Dhaka, Sept 20 (bdnews24.com) – The government has banned the Eid issue of Bangla-language weekly magazine Shaptahik 2000, a top official said Thursday.
Home secretary Abdul Karim told bdnews24.com that the Eid edition of the magazine had carried an article "offensive to religious sensibilities".
The autobiographical article written by Daud Haider, self-exiled in Germany, is at the heart of the controversy.
The acting editor of the magazine, Golam Mortoza, told bdnews24.com: "I heard about it. But we didn't get any official order."
He said the magazine authorities had decided to take the Eid issue off the newsstands, taking into account the "confusion it might have created".
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