Jamaat-e-Islami
Jamaat delegation in meeting with Yunus
Earlier yesterday, a five-member delegation of BNP met with Yunus at Jamuna
EC registration: SC restores Jamaat’s appeal against scrapping
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday restored an appeal that challenged a High Court verdict scrapping the Jamaat-e-Islami’s registration with the Election Commission as a political party.
Will apologise if ’71 crimes are proven beyond doubt: Shafiqur
Jamaat-e-Islami will own up to crimes committed during the Liberation War if they are proven beyond doubt.
Star Interview / ‘Jamaat to end cycle of revenge’
Bangladesh’s vicious cycle of political retribution stops with Jamaat-e-Islami, said its Ameer Shafiqur Rahman.
Violence prevails yet again
The ruling party should stop organising parallel programmes and fuelling confrontation.
‘Letting jamaat return’: Will be suicidal for the nation
The government’s decision to allow Jamaat-e-Islami back in active politics, instead of bringing it to book for its 1971 role, will be suicidal for the ruling Awami League and above all, the country, said freedom fighters, families of the martyrs and war crimes researchers.
Rights activists slam US report’s claims about Jamaat
Anti war crimes campaigners and rights activists have criticised the latest US human rights report on Bangladesh that advocated for the "freedom of assembly" of Jamaat-e-Islami – which strongly opposed the independence of Bangladesh and with the Pakistan army committed crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
Alliances with smaller parties: A game of numbers
The ruling Awami League and the BNP have once again started rallying lesser and sometimes even completely unknown political parties to form alliances.
Jamaat faces heat over '71 apology
Jamaat's assistant secretary general Barrister Abdur Razzaq has resigned from the party, a move insiders say will create pressure on Jamaat to reform its charter.
AG for upholding Nizami’s death penalty
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam prays to the Supreme Court to uphold the death sentence of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami for his crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation war in 1971.
RU pro-Jamaat teacher sent to jail
A pro-Jamaat-e-Islami teacher of Rajshahi University is sent to jail for his alleged involvement in an attack on police during BNP-led 20-party alliance’s anti-government agitation this year.
'Commute Nizami's death sentence if found guilty'
A lawyer of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami appeals to the Supreme Court to commute his client’s death sentence to life term imprisonment if he is found guilty for committing crimes during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
7 Rangpur Shibir men jailed under explosives act
A Rangpur court today jailed seven activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, for 20 years for possessing crude bombs.
‘Don’t allow Jamaat men to run polls’
The Workers Party of Bangladesh urges the Election Commission not to allow any Jamaat-e-Islami activists to take part in the municipality election under the banner of BNP-led 20-party alliance.
Arrest warrants for 10 war crimes suspects
A tribunal in Dhaka issues arrest warrants against 10 war crimes suspects of Gaibandha and Moulvibazar including a former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker for their alleged crimes against humanity during in 1971 war.
SC may hear Nizami’s appeal 5 days more
The Supreme Court may have five more dates left to hear the appeal of Motiur Rahman Nizami challenging his death penalty for war crimes.
No existence of IS in country: Home boss
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan reiterates there is no organisational existence of terrorist outfit Islamic State (IS) in Bangladesh.
Another step towards justice
One of Bangladesh's many tragedies was the near reversal, within three and a half years of our birth as a country, of the gains of our Liberation War and the coming to power, later, of people who not only opposed the birth of Bangladesh but actively participated in the genocide and crimes against humanity that was the hallmark of the Pakistani forces and their Bengali collaborators.
BGB deployed in Dhaka ahead of Jamaat hartal
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel are deployed in Dhaka this evening ahead of tomorrow’s hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami.