Bangladesh, June 29 -- Malaysian Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, during a press briefing on June 27, 2025, revealed that the Royal Malaysian Police had arrested 36 Bangladeshi nationals this week on charges of involvement in a “radical militant movement”. He stated, “The Special Branch teams intelligence and coordinated actions revealed that this group embraced extremist beliefs inspired by the Islamic State (ISIS) ideology”.

According to Malay Mail and New Straits Times, Malaysian police uncovered that this group had established recruitment cells within their community to indoctrinate individuals with radical ideology, raise funds for terrorist activities, and ultimately, orchestrate the overthrow of the...