DHAKA: State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday insisted BNP senior vice president Tarique Rahman would be brought back home by cancelling his parole.

The home minister made the assertion while talking to journalists in the noon after inaugurating a Woman Drug Rehabilitation Center of Ahsania Mission at Iqbal Road of Mohammadpur in the capital.

He said, “We will take the initiatives in such a way so that trial process will not be hampered.”

Asaduzzaman Khan added: “Tarique is not returning home because he is on the wrong side of the law.”
 
“We have repeatedly asked him to come home back and prove himself not guilty after surrendering to the court but he is not doing so,” he said.

He added: “There are insists to file sedition case against Tarique and we are examining the possibilities of that.”

In response to a question on Ramna Batmul bomb blast case, Asaduzzaman said the government is trying to complete trial of the case in a hurry.

Several accused of the case are fugitive in different countries and talks are underway with the concerned countries’ government to bring them back home, he added.

Talks also going on with the Indian and Myanmar government to tighten drug controlling system, he added.

With Ahsania Mission President Kazi Rafiqul Alam in the chair, the function was also addressed, among others, by Department of Narcotics Control Director General (DG) Mohammad Atwar Rahman, Additional DG Abu Taleb, Central Drug Addiction Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre Residential Doctor Aktaruzzaman Selim and Youth First Concern Country Director Dr Peter Halder.

BDST: 1805 HRS APR 12, 2014