Jamaat ameer involved in breeding new militant: CTTC chief

 Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Shafiqur Rahman was involved directly in providing assistance to the activists of new militant outfit Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya to take training in Bandarban and bear the expenses, chief of the Counter Terrorism  and  Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of DMP Asaduzzaman said Tuesday.Briefing reporters at

BNP is different from Jamaat in ideology: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that his party is different from Jamaat-e-Islami in terms of ideology and political principles. "We believe in democracy, religious freedom and religious values of all religions. But Jamaat does politics to establish Islam and it doesn't match with us," Fakhrul said

Former Jamaat MP Shahjahan Chowdhury held in Chattogram

Police arrested former Jamaat-e-Islami MP Shahjahan Chowdhury from his residence at Samdar Para in the Satkania municipality area early Saturday. Mohammad Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Satkania Police Station, said a team of police arrested the ex-MP as he was wanted in many cases filed on sabotage charge. He was also the nayeb-e-amir