Dhaka, Aug. 1 -- Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina says she believes that the Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir may 'go underground and engage in destructive activities' after their ban and will have to be dealt with as a 'militant group'.

She made the statement at a voluntary blood donation programme, discussion, and prayer ceremony organised by the Krishak League at the KIB Auditorium in Dhaka's Khamarbari on Thursday.

The government is set to bar the party and its student wing under the Anti-Terrorism Act for what it says was their involvement in the recent violence surrounding the quota reform movement. Law Minister Anisul Huq has indicated that the ban, issued by executive order, would be announced in ...