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Bangladesh
Nizami to file review petition today
2016-03-29
[Dhaka Tribune] Condemned war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami will file a petition seeking review of the Appellate Division verdict that upheld his death sentence. "The review petition will be filed today with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court against his death sentences, upheld by the apex court, as all preparations have already been completed," Nizami’s son Barrister Nazib Momin was quoted as saying by BSS.

The apex court on March 15 released the 153-page judgement after its four judges concerned signed the verdict that upheld the Jamaat chief’s death penalty for war crimes.

International Crimes Tribunal issued a death warrant against the war criminal on the same day.

There is a provision of filing a review petition within 15 days after releasing the full verdict.

Nizami was given the death sentence on October 29, 2014 on four charges and life imprisonment on four other charges. He challenged the verdict at the apex court.

On January 6, the Appellate Division upheld the tribunal’s sentence for the al-Badr chief for criminal masterminding the killing of intellectuals and his involvement in two incidents of mass murders of over 500 people in Pabna in 1971.

He is the third former minister after Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to get the death penalty for his notorious role during the war.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh: 14 Sentenced to Die for Smuggling Arms
2014-01-31
[NY Times] The leader of the main Islamist opposition party was among 14 people convicted and sentenced to death on Thursday for smuggling weapons to a rebel group in India nearly a decade ago. In April 2004, security officials seized more than 4,000 firearms, ammunition and other military equipment from fishing boats. According to case documents, the shipments were meant for Indian snuffies in Assam State, who signed a truce with the Indian government in 2011. Among those sentenced to death were Matiur Rahman Nizami, the leader of the main Islamist opposition party, Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
, two former intelligence officials and a former cabinet official.
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Bangladesh
Re-elect AL to free nation from Jamaat
2013-02-03
[Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide...
yesterday called upon all to re-elect Awami League for a second successive term to free the nation from the clutches of Jamaat-Shibir and their cohorts.

"It is the nature of Jamaat-Shibir and their cohorts to kill people by pouring petrol and cutting veins and wrists. So you will have to cast your vote for Awami League again to free the nation from the clutches of Jamaat-Shibir and their cohorts," she said.

The prime minister was addressing a mammoth public rally at Bera College ground after inaugurating a 70-MW power plant built by the Power Development Board here.

Hasina, also the president of Awami League, congratulated the people of Bera for turning down Matiur Rahman Nizami, the infamous Al-Badr chief during the Liberation War, in the last general elections.

About the ongoing trial of war criminals, she said the present government had pledged to people to try the war criminals to free the nation from a stigma. "We have kept our commitment through the verdict against Bacchu Razakar by the International Crimes Tribunal."

In this connection, she said the country moved backwards for several years due to the rule of anti-liberation forces after the liquidation of Bangabandhu in 1975.

The leader of the opposition is engaged in a tricky game to save the war criminals, she complained. "So I call upon all to remain alert about her [Khaleda Zia
Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
] conspiracy."

Hasina said the AL government in 1996 had started the work to move the country forward, but it was stopped when the BNP- Jamaat alliance government took over in 2001.

Returning to power in 2008, the AL government resumed its work to take the country to the "highway of development," she added, urging people to cast their vote for her party again for the continuation of the development work.
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Bangladesh
BNP-Jamaat demo July 23
2011-07-20
The BNP and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition....
will stage demonstration across the country on July 23 protesting deleting 'absolute trust and faith on Allah' from the country's charter, reinstatement of secularism and socialism and abolishing the caretaker government system.

The two major political allies announced the programme from separate press briefing on Tuesday at their offices in the city's Naya Paltan and Moghbazar respectively.

Announcing the programme, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP acting secretary general said, the procession will be brought out from the BNP central office at Naya Paltan at 3:00pm.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia
Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
, also leader of the opposition, is likely to lead the procession.

Fakhrul reiterated his party demand for scrapping of the 15th amendment to the constitution that abolished the provision of caretaker government.

BNP is also protesting issuance of arrest warrant against BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman and police assault of Opposition Chief Whip Zainal Abdin Farroque.

Briefing news hounds at Jamaat office, ATM Azharul Islam, acting secretary general of Jamaat, said his party will not accept any parliamentary polls held under political government.

