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Regional cooperation a must to counter radicalisation

Speakers tell roundtable

Staff Correspondent
Regional and global cooperation is needed to combat terrorism and radicalisation in the South Asian region, said former diplomats and international relations experts at a roundtable yesterday.
They said Bangladesh should take holistic approach and adopt appropriate policy and strategy to fight terrorism
The roundtable titled 'Countering radicalisation in South Asia: Bangladesh perspective' was organised by Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BUSS) at its audito-
rium in the city.
Bangladesh failed to combat terrorism during a period from 2001 to 2005 as it tried to negate the reality tarnishing the image of the country, said CM Shafi Sami, former foreign secretary and adviser to a caretaker government.
The country now needs to raise tire issue at regional and international level to fight terrorism showing no tolerance to any kind of terrorist activities, he said.
The civil society of the country also needs to play an important role to de-motivate the youths, who were indoctrinated by the religious fanatics, not to be involved in terror-
ism, he added.
Abul Hasan Chowdhury, former state minister for foreign affairs, said regional cooperation in terms of technology and high level understanding is needed to combat terrorism.
“First of all we should correct ourselves, we should generate spirit to fight terrorism,” headded.
He said religion should also be interpreted to the youths as ethos of peace.
Recent results of votes in Bangladesh and India reflect that the people of these two countries do not want radicalisation, said former ambassador Faruk Sobhan.
He said Pakistan had delayed in addressing the problem of religious fundamentalism and for that the country is now suffering.
He said regional cooperation is needed in addressing the root causes of terrorism as the terrorists have no border.
Prof Imtiaz Ahmed of international relations department at Dhaka University presented the keynote paper at the discussion.
Military experts and former ambassadors took part in the discussion chaired by BUSS Director General Maj Gen (retd) Md Monirul Islam.