<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The Bangladesh Police headquarters have instructed all of its units across the country to carry out special operations between December 1 and December 15 and raid hotels, dormitories, hostels, community centres and other institutions in search of ‘terrorists’, criminals, drug dealers, illegal arms holders, and suspects with the arrest warrant.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The police headquarters issued an instruction signed by additional deputy inspector general Md Hasanuzzaman on November 29 and asked all the units to report back to the headquarters from 10 am on December 2.</div><div><br></div><div>The instructions from the police headquarters came ahead of a mass divisional rally announced by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, scheduled to be held in Dhaka on December 10.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>This would be the 10th and the last divisional rally of the BNP, after holding nine mass rallies by the party’s nine other organisational divisions.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, the party wants to hold the rally in front of their central headquarters in the capital’s Naya Paltan while Dhaka Metropolitan Police insisted to hold it only for four and a half hours inside the Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>