Dhaka, Feb 25 (UNB) - BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said the Pilkhana carnage was staged following a deep-rooted conspiracy to weaken the national security of Bangladesh.

“The fair trial of the gruesome killings couldn’t be held even after three years of the carnage at the BDR headquarters. Instead, a smokescreen is being created over it,” he said.

Fakhrul made the remarks while talking to reporters after placing wreaths and offering fateha along with leaders and workers of BNP at the mazar of President Ziaur Rahman.

He demanded fair trial of the killings at the BDR headquarters.

Meanwhile, BNP leaders, including Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman, Brig Gen (retd) Hannan Shah and Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, today paid tributes to the army officers assassinated during the February 25-26 Pilkhana bloodshed.

They placed wreaths at the graves of the slain army officers at Banani military graveyard in the city’s Banani and offered fateha over there.

BNP leaders said if BNP returns to power, it will hold fair trial of the Pilkhana killings.