Bangladesh has banned a radical Islamist group over a threat to the Muslim-majority country's "security and safety", officials said, as the government steps up a crackdown against extremists.
The South Asian nation has been ravaged by Islamist extremism since the late 1990s after jihadists who fought in the war in
Afghanistan alongside the Mujahideen and
Taliban returned home.
The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina clamped down on extremist organisations following the killing of 18 foreigners at an upscale Dhaka restaurant in 2016 by a group linked to the Islamic State.