Ilias 'disappeared for political reasons'

Dhaka, May 9 (sunnews24.com) – A week after meeting the Prime Minister, missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali's wife said on Wednesday her husband had disappeared for political reasons.
Tahsina Rushdir Luna said her husband had political opponents as he was politically active. "He certainly went missing for political reasons," she said at a press conference at her house in the capital's Banani.
She said the government should know who abducted her husband.
She called on the government to locate her husband saying that humanity was way above politics.
Ilias Ali, one of BNP's organising secretaries and former lawmaker from Sylhet district, had been missing since the night of Apr 17.
Police recovered his abandoned car from a street in Mohakhali the following day.
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police conducted raids in Gazipur's Pubail, in Dhaka and Chandpur in a bid to find out Ali, but failed.
The main opposition in parliament enforced five days of countrywide shutdowns in two terms last month alleging Ali had been 'abducted' by a government agency.

Ali's wife Luna met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Ganabhaban on May 2 with her two children. After the meeting she said the Prime Minister had assured them of doing everything to find Ali.

She told the press conference on Wednesday that a week had passed since she had met the prime minister but there was no progress. "Now we're getting frustrated."

Luna, also an assistant examination controller of Dhaka University, expressed her hope, however, that the government would soon have good news.
"The Prime Minister has called me sister. I've full confidence in her," she added.
She further said that none of the law-enforcement agencies contacted her. "I don't know why the government is silent (and for what) invisible reasons."
Luna said Ilias Ali's car was found abandoned near Mohakhali hours after the BNP leader left Ruposhi Bangla Hotel at Shahbagh on the night of his going missing.
There are close-circuit TV cameras of police on different points on the route, she pointed out and demanded the camera footage of that night be closely seen.
About the general strikes enforced by BNP, she said that it was the political decision of the party.