New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) Bangladesh is witnessing a dangerous trend where more Islamist outfits are coming together to press for the imposition of harsher laws in the country.

Protests erupted after the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government rolled back its recruitment of music and physical training teachers to government primary schools.

Several hardline Islamist groups have come together to protest against this move as they call the recruitment to such posts as un-Islamic.

Officials say that the decision by the Yunus administration to lift the ban on the Jamaat is backfiring. Yunus completely misread the situation and gave too much leeway to the Jamaat, officials say.

It is a well-known fact that the Jamaat is a completely ISI-controlled unit. Now, the dangerous trend is that several

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