By Zakeria Shirazi
According to newspaper reports, in the past ten months 245 militants have been arrested of whom 45 were members of Hizbul Towhid, 35 belonged to Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, 25 were from Harkat-ul-Jihad and 23 from Allah’r Dal. The multiplicity of names does not necessarily mean diversity in character and aims; militants are wont to changing their names and masks too readily, as well as the names of their outfits. It is notable that militant leaders have a number of aliases. Abu Jindal, the Harkat-ul-Jihad member who along with his cohort Nazrul Gharami was given a jail sentence of 20 years recently by a court in Satkhira, had several aliases. Jamaatul Mujahideen was banned long ago but banning a clandestine organisation has no meaning. Even as arrests were going on, reports were appearing on the militants’ regrouping.
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