An Islamic association based in Mauritius, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, announced that a peaceful demonstration would be held Friday before Pakistan's High commissioner's residence in Mauritius, in a bid to call for the end of the war between Muslims in the Swat Valley, a source told PANA here on Wednesday."We are all concerned by the decision of the Pakistani government to send, on 8 May, its army to combat the Mujahideen in the…

Staff Correspondent Police last night arrested seven Hizb ut-Tahrir activists in the city's Badda area and seized leaflets containing 'provocative statements over Pilkhana carnage'. The arrestees are Abdur Rakib, 44, Sahadat Hossain, 23, Fakrul Hasan, 22, Abdullah-al-Mamun, 25, Noman Sikdar, 25, Arifuzzaman, 22, and Mir Salekin, 22. Officer-in-Charge (OC) Kazi Wazed Ali of Badda Police Station told The Daily Star that after a tip-off they raided a three-storey building at…

DHAKA (AFP) - Twenty-seven Bangladeshis have been arrested for distributing leaflets criticising the government's handling of a savage mutiny by border guards against top military officers, police said Saturday. The men were taken into custody following the February 25-26 revolt in the capital in which more than 70 people were slain by rank-and-file guards, Masudur Rahman, a senior official of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told AFP. "The men arrested are…