Govt not taking UN report on AQIS into account yet, says Home Minister

Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed on Monday said that the government is not taking into account the United Nations Security Council’s report on Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) as he has not yet read the report.

“They may have made some observations there. I cannot comment without seeing it,” the home minister told journalists at the Secretariat.

“We are not taking these things into account, and we have not read the report yet,” he said.

The UN Security Council recently raised concerns that AQIS may be seeking to establish bases in Bangladesh.

The 38th report of the UN Security Council’s Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team on the Islamic State and Al-Qaida, submitted under Resolution 2734 (2024), noted concerns over the group’s attempts to use Bangladesh as a base to establish cells.