Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina chairs over a cabinet meeting on Monday April 29, 2019 at the Prime Minister's Office Focus BanglaCabinet has issued the directives following a series of terrorist attacks in Sri LankaThe cabinet has ordered a nationwide intensification of anti-militancy security, and intelligence vigilance, against the backdrop of recent terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka. The order came at a council of ministers meeting, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, on Monday. “Directives were issued [at the meeting] for anti-militancy precautions and the enforcement of an intensified nationwide intelligence vigilance,” Dr Md Shamsul Arefin, the cabinet division’s senior secretary for coordination and reforms, said at a media briefing at the Bangladesh Secretariat, reports BSS. He said the cabinet issued the directives referring to the terrorist attack in Sri Lanka. A series of near-simultaneous terror attacks killed 253 people—including 36 foreigners—and wounded some 500 others on April 21 in Sri Lanka.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 30, 2019 04:41 UTC