Detectives claimed to have busted an "Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) den" in the capital's Mohammadpur early yesterday, hours after a

In a 15-hour crackdown in a militant den on the capital's Mirpur, detectives yesterday seized 16 improvised grenades, other ingredients, including power gel enough to make over 200 bombs and grenades, and a suicide vest, police said. Six youths, aged between 20 and 30, were said to be arrested during the raid at two apartments on the top floor of a six-storey building in Shah Ali area. Two of them are key operatives of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and the four others are suspected militants, detectives said, but did not disclose their identities.

Law enforcers disposed at least 16 crude bombs seized from a Mirpur building during an operation to capture militants today.

Security forces have raided the Karachi headquarters of Pakistan's fourth biggest political party, sparking street protests.

Police detain at least 12 activists of BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in 24-hour raids through Dhaka