south-asian-militant-groups-and-global-jihad-in-2015
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targeted by its newly established branch <strong>in</strong> the Indian subcont<strong>in</strong>ent (AQIS) 6 ,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the recent murder of a secular blogger has raised national concern about<br />
Bangladesh’s future with Islamism 7 . However, while Bangladesh does have<br />
some <strong>militant</strong> <strong>groups</strong>, they have not yet committed many significant attacks,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the attacks that have been committed are certa<strong>in</strong>ly not on the scale that<br />
would place them alongside the <strong>groups</strong> that we profile <strong>in</strong> this report.<br />
Although Bangladeshi <strong>groups</strong> are not profiled here, its strategic significance<br />
to <strong>militant</strong>s should not be ignored by policy-makers.<br />
Figure 1: Map of South Asia<br />
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