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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...
, said the party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday.
"The Jamaat is with the BNP as an ally. It will continue to be with BNP in future," said Fakhrul at a meeting with the leaders and activists of the party's Nilphamari chapter, according to news agencies.
However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
Asaduzzaman Ripon, a spokesperson of the BNP, said on Friday that there was a gulf of ideological differences between BNP and Jamaat.
"The two parties might have formed an electoral alliance, but Jamaat has its own political ideology," said Ripon, the international affairs secretary of BNP, at a presser.
The party organised the presser at its Nayapaltan central office yesterday in reaction to a remark by the prime minister, who had said BNP Chairperson
Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
was the Ameer of Jamaat.
At a public meeting in Jessore on Saturday, Prime Minister
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
termed made the remark.
Labelling such a statement "devoid of political decorum," Asaduzzaman said: "Could I call her [PM] the ameer of Jatiya Party
...aka Jatiya Front; a political party established by Bangladictator Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986 to lend a veneer of respectability to his rule. Since nobody was amused he was forced to resign by popular demand in 1990. The party remains in existence with about a dozen seats in Bangla's parliament...
or the chairperson of JaPa?"
Asaduzzaman claimed that the BNP had not made any mistake by boycotting the January 5 election. The claim was made in reaction to another statement of the PM, who had said BNP chief Khaleda Zia had understood the mistake that she had made by not joining the polls.