B'desh bans Zakir's Peace TV

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The Bangladesh Government on Sunday decided to close down Peace TV, the 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,” Xinhua news agency quoted Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu as saying. After the July 1 terror attack at a Spanish restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic enclave Gulshan, it was reported that two of the seven attackers who killed 22 people, including 18 foreigners, were inspired by the Islamic orator’s speeches.

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