But on Tuesday, participants in a Hindu nationalist rally stopped the vehicle in the middle of the road. Young boys – mostly teenagers – dragged him out. They punched and kicked him and thrashed him with batons, flag staffs and iron chains, his 54-year-old father, Abdul Haque told Al Jazeera. Since then, Haque said, “[Tariq] has been terrified.”
Passenger car sales in Bangladesh fell to a 10-year low last year as prices increased due to appreciation of the US dollar against the local currency and prevailing economic vulnerability across the nation, according to industry people and market data.