Kolkata, Dec 17: Bangladesh today vehemently denied India's allegations that it was harbouring Pakistani ISI elements in its land and allowing setting up of ultra camps to conduct anti-Indian activities from its soil. "It is unfortunate and rather insulting that such allegations are leveled, time and again, against us," the Bangladesh high commissioner in India, Tofail Haider, told newsmen at the Writers' Buildings (state secretariat) here.
Haider, who met West Bengal's chief secretary, S N Roy, and home secretary, A K Deb, at the secretariat, said that there were no ISI training camps in Bangladesh even though Indian media reports, in particular, had been repeatedly leveling such charges against Dhaka.
"I consider such allegations against our country as unfortunate and insulting too," the Bangladesh envoy said.
Haider's clarification came close on the heels of the allegations leveled by Lt-General J S Varma, general officer commanding in-charge, eastern command, yesterday that the Army had information about existence of militant camps in Bangladesh and that Dhaka did not take adequate measures to curb ultra activities. Bureau Report