Terrorists provide Wi-Fi facility to disinformation peddlers through dozens of pocket routers

By Tajul Islam

During the ongoing anti-state subversive and terrorist activities in Bangladesh, nexus of Al Qaeda-connected Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami, Jatiyo Party (Quader), and Hizbut Tahrir have provided dozens of pocket routers thus offering Internet access through WiFi to participants of the terrorist acts in spreading disinformation and rumor on social media platforms, especially Meta (formerly known as Facebook), Instagram and video-sharing platform YouTube.

Investigative reporters have already detected one of such pocket routers, which through a Facebook post said it is providing WiFi facilities at Dhaka University (DU) to disinformation peddlers through a pocket router. It said, the post on Facebook page named ‘We are Bangladesh’ has purchased eight thousand gigabytes of data to offer such a facility.

According to local vendors of mobile phone companies, the cost of eight thousand gigabytes of data is above BDT 300,000 (three hundred thousand), which is equivalent to US$2,560). From this instance it is evidently proved – under the garb of student protests, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami, Jatiyo Party (Quader), and Hizbut Tahrir and other foreign elements are spending millions of dollars in implementing their notorious blueprint of turning Bangladesh into a neo-Taliban state or a bankrupt country.

Meanwhile, media reports said, terrorists involved in countrywide carnage have asked to use loudspeakers in mosques to spread disinformation once Internet connections or mobile phone data are disrupted or blocked.