Tag: Dhaka

Police arrest man over Bangladesh pastor attack

October 6, 2015 Bangladesh Bangladesh, Dhaka, Islamic State, Jamaat-ul-Mujahedin Bangladesh, Luke Sarkar, Pabna, Rangpur

Police have arrested Obaidul Islam, 28, in connection with the attack yesterday on Luke Sarkar, a Bangladeshi pastor, reports The Daily Star. An attempt was made to cut the 50-year-old’s throat, but he escaped with non-life-threatening injuries. Islam is an active member of Shibir (the student wing of the illegal . . . Read More

Bangladeshi pastor escapes murder attempt

October 5, 2015 Bangladesh Bangladesh, Dhaka, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Luke Sarkar, Pabna, Rangpur

A Bangladeshi Baptist pastor escaped an attempt on his life today (5 Oct.) in what seemed to have been a pre-meditated attack at his home by three youths. Luke Sarkar, 50, of the Faith Bible Church of God, told bdnews24 that two weeks ago two youths had phoned him to . . . Read More

Bangladesh aid worker’s death claimed by ‘IS’

October 2, 2015 Bangladesh Bangladesh, Dhaka, Gulshan, Islamic State

An Italian working with a church-linked Dutch NGO in Dhaka has been murdered in an attack later claimed by a group which said it was Islamic State. The fatal shooting of Caesar Tavella, 50, occurred while he was jogging after work on 28 Sep in Gulshan, the diplomatic quarter of . . . Read More

Bangladesh — Islamist protest leaders arrested in wake of Dhaka siege

May 21, 2013 Bangladesh Awami League, Dhaka, Hefazat-e-Islam, Jamaat-e-Islami, Sheikh Hasina

Cattle market in Dhaka, pictured in 2008.W Jackson for World Watch Monitor Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh on May 17 alleged that the opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was responsible for a conspiracy to topple the government from power, using recent violent protests which have rocked . . . Read More

Bangladesh PM rejects Muslim demand for blasphemy law

April 10, 2013 Bangladesh Awami League, Blasphemy, Dhaka, Hefazat-e-Islam, Jamaat-e-Islami, Sheikh Hasina

The Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has turned down the demand of radical Islamists to enact a blasphemy law to punish those who desecrate Islam and its prophet Muhammad. One hundred thousand activists belonging to Hefazat-e-Islam, an umbrella Islamic organization, had earlier rallied on 6th April in the capital Dhaka . . . Read More

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