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Suspected Pak militant held in Dhaka
Staff Correspondent
New Age
The Rapid Action Battalion detained five people suspected of being members of Pakistan-based militant organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad at Mirpur and New Market in the capital on Sunday. 
The battalion, however, could not establish if the detained were wanted or enlisted by Interpol, United States State Department or the Bangladesh government.
One of the detained was identified as Rezwan Ahmed, 26, a Pakistani citizen. Battalion officials said his father's name is Shafi Uddin, a resident of House 170, Road 8 in the Delhi Colony in Karachi.
'The arrested Pakistani citizen, a member of Jaish-e-Mohammad, was involved in fuelling insurgencies in India using the soil of Bangladesh,' Colonel Motiur Rahman, additional director general of the battalion, told newsmen in the battalion headquarters.
Three of the detained are said to have been form Hajiganj in Chandpur. They are Mohammad Emad Uddin alias Munna, 18, Abu Naser Munshi, 28, and Sadek Hossain alias Khoka, 19.
The other detained was named as Nannu Mian alias Belal Mondol alias Billal, 25, a resident of Darampur at Kotwali in Sylhet.
A battalion team captured Rezwan, Imad Uddin, Abu Naser and Sadek Hossain from a house at Sukanya Tower on the Mirpur Road early Sunday.
Another team, based on the information provided by the people detained, later arrested Nannu Mian at New Market, said Motiur Rahman.
The battalion also seized three illegal passports, a knife, a computer, four identity cards, five mobiles and Indian currencies, the battalion official said.
When the detained were presented before the media, the Pakistani citizen said he had received training in firearms and explosives of different kinds.
The battalion did not allow the suspects to answer any questions from the media.
Motiur said Rezwan had been recruiting members of the outfit and acting as its regional coordinator. 'He has been in Bangladesh for three years and half years.'
Asked whether there was warrant for arrest of any of them, Motiur said, 'We do not have enough information on their enlistment by any country or by Interpol.'
He said the process of legal action against the detained was under way.
One of the detained, Nannu Mian, was arrested by earlier by Indian authorities and he had been in jail for 10 years in connection with hijacking a plane in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1999, the battalion official said.
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