A 21-year-old man was arrested on Sunday in Bangladesh for allegedly stabbing a secular writer multiple times during a university seminar, deeming him an “enemy of Islam”, police said.
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, 64, a renowned science fiction writer and professor at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in the northern city of Sylhet, was stabbed in his head and neck yesterday, local media reported.
Iqbal, an outspoken opponent of militancy and communalism, was rushed to a local hospital and later airifted to a military hospital in Dhaka, bdnews24 reported.