As Bangladesh grapples with political instability for a year since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee the country following mass student-led protests in August 2024, Islamist radicals have been trying to make a comeback in this South Asian nation of 173 million people.
In March, the banned Islamist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh, which seeks to establish a global Islamic caliphate governed by Sharia law, carried out a mass rally with 2,000 people in Dhaka while chanting anti-government slogans. Over 35 members of the group were arrested under anti-terrorism laws but the Islamist group has been demanding that the interim government under the leadership of Muhammad Yunus revoke its ban.
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