Maldivian minister STABBED in broad daylight

 Maldivian minister STABBED in broad daylight, accused allegedly read Quran before the attack

Maldivian Minister Ali Solih got off the motorcycle and ran away to save himself from the attacker. He is being treated at the Hulhumale Hospital.

Aug 23, 2022 Source: IANS zeenews

According to The Times of Addu, Solih was attacked while he was riding his motorcycle on a road in Hulhumale. Maldivian media reported that the perpetrator recited some verses of the Quran before launching the attack on Solih`s neck from behind. The knife missed the neck but slit part of his left arm.

Solih got off the motorcycle and ran away to save himself from the attacker. He is being treated at the Hulhumale Hospital.

Maldives, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, was in the news in May 2021 after former president Mohamed Nasheed was critically attacked by a bomb blast outside his home in the capital Male.

The explosive device had been planted on a bike parked near Nasheed`s car. After providing critical care to Nasheed, he was airlifted to Germany for months of treatment.

Maldives is facing a threat from rising Islamic radicalism as well as recruitment for global militant organisations.

The current government, headed by President Solih along with Speaker Nasheed, is known to be democratic and liberal in its approach to governance and social norms.

BBC News:

Mohamed Nasheed is a leading political figure in the Maldives. 

After being elected to power in 2008, he was toppled in a coup in February 2012.

He was later jailed under anti-terror laws, after being found guilty of ordering the arrest of a judge while in office. However, he was allowed to travel to the UK to receive treatment on his spine and was then granted refugee status in 2016.

He returned to the Maldives from self-imposed exile after his party won the 2018 presidential elections, and then entered parliament.

Mr Nasheed is also known for his work on tackling climate change, and for his criticism of religious extremism.

The Maldives is a largely Sunni Muslim nation made up of 1,192 individual islands southwest of the Indian subcontinent.

Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed is in critical condition following a bomb attack.

A British national was among four others injured in the blast, which is being treated as a terrorist incident. No one has claimed the attack.

Australian police are travelling to the Maldives to help investigate.

Mr Nasheed was elected in 2008 but ousted in a coup four years later. He is now speaker of parliament - the nation's second-most powerful position.

The Indian Ocean nation is known for its luxury holiday resorts but has also faced political unrest and Islamist militant violence.

Mr Nasheed, 53, has been an outspoken critic of hardline Islamists.