FOREIGNER KILLINGS : Plan on to justify PM’s statement blaming BNP: Nazrul

Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan on Wednesday alleged that the government was trying to implicate BNP leaders in the recent killing of foreigners to justify the prime minister’s recent statement in this regard.
‘BNP had protested against and condemned the shameful killing of foreigners and demanded punishment for the perpetrators through proper investigation, but the head of the government stated abroad that BNP leaders were involved in the killing…Now efforts are going on to justify her statement,’ Nazrul said.
Nazrul made the statement at a prayer session at the party’s central office organised by Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal for early recovery of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, now under treatment in London.
He said BNP did not do politics of killing.
‘If anyone is involved in killing that would be his/her own responsibility and BNP would not take the liability,’ Nazrul said, adding that BNP would protest against any attempt to implicate any BNP leader in the killing intentionally to malign the party.
Nazrul said that ministers and lawmakers of the ruling party were making different statements blaming militants or Jamaat for the killing while some others were saying that BNP was involved in the foreigners killing.
He said it was tantamount to influence investigation.
BNP spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon at a briefing at the party’s central office at Nayapaltan on Wednesday said that their apprehension that the party would be harassed implicating some leaders in the recent killing of two foreigners was proved true through the home minister naming BNP leader Abdul Quayum as a suspect in the murder of Itanial aid worker Cesare Tavella.
Reading out written statement, Ripon termed ‘incredible’ ‘imaginary’ and ‘untrue’ the allegations raised by the government against some BNP leaders.
He said that the government was pointing finger at its political opponent over the two foreigners killing from the very beginning.
Propaganda was being carried out involving Dhaka city BNP leaders Abdul Quyum and Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel which would help real offenders to go beyond reach, he said.
Replying to a query, Ripon said that the four people who were arrested in connection with the killing of Cesare Tavella were neither leader nor activist of BNP.
Asked what would be the party’s position if its men were found involved in the murders in neutral investigation, he said that as BNP did not believe in politics of killing, there was no reason for finding any BNP leader’s involvement in the killings in any neutral investigation.

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