Home and agriculture affairs adviser Lt Gen, retd, Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Friday said there was no extremist activity in Bangladesh now.
鈥榃ith your cooperation, we have rooted out extremism from the country,鈥� he said at a press briefing after visiting the Export Cargo Village and a cold storage of Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka in the morning.
The adviser said that the media and the law and order forces have played an important role in rooting out extremism and there was no significant activity of militant outfits in the country during the last 10 months.
Replying to a question about giving a militant tag to Bangladeshi nationals in Malaysia, Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said that those who were deported from Malaysia are not extremists and they were sent back to Bangladesh as the validity of their visas had expired. The Malaysian Inspector General of Police (IGP) recently talked about five more Bangladeshi nationals and the issue is now under verification, he added.
鈥榃e鈥檝e not received any official communication about their involvement in extremism. Our foreign ministry has already issued a press release clarifying the situation,鈥� he said.
Replying to another question about the inspection, the agriculture adviser said that Bangladesh's agro-export capacity has been increasing gradually and that steps are being taken to improve the logistic support for it.
鈥楾here were some disruptions in exports due to National Board of Revenue (NBR) and customs-related issues, our traders suffered losses and we are working to avoid such problems in the future,鈥� he added.
The adviser told the media that the government plans to expand the existing cold storage and construct a new export terminal equipped with additional scanning and refrigeration facilities to ensure proper storage of perishable goods in case of flight delays.
In the present terminal, if goods miss any flight, there鈥檚 no proper cold storage inside; the new terminal will fulfil that demand, he added.
