Responding to a Washington Post report that al-Qaeda may have found its way into Bangladesh, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack on Thursday said: "I don't have any particular information about the presence of al-Qaeda individuals in Bangladesh.

We do know that they have -- that they have had in the past a worldwide network."

He, however, said Washington was as concerned as Dhaka about the issue of terrorism in the South Asian nation.

McCormack said: "We're concerned about terrorism in Bangladesh as is the Bangladeshi government. And we certainly stand ready to work with them."

On cooperation in combating terrorism, he said: "We certainly stand ready to work with them. So, we do have cooperation on the counter-terrorism front with Bangladesh."