I know the father of militants

"I will disclose their grandfather's name later", he added.

Kader Siddique urged political leaders and workers to identify the men behind bomb blasts across the country.

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The judicial system is now at stake while the ruling and the main opposition party are destroying democracy, he said.

The valiant freedom fighter warned that gains from the Liberation War will be destroyed if the we do not give up the traditional way of doing politics and work to identify the national problem and find solutions.

He urged all political parties to sit on national issues including rise of Islamist militancy.

The forces defeated in 1971 created the problem (Islamist militancy) in the country. These defeated forces are backing Islamist militants to capture power as Telbans did in Afghanistan.

The government knows well who are behind the militancy but what it is doing is an eyewash in the name of curbing their activities, he said.