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Top leader of hardline Islamist group arrested in Bangladesh
Dozens of Hefazat leaders and activists have been arrested in recent weeks after the hardline Islamist group waged anti-government protests.
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DHAKA: A top leader of a hardline Islamist group was arrested in eastern Bangladesh s Sylhet city on Friday, as the government continued to crack the whip on anti-government protesters, according to a media report.
The legal affairs expert of Hefazat-e-Islam, Advocate Maulana Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury, was apprehended by the the Criminal Investigation Department officials at Subidbazar in Sylhet, the Dhaka Tribune reported.
However, the police have not disclosed the charges against Chowdhury, who has earlier served as the Member of Parliament from Sunamganj III.
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Police have arrested Hifazat leader and former Sunamganj-3 MP Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury in Sylhet. );
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Shahinur was taken into custody around 12:45 am on Friday from the city’s Bankalapara area, near the Abbasi Jamme Mosque by a team from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
“A CID team from Dhaka detained him,” Sylhet Airport Police chief Khan Mohammad Moinul Zakir said.
“He was taken to Dhaka straight away.”
Shahinur, the central vice president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh, was the legal affairs secretary of the recently disbanded Hifazat central committee.
Shahinur was arrested over his participation in recent violence, said CID Additional Superintendent of Police Jishanul Haque.
PAKISTAN CLOSING CONSULATE IN CALCUTTA
The Pakistan radio said tonight that Pakistan had decided to close down the Deputy High Commission office in Calcutta and had asked India to close her Deputy High Commission office in Dacca.
The radio, quoting an announcement in Pakistan capital Islamabad, said the closures would take effect very soon.
Pakistan s move followed angry demonstrations in Calcutta against the new deputy high commissioner, appointed after the previous holder of the post switched allegiance to the Bangladesh independence movement.
Earlier today, Pakistan accused the Indian government of failing to prevent what she termed unprovoked and violent demonstrations against the new Deputy High Commissioner Mehdi Masud. It also protested that the Indian government had not taken action to remove the former deputy high commissioner from the mission premises.
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