Pakistan and Jamaat involve in Gulshan attack: Suranjit

Awami League presidium member Suranjit Sengupta on Monday said Pakistan and Jamaat-e-Islami were involve with the deadly attack at Gulshan Holey Artisan Bakery on Friday night where gunman killed 20 people including 17 foreigners.

Islamist militants carried out the bloody attack on foreigners to make the country unstable, he said these in national mourning and special prayer program in city’s Dhakeshwari temple in the noon.

The senior Awami League Law Maker also urged to BNP to leave Jamaat and to come forward for national unity in the sack of country.

The ex-minister termed Gulshan attack as communal attack.

Earlier, gunmen attacked at Holey Artisan cafe on Friday night killing 20 hostages and two officers in a siege that ended Saturday morning.

All the hostages killed were foreigners and six gunmen were killed while one was held alive the military said. Troops rescued 14 hostages, according to Brig. Gen. Mujibur Rahman of the Bangladesh army.

The country’s worst hostage crisis ended on Saturday morning when heavily-armed commandos stormed the popular Dhaka eatery in the diplomatic enclave and killed militants who had been holding many people, including foreigners, captive for over 12 hours.