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Bangladesh issues order cancelling operation of India-based Islamic preacher's Peace TV

Xinhua, July 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Bangladeshi government on Monday issued an order cancelling operation of a Mumbai-based TV channel run by controversial Islamic Preacher Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation.

In the wake of earlier this month's first-ever hostage crisis in which 18 foreigners have been killed, the Bangladeshi government's cabinet committee on law and order on Sunday decided to close down Naik's Peace TV.

Bangladesh's Ministry of Information issued the order which reads"Based on the cabinet committee's decision, free-to-air TV channel Peace TV's downlink permission has been cancelled for violating downlink conditions."

The ministry order also asked all relevant authorities to stop the broadcast of the channel across the country.

The measure has been taken as a section of media reported that at least two of the attackers who killed the hostages inside the Spanish cafe in Dhaka on July 1 were followers of Naik on social media.

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