Staff Correspondent

Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Friday protested British home secretary Jacqui Smith's remark that terrorists in Bangladesh and those in the UK had links.

In a statement, Jamaat assistant secretary general Muhammad Qamaruzzaman said that he was surprised at the government "nonchalance" to what he called the objectionable remark.

The British home minister at a press conference Wednesday at the residence of the British high commissioner in Dhaka said: "There are—potentially or actually—links between the terrorist groups in Bangladesh and the UK.

That's the reason why I think we have a shared interest in tackling terrorism." Qamaruzzaman said the government had accepted her 'unjust and baseless' remarks that meant it was trapped in a 'conspiracy' to prove Bangladesh to be a 'failed, dysfunctional and terrorist state'.

Smith arrived in Dhaka Tuesday on a two-day visit.

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