Staff correspondent :<\/p>\n
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today
\nsaid the government will make the Bay of Bengal and the entire coastal belt of Bangladesh
\nfree from pirates and robbers soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Rapid Action Battalion, Coast Guard, Border Guard Bangladesh, Ansar, and Police are
\nsincerely working together to free the Bay and coastal belts of Bangladesh from pirates and robbers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will get rid of militants, robbers, pirates, and terrorists soon,\u201d he expressed hope while addressing as the chief guest at the surrender-ceremony of pirates in the city\u2019s Patenga RAB-7 headquarters.<\/p>\n
A total of 50 pirates, including a woman, from the coastal areas of Chattogram and Cox’s
\nBazar districts surrendered before the Home Minister with arms and ammunition at the
\nceremony.<\/p>\n
Terming RAB \u2018a symbol of trust and faith\u2019, he said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina assigned
\nRAB as a task force in 2012 with a view to protecting the lives of marginalised people in the Sundarbans.<\/p>\n
Financial assistance is being provided to the surrendered bandits, so that they cannot return to their previous profession.<\/p>\n
Commander of RAB-7 Lieutenant Colonel Mahbubul Alam presided over the function while
\nM Abdul Latif MP, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun,
\nRAB Director General M Khurshid Hossain, CMP Commissioner Krishna Pad Roy,
\nDivisional Commissioner Chattogram Md. Tofail Islam, and Range Deputy Inspector General
\n(DIG) Nur-e-Alam Mina, among others, addressed the function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Staff correspondent : Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal today said the government will make the Bay of Bengal and the entire coastal belt of Bangladesh free from pirates and robbers soon. \u201cThe Rapid Action Battalion, Coast Guard, Border Guard Bangladesh, Ansar, and Police are sincerely working together to free the Bay and coastal belts of Bangladesh from pirates and robbers.\u201d \u201cWe will get rid of militants, robbers, pirates, and terrorists soon,\u201d he expressed hope while addressing as the chief guest at the surrender-ceremony of pirates in the city\u2019s Patenga RAB-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_5980380192037842_108390337697511":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}