Saturday, 21 November 2015

Jamaat-e-Islami called a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal

Jamaat-e-Islami called a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal (shutdown) for Monday in protest of executing death-sentence of its leader war crimes convicts Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.

The hartal will be enforced from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm on Monday.

Besides, the party will hold `gayebana janaja` and doa mahfil today (Sunday), Jamaat acting ameer Moqbul Ahmad said in a press release sent to media houses after hanging its Secretary General.

Mojaheed did neither file mercy petition to the president nor apologise admitting his crime, the statement reads.

BNP is however yet to come up with any reaction or announce any programme till filing this report.

Meanwhile, BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed were hanged around 12:55 am on Sunday for their war-time atrocities during the liberation war in 1971.