Mamunul Haque, an Islamic scholar and joint secretary of an influential coalition of Islamic schools, says Islamists are seeking sharia in Bangladesh – Copyright ...

As Bangladesh heads toward a crucial general election on Feb. 12, the country’s largest Islamist party, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, has offered an unusual assurance to religious minorities, pledging ...

Haque, 52, said the group will push to implement sharia, or Islamic law, and believes the group's network of tens of thousands of seminaries -- claiming to have some 500,000 members -- means they will ...

Bangladesh's Islamists are readying to make political gains after being crushed for years by the government that was overthrown in a mass uprising last year, rallying hardline loyalists for eagerly ...