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| Jamaat calls hartal for tomorrow |
| 2013-12-09 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] 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 independentbranch 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... has called a dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... for tomorrow protesting death warrant against its leader Abdul Quader Mollah. In a blurb this evening, the party termed the death warrant a planned conspiracy to kill politicians. The hartal is an addition to a 72-hour countrywide blockade that started from Saturday morning. The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance in which Jamaat is a key component is enforcing the blockade.jamaat-logo Earlier in the afternoon, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 issued the death warrant for the Jamaat assistant secretary general who was awarded the capital punishment for his wartime offences. ICT registrar AKM Nasiruddin Mahmud told journalists the "warrant of execution" and copies of Supreme Court verdict were sent to Dhaka Central Jail, home ministry and Dhaka district magistrate for the execution of Mollah. Arunav Chakraborty, a deputy registrar of the ICT, said he handed over the warrant and SC verdict copies to jail authorities around 4:15pm and the district magistrate around 4:35pm. Another staff of the tribunal, meanwhile, took the copies of death warrant and SC verdict to the home ministry. Earlier in the day, the copy of the full text of Supreme Court verdict awarding death penalty to Quader Mollah for war crimes reached the tribunal. Staff of the SC registrar office along with the verdict copy and other related documents went to the tribunal's registrar office in the capital at 11:55am. The SC on Thursday released the full text of the verdict of the Appellate Division bench, which awarded death penalty to Mollah on September 17. The SC pronounced the judgement, overruling Mollah's life term imprisonment awarded by the International Crimes Tribunal-2. Tajul Islam, a counsel for Mollah, told The Daily Star this afternoon that they were yet to receive the certified copy of the verdict. There seems to be a debate among lawyers on whether Mollah has the right to move a review petition before the apex court. |
| Posted by:Fred |