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Gun-running centre at Cox Bazar a threat to NE

AIZAWL, July 10 ? A charitable hospital in the
Bandarbari area of Bangladesh near the Indian border
is allegedly being used as a major gun-running centre
by an American citizen, according to authoritative
sources in the Union Home Ministry, reports UNI. 
?Al-Habina Medical Centre? in the neighbouring Cox
Bazar, being run on a charitable basis by an American
doctor, was actually a hub of gun-running operation in
Bangladesh, sources said. The doctor running the
institution was a mercenary providing arms to the
insurgent groups in the North-east, Bangladesh and
Myanmar, sources said adding that the alleged
gunrunner was an independent operator and not
patronised by any intelligence agency. But a recent
Defence Ministry report indicated that the medical
centre was also being used as a covert Inter-Service
Intelligence (ISI) office to assist the rebel groups,
sources pointed out. 
The report also said the medical centre had allegedly
acquired six ambulances for ferrying leaders of the
ultra groups in Bangladesh for organising anti-India
rallies to indoctrinate local youths to join their
fight. A high-frequency antenna had also been
installed at the centre for coordinating the
anti-India activities among various groups, sources
stated. 
The report feared that the activation of an insurgent
base close to Indian border might increase
infiltration and smuggling of arms and explosives into
the North-east region. 

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