Pakistan-made pistol recovered from Savar madrasa

Special Correspondent

Ashulia, 18 June 2026

RAB-4 has recovered a Pakistani-made revolver and two rounds of bullets from a toilet under construction at a madrasa in Ashulia, Savar. RAB said the weapon was recovered during a raid at the ‘Tahfizul Quranil Karim Fazil Madrasa’ located in the Sreepur Ganakbari area of ​​Ashulia police station on Wednesday. RAB-4 confirmed this information in a press release on Thursday afternoon.

A patrol team of RAB-4’s CPC-2, Nabinagar Camp, learned on the basis of a secret tip-off that narcotics were being stored in the under-construction washroom next to the parents’ waiting room of the madrasa premises. Based on this information, RAB members reached the spot and conducted a search in the presence of two local witnesses.

At one stage of the search, a revolver and two rounds of 22-bore bullet-like objects were found wrapped in green polythene inside a torn yellow shopping bag under some bricks on the floor of the toilet in the east-southeast corner of the washroom.

The recovered weapon has ‘Made in Pakistan’ engraved in English on it, RAB said. However, the source of the weapon and how it was kept there could not be immediately confirmed. The weapon has been handed over to Ashulia Police Station for legal action.

Incidentally: During the interim government’s tenure, there were allegations of suspicious goods including explosives arriving in uninspected containers from Pakistan . Although the full trace of them has not been found yet, various firearms made in Pakistan and Turkey have been recovered in the past few months . Law enforcement agencies are investigating whether the ‘Made in Pakistan’ pistol recovered in the Ashulia incident is a new dimension in that series. RAB said that an investigation is underway in this regard and work is being done to identify those involved.