Suspected Al Qaida terrorist Ikramul Haque 'wanted' in India, arrested in B'desh

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Ikramul Haque alias Abu Talha was arrested in Bangladesh along with his wife in a raid recently, Bangladesh daily Prothomalo reported. Ikramul Haque was apparently arrested from the Sabuj Bagh area of the capital Dhaka. He was arrested on May 30, soon after the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTC) officials of Dhaka came to know that Abu Talha, the top leader of the Dawah wing of the international terrorist organization Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), got involved in militancy while studying in Deoband, India.

Quoting CTTC as saying, Prothomalo reported that CTTC, the crime unit of Dhaka said Ikramul and his wife Faria Afreen were arrested from the city's Madartek area on 30 May and are now in jail. The duo were remanded several times. The Daily Prothom Alo is a daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka in the Bengali language.

It is the largest circulated newspaper in Bangladesh. According to a Dhaka-based intelligence source, India's ATS has been seeking Ikramul since last year, Prothomalo reported. Later, they discovered the individual had escaped to Bangladesh.

At the halfway point of this year, information about him was provided to Bangladesh's intelligence services. One month before obtaining the information, CTTC had detained him, which that intelligence was unaware of at first. CTTC officials also stated that Ikramul's wife Faria Afrin is also a member of the women's wing of the militant group.

Moreover, Abu Talha also fraudulently obtained Indian citizenship in the name of himself and his wife Faria Afrin Anikar. Indian Aadhaar cards and passports were also found in their names. The Head of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CTTC) of Dhaka and Additional