BGB man likely to return today

Border Guard Bangladesh authorities on Wednesday said Nayek Abdur Razzak could be brought back home today after a flag meeting in Myanmar town Maungdaw, more than a week after his capture. ‘We hope to bring him back after the flag meeting there,’ the BGB’s director general Major General Aziz Ahmed told New Age. The BGB officials said a six-member BGB team led by Border Guard 42 Battalion director Lieutenant Colonel Abuzar Al Jahid is scheduled for Thursday morning to join the flag meeting. The BGB chief, however, said the flag meeting would be held depending on weather conditions as the BGB has to cross the border on speedboats. The official said the weather was rough on Wednesday. According to the Weather Channel online, thunderstorms and heavy rainfall are expected in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday. Myanmar’s Border Guard Police had averted BGB’s proposal to hold a meeting to settle the issue of the scuffle that had taken place between the two border forces on June 17 in Naff River, during which Abdur Razzak was captured and another Bangladesh border guard was shot at. The foreign ministry on June 18 summoned the Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka, U Myo Myint Than, and lodged a strong protest and asked for the immediate release of Razzak. Instead of his release, photographs showing the Nayek in humiliating circumstances began circulating in the social media. In May 2014, BGB Nayek Mizanur Rahman died in Naikhyanchari border in Bandarban during another incident between the two border forces. Bangladesh shares about 271 kilometres of border with Myanmar. News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net