Rohingya militants, who are trained in Pakistan, have become operational in Bangladesh's hill track area of Cox's Bazar's Teknaf and remote areas of Bandarban. Pakistan based militant outfits Lashkar-e-Taiba,Jamatul Mujahideen and Pakistani Taliban have reportedly given full assistance to the Rohingiya militants. The revelation was cited in leading daily of Bangladesh on Sunday based on a report from Myanmar media.

Leading daily Kaler Kantha, citing intelligent officials, said that Rohingya militants got training in Pakistan in 2012. According to the report, their aim was to create sabotage including covert killings in Bangladesh, India and Myanmar. Most of the Rohingya militants were reportedly recruited from the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar area.

A statement from the office of Myanmar's President Htin Kyaw blamed the little-known 'Aqa Mul Mujahidin'(AMM) for the terrorist attack in Myanmar's north-west province of Rakhain on October 9. In the statement he also said that AMM has good relation with Pakistan and some countries of middle east. Htin Kyaw said, few militant outfits from Pakistan are providing financial support and military training inside Myanmar territory.

Militants carried out attacks on three police check-posts on October 9 in Maungdaw town alongside Myanmar-Bangladesh border and killed 9 policemen. Military Headquarter reported that 26 militants were killed in the counter attack of Myanmar Army.

AMM IS A NEW ARMED GROUP



Citing a senior officials of Indian intelligence, who have closely followed the Rohingya armed militancy for decades, the media said that AMM chief Hafiz Tohar was indeed trained in Pakistan. He said, though AMM is a new armed group but it originated from the Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami-Arakan (HUJI-A) which enjoys close relations with the Pakistan Taliban.

He said, the HUJI-A chief is Abdus Qadoos Burmi, a Pakistani national of Rohingya origin. Qadoos Burmi is reported to be close to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), headed by Hafiz Sayeed and who it is claimed recruited Hafiz Tohar, 45, from Kyauk Pyin Seik village in Maungdaw in Myanmar and arranged for his training in Pakistan.

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The intelligence official said, later Hafiz Tohar himself recruited Rohingya youths from Rakhine province and refugee camps in Bangladesh's cox's bazaar and trained them in jungle bases on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. They were reportedly carrying out insurgency inside Myanmar. Besides, these militants are also involved in different terrorist activities inside India and Bangladesh.



Quoting higher official of an intelligence agency of Bangladesh Mizzima said, Jamaatud Dawa and Lashkar-e-Taiba held a conference titled "Difa-e-Musalman-e-Arakan" in July 2012 to address the Rohinga crisis as a issue. Subsequently, senior JuD operatives, Shahid Mahmood and Nadeem Awan visited Bangladesh in August 2012, to establish direct contacts with Rohingya elements based in camps along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border," said the Bangladesh intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

PAKISTAN NATIONAL ACTIVE ON BANGLADESH-MYANMAR BORDER



He said that besides Qadoos Burmi, another Rohingya militant network headed by Maulana Abdul Hamid is said to be operating out of Pakistan. A Pakistan national of Rohingya origin, is reported to be active along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. Abdul Hamid has close links with Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Security Analyst of Bangladesh Major General(retd) Abdur Rashid said, former BNP-Jamaat alliance government support to the issue of Rohinga crisis which later lead Bangladesh to a difficult situation like refugee problem.

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On the other hand, Pakistan was always keen to divert the issue into a case of religious fundamentalism in the name of resolving Rohinga crisis. One of the main reasons that can be attributed to Pakistan's unwillingness to solve the problem is, if Bangladesh somehow manage to resolve the crisis smoothly it could the improve bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Myanmar which would not benefit Pakistan.

Discussing on bilateral relation between Bangladesh and Myanmar, he said that there is hardly any improvement in people to people and government to government interaction between Myanmar and Bangladesh but if that happens it could resolve most of the crisis.

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