A Dhaka University graduate has been arrested for alleged links to a series of bomb blasts in Bangladesh over the past two years, police said Monday.
Police said they were questioning Mostafizur Rahman Babul, a law graduate, after his arrest from his advertising agency office in Dhaka late Sunday.
He is suspected of being the main link with Muslim religious "extremist elements" outside Bangladesh.
"The man speaks fluent English and has widely travelled to Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and some Middle Eastern and Western countries," said a detective, quoted by the Bangladesh Observer.
Babul was arrested following a statement by Moulana Akber Hossain, the alleged "mastermind" of a powerful bomb explosion that killed 11 people during a Bengali New Year celebration in Dhaka.
Police seized letters, passports, a computer hard disk and a motorbike with false number plate from Babul's office, newspapers said.
Akber Hossain, the vice-principal of the Madaninagar Madrasa Muslim religious school, was the instigator of the April 14 bombing and was behind nine other blasts over the last two years, police said earlier.
Hossain, a top-ranking leader of the Muslim Harkatul Jehad Al-Islami group, was arrested Friday in Dhaka along with three others.
He had a Pakistani and two Bangladeshi passports with him and had undergone weapon training in Afghanistan, police said – DHAKA (AFP)
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