Amid Political Confrontations in Bangladesh, a Search for a Missing Opposition Official

nytimes.com - DHAKA, Bangladesh — A jittery silence has fallen over the street where Salahuddin Ahmed, a top official of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, is believed to have been abducted a month ago.

The caretaker who opened the compound gate to a group of men, and told several journalists they identified themselves as police detectives, can no longer be found, friends on the street say. Neither can the maid who opened the door to the apartment. The owner of the apartment, the deputy managing director of a bank, is also unreachable.