Latest Religious Identity News & Updates

Dhaka, Jan 8 (IANS) Bangladesh is undergoing an unstable transition following the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, enabling Islamist extremists and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to exploit power vacuums. With decades of experience, the ISI is weaponising religious identity to destabilise the region, a report said on Thursday.According to a report in Bangladeshi weekly ‘Blitz’, while political turbulence is not new to Bangladesh, the serial killings of Hin…

New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) For the ISI and Jamaat-e-Islami, targeting the minorities is part of a larger plan. Both want the minorities to be erased from the country, so that Bangladesh can turn into a full-fledged Islamic nation. However for those executing the killings on the field, this has turned into a full-fledged extortion racket. Officials say that what is worse is that the establishment is doing nothing to prevent this.In most of the cases where minorities, especially Hindus have been murd…