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BNP denies having link with Mossad

Announces two-day demo on Sunday, Monday across country protesting 'persecution' of party chief Khaleda

Staff Correspondent
Rejecting the ruling Awami League leaders' allegation that BNP is plotting with Mossad, Israeli intelligence agency, to oust the government, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the party has no link with Israel and its intelligence agency.
“We want to make it clear that BNP has no relation with Israel... It is a liberal and democratic political party and does not believe in conspiracies," he told a press briefing at the party's Naya Paltan headquarters in the capital.
"BNP does not even think about ousting the government using any other means except through elections," added the BNP leader.
The party organised the press conference to inform the media of the decisions made at its standing committee's Monday meeting at BNP chairperson's Gulshan office.
Fakhrul said, "BNP fully supports the rights and sovereignty of Palestine. We have always been vocal in favour of Palestinians and we will always be so."
Meanwhile, a two-member team of the party met Palestinian embassy officials in Dhaka on Tuesday to elucidate their stance, said a BNP leader involved in handling the party's foreign affairs.
Fakhrul came up with the remarks as a Bangladeshi daily recently ran a report that newly appointed BNP Joint Secretary Aslam Chowdhury held several meetings with Mossad. The newspaper also published a photo of Aslam with Mendi N Safadi, a leader of Israeli Likud Party and chief of International Diplomacy and Public Relations, in New Delhi.
After the report was published, the AL leaders, including State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, alleged that the BNP was plotting to oust the government with the help of Mossad.
After facing huge criticism, the BNP sanding committee members at that meeting told the party's Chairperson Khaleda Zia that the issue was spoiling its image. And they expressed resentment over Aslam's meeting with Safadi.
Amid swirling controversy, Aslam admitted meeting the Israeli politician early this month, but claimed that the meeting was accidental.
Talking to The Daily Star on Tuesday, Aslam said he did not know if Safadi had any link with Mossad.
EXECUTION OF NIZAMI
Asked about their reaction over the execution of Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Fakhrul said, "BNP wants trial of those who committed crimes during the 1971 Liberation War, but the trial has to be fair, transparent and free from political motivation.
UP POLLS 'NOMINATION BUSINESS'
He also rejected the media reports over the “nomination business" in the ongoing UP polls and termed it a conspiracy of some vested quarters to tarnish the party's image.
TWO-DAY DEMONSTRATION
The BNP announced to hold demonstrations across the country on Sunday and in the capital on Monday, protesting cases and submission of charge sheets by police against Khaleda Zia and demanding withdrawal of the charges and cases.
"The government is lodging one false case after another against Khaleda Zia. This is nothing but a plot to keep her away from politics," said the leader.
Earlier on Wednesday, police submitted charge sheets against the party chief and 26 others in two cases filed over arson attacks in the capital's Darussalam area last year.