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Local gun with POF-made bullet found at militant area

ANWAR ALi, Joypurhat
Police recovered a locally made gun loaded with a Pakistan-made bullet from a bush close to Jama'atul Mujahidin leader Montejar's house at Moheshpur village in Khetlal upazila yesterday.
Police sent the three militants arrested after the August 14 firefight to Dhaka for quizzing by a joint interrogation cell (JIC), after taking them on a seven-day remand.
A team of policemen led by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ozair Rahman recovered the unclaimed revolver-shaped gun from the bush. It was loaded with a bullet bearing the mark 'POF 677'.
"That proved that it was made in the Pakistan Ordinance Factory," the ASP said, adding that the militants must have left the gun in the bush, 350 yards off Montejar's house where the gunfight took place in the early hours of August 14.
An investigator believes that the discovery of the bullet points at links between the local militants with Pakistan-based Islamic extremists. Besides, some of the diaries left behind by the militants also men-
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tion names of their friends in Pakistan.
Police doubled their strength at Moheshpur and the surrounding villages as they continued the search in the crop-fields, bushes and ponds for the three looted firearms and 60 bullets.
The three suspects -- Anwar Sadat, Masudur Rahman and Rashidul Islam -- were sent to Dhaka yesterday afternoon for interrogation by the JIC.
Anwar and Rashidul were trained in Afghanistan and also took part in the last Afghan war, primary interrogations revealed. They were also allegedly involved in the Dinajpur bomb blast on February 13.
Before sending them to Dhaka, police in a petition to a magistrate's court sought a ten-day remand against the three.
Police could not gather any more information about the looted arms, munitions and the militant leaders as the five-day remand of the other 20 suspects ended yesterday.
The investigators, however, gathered information regarding the militants' backgrounds and motives.
"The real motive of the group is to wage for an armed revolution or 'Jihad' to establish what they claim the rule of Allah in the country, but now they are recruiting members", said the ASP.
They also have plans to target what they call 'anti-Islamic activities' and persons involved in those, he added.