Dhaka- A US-based policy institute has claimed the banned Islamic State, a radical Sunni Muslim group that controls areas of Iraq and Syria, will open its branch in Bangladesh, according to media reports Saturday.
The Institute for the Study of Wars said the IS has plans to carry out attacks in the Muslims’ fasting month of Ramadan, beginning on June 6 and run through July 5, in countries around the world.
Indian Express newspaper reported that the organization would open its office in Bangladesh since it got a representative in Bangla language.
Bangladesh, the Muslim-majority South Asian country, has been denying repeatedly that there was no presence of the IS militants despite the fact that the group claimed responsibility of a number of attacks in the last two years.
The group claimed to have hacked to death secularist bloggers, publisher, university teachers, priest, foreign nationals, Hindus. Investigators could not resolve most of the murders.
The institution said, the IS always encourage their local ally to raise tension in the Muslim-orientated countries and said to open local branch to bring constant instability to these nation.
Earlier, IS supported newspaper ‘Dabik’ claimed to found a leader for Benglai speaking region and said the newly found leader is the disciple of IS Chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Currently the militant outfit occupied a large region of Iraq and Syria for establishing dominance called ‘Khilafat’
Bangladesh government continually denying the possibilities of existence of IS or al-Qaeda in Bangladesh and said some local radical Islamist group are conducting criminal activities in Bangladesh.
The banned militant outfit IS claimed the responsibility for the brutal murder of eight Bangladeshi citizens since last September.
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