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Ahl-e Hadith, meaning the people of hadith, is a religious movement that emerged in northern India in the mid-nineteenth century. They regard the Quran, sunnah, and hadith as the sole sources of religious authority and oppose everything introduced in Islam after the earliest times. In particular, they reject taqlid (following legal precedent) and favor ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) based on the scriptures. Adherents of Ahl-e Hadith profess to hold the same views as the early…

by Pavel Haider Chowdhury in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 10, 2018 The ruling party Awami League is quite busy preparing for the 11th general polls, which is scheduled to be held this year. As a part of election campaigning, representatives from the party, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also the president of Awami League, have begun district level tours across Bangladesh. Along with central leaders, grassroots level leaders are also passing a busy time…

Report in The Daily Star, Mar 8, 2018 BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has asked the party men to stay united and continue the ongoing movement peacefully, said party leaders who met her at jail yesterday. They also said Khaleda expressed satisfaction with the party’s ongoing movement and encouraged the party leaders to keep their morale high and not to be misguided. She urged the party colleagues not to heed anyone’s provocations, said BNP Secretary General…

Report in The Daily Star, Mar 7, 2018 Investigators have claimed that a “sleeper cell” of a militant outfit was behind the knife attack on Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal. At least four suspects were present near the campus of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) just a day before the attack. They split after the incident and went to different districts, two senior police officials involved with the probe told The Daily Star yesterday.…

by Tarek Mahmud & Md Zahid Hassan in Dhaka Tribune, March 06, 2018 Militants gave death threats to more than 60 eminent personalities roughly two years ago on different occasions, and Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal was one of them. An intelligence report was also sent to the home ministry expressing concern in this regard. In May 21, 2015, Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) issued a letter to 10 eminent personalities, including Zafar Iqbal, threatening to kill…

Report in The Daily Star, Mar 5, 2018 A day after Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal survived a knife attack in Sylhet, counterterrorism officials said the youth who carried out it could be a member of banned militant outfit Ansar al Islam. The attack on Prof Iqbal, a faculty member of Computer Science and Engineering department at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), matches the pattern seen earlier in missions of Ansar al Islam, they…

report in Prothom Alo, Mar 4, 2018 at 23.04hrs Cox’s Bazar: Myanmar on Sunday again built up troops on Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Bandarban district where thousands of Rohingyas took shelter, officials and witnesses said. This is the second deployment of troops on the borders in the last few days. Nearly 500 Myanmar army men along with members of Border Guard Police were deployed near the no man’s land of Konarpara area of Naikhyangchhari in Bandarban…

by Liakat Ali Badal in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 3, 2018 at 5.02pm Special envoy to the prime minister and Chairman of Jatiya Party (JaPa) HM Ershad has declared that he, along with three other Jatiya Party ministers, will resign from the Cabinet very soon. The JaPa chief made the announcement at a press briefing held at the Rangpur circuit house on Friday morning. Echoing Leader of the Opposition Raushan Ershad, Ershad said: “She [Raushan] was…

report in Prothom Alo, Feb 28, 2018 at 22:30 hrs Bangladesh Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina speaks in parliament on Wednesday. Photo: Focus BanglaBangladesh Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said her government is identifying the movable and immovable property of Bangabandhu’s killers, convicted war criminals and “razakars” (‘71’s collaborators), in their names or others names, as part of its move to confiscate those. “Apart from identifying their…

Report in The Daily Star, Feb 28, 2018 Opposition Leader Raushan Ershad yesterday urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to relieve three Jatiya Party lawmakers of cabinet posts to help it emerge as the “real opposition” party. “Drop three Jatiya Party members from the cabinet. If you [prime minister] do it, Jatiya Party will survive and will be able to play its due role with dignity,” Raushan told parliament while speaking on the thanksgiving motion on…