... 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....
is following the strategy of not involving itself in anti-government movement right now to avoid further arrest of its leaders and disaster in the party.
Instead, it is encouraging other Islamist parties, including Fazlul Haq Amini-led Islami Oikya Jote
... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support...
(IOJ), and like-minded Islamic leaders to launch an anti-government movement.
Jamaat leaders especially those who are not well known and holding no posts in the party's top or mid-level are involved in waging anti-government movement under the banner of different Islamic and olama-mashaek organisations.
Talking to The Daily Star, a top IOJ leader admitted that several Jamaat leaders are giving them full support for the movement, especially on the women development policy issue. He, however, declined to elaborate further in this regard.
"I will say no more!"
Since its inception in 1979, Jamaat-e-Islami has never undergone such a disaster as it happened after the arrests of its top leaders, including the party's Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, on charge of crime against humanity, said party leaders.
A number of Jamaat leaders said they would follow the go-slow policy for one or two more years before waging any movement against the government.
Thereby admitting that they aren't very strong right now...
"We will toughen our movement by the last or second-last years of the government's tenure as this is the trend of our country's politics," said ATM Azharul Islam, acting secretary general of Jamaat, adding, "We are not sitting idle as we are observing programmes to press home the demand for releasing our placed in durance vile leaders.
A number of Jamaat leaders echoed Azharul saying that fearing another blow from the government and considering the party's organising strength they are likely to wait another year or two before going tough on the government. Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
they would focus on reviving the party's image.
Such as it is...
Jamaat's recent anti-government activities are evolving around issuing of statements, discussions and small scale rallies, most of which are organised in front of the its party office and auditorium.
The better to run like rats when the RAB shows up...
The party's top and mid-level leaders were not seen active in the streets during the last three hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
s on June 27 and November 30 in 2010 and April 4 this year called by its alliance partners BNP and IOJ.
Instead, they issued releases supporting the hartals and criticised the government for "evicting"
Khaleda ZiaThree-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
from cantonment house, its failure in controlling price hike of essentials and formulating "anti-Islam" women development policy.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
BNP is avoiding its ally Jamaat and following go-alone policy in waging anti-government movement due to the debacle in the Islamist party and arrest of its top leaders.