The government has changed some important posts in the Border Guard
Bangladesh and the Rapid Action Battalion, officials told New Age on
Friday.
Brigadier General Anisur Rahman, now at army headquarters on return from
UN peace keeping mission, will replace BGB additional director general
Brigadier General Golam Mustafa, who will return to the army
headquarters.
Brigadier General Habibul Karim, now in course at the National Defence College in Dhaka, will join the
paramilitary force again on deputation. He will replace Sarail region commander Brigadier General Aiyub Ansary.
Habib earlier had served as the Dhaka sector commander as a colonel
following the February 25-26, 2009 mutiny in the Bangladesh Rifles, now
renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh.
He said that he would join BGB after completing his NDC course on December 20.
Deputy director general (operation and training) Colonel Hafiz Ahsan
Farid will return to army headquarters and Cox’s Bazar sector commander
Colonel Nazrul Islam will replace him.
The BGB is yet to name new sector commander in Cox’s Bazar, the officials said.
In the Rapid Action Battalion, director intelligence Lieutenant Colonel
Ziaul Ahsan, who had already been promoted to the rank of colonel, was
named as the additional director general of the battalion.
The battalion legal and media wing director Wing Commander ATM Habibur
Rahman confirmed the new appointment. The battalion is yet to name the
next director intelligence.
Additional director general Motiur Rahman was promoted to Brigadier
General and was made the commandant of 46 Independent Brigade in
Dhaka. (source)