Dhaka, January 09: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had a secret meeting with jailed ULFA leader Anup Chetia during a visit here when ex-premier Khaleda Zia of BNP was in power, a senior Bangladesh minister has alleged.
“Pervez Musharraf came to Dhaka … when the ULFA leader was detained in the (Dhaka Central) jail, from where he was brought to the Sheraton Hotel” for a meeting with the President, local government minister Ashraful Islam said.
“He (Chetia) held a meeting with Pervez Musharraf for some one and a half hours,” Islam, also the general secretary of ruling Awami League, said at a discussion on Indo-Bangla relations yesterday.
Chetia was arrested from Dhaka during the past 1996-2001 Awami League regime and still is in “security custody” despite the expiry of his jail term for cross-border intrusion.
–PTI