Hundreds of paramilitary soldiers have returned to their barracks in Dhaka.
The change is an apparent attempt at preventing small protests from escalating into confrontations between villagers and paramilitary forces, whose presence would sometimes inflame tensions.
In some countries the police have paramilitary duties.
The police are confident that the latest outbreak was incited by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, though its motives can only be guessed at.
Outside the military headquarters in Dagger, there is little presence of paramilitary troops or police.
Many of these militias are in the government in various branches of the security forces, both in the army and in the police and in some of the paramilitary and irregular groups.
He said there are ongoing efforts to use American military trainers to teach paramilitary forces operating in the tribal regions.
Meanwhile, the colonel and his sons have built a paramilitary force of some 20, 000 well-armed and well-drilled tribesmen loyal to their clan and backed by richly paid mercenaries from Chad and Niger.
