Bangla safe sanctuary for Northeast rebels

Apr 18, 2013 - MANOJ ANAND |

Age Correspondent

GUWAHATI

Taking advantage of the ongoing civic unrest in Bangladesh, the Northeast insurgent groups have started re-establishing their hideouts and camps in Bangladesh once again.
Informing that home ministry is extremely worried about growing presence of northeast militant groups in Bangladesh again, authoritative security sources told this newspaper that outlawed Ulfa and NDFB have started training of its new recruits in Rangamati and Khagrachari area across the border. Pointing out that Ulfa cadres are given training in the camps of Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), security sources said that NDFB commander Thulunga who had nearly 30-40 trained cadres have accommodated some fresh recruits for training in its camp in Sherpur area of Bangladesh. It is significant that Thulunga is also wanted and named in serial bomb blast case of 2008 in Assam.
Referring the intelligence inputs emanating from Dhaka, security sources said that family of elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah and wife of Ulfa general secretary Anup Chetia are also living together in Dhaka.

***
India keen to continue oil imports from Iran
Age Correspondent
NEW DELHI, APRIL 17

Despite pressure from the US to reduce its oil imports from Iran, India is keen to continue these imports and remain its “partner” in order to meet its need for energy security.
While India has been forced to reduce its oil imports from Iran under US pressure which has imposed economic sanction on it for its nuclear programme, New Delhi is unwilling to sever its ties entirely with Iran on the energy front.
India which has traditionally had close ties with Iran is also now keeping a close eye on the upcoming presidential elections that country. There is a perception here that regardless of whoever wins the Iranian polls salted for June 14, India’s close ties with Iran will not be affected.
Two reasons are extended for this. One, it is expected that whoever becomes the next president of Iran will want to retain his country’s close bilateral ties with India. It’s also felt that there is an interest in Iran to maintain the country’s relationship with India.
Further, even as Iran gets a new President, the country’s supreme leader will continue to remain Ayato-llah Ali Khamenei.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/229944" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-d63075d51a025ccdeac78e547271c57f" value="form-d63075d51a025ccdeac78e547271c57f" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="80560653" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>