KILLING OF FOREIGN NATIONALS

Indian intel rules out IS link : TOI

Indian agencies, just like Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina, seem to discount the possibility of Islamic State's involvement in the recent killings of an Italian and a Japanese national in the neighbouring country, leading Indian daily the Times of India said yesterday.
According to the report Indian agencies have instead sought to blame Jamaat-e-Islami rebels and see the murderous attacks as a ploy to draw attention of the Western nations to "targeting of their top leaders for 1971 war crimes without proper trial as required by an international war tribunal".
"The hanging of some top Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) leaders may be due in the near future; one of the most prominent leaders on the death row is Motiur Rahman Nizami, whose appeal is now being heard by the Supreme Court," a senior officer of the Indian establishment pointed out.
"The attacks on foreigners seem to aimed at drawing the immediate attention of the West. Also, given that IS generates the widest interest across the globe, JeI may be projecting attacks by extremists linked to it as those executed by IS. This attracts immediate condemnation by the western world and may further JeI’s intention to project the Hasina government as ineffective in managing the security situation,” said the officer.

KILLING OF FOREIGN NATIONALS

Indian intel rules out IS link : TOI

Indian agencies, just like Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina, seem to discount the possibility of Islamic States involvement in the recent killings of an Italian and a Japanese national in the neighbouring country, leading Indian daily the Times of India said yesterday. According to the report Indian agencies have instead sought to blame Jamaat-e-Islami rebels and see the murderous attacks as a ploy to draw attention of the Western nations to targeting of their top leaders for 1971 war crimes without proper trial as required by an international war tribunal. The hanging of some top Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) leaders may be due in the near future; one of the most prominent leaders on the death row is Motiur Rahman Nizami, whose appeal is now being heard by the Supreme Court, a senior officer of the Indian establishment pointed out. The attacks on foreigners seem to aimed at drawing the immediate attention of the West. Also, given that IS generates the widest interest across the globe, JeI may be projecting attacks by extremists linked to it as those executed by IS. This attracts immediate condemnation by the western world and may further JeIs intention to project the Hasina government as ineffective in managing the security situation, said the officer.