Staff Reporter:
Recent reports on Home Secretary Nasimul Ghani, produced by Indian journalist Palki Sharma, published on the YouTube channel of Firstpost and news portal BDDiGEST are false and fabricat-ed ones, Chief Adviser’s Press Wing said yesterday.
“Recently, Indian journalist Palki Sharma, on the YouTube channel of Firstpost and news portal BDDiGEST, published false and fabricated reports on Home Secretary Nasimul Ghani,” the press wing said in a statement posted on its verified Facebook page – CA Press Wing Facts.
The reports have mentioned that Nasimul Ghani, a senior secretary, is a founder of the banned Is-lamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir. As evidence, Palki Sharma and BDDiGEST cited a report titled ‘Hizb ut-Tahrir leaders held over ‘militancy,’ which was published in The Daily Star in 2008.
“Home Secretary Nasimul Ghani and Nasimul Gani mentioned in that Daily Star report are differ-ent people. In fact, the alleged Hizb ut-Tahrir leader, whose actual name is Nasim Gani, is a British citizen,” the statement read.
Home Ministry Senior Secretary Nasimul Ghani has been a top Bangladesh bureaucrat. He is a Bangladeshi citizen who does not hold dual passports or residency in any other country. He joined the country’s civil service in 1983 after a brilliant academic career.
He travelled to Britain several times in the early 2000s when he was the secretary to the then Speaker of the Bangladesh national parliament. In 2008, he got a 45-day top management training from the University of Bradford, UK.
The press wing said Hizb ut-Tahrir is an outlawed Bangladesh group. There is no question of any government officials joining a banned political outfit. Nasimul Ghani has never been a part of any political party, even during his student years.
In recent months, after the Interim Government took power, Bangladesh police arrested several Hizb ut-Tahrir members for illegal activities. The government does not have any plans to withdraw the ban on the group.
“We believe the report linking him with Hizb ut-Tahrir was published with malicious intent as part of an orchestrated disinformation campaign against Bangladesh by Indian news outlets and the people linked with the ousted dictatorship of Sheikh Hasina,” the statement said.
