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Top 'Huji man' Salam held

Kailash Sarkar
An intelligence agency picked up Maulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, a founding member of Harkatu) Jihad al Island (Huji) and the ameer of Islamic Democratic Party (IDP) from his home in Bashundhara Residential area yesterday.
His family sources said a three-member team of an intelligence agency picked him up from his home around 5:30pm. They dragged him out of his house without lening him talk to his family members. sources added.
He returned to Dhaka from the northern region of the country around noon.
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Kazi Azizul Huq, an I DP adviser, told The Daily Star last night, "The three individuals called him out of his house saying they needed to talk to him. His mobile phone remained switched off since then."
Born in Sherpur, Abdus Salam, went to Afghanistan in the early 80s and returned in 1989. He studied in Kowmi madrasa in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
According to sources, some Afghan War veterans led by Abdus Salam officially launched Huji through a press conference at the latiya Press Club on April 30, 1992 The organisation actually originated in Afghanistan in 1987.
Bangladesh government banned the organisation in October 2005 and the USA black listed it June last year.
But Huji leaders claimed that they had dissolved the organisation in 1998 and later formed IDP during the caretaker government's regime.
IDP had applied to the Election Commission (EC) for registration in November 2008 but the EC decided to reject its registration application for not meeting the registration criteria.
According to sources, two of Salam's party leaders, Maulana Abu Taher and Arif Hasan, arc accused in a case filed in connection with the grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) rally on August
21,2004. They are now in jail.
His two other party leaders Maulana Monir and Hafiz Idris, who were arrested for their involvement in various militant activities, have jumped bail.
Three other leaders Maulana Sheikh Farid, Maulana Abdul Hai and Mufti Shafiqur Rahman are accused in the Ramna batamul blast case and are now absconding.
The Huji leaders and activists went underground as the erstwhile Awami League government cracked down on them following an attack on eminent departed poet Shamsur Rahman and an assassination attempt on Awami League chief Sheikh Kasina at the AI. rally.