Nasimul Ghani, a founding member of the banned militant organization Hizb ut Tahrir, has recently been appointed as the senior secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs. When the Awami League formed the government in 2009, Hizb ut Tahrir was banned that year, and Nasimul Ghani, one of the founders of the organization, was sent on compulsory retirement from service four years after being appointed as an OSD (Officer on Special Duty).
But when the Muhammad Yunus government, formed after the August 5 student uprising, took office, Hizb ut-Tahrir held public meetings and declared jihad after 15 years of being banned. At the same time, Hizb ut-Tahrir's founding member Nasimul Ghani returned to one of the top positions in the government after 11 years.
At that time, Nasimul Ghani was first given the responsibility of the Secretary of the Public Security Department of the President's Office. Then the government gave him the responsibility of the Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs. At the same time, to increase the scope of his work, instead of having two separate secretaries in the Public Security Department and the Security Services Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs, a single post of 'Home Secretary' was created and placed at the top position.
Expressing concern over this issue, senior journalist Fazlul Bari, who has been investigating militancy for a long time, said, "While one of the organizers of Hizb ut Tahrir is the Home Secretary!! The organization of Hizb ut Tahrir, a banned militant organization in Bangladesh, mainly developed through three people. One of them is the newly appointed Senior Secretary of the Home Ministry, Nasimul Ghani."
Referring to Nasimul Ghani's affiliation with Hizb ut-Tahrir, he said that while he was a student at DU, Nasimul Ghani met Golam Mawla of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh in 1980. Then, through Kaiser Shahnewaz and Mohiuddin, the chief organizer of Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh, Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh opened its office in 2000.
During the BNP government in 2001-06, Nasimul Ghani, using his position as the private secretary of the parliament speaker, Zamiruddin, managed funds for Hizb ut-Tahir. He claimed to have played a leading role in their security.
According to him, this is exactly why, despite all the arson during the BNP-Jamaat coalition government in 2001-06, no member of Hizbul Tahrir was arrested! But sensing its menace, the Awami League government banned this organization in 2009 and made this Nasimul Gani an OSD. After the conspiratorial removal of the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, he has now been given the responsibility of Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs!
Incidentally, in 2008, the Daily Star, one of the country's English-language daily newspapers, first highlighted the militant and terrorist activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir in a report titled 'Hizb ut-Tahrir leaders held over 'militancy'.
This report was the first to introduce Hizb ut Tahrir Bangladesh's main organizer, Mohiuddin, to the media, along with Kaiser Shahnewaz and Nasimul Ghani.
According to intelligence reports, Nasimul Ghani and Shahnewaz started the party's activities in 2000 under the leadership of Golam Maula in Dhanmondi 6/A under the name of a coaching center and took up an office. They described Bangladesh as 'Dar-ul-Kuffar' or the land of infidels and aimed to make it 'Dar-ul-Harb' or a country of war.
There was no specific committee in this organization since its inception. Under the leadership of coordinator Golam Mawla, Professor Mohiuddin Ahmed of the IBA Department of Dhaka University, Sheikh Toufiq, Kazi Morshedul Haque, Joint Secretary Nasimul Gani and Kausar Shahnewaz, teachers of the Public Administration Department of DU, started working in the higher council of this organization.
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