By NNN-PTI,
Dhaka : Former Bangladesh premier Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman was involved in an abortive smuggling of weapons, believed to be meant for ULFA militants in Assam, the detained prime accused in the country’s biggest ever arms haul case has claimed.
“Hafizur Rahman (the prime accused) has told the magistrate that he had met Tarique Rahman at Hawa Bhaban along with ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom) leader Paresh Barua on April 1, 2004,” the state-run BSS news agency quoted a senior police official as saying last night.
The official said Hafiz named many other stalwarts of Zia’s past Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party alliance government alongside intelligence and administrative officials at the fag end in his confessional statement made over the past two days before a magistrate.