Hefajat-e Islam has postponed its rally in the capital slated for tomorrow shortly after police stopped its top leaders from starting for Dhaka this morning. The decision came soon after police stopped Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi and Junaid Babunagari, the group's ameer and secretary general respectively, in Hathazari from starting for the capital. The group later sat at an emergency meeting to decide their next course of action. Within minutes, Noor Hossain Kashemi, Hefajat nayeb-e-ameer and convener of the Dhaka city unit, held a press conference in the capital to announce postponement of the rally. "Since the government has yet to issue us permission for the rally, we are postponing it for now," Kashemi told reporters during the briefing at Madrasa-e-Jamia Madani, his madrasa at Baridhara. Contacted by The Daily Star for confirmation by the group's headquarters, Azizul Haque Islamabadi, organising secretary, said they h