A group of heavily armed militants stormed the upmarket café on Friday and butchered 20 people, majority foreigners from Italy, Japan, India and the United States, before they were gunned down by security forces the next morning.
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“What you witnessed in Bangladesh.was a glimpse”.
“Over the weekend we became aware through social media discussions that some of the alleged perpetrators of the Bangladeshi terror attacks had reportedly at one time studied at Monash Malaysia as well as attending other universities and schools”, Monash University Malaysia spokesman Dr Susheela Nair said in a statement. Gowher Rizvi, the Adviser to Bangladesh Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina, refuting the Indian media story attributed to him regarding Pakistan’s involvement as “utter nonsense” and “a proof of the Indian media’s malicious intent”.
Following the terror attack in that claimed at least 20 lives in Bangladesh on Friday – and for which the Islamic State claimed responsibility – an exiled Bangladeshi author sounded off against those who defend Islam in the wake of repeated deadly attacks. The government has also dismissed those claims. The man was identified as Bangladeshi fighter Abu Issa al-Bengali.
“The jihad that is waged today is a jihad under the shade of the Caliphate”. “They are utterly baseless and unfounded and Pakistan strongly rejects such allegations”, said MoFA spokesperson Mohammed Nafees Zakaria in a statement issued in Islamabad.
Babul urged the government to take these cases seriously and give them importance. “All our concerned units are working tirelessly”, said deputy police inspector general Shahidur Rahman.
Police believe the domestic Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, played a significant role in organising the band of privileged, educated young men who carried out the attack.
Meanwhile, as the probe to the Dhaka terror attack continues, police here said that it had shot dead the pizza chef of the restaurant, mistakenly thinking he was one of the militants.
The message containing threats has gone viral on social media among Bangladeshis still recovering from the shock from the slaughter of 20 hostages at Holey Artisan Bakery and O’ Kitchen during the night-long siege on Friday.
A research fellow at the George Washington University Program on Extremism (GWUPOE) has said that the Islamic State “planned a media campaign” around the Dhaka restaurant attack in advance and the outfit was posting photographs of the scene through its official media channel nearly in real time.
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“Why will IS come here. they are now in Iraq, Syria and sometimes in their neighboring country they enter”, minister Khan said.
