Topic: Jamaat-E-Islami

AL sees 'evil intention' behind BNP programme

The ruling Awami League thinks that there might be an evil intention behind the main opposition's planned mass rally tomorrow. . . It also warns...

'Sayedee escaped, concealed in a burka'

A prosecution witness yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal that Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee, veiled in a "burka"...

161 Jamaat men charged

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against 161 Jamaat-e-Islami men including its acting ameer Maqbul Ahmad and acting secretary general ATM...
Bangladeshi police arrested over 600 members of the country's largest Islamist party on Tuesday, a day after protests demanding the release from jail of its top leaders erupted into violence.Three top Jamaat-e-Islami officials were among those held, said senior police ...

India PM makes 'off-the-record' Bangladesh swipe

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has claimed many Bangladeshis are "very anti-Indian", in controversial remarks posted on his official website and then removed for being "off the record".The comments, splashed in Bangladeshi newspapers on Saturday, could ruffle relations between the South ...
Warrants issued for Bangladeshi Islamic party leaders on charges of crimes against humanityA special tribunal in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants against four senior leaders of the country's largest Islamic party on Monday ahead of a planned trial over alleged crimes against ...

Bangladesh war crimes tribunal issues arrest warrants

Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal probing the country's bloody 1971 liberation struggle against Pakistan issued its first arrest warrants on Monday, court registrar Shahinul Islam told AFP.The warrants target four senior leaders of the Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islami accused of ...
Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal probing the country's bloody 1971 liberation struggle against Pakistan issued its first arrest warrants on Monday, court registrar Shahinul Islam told AFP.The warrants target four senior leaders of the Islamic political party Jamaat-e-Islami accused of ...

Bangladesh removes Islamic author's books from libraries

The Bangladesh government has ordered tens of thousands of mosques and libraries to remove books written by the controversial founder of an Islamic party, an official said Saturday.The state-run Islamic Foundation took the decision after Syed Abul Ala Maududi's books ...

Dozens wounded in Bangladesh protests over arrests and low pay

DHAKA (Reuters) - More than 80 people were wounded across Bangladesh on