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PM to lead team to network intelligence

Staff Correspondent
A high-powered national committee headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been formed recently to coordinate the activities of the country's intelligence agencies.
The committee members include the cabinet secretary', principal secretary' to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), and heads of the
Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), National Security Intelligence (NSI), Special Security Force (SSF) and the police department
Security Adviser to the premier Maj Gen (retd) Tariq Ahmed Siddiqui has been given the responsibility to oversee its activities.
However, none from the home ministry, responsible for maintaining law and order, was
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included in the body.
“1 don't know anything about the fonnation of a new committee. However, I am aware of the fact that the security adviser to the prime minister is coordinating the activities of the intelligence agencies," Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder told The Daily Star last night.
If necessary, director generals of Rapid Action Battalion and Criminal Investigation Department may be called in to attend the national committee meeting.
Sources at the PMO said the committee was formed following the country's intelligence agencies' failures in warning the government in advance about major incidents like the mutiny at the Pilkhana Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters.
The cabinet committee on law and order at a meeting after the camage at BDR headquarters pointed out the failure of the intelligence agencies in warning the government.
The intelligence agencies' failure came to the fore after the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami league rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004 and the August 17 serial bomb blasts across the country’ in 2005.
Prime Minister Sheikh I lasina also raised the issue in parliament, saying the PMO has taken initiatives to fonn a committee for ensuring coordination of the intelligence agencies activities.
The committee will hold a meeting at the PMO next month to discuss the areas of its activities, sources added.