The immigration police at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport have seized a magazine loaded with ammunition from the LGRD Ministry and the Sports and Youth Ministry Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, who was travelling to Morocco via Turkey on Sunday.
Details about the magazine could not be known immediately.
The Turkish Airlines flight left Dhaka for Istanbul at 7am. He will attend the OIC Youth Capital-2025 event in Marrakesh.
Airport Executive Director Group Captain SM Ragib Samad said that during the pre-boarding screening in the morning, the magazine was found in the pouch (small bag) the adviser was carrying.
After identifying the magazine, Asif Mahmud said that it had accidentally been in the luggage. He expressed regret over the incident. He also sent the magazine to his protocol officer.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) Aeronautical Publication Information (AIP), Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Dangerous Goods Regulations prohibit carrying magazines in cabin baggage.
However, bullets and magazines can be taken in check-in baggage by declaring them in advance by following the packing policy in locked packages.
The adviser recently created hype by refusing to approve the oath-taking of Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Ishraque Hossain and corruption allegations involving his APS and family members.
In March, Asif Mahmud told a TV channel that if the student leaders had not succeeded in overthrowing the Awami League government on August 5, they might have called for an armed movement.
Nahid Islam, the convener of the Yunus-inspired National Citizen Party (NCP), also mentioned this after becoming an adviser. He claimed he had even prepared a video message and given it to a journalist.
Since August, many leaders of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, Jamaat-e-Islami, Hefazat-e-Islam, Hizb ut-Tahrir, and even Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and Jamaat-ut-Dawa have claimed responsibility for the armed violence to unseat the Awami League, which left scores of people killed.
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