In a move that has stunned security experts and former CTTC officers, the Yunus regime has quietly killed off Bangladesh’s once-feared Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit—the very force that crushed Islamist militancy between 2016 and 2024—while rolling out the red carpet for the same jihadists it once hunted.
Yesterday, in a humiliating public auction at Mirpur-14 Police Lines, the CTTC’s three elite explosive-sniffing dogs—Cory, Sam, and Finn—were sold off like retired pets for a total of Tk630,000.
The UK-bred Labradors and German Shepherds had spent years saving lives by locating bombs planted by Neo-JMB (ISIS), Ansar al-Islam, and Hizb ut-Tahrir cells. Now they belong to a businessman and the Partex Group.
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Sources inside the police say this auction is only the most visible symbol of a deliberate campaign to dismantle the CTTC. Funding has been slashed by up to 70%, new recruitment frozen, and senior officers transferred or put under investigation after a government commission branded the unit the “main perpetrator” of enforced disappearances—a charge former officers call a cynical smear to justify its destruction.
Meanwhile, the terrorists the CTTC put behind bars are walking free and being rebranded by the Jamaat-controlled interim government officials as “Islamic scholars.”
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– Chief of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya, Shamin Mahfuz, was released by the Yunus regime but rearrested in July after his link to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) came to the fore.
– Hefazat-e-Islam firebrands Mufti Harun Izhar and Mamunul Haque openly preach jihad against India and campaign against secularism and democracy.
– Over 700 hardcore militants who escaped or were bailed out after the August 2024 jailbreaks remain at large.
– ISI officials and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba leaders are visiting Bangladesh.
More than 1,300 looted firearms and a quarter-million rounds of ammunition are still in circulation. Smuggled Pakistani and Myanmar weapons are pouring across porous borders. Intelligence sources say escaped militants have already travelled to Pakistan via Nepal for fresh training and are regrouping inside the country.
“CTTC made Bangladesh one of the safest Muslim-majority nations against Islamist terror,” a retired CTTC deputy chief told The Daily Republic on condition of anonymity. In fifteen months, Yunus has destroyed it and revived the exact networks we eliminated. This is not negligence—this is policy.
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The regime’s National Citizen Party (NCP) is meanwhile training thousands of youths in firearms and martial arts, while “Touhidi Janata” mobs—backed by Jamaat-e-Islami and Hefazat—enforce street-level Sharia and attack minorities with total impunity.
Security analysts warn that with elections supposedly due by mid-2026, the resurrected jihadist ecosystem now has the guns, the ideologues, and the political cover to plunge Bangladesh into chaos.
One former CTTC bomb-disposal expert summed it up bitterly as he watched yesterday’s auction: “They sold the dogs today. Tomorrow they’ll be selling the country.”
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