DHAKA: Bangladeshi police on Friday fired tear gas to disperse a rally by banned Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir after pledging to take a zero tolerance approach to the hardline outfit.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international fundamentalist Sunni group that calls for the establishment of a caliphate, and has been banned in Bangladesh since 2009. It has begun resurfacing publicly in the South Asian nation since last year´s ouster of ex-premier Sheikh Hasina, whose autocratic government clamped down on Islamist groups.