Pakistan national among 5 suspected militants arrested in Bangladesh

DHAKA: Five suspected militants, including a Pakistani national, have been arrested from a hotel in Chittagong, the main seaport of Bangladesh.
The suspects have been arrested from the port city's Nasirabad area. Of the five, the Pakistani citizen has been identified as Mohammad Alam, bdnews24 online reported.
But Alam claimed he is the the director of voluntary organisation Global Rohingya Centre, the headquarters of which is in the Netherlands, the report said citing Chittagong Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch Deputy Commisioner Kusum Dewan.

"The detainees had rented rooms in the hotel on Saturday" said Dewan.

Alam's passport has been confiscated and he is being questioned. Ethnic clashes forced many Rohingyas in Myanmar to enter Bangladesh in the last two decades.

There are allegations that some Rohingyas are involved in criminal activities abroad by obtaining Bangladeshi passports.

India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) recently arrested Khaleed alias Khalid Mohammed -- a member of another group Rohingya Solidarity Organisation from Hyderabad in connection with the October 2 Burdwan blast case in West Bengal.

Khaleed is believed be an expert in Improvised Explosive Device. He has confessed to having received militant training from Pakistan's Tehrik-e-Insaf on behalf of Myanmar outfit Tehrek-e-Azadi Arakan, according to NIA.

According to Bangladesh government, apart from the 34,000 registered refugees at the camps in Cox's Bazar, there are another 200,000 to 300,000 Rohingyas currently in Bangladesh.