BD police find ‘missing’ govt critic

DHAKA: A prominent critic of the Bangladesh government has been found safe a day after his family reported him missing, sparking fears he had been abducted, police said on Tuesday. Farhad Mazhar, a well-known poet, writer and dissident, was found by police travelling on a coach around 200 kilometres from the capital Dhaka, where he lives. It is not clear what he was doing there, but police deputy inspector general Didar Ahmed told reporters it "did not look like a case of abduction". Bangladesh’s elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) began a trace of Mazhar’s mobile phone after his wife said on Monday she had received a call from him saying he was being taken away and feared for his life.