Pakistan-Based Terror Outfits Training Rohingya Militants To Wreak Havoc In Bangladesh

Pakistan-based terror outfits are actively supporting and providing training to Rohingya militants to wreak havoc in Bangladesh and its neighbouring countries.

Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jamatul Mujahideen and Pakistani Taliban have reportedly given full assistance to the Rohingya militants to operate in Teknaf in Cox's Bazaar and remote areas of Bandarban, said a report in a leading Bangladeshi daily. Top Myanmar daily Kaler Kantha also confirmed that Rohingya militants received training in Pakistan in 2012.

According to reports, their aim was covert killings in Bangladesh, India and Myanmar, with most of the Rohingya militants reportedly being recruited from refugee camps in Cox's Bazaar area.

Myanmar President Htin Kyaw, who blamed the little-known Aqa Mul Mujahidin (AMM) for the terrorist attack in the country's north-west province of Rakhain, said AMM had good relation with Pakistan and some countries in West Asia, with some Pakistani militant outfits providing financial support and military training inside Myanmar territory.

As recently as 9 October, militants carried out attacks on three police check posts in Maungdaw town, alongside Myanmar-Bangladesh border and killed nine policemen. Military sources said that 26 militants were killed in the counter attack by Myanmar Army.

A senior Indian intelligence official, who has closely followed the Rohingya armed militancy for decades, said Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Sayeed had recruited Hafiz Tohar from Kyauk Pyin Seik village in Myanmar’s Maungdaw district and arranged for his training in Pakistan.

It was reported earlier that Tohar himself recruited Rohingya youths from Rakhine province and refugee camps in Cox's Bazaar and trained them in jungles on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. They were reportedly carrying out insurgency inside Myanmar. Besides, they are also involved in different terrorist activities inside India and Bangladesh, said reports.