Indian concerns about Islamic terror in Bangladesh, New Delhi has offered Dhaka help in identifying those...

With blasts in Bangladesh fuelling Indian concerns about Islamic terror in Bangladesh, New Delhi has offered Dhaka help in identifying those who carried out Wednesday’s attacks.

India conveyed its ‘‘serious concern’’ and offered ‘‘any kind of assistance” to the Bangladesh High Commissioner in India, Liaqat Ali Chowdhury — who had met Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran yesterday.

“A stable, prosperous, secular and democratic Bangladesh is not just in the interests of the people of Bangladesh, but also of India and the region as a whole,’’ the MEA spokesperson said today.

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As many as 459 blasts within a span of 30 minutes had hit 63 out of 64 districts of Bangladesh. This, South Block officials said, was worrying as Dhaka was slated to host the SAARC Summit in November. One of the reasons the February summit was called off was the security situation in Dhaka.

In Wednesday’s explosions, two persons were killed and about 150 injured. The MEA spokesperson said pamphlets authored by a fundamentalist outfit, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, had been found at the site of each of the blasts. The group, banned six months ago, demanded establishment of an Islamic state in Bangladesh and condemned democracy, judiciary and the electoral system as ‘‘un-Islamic’’.

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