The RAB has found columnist pro-opposition political activist Farhad Mazhar in Jessore’s Noapara after he went missing from Dhaka.Mazhar was found on a bus around 11:30pm on Monday and later taken to Abhaynagar Police Station , according to the RAB.
Khulna RAB-6 Commanding Officer Khandaker Rafiqul Islam told journalists that the columnist was travelling to Dhaka at the time.
He took the bus at 9:15pm in Khulna’s Shibbari, the RAB official said and added that he would be kept at the RAB camp in Khulna for the night.
His family said they are happy over the actions taken by the law enforcers to rescue him.
The search for Mazhar zoomed in on the southwestern region of the country after the police tracked his mobile phone there in the evening. Detectives searched several places in Khulna but could not find him.
A restaurant owner in Khulna City later claimed he saw the activist dining in his eatery in New Market area around 8pm. The law enforcers intensified the search in the area then. – Agencies
