Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has appreciated the interim government for launching 'Operation Devil Hunt', a joint forces drive aimed at maintaining law and order across the country, following Friday night's attack on students and ordinary people in Gazipur.

"We know fascists are devils.it seems good sense has prevailed upon them (interim govt) after so long. That is why we thank them," he said on Sunday, in response to a journalist's question about the new drive by the joint forces, shortly after his return from the USA.

Fakhrul and BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on an Emirates Airlines flight around 4:58 pm from the USA a...