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Bangladesh decides to ban India-based Islamic preacher's Peace TV

Xinhua, July 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

Bangladeshi government on Sunday decided to close down Peace TV which is a Mumbai-based TV channel run by controversial Islamic Preacher Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation.

"We've decided to stop airing the channel across the country," said Amir Hossain Amu, Industries Minister, after attending a cabinet committee meeting on Sunday.

After July 1 terror attack at a Spanish restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic enclave Gulshan, a leading Bangladeshi English newspaper reported that two of the five attackers who killed some 20 hostages including 18 foreigners at the cafe were inspired by the Islamic orator's speeches.

India Friday said it is examining and analysing the speeches of Naik and appropriate action will follow.

"We have taken cognisance of Zakir Naik's speeches and necessary instructions have been issued in this regard," Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh told the media in New Delhi.

Naik, who is based in Mumbai, has, however, said that he "totally disagreed" that he had inspired the terror attack in Dhaka.

"There is not a single talk of mine where I encouraged one to kill another, whether Muslim or non-Muslim," he has said in a statement. Endit