Dhaka, March 19 (IANS) Foreign money is funding Bangladesh’s NGOs that are fuelling Islamist militancy in the country, a minister has said.
Finance minister A.M.A. Muhith Wednesday said: “There is an international network against terror financing. Bangladesh has not completely become a part of that network.”
He alleged that most of the NGOs, now under close scrutiny of government agencies and the Bangladesh Bank, came during Khaleda Zia’s tenure (2001-06), when it shared power with Jamaat-e-Islami and other Islamists.
Islamist NGOs had grown during Zia’s …