Hasina’s administration has consistently denied that ISIS has gained a foothold in the country and Kerry’s remarks are a major blow to that stance.
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Hasina raised the request during an hour-long meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry, who was on day’s visit to Dhaka on Monday, reported the Daily Star.
Secretary of State John Kerry offered the media a solution Monday to combat the threat of radical Islamic terrorism: just don’t report what’s going on in the world. “It would help arrest the terrorists and there should be reciprocity or two way traffic in this regard”, she said.
Kerry said “there is much we can do to cooperate” in the fields of intelligence and law enforcement to address security threats from both domestic and trans-national organizations.
“One of Kerry’s core intentions in Dhaka will simply be to emphasise the importance that the United States accords to security problems in Bangladesh, and Washington’s strong desire to help the government there address them”. They want to push people apart.
The prime minister said her government made open the private sector in all fields and such initiative created huge opportunity for employment of the educated youth. Five of six of them were killed in the standoff that followed.
A special U.S. aircraft carrying Kerry along with members of his entourage arrived here from Geneva while his counterpart received him at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport’s VVIP terminal meant for heads of governments and states.
About his visit to the historic Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi-32 in the capital, Kerry said he was really impressed to see the historical evidence in the house.
He will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, amid rising tensions in the disputed region of Kashmir which is divided between India and its rival neighbour, Pakistan.
Later, he sat in talks with Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali.
Kerry later in the day is scheduled to meet former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
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Before starting for New Delhi, he visited Edward Kennedy Centre at Dhanmondi and delivered lectures to youngsters. Bangladesh’s economy depends heavily on the fortunes of the $28 billion garment industry, which is struggling to improve a poor safety record epitomized by the Rana Plaza disaster of 2013 in which a factory collapse killed more than 1,100 people.
