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Killers must be arrested

PM assures Saudi team; Shahara says visitors not investigators

Star Report
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has assured the visiting Saudi delegation that the killers of the Saudi embassy official must be tracked down after proper investigation.
The premier gave the assurance when the eight-member delegation met her at Ganobhaban in the capital yesterday evening.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Shahara Khatun said the visiting Saudi delegation is not an investigating team.
“They [delegation] are in Dhaka to know updates of the probe into the killing of Saudi embassy official Khalaf Al Ali,” she said while talking to journalists after a meeting with the delegation at the home ministry yesterday afternoon.
The 45-year-old embassy official was shot dead some 30 yards off his house in the capital's Gulshan early on March 6.
During the meeting at Ganobhaban, the premier urged the Saudi government to extend their cooperation with necessary expertise and information so that the on-going investigation could be accomplished properly, reports UNB.
"The home ministry keeps vigil over the matter, and I am also enquiring about it,” she added.
The Saudi delegation, however, refrained from making any comment on the issue while the home minister was talking to journalists at her ministry, reports our staff correspondent.
Though the investigators are yet to announce any progress in their probe into the killing or make any arrest, Shahara claimed the Saudi government has expressed satisfaction with the development of the probe.
Shahara said “Now, Detective Branch of police is investigating the incident and tomorrow [today] the delegation will be briefed about it at DMP headquarters.”
After being briefed, the delegation will decide how they would assist in the probe, she said.
Yesterday morning, the Saudi team visited the crime scene and the residence of the Saudi official in Gulshan, said Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station.
The team members talked to the security guards of the house for about 15 minutes, the OC said.
Maruf Hassan, a joint commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (Detective Branch), Khandaker Lutful Kabir, deputy commissioner of police (Gulshan division) and Deputy Commissioner of DB (North ) Mahbubor Rahman accompanied the delegation at the crime spot, OC Rafiqul added.
Asked over the phone if any anti-Saudi element was behind the killing, DMP Joint Commissioner Maruf Hassan said the probe is being carried out so as not to leave out any possible cause behind the incident.
On Tuesday, the Arab News quoted Alauddin Alaskari, deputy foreign minister for protocol affairs of the Saudi Arabia, as saying the objective of the team was to identify the culprits and bring them to book.
Saudi ambassador to Bangladesh Dr Abdullah Bin Naser Al-Busairi accompanied the delegation during meetings with the prime minister and the home minister.