[Bangla Daily Star] Islami Chhatra Shibir... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
President Delwar Hossain was incarcerated
You have the right to remain silent...
yesterday in the capital's Shyamoli for alleged involvement in recent violence and attacks on police.
Countrywide violence by Shibir followed the arrest. The student wing of Jamaat also announced a string of programmes for two days, including a countrywide daylong 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.
Hours after the hartal declaration by Shibir, the BNP-led opposition called a hartal for the same day but on different issues.
Nazrul Islam Mollah, deputy commissioner of the Detective Branch of police, told The Daily Star that acting on a tip-off, a DB team picked up Delwar from his sister's house around 4:15pm.
"The Shibir leader was involved in almost all the recent acts of violence, such as arson, vandalism, bombing and attacks on police.
"We had long been looking for him but he was on the run," Nazrul said.
It is Delwar's second term as the Shibir president. Earlier, he was president of Shibir's Rajshahi University unit.
Meanwhile,
...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end...
Abdul Zabbar, secretary general of the central committee of Shibir, in a press statement condemned and protested the arrest.
Signed by the committee's cultural secretary Yasin Arafat, the statement declared the two-day programme, according to which the party will stage countrywide protests today.
It threatened the government with tougher movements unless the Shibir chief is freed.
Meanwhile,
...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!...
Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists vandalised and torched vehicles in different parts of the country.
They set fire to eight vehicles in the capital last night at Gulshan, Amtuail, Rayerbagh, West Shewrapara, Senpara in Mirpur, Dhakeshwari Mandir, fire service officials said. No casualty was reported.
Shibir men vandalised seven to eight vehicles, including passenger buses, at Mohipal and torched two vehicles at Mirsharai point on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway yesterday. They also set fire to a truck, said police and witnesses.
Police tossed in the slammer
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
an activist in connection with the torching of the vehicles, said Iftekher Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Mirsharai Police Station.
In Jhenidah, Jamaat-Shibir activists blocked the Dhaka-Khulna highway near Bejpara bus station at Kaliganj upazila by felling at least 100 trees. The traffic movement was disrupted for about an hour.
Shibir activists torched a truck on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj bypass highway around 11:00pm and barricaded the highway, reported our Rajshahi correspondent.
Around 300 Shibir activists staged a demonstration on Rajshahi University campus, blasted seven to eight cocktails and fired blank shots around 8:30pm, reported our staff correspondent from Rajshahi. They also torched two CNG-run auto-rickshaws at Auktroy intersection in the city and went
kaboom!three to four cocktails.