[Bangla Daily Star] Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition....
yesterday announced a fresh programme for four days across the country, demanding unconditional release of the party leaders and workers nabbed from Mirpur on Thursday.
Starting from today, the programme will continue until November 3 with one day's break tomorrow. As part of the programme, Jamaat leaders and muscle will organise rallies in divisional cities, district and upazila headquarters and unions across the country.
Acting Secretary General of the party ATM Azharul Islam announced the programme at a presser at the party's central office in the city.
At the conference, he said police jugged 20 "innocent" members of Jamaat and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir from the party's Mirpur office when they were attending a doa mahfil.
About the seizure of Jihadi books, Azharul said, "Which are the Jihadi books.... It [the government] is identifying Islamic books as Jihadi books. Has the government banned any Jihadi or Islamic book?"
The Jamaat leader said that in the name of recovering bombs from Jamaat men, the government is trying to hide the wrongdoings of pro-government people.
Azharul, however, ignored journalists while he was being asked repeatedly for his comment on Islami Chhatra Shibir president's remark about trying the prime minister and the home minister in a special tribunal.
Earlier on Thursday, Shibir president Rezaul Karim at a discussion said, "Listen, prime minister and home minister, you people would be tried upon formation of a special tribunal."