<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The government has taken initiative to introduce an “Integrated Lawful Interception System (ILIS)” in a bid to monitor social media platforms and thwart various anti-state and anti-government activities, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Home Minister divulged the matter in Parliament while replying to a tabled question from ruling Awami League MP from Dhaka-10 Md Shafiul Islam.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shafiul wanted to know whether the government will increase vigilance to thwart local and foreign conspiracy inside the country.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In reply, the Home Minister said that law enforcement and intelligence agencies are working relentlessly to thwart any kinds of conspiracy against the country.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Besides, modern technology like Open Source Intelligence Technology (OSINT) has been included in the National Tele¬communication Monitoring Centre (NTMC) to prevent different anti-state and anti-government activities through monitoring social media platforms on the Internet,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Asaduzzaman also said that efforts were also made to introduce ILIS in this regard.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Explaining the logic behind placing the activities of National Identity Card (NID) under his ministry, Khan said that the Election Commission (EC) has no involvement with the usage of NID except for voting purposes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In reply to a query from Gonoforum MP Mokabbir Khan the minister said that the national identity registration process is done under the executive department in almost all the countries of the world.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“In view of the reality, it should be under the executive department in Bangladesh like other countries,” he said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For this reason, he said that the process of bringing it (issuance of NID cards) under the security service department of the Ministry of Home Affairs is ongoing. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>