Senior Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 11 May 2021 10:39 AM BdST
Updated: 11 May 2021 10:39 AM BdST
In the 1980s, groups of young men from Bangladesh travelled to Afghanistan to join the jihad against the Soviet occupation forces. Fast forward to present day four decades later: police believe more young Bangladeshis are pursuing the same path to extremism. );
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Three young men from Bangladesh have recently abandoned home for ‘hijrat’, or hegira migration for the cause of Islam and taken up the banner of Islamist terrorism in Afghanistan, according to officials in the police’s Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime Unit or CTTC.
The police can confirm that two of them, Abdur Razzak from Cumilla and Shibbir Ahmed from Sylhet, have already made their way to the rugged, mountainous terrain of Afghanistan.
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bdnews24.com
Published: 09 May 2021 06:47 PM BdST
Updated: 09 May 2021 06:47 PM BdST
Counterterrorism police officers have arrested four suspected members of the banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam. );
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The suspects were planning to attack the police and Border Guard Bangladesh or BGB patrols in Dhaka and Sylhet, said DIG Md Asaduzzaman, chief of the police’s Counterterrorism Unit.
They also surveyed spots for the planned attacks, Asaduzzaman said at a news briefing in Dhaka on Sunday.
The arrestees are Jasimul Islam Jack, 25, a student of Atish Dipankar University of Science and Technology in Dhaka, Abdul Mukit, 29, a teacher of Markajus Sunnah Al Islamia Madrasa in Habiganj’s Nabiganj, Aminul Haque, 20, a student of Al Hidaya Islamic Institute in Sylhet, and Sajeeb Ikhtiar, 20, an undergraduate from Sunamganj Government College.