He also demanded release of its top five leaders, including Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami, who are now behind the bars on charge of committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

Earlier on July 6 and 7, the BNP-Jamaat-led four-party alliance enforced a 48-hour countrywide hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
protesting the passage of the constitution 15th amendment that scrapped the caretaker government system.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh issues arrest warrant for Indian separatist leader
2011-06-29
On Wednesday, a Bangladeshi court issued an arrest warrant against an Indian separatist leader and several retired Bangladeshi officials wanted in connection with arms smuggling.

The arrest warrant was issued against Paresh Barua, military head of Indian separatist group United Liberation Front (ULF) of Assam, and Nurul Amin, a retired senior official at Bangladesh's industries ministry, suppoosedly involved in smuggling 10 truckloads of armaments in 2004.

Investigators have charged a total of 52 people - including two former ministers, Matiur Rahman Nizami and Lutfozzaman Babar, and two former chiefs of National Security Intelligence for smuggling the arms meant for the ULF. All but the two accused have been arrested.

Police seized 10 truckloads of weapons and ammunition from a pier near the port of Chittagong on April 1, 2004.
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Bangladesh
Babar, Nizami named accused
2011-06-04
[Bangla Daily Star] Further investigation in sensational 10-truck arms haul cases has apparently come to an end after three and a half years and 13 time extensions.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) showed 11 new accused including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and former minister for commerce and industries Matiur Rahman Nizami in the memorandum of evidence (ME) of the cases.

The other new accused are India's United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) leader Paresh Barua, former director general (DG) of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim, the then director of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Maj Gen (retd) Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury, who was later appointed as DG of NSI, former NSI director Wing Commander (retd) Shahab Uddin, former deputy director of NSI Maj (retd) Liakat Hossain, former NSI field officer Akbar Hossain Khan, former additional secretary of industries ministry Nurul Amin, former managing director (MD) of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Limited (CUFL) Mohsin Talukder and former CUFL general manager (admin) Enamul Hoque.

Of the accused, Ulfa leader Paresh Barua and additional secretary of industries ministry Nurul Amin are absconding.

CID hopes to submit the probe report with in the given timeframe, June 29, as it has prepared an initial ME of the cases.

The investigation officer (IO) of the cases Md Moniruzzaman Chowdhury, also a senior assistant superintendent of police (ASP) for CID, on Thursday submitted the primary ME to Public Prosecutor (PP) Kamal Uddin Ahmed for his review.

CID officials said names of the 11 accused were included with 41 other who were accused in the two previous charge sheets submitted by CID earlier in 2004.

Talking to The Daily Star yesterday IO Moniruzzaman said they have almost completed the investigation.

He hoped to submit his probe report after the PP approves the ME.

Sources in CID said names of over 200 people including police officials, a magistrate, former officials of NSI, DGFI, and former secretaries of different ministries have been mentioned in the ME as important witness.

They said CID has so far solved six out of seven issues that a Chittagong court directed to solve during the further investigation. The unsolved issue is identifying the vessel that transported the consignment.

PP Kamal Uddin has confirmed receiving the ME and said he would return it to CID with his opinion after analysing legal aspects.

On April 3, 2004, two cases -- one under arms act and one for smuggling of arms -- were filed with Karnaphuli Police Station against 43 people in connection with the arms and ammunition recovery at CUFL jetty. Names of two accused were later dropped from the charge sheet as they died.

CID started investigating the cases after the first IO of the cases Ahadur Rahman, also the then officer-in-charge of Karnaphuli Police Station, was dropped within less than a month for his controversial investigation.

Kabir Uddin Ahmed, Chittagong zone ASP of CID, was then appointed the next IO who submitted his report on June 11, 2004.

ASP Nawshad Ali was later appointed as the third IO and he submitted a supplementary charge sheet on August 28 of the same year.

On February 12, 2008, during the tenure of the last caretaker government, the court of Metropolitan Session Judge ANM Bashirullan ordered further investigation in the cases following an appeal by the then PP Ahsanul Haque Hena.

The court in its order directed to investigate seven specific points in the further investigation.

ASP of CID Ismail Hossain carried the further investigation as the fourth IO of the cases but he failed to submit his probe report even after six time extensions.

On January 18, 2009 a Chittagong court ordered to replace Ismail Hossain following an appeal by the state lawyer and ASP Moniruzzaman was appointed as the fifth IO.

