National security adviser Khalilur Rahman, also the chief adviser鈥檚 high representative on Rohingya affairs, on Wednesday said that he was a Bangladeshi national and did not have nationality of any other country.
鈥業 don鈥檛 have nationality of any country other than Bangladesh,鈥� he said, adding that anyone could go to court with their claims regarding the issue.
BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed recently alleged that national security adviser Khalilur Rahman was a foreign citizen.
Addressing a press conference on the Rohingya crisis and humanitarian channel issue in Rakhaine of Myanmar at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital Dhaka, Khalilur, also a former diplomat, said that some quarters were raising question about his nationality as he stayed in the United States with his family.
鈥業 stayed in the US with my family. But I don鈥檛 have the US passport,鈥� he claimed, saying that people could raise similar question another day about Tarique Rahman (the Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairperson who is now staying in the United Kingdom).
Khalilur said that he had every right here as a citizen of this country.
