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Mohammad Jamil Khan

Covers Security, Cross-Border Crime, Human Rights and Migration

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Barely able to speak Bangla, Farid found his family through memories of home

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After decades away, a few childhood details were enough for aid workers to trace his family in Cox’s Bazar
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Prisons bursting at twice their capacities

19 August 2026
Bangladesh’s 75 prisons are holding 98,233 inmates against a combined capacity of 45,186, more than double the designed limit, putting severe pressure on accommodation and healthcare.
19 August 2026
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China-bound brides: Deceived, drugged and trafficked

18 August 2026
A 19-year-old’s ordeal puts spotlight on cross-border brokers, alleged trafficking networks
18 August 2026
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Update / They drifted to their deaths over 11 days

17 August 2026
9 Bangladeshis, one Sudanese confirmed dead after Greece-bound boat drifts in Mediterranean for 11 days
17 August 2026
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Cheap adhesive addiction rising among women

14 August 2026
It was around 5:00pm on July 22. Seven to eight months pregnant, Parvin Akter, 20, sat near the Farmgate Metro Rail Station with three other women, lifting a polythene bag to her face every few seconds.
14 August 2026
Bangladesh Saudi Arabia passenger flight increase

Bangladesh-Saudi weekly flight entitlement rises to 84

14 August 2026
Saudi Arabia has opened the high-demand Bangladesh-Saudi air route wider under a new bilateral deal, giving Bangladeshi airlines more room to expand. But how much of that opportunity they can use will depend on whether they have enough aircraft.
14 August 2026
Bangladeshi workers killed in Saudi Arabia fire

A village in tears

11 August 2026
Moyna Begum had no electricity at home when her son Mohan Pramanik was calling from Riyadh as a fire tore through the sofa factory where he worked.
11 August 2026
Bank Resolution Amendment Act 2026 approved by cabinet

Door closes for errant ex-owners to reclaim banks

11 August 2026
Cabinet okays draft law allowing NHRC to issue interim orders
11 August 2026
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Sleepwalking into crime

He was caught red-handed while trying to dismantle an ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) from a booth of a private bank, and handed to police.
4 November 2020

‘No one questioned a Nawab family heir’

The man who pretended to be the grandson of Nawab Salimullah Khan, joined Muslim League in 2018. As proof of identity, he submitted his passport and national identity (NID) card, in which his name was Nawab Khawaja Ali Hasan Askari.
3 November 2020

DNC proposes round-the-clock dog squad check at Dhaka airport

With an aim to stop narcotics smuggling, Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) wants to have round-the-clock presence of their dog squad at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
3 November 2020

Complaints stack up against fake Nawab

Investigators are yet to ascertain the real identity of the reported imposter who was scamming people by posing as the grandson of Nawab Salimullah Khan.
2 November 2020
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Faking his way to nobility

His plan was to grab Nawab Estate’s property by falsely identifying himself as a descendant of Nawab Salimullah Khan’s family. To get it, he had already filed five cases with land offices of Dhaka and Narayanganj.
1 November 2020
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Military-Grade Firearms: Shady import worries cops

In the absence of monitoring, a section of licensed arms dealers are importing military-grade semi-automatic weapons in the name of rifles.
28 October 2020
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Erfan Salim: Building on father’s murky legacy

After Monday’s arrest of Erfan Salim, son of Awami League leader Haji Md Salim, law enforcers have unearthed tales of his lavish lifestyle, which included 12 bodyguards and 30 to 40 young men at his beck and call.
27 October 2020
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Ensnaring children in the dark web

Girls as young as nine to 15 are first targeted on different social media, especially Instagram, and then they are provoked by different sexual content.
19 October 2020
12 city corporations elected representatives removed

Stopping Drug Abuse: Govt to set up independent institution

As a part of intensifying and strengthening narcotics control across the country, the government has taken steps to form an independent institution to carry out dope tests in a structural manner.
3 October 2020
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Anti-Human Trafficking Law: Amend it to curb cops’ raid powers

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has lately witten to Law Minister Anisul Huq seeking amendment to the trafficking prevention law, to potentially leash the capacity of law enforcers in raiding recruitment agencies.
1 October 2020
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‘Neo JMB’ rising again?

Militant outfit “Neo JMB” has declared its new chief and brought changes in the top leadership as the IS-inspired terror group is trying to get back on its feet by reorganising its structure.
28 September 2020
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Yaba trade: Back to business

A dozen listed Teknaf narcos previously hiding are now being seen taking over yaba trade again.
20 September 2020

Smugglers using modified motorbikes to smuggle it

They called it “Phensedyl bike”.
19 September 2020
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Neo-JMB leader confesses to killing missing man

A Neo-JMB leader has confessed to a court that a sleeper cell of the militant group killed a man whose photograph is uploaded on the website of SITE Intelligence Group.
16 September 2020
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NID Card Forgery: EC officials compromising server security

Many field level polls officials share passwords of a software with data entry officers for corrections to national identity cards, which ultimately gives criminals the scope for forging the cards.
15 September 2020
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Threats to Prisons: Caller might have used VoIP to mask identity

The anonymous caller, who had threatened jail authorities of “snatching away militant inmates from jails”, might have used a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to make the call, police suspect.
15 September 2020
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NID forgery: EC officials compromising server security

Sources say some data entry employees sell criminals passwords
15 September 2020
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Threats send prisons on high alert nationwide

The prison authority has beefed up security across the country following a threats from some unidentified miscreants over phone and letters of “snatching away militant inmates” from jails.
14 September 2020
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Sex traffickers active in myriad guises

Manager of a well-known film actress and at least couple of choreographers are allegedly involved in trafficking girls to Dubai.
12 September 2020
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Unstoppable Yaba: New route, new colour

The constantly evolving narcotics rackets in Cox’s Bazar have been opening up new fronts to smuggle yaba pills into Bangladesh from Myanmar, largely avoiding Teknaf due to increased vigilance by law enforcers there.
12 September 2020

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