Jamaat-e-Islami
One issue shouldn't cloud ties with Dhaka: Islamabad
Apparently showing their affection for war criminals being tried in Bangladesh for their crimes against humanity, Pakistan has said the relations between the two countries 'should not be clouded' with a single issue.
14 May 2016, 07:58 AM
Pakistan to move UN on hanging of war criminals
Pakistan Prime minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz says the country will raise the issue of executing Jamaat-e-Islami leaders in Bangladesh at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
13 May 2016, 12:50 PM
Some unresolved issues
Not only the ruling coalition and its main Opposition (which is outside the Parliament) contradict each other as to who have been killing writers, bloggers and freethinkers in the country, but some ministers of the coalition government also contradict each other in this regard.
12 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Pakistan’s criticism met with Dhaka’s protest
Bangladesh has summoned Pakistan envoy in Dhaka in a quick response to the condemnation note Islamabad handed over for the execution of a top war criminal, Motiur Rahman Niazami. While Pakistan envoy insists that bilateral relations won't be harmed, Dhaka hands another strong protest.
12 May 2016, 09:50 AM
Jamaat’s 24-hr hartal progressing peacefully
The 24-hour countrywide hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami is progressing peacefully with very little hindrance to public life.
12 May 2016, 04:28 AM
Pakistan parliament condemns Nizami hanging
Pakistan’s parliament passes a unanimous resolution expressing “concern” and condemns the hanging of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami. Sidewise, the country’s foreign ministry issues a statement voicing sadness over the execution. It also terms the execution “unfortunate.”
11 May 2016, 12:28 PM
Jamaat-Shibir men clash with cops in Rajshahi
Law enforcers open fire on activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir during a clash in Rajshahi.
11 May 2016, 09:16 AM
Nizami’s profile
War criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami's appointment as a minister by the BNP-led government was a slap in the face to our Liberation
10 May 2016, 18:00 PM
[WATCH] Justice finally for the death designer’s victims
The nation had to wait for 69 months to witness a long overdue justice is being carried out for the mass murders and rape in 1971 led by war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami.
The legal battle in the war crimes case against Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Nizami has drawn to a conclusion as the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed his petition for reviewing its verdict that upheld his death penalty.
10 May 2016, 06:23 AM
War crimes: Verdict read out to Nizami at Dhaka jail
Hours after Supreme Court released its full verdict dismissing condemned war criminal Nizami’s review plea, authorities of Dhaka jail, where he had been kept, reads out the verdict to him.
9 May 2016, 08:28 AM
Stop interfering in internal issues, Dhaka tells Islamabad
Reacting to Pakistan's expression of concern over the dismissal of Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami's review plea against death sentence in war crimes trial, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam urges Islamabad not to interfere in Bangladesh’s internal affairs.
8 May 2016, 09:27 AM
24-hr hartal underway, Jamaat man held
An alleged activist of Jamaat-e-Islami was detained while trying to bring out a procession in Dhaka during the party-enforced 24-hour countrywide hartal.
8 May 2016, 04:34 AM
SC scraps Nizami’s review plea, upholds death
Supreme Court upholds death penalty awarded to war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur Rahman Nizami for his wartime crimes, dismissing his review plea against the gallows.
5 May 2016, 05:41 AM
Prosecution dedicates Kishoreganj Razakars’ verdict to Jahanara Imam
The prosecution has dedicates a war crimes tribunal’s verdict, which handed death to four Kishoreganj Razakars, to Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam.
3 May 2016, 08:49 AM
Tangail tailor killing: 3 placed on 6-day remand
A Tangail Court grants six-day remand for each of the three detainees including a local Jamaat-e-Islami leader in two cases filed in connection with killing of a Hindu tailor.
2 May 2016, 07:48 AM
‘Shibir man’ held over RU professor killing
A person has been detained in connection with the murder of Prof AFM Reazul Karim Siddiquee, a professor of Rajshahi University.
24 April 2016, 05:33 AM
2 Jhenidah Shibir men shot dead
The bullet-hit bodies of two Islami Chhatra Shibir men of Jhenidah are found in Jessore Sadar upazila. The victims were picked up by law enforcers last month, family alleges.
13 April 2016, 06:03 AM
Nizami seeks review of SC verdict upholding death penalty
Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahmnan Nizami seeks review of Supreme Court verdict that upheld his death penalty for his war crimes.
29 March 2016, 06:43 AM
Jamaat calls countrywide hartal tomorrow
Jamaat-e-Islami calls nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal tomorrow alleging that move is on to abandon Islam as state religion.
27 March 2016, 10:06 AM
War crimes: Charges pressed against 6 Gaibandha men
The prosecution press three charges against six people including a former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker who allegedly committed crimes in Gaibandha during the Liberation War.
20 March 2016, 06:49 AM