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PROBE INTO ATTEMPT ON HASINA

US, UK, Pakistan, India offer help

Staff Correspondent
Britain, India, Pakistan and the United States yesterday offered to help Dhaka in its probe into a series of grenade attacks on an Awami League (AL) rally at separate meeting of their envoys with Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan.
"We have offered to help in the investigation, we want to work with
Bangladesh on the matter," Veena Sikri, Indian high commissioner in Dhaka, told journalists after her meeting with Morshed.
Morshed also held talks with US Ambassador Harry K Thomas, British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury and Pakistani High
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Commissioner Manzar Shafiq to share the government's concern with them.
Morshed did not refuse any offer made by the envoys, but said Dhaka took the explosions seriously and would ask for assistance in the investigation, if need be.
Morshed's meetings came after the envoys of Britain, India and US and a representative of the Pakistan mission in Dhaka met Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina in the wake of the Saturday's attacks that left 18 people killed and over 200 injured.
At the meetings, Hasina demanded an international probe into the attacks, saying grenades were exploded to exterminate her party leadership.
The envoys were interested to meet Morshed for the government's side of the story after their meetings with Hasina, a foreign ministry source said.
Sikri said Morshed saw the recent frequency of bomb and grenade attacks as 'a national crisis and a threat to the nation's democratic process'.
"We also share his (Morshed's) belief and we have taken the matter seriously," the Indian envoy said.
Morshed also told Sikri that the government was committed to making a sincere effort to catch the culprits and already opened a judicial investigation commission.
Diplomatic sources said the Indian envoy pointed out inadequate government steps in the probe into 10 truckloads of arms and ammunition recovery on the Karnaphuli coast in Chittagong on April 2.
The government carried out its responsibility only by arresting truck drivers and petty criminals while the main suspects remained at large, she remarked.
India has made several offers to help Dhaka in important investigations, especially in the arms seizure when both nations exchanged information.
London assisted Dhaka in the probe into May 21 bomb explosion in Hazrat Shahjalal Shrine in Sylhet in which three people were killed and many more including its envoy Anwar was injured.
British police, the Scotland Yard and MI5 visited Sylhet as part of the probe.