Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
should prepare herself for jail because her politics is over, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said yesterday.
"You [Khaleda] should prepare to be in prison, where you have to stay for the rest of your life," he said.
Speaking at a convention of the ruling party's Meherpur district chapter at Shaheed Shamsuzzoha Park in the town, Hanif said the BNP chief is waging a war with people.
"Khaleda is ecstatic with people burning to death in petrol kabooms. She should be brought to book for this. She is also attempting to turn Bangladesh into a failed state by imposing blockade for 54 consecutive days for no reason," Hanif said.
Hanif criticised Jamaat-e-Islami
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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...
saying that no religion supports cutting people's tendons or beheading them, reports our Meherpur correspondent.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible...
Prime Minister's Political Adviser HT Imam yesterday said if people do not eliminate BNP-Jamaat, the very existence of the country will be threatened.
As the BNP-Jamaat is run by Pakistain, they want to return to Pakistain, he said.