The group involved, Hefezat, is a little-known coalition of Islamic splinter groups which draws support from private traditional Quomi madrassas, Islamic schools, around Chittagong.
Small craft from Chittagong and Sittwe call at the island on their way to Yangon (Rangoon).
Sri Lanka are in England's group, and their second opponents next Thursday in Chittagong – where Farbrace's team, who recently won the Asia Cup in Bangladesh, will play all four of their qualifying games.
But they felt they had to include him if there was to be any realistic chance of him being able to play in England's opening match of the World Twenty20 against New Zealand in Chittagong on Saturday.
To her credit, Sheikh Hasina has relieved the gloom a little by negotiating a fragile peace with tribal rebels in the south-eastern Chittagong Hill Tracts and a water-sharing treaty with India.
From just a score of vessels scrapped in the main part of Chittagong two years ago, about 150 were broken up in 2011.Greens are not happy and want the ban reimposed.
He said for the record that in 2004, when he informed Mrs Zia, then the prime minister, that ten lorries full of arms had landed up in Chittagong, she showed no response.Other notables sentenced to die include a former chief of military intelligence, the former second-in-command of the DGFI and a former head of the Criminal Investigation Department.
Mr Chowdhury, a six-time MP from Chittagong who hails from a prominent political family in Pakistan, is the most senior BNP leader to have been indicted by the ICT for crimes against humanity.
The rods would have to travel from the port of Chittagong on roads that are among the world's deadliest.And if the transport of nuclear material is to circumambulate the urban sprawl of Dhaka, then they will have to cross the Padma.
In April 2004 police in Chittagong, the main port city of Bangladesh, intercepted a shipment of rifles, submachine guns with silencers, 25,000 hand grenades and more, worth some $5m.
A proposed road and rail link, connecting Kunming to the Bangladeshi port of Chittagong via Myanmar, is a non-starter.
