, Oct. 27 -- The BNP fought against enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings over the past 17 years and will not backtrack on that position after forming the government, Prime Minister's Information and Broadcasting Adviser Zahed Ur Rahman on Tuesday said, adding that the Prime Minister will take the final decision about the Inspector General of Police over his crossfire remarks.

"If a state or government kills someone extrajudicially, it ceases to function as a state and behaves like a thug," Zahed said while speaking at a press briefing on the progress of various government activities at the Secretariat.

No democratic government can support extrajudicial killings, he said, stressing that the state must arrest criminals and h...