Hefazat-e-Islam leaders wished to show Bangladesh into Taliban state

Mamunul Haque, an influential chief of hardcore Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam in Bangladesh, together with different leaders, has confessed to wanting to show Bangladesh right into a Taliban state like Afghanistan in the event that they got here to energy.
Haque was arrested by Dhaka police final week on the fees of instigating violence, try to homicide, assault and vandalism. Along with different influential leaders from throughout the nation, Haque had shaped a corporation known as ‘Rabetatul Waizin Bangladesh’, to dethrone the federal government in energy and set up a Taliban state, knowledgeable a high detective official.
Funded by Islamic forces, radical Islamist outfits like Hefazat-e-Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami, this group used to regulate ‘Waz Mahfils’, occasions organized to propagate militancy within the identify of preaching Islam. They additionally pressured organizers from Pakistan to ask their militant leaders as audio system.
Most arrested leaders confessed that they used madrasa college students as shields to vandalize and set the federal government properties on fireplace, as they noticed Hefazat-e-Islam as the one efficient platform to topple the Awami League from energy in Bangladesh.
Arrests and investigations
Along with Mamunul, fourteen different top-ranked Hefazat-e-Islam leaders and a number of other leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan and BNP have been arrested since April 4 in reference to at the very least 65 circumstances filed for violence carried out by the Hefazat-e-Islam supporters in 2013 and in March this yr.
Three groups have been shaped involving investigating officers who’ve data of Quran and Hadith, to interrogate the arrested leaders.
Conspiracies have been hatched in 2013 and once more this yr in March by these radical Islamist organizations to oust the federal government led by Sheikh Hasina.
The similar was confirmed by Mahbub Alam, Joint Commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) to IANS on Saturday night.
Mamunul Haque’s arrest
Mamunul Haque the joint secretary of the Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam was taken into custody and is claimed to be the instigator behind violent riots and focused assaults on Hindus in Bangladesh after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to the Muslim-majority nation.  
More than 300 folks have been arrested until now for his or her involvement within the circumstances of arson, vandalism and violence through the interval 26-28 March in varied cities of Bangladesh.
The Chief of the Hefazat-e-Islam Junayed Babunagari in a video message has demanded unconditional launch of all of the non secular leaders of the group together with Mamunul Haque and the get together’s Organising Secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi.