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‘Violence Must Stop, Interim Government to Be Formed’: Bangladesh Army Chief’s Address After Sheikh Hasina Resignation

Bangladesh military boss General Waqar-uz-Zaman on Monday said he will frame a break government after state leader Sheik Hasina surrendered and escaped Dhaka despite overpowering fights. “I’m assuming complete ownership. We will frame a break government,” Waqar expressed, wearing military uniform and cap despite the fact that it was not promptly clear assuming he will head a guardian government. In an uncommon transmission to the country on state TV, he said Sheik Hasina has surrendered. “The nation has endured a great deal, the economy has been hit, many individuals have been killed — the time has come to stop the viciousness. I trust after my discourse, the circumstance will get to the next level. We won’t determine anything utilizing fights, we will stop political agitation,” he said, as the military plans to assume control over Bangladesh.

The general said he will converse with the president to shape the break government and had held chats with the principal resistance groups and common society individuals — yet not Hasina’s Awami Association. The in-between time government will allegedly be going by Dr Salimullah Khan; Dr Asif Nazrul; Equity (Retd) Md Abdul Wahhab Miah; General (Retd) Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan; Significant General (Retd) Syed Iftekhar Uddin; Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya; Matiur Rahman Chowdhury; Brigadier General (Retd) M Sakhawat Hossain; Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman; and Equity (Retd) Mama Matin.

Waqar, who was named to the top work recently, is a profession infantry official who has spent almost forty years in the military, serving two visits as an UN peacekeeper as well as in the state leader’s office. “Assuming the circumstance improves, there is no requirement for crisis”, he said, promising the new specialists would “indict all homicides” following a long time of destructive fights. “Presently the undertaking of the understudies is to try to avoid panicking and help us,” he added. Waqar further said he has asked both the military and police not to discharge any shots. In excess of 100 individuals have been killed in the fights against the Hasina-drove government throughout the course of recent days. Bangladesh has been seeing savage showings over the questionable amount framework that holds 30% of occupations for the groups of veterans who battled the 1971 freedom war.

BSF Orders ‘High Alert’ Along Bangladesh Border; DG, Senior Officers in Kolkata

The BSF gave a “full alert” across the entirety of its developments sent along the 4,096-km Bangladesh line directly following the improvements in the adjoining country. BSF chief general (acting) Daljit Singh Chawdhary and other senior authorities have arrived in Kolkata to audit the security circumstance, authorities said.

A senior official let PTI know that the BSF has guided all its field commandants to be “on ground” and “send all work force on line obligation right away”. The leaves of all the work force posted along the Bangladesh line were dropped over the most recent couple of weeks after the nation saw gigantic fights, and presently all units have been approached to “get an all alarm act”, the official said.

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The BSF watches the Indian front on the eastern flank of the country that runs along five states. West Bengal shares a sum of 2,217 km of boundary with Bangladesh, alongside Tripura (856 km), Meghalaya (443 km), Assam (262 km) and Mizoram (318 km).