It was alleged that the previous investigations were not done seriously and the charge sheets were prepared poorly without accusing the criminal masterminds.
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Bangladesh
Dissenting verdict on Jamaat top brass' bail plea
2011-03-25
[Bangla Daily Star] In a rare occurrence, a two-Judge High Court bench on Thursday gave a dissenting verdict on a bail petition filed by three jugged Bangladesh Jamaat-e Islami leaders including its Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami in Rajshashi University student Faruk Hossain murder case.

Two other Jamaat leaders are its Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid and its Nayeb-e Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee

Senior judge of the bench Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury granted them bail, saying that the names of the accused were not mentioned in the case, although they were shown tossed in the clink in this case after four months of the detention.

On the other hand, junior judge of the bench Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder rejected the bail petition, saying that the accused should not be granted bail as investigation into the killing case is going on.

Advocate Tajul Islam, one of the counsels for the petitioners, told The Daily Star that the HC bench will send the bail petition to the chief justice for a decision.

After receiving the bail petition with the dissenting verdicts, Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque will constitute a third bench of the HC for disposal of the matter, he said.

Rajshahi University Chhatra League
... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ...
leader Faruk Hossain was killed in a clash between Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
and Bangladesh Chhatra League on February 9 last year.

The same day Rajshahi University Chhatra League President Mazedul Islam filed a murder case with Motihar Police Station in this connection.

Jamaat leaders Nizami, Mojahid and Sayedee in August last year jointly filed a bail petition with the HC.

The HC on August 26 issued a rule upon the government to explain why the petitioners should not be granted bail in the case.

After two days of hearing the HC bench passed the verdict.
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Bangladesh
Jamaat fails to find backing
2011-01-02
[Bangla Daily Star] Panic spread among the rank and file of the Jamaat-e-Islami after the arrest of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, who had close contact with the Islamist party.

The arrest of Salauddin, a member of national standing committee of BNP and a war crimes suspect, came as a 'double blow' for Jamaat which failed to gain support from most of its allies on the war crimes trial issue, party insiders said.

The party is searching for a way to face the situation, which they consider as the worst since its political revival during the rule of late president Ziaur Rahman, they added.

Talking to The Daily Star several leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami admitted that they are going through the worst time in the party history after the arrests of its top leaders on charges of crimes against humanity.

Jamaat has planned to stage demonstrations abroad, specially in the UK, the USA and some other Middle Eastern countries, using its supporters and like-minded organisations against the war crimes trial and government's 'repression,' said the leaders.

Presently the crisis-hit party is conducting indoor activities due to the stern stance of the government.

Some leaders, wishing not to be named, said they are working under different organisations to start anti-government movement.

Two years of the Awami League-led grand alliance government have already passed, said the leaders, adding they are now waiting for the tenure to come to an end.

"Only three years of the present government is remaining and we will be able to start a strong movement against the government very soon," said acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam at a discussion meeting on December 16.

So far five top leaders of Jamaat, including its Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami and Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, are facing war crimes trial.

The party is now assessing the consequences after the probable arrest of its former chief Ghulam Azam as the state minister for law has already said he will also be brought to book.

Jamaat opposed country's Liberation War in 1971 and many of its leaders were allegedly involved in crimes against humanity during the nine-month-long war.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh Jamaat leaders to be kept in jail indefinitely
2010-08-04
[Arab News] A special tribunal dealing with charges of crimes against humanity against four senior leaders of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party ordered authorities on Monday to keep the accused in jail indefinitely.

The charges stem from the nation's 1971 war for independence and alleged atrocities committed by Pakistani soldiers in a failed attempt to keep Bangladesh from breaking away. The Bangladeshi government says the soldiers, aided by local collaborators, killed an estimated three million people, raped about 200,000 women and forced millions more to flee their homes during the bloody nine-month war.

The suspects being held by the tribunal are from the Jamaat-e-Islami party, which sided with Pakistan during the war in which India backed those seeking independence. The suspects face charges such as genocide, murder, rape, torture, looting and arson. The party has said the charges are politically motivated.
But so, too, were the genocide, murder, rape, torture, looting and arson that resulted in the deaths of three million human beings.
The long-delayed tribunal - which was a campaign promise of Prime Minister Hasina Wajed during elections in 2008 - was finally set up in March.

The suspects include Jamaat-e-Islami party chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and his senior party colleagues Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, Abdul Quader Mollah and Muhammad Kamaruzzaman. They were produced before the three-member tribunal during a hearing on their arrests on Monday.

Justice Nizamul Huq asked authorities to keep them in jail until further order pending the criminal investigation.
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Bangladesh
Tribunal hears first war crime petition today
2010-07-26
[Bangla Daily Star] Four months into formation of the International Crimes Tribunal, the special prosecution yesterday filed the first petition with the court seeking direction to show four top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders arrested or detained on charges of committing war crimes in 1971.

The four accused are Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla, both senior assistant secretaries general.

This is the first ever incident in the history of judiciary to seek direction to show any person arrested under the International Crimes Tribunal Act, 1973 as the incumbent government has taken initiatives to try war criminals under this law.

The three-member Tribunal headed by Justice Nizamul Huq yesterday accepted the petition and fixed 10:30am today for holding hearing on it. Justice ATM Fazle Kabir and Justice AKM Zaheer Ahmed are the other two judges of the tribunal.

The Tribunal for the first time would sit this morning in the open courtroom set up at the old High Court building. The courtroom was readied yesterday removing all the dumping materials and dirty stuffs.

The six-member prosecution team formed only to work in the Tribunal submitted the petition through its registrar at the court building.

After filing the petition, Chief Prosecutor Golam Arif Tipu briefed journalists saying, "We have submitted a petition against the four seeking necessary lawful steps from the Tribunal to keep them confined.

"We made the prayer so that they cannot escape or create obstruction in investigation and that the investigation agency can smoothly conduct probes into allegations against them of committing genocide, murder, rape, torture, loot, and arson during the Liberation War of 1971," he said.

He however rejected outright that the petition sought the Tribunal's direction to have the Jamaat leaders arrested or detained in any specific case, including one filed with Pallabi police.

"Our petition [against the four] has been filed on charges against them for committing offences under section 3 of the International Crimes Tribunal Act," Tipu said.

The investigation agency will probe offences mentioned in section 3 of the Act: crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, genocide, violation of any humanitarian rules during armed conflicts as laid down in the Geneva Convention of 1949, any other crimes under international laws, attempt, abetment or conspiracy to commit any such crimes and complicity in or failure to prevent commission of any such crime.

Hours after Tipu's briefing, Registrar of the Tribunal Md Shahinur Islam told newspersons the investigation agency formed under the International Crimes Tribunal Act started investigation based on a "Complaint Petition" of July 21 this year in which Nizami, Mojahid, Kamaruzzaman and Molla were made accused.

Sources say this "Complaint Petition" is the case of Pallabi police station which was transferred to the Tribunal on July 21.

On July 21, a Dhaka court sent this case to the Tribunal on charge of killing 345 people during the Liberation War.

On January 25, 2008, Mohammad Amir Hossain Mollah, a wounded freedom fighter and resident of Pallabi's Duaripara, filed this case with Pallabi police accusing Nizami, Mojahid, Kamaruzzaman, Quader and three other Jamaat men, and three non-Bangalees for the massacre of 345 people.

The registrar said the chief prosecutor mentioned in the petition that arrest or detention of the four accused is inevitable for fair and effective investigation into allegations brought in the case under the International Crimes Tribunal Act, 1973.

Prosecution sources say they would submit a petition to the tribunal soon for necessary order to show some other Jamaat leaders arrested or detained on the same charges.

RECORDS OF HISTORY
War records show Jamaat formed Razakar and Al-Badr forces to counter the freedom fighters in 1971. "Razakar" was established by former secretary general of Jamaat Moulana Abul Kalam Mohammad Yousuf, and "Badr Bahini" included the Islami Chhatra Sangha members.

Study of history also shows Matiur Rahman Nizami, incumbent Ameer of Jamaat, was the then president of Islami Chhatra Sangha.

He was quoted as saying on September 15, 1971 by Jamaat's mouthpiece the Daily Sangram: "Everyone of us should assume the role of a Muslim soldier of an Islamic state and through cooperation to the oppressed and by winning their confidence we must kill those who are hatching conspiracy against Pakistan and Islam."

Nizami's speech is evident in the September 8, 1971 issue of the Daily Sangram that carried a report headlined "Chhatra Shangha activists will protect every inch of Pakistan's land".

In 1971, Mojahid directed his party workers to build Al-Badr Bahini to resist freedom fighters, according to a "Fortnightly Secret Report on the Situation in East Pakistan". In line with an official procedure, the report had regularly been dispatched by the then East Pakistan home ministry to General Yahya Khan, the head of the government.

Many researches, academic studies, accounts of both victims and collaborators, and publications including newspapers revealed that Mojahid, who headed the Al-Badr team in Dhaka at the time, allegedly led those who had been involved in the killings of the intellectuals only two days before the victory of Bangladesh on December 16, 1971.

Muhammad Kamaruzzaman has a tainted past with Islami Chhatra Sangha and is blamed for his close links to the Al-Badr force.

"The Chhatra Sangha of Mymensingh district was converted into the Al-Badr force and provided with military training. The man responsible for organising the Chhatra Sangha into the Al-Badr was the then chief of the Mymensingh district Islami Chhatra Sangha, Kamaruzzaman," a book titled "Genocide '71" says.

In the early 1990s, a People's Inquiry Commission was formed to investigate the activities of war criminals and collaborators.

Abdul Quader Molla was known as a "butcher" to Bangladeshis in the Dhaka suburb of Mirpur in 1971, according to the report of the commission headed by the late poet Begum Sufia Kamal.
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Bangladesh
Court seeks probe report on Nizami, Mojahid by August 2
2010-07-05
[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday directed Keraniganj police to submit the probe report by August 2 in a case filed against Jamaat top brass Matiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and seven others for killing two freedom fighters during the 1971 Liberation War.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Taiyabul Hasan passed the order as Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Asaduzzaman of Keraniganj Police Station, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, failed to submit the report by yesterday.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief Nizami was produced before the court yesterday on schedule.

Nizami Jamaat Secretary General Mojahid and its Nayeb-e Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee were arrested on June 29 after a Dhaka court ordered their arrest on charges of hurting religious sentiment of the Muslims.

Later on June 30, Nizami and Mojahid were shown arrested in the case.

On December 17 of 2007, Mozaffar Ahmad Khan, Dhaka district unit Muktijoddha commander, filed the murder case against Nizami, Mojahid and seven others for killing two freedom fighters--Osman Gani and Golam Mostafa alias Tukub Ali--on November 25 in 1971.

Other accused in the case are two assistant secretary generals of Jamaat Mohammad Abdul Quader Mollah and Mohammad Quamruzzaman, Keraniganj upazila unit Amir Haji Nazim Uddin, Islami Chhatra Sangha leader KG Karim Babla, Abul Kashem, Foyzur Rahman Foyaz and Yasin.

The last three were Al-Badr, Razakar and Al-Shams activists during the war.

The plaintiff said when the nation was on the threshold of victory on November 24 in 1971, his nephew Osman Gani and Golam Mostafa went to their houses to meet their parents and relatives.

Next day the Al-Shams and Al-Badr militias, dressed in grey, surrounded their houses and hacked them to death at about 8:30am in the morning.
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Bangladesh
Jamaat supports BNP's demonstrations
2010-06-07
[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-e-Islami has formally endorsed BNP's anti-government programmes to protest against "the wrongdoings" of the ruling grand alliance.

The decision came at a meeting of Jamaat's executive committee at the party's Moghbazar office yesterday.

The party will participate in the mass sit-in organised by BNP at the Engineers' Institution in the capital on June 9 and give all-out support to make the June 27 hartal a success.

Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed at a press briefing said the party's executive committee unanimously decided to back the anti-government programmes.

He, however, did not clarify whether his party will join the hartal programmes but said they would support the hartal.

"We will do everything to make the hartal a success," the Jamaat leader said.

Referring to the reason for backing the hartal, Mojaheed said it was called to bring an end to people's sufferings.

He claimed it's a way to protest in a democratic system and mount pressure on the government to resolve people's problems.

"It will be a people's hartal," he said.

Jamaat leaders Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Delwar Hossain Saidee, ATM Azharul Islam, and Rafiqul Islam Khan, among others, were present at the press briefing.

On Saturday night, Jamaat leaders led by party chief Matiur Rahman Nizami met the BNP chairperson and agreed to forge a movement jointly against the government.

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