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Intelligence asked to watch out

PM asks for synergy among agencies to check failures

Hasan Jahid Tusher
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the intelligence agencies to work in a coordinated way to thwart recurrence of incidents like the last month's massacre at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters.
the directives came at a regular cabinet meeting that began at 11:00am at the Secretariat.
Most cabinet members mentioned lack of coordination and sharing of information among the intelligence wings as the major reason for the failure in preventing almost all major untoward incidents starting from the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to the last month's BDR mutiny.
Hasina also directed the intelligence agencies to share information with each other for the sake of country's security and its people.
"Our intelligence wings function without maintaining any sort of communication with each other. One agency remains in the dark
about the other. That's why the prime minister has directed them to work in a coordinated way and share information," a senior minister told The Daily Star after the meeting wishing anonymity.
The minister said the prime minister is planning to reorganise the activities of the intelligence wings gradually for their smooth functioning.
Bangladesh has five intelligence agencies --National Security Intelligence (NSI), Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGF1), Military Intelligence (MI), Special Branch (SB) and Detective Branch (DB) of Police.
The meeting also expressed concern over activities of militant outfits in the country.
The prime minister asked the law enforcement agencies to remain alert about the militant outfits and urged people to share information about them with law enforcers, said the PM's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad after the FROM PAGE 1
two-hour-long meeting.
The premier and the senior ministers at the meeting expressed dissatisfaction over a home ministry report on militant outfits.
The cabinet earlier asked the ministry' to submit a complete report on militant activities including the August 17 serial bomb blasts across the country with findings about the mastermind behind the blasts, their sources of finance and ammunition, people involved in it and the reason for the intelligence agencies' failure to prevent it.
Some ministers who attended the meeting told The Daily Star that the prime minister was unhappy about the report as the home ministry failed to incorporate the information in it.
Terming the report 'incomplete', Hasina directed the ministry to come up with an in-depthreport.
"The home ministry' submitted the report based on information before 31 December, 2008. Although many incidents including the BDR mutiny happened in the country after the election, it had no information about those," said a minister wishing not to be named.
Meanwhile, the home ministry directed deputy commissioners, superintends of police and intelligence agencies to hunt down militants and prepare a list of militants and their outfits.
"We have directed the deputy commissioners, superintends of police to find out the militants and take actions against them," said Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder after holding a meeting with the ministry officials.
The cabinet approved the proposed amendment to the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission ?\ct 2003 and renamed the national award on agriculture the Bangabandhu National Agriculture Award.