Indian journo's report on Home Secretary Nasimul Ghani 'false, fabricated': CA Press Wing
The Chief Adviser's Press Wing has called out Indian journalist Palki Sharma's recent report on Home Affairs Secretary Nasimul Ghani, on the YouTube channel of Firstpost and news portal BDDiGEST, as "false and fabricated".
In a statement posted on the Facebook page CA Press Wing Facts today (5 January), it said the reports mentioned that Nasimul, a senior secretary, is a founder of the banned Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir. As evidence, Palki Sharma and BDDiGEST cited a report titled "Hizb ut-Tahrir leaders held over 'militancy'", which was published in The Daily Star in 2008.
"Home Secretary Nasimul Ghani and Nasimul Gani mentioned in that Daily Star report are different people. In fact, the alleged Hizb ut-Tahrir leader, whose actual name is Nasim Gani, is a British citizen," said the press wing.
Home Secretary Nasimul has been a top Bangladesh bureaucrat. He is a Bangladeshi citizen who does not hold dual passports or residency in any other country. He joined the country's civil service in 1983 after a brilliant academic career, continued the press wing statement.
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He travelled to Britain several times in the early 2000s when he was the secretary to the then speaker of the national parliament of Bangladesh. In 2008, he got a 45-day top management training from the University of Bradford, UK, it added.
"Hizb ut-Tahrir is an outlawed Bangladesh group. There is no question of any government officials joining a banned political outfit. Nasimul Ghani has never been a part of any political party, even during his student years.
"In recent months, after the Interim Government took power, Bangladesh police arrested several Hizb ut-Tahrir members for illegal activities. The government does not have any plans to withdraw the ban on the group," reads the statement.
The press wing further said, "We believe the report linking him with Hizb ut-Tahrir was published with malicious intent as part of an orchestrated disinformation campaign against Bangladesh by Indian news outlets and the people linked with the ousted dictatorship of Sheikh Hasina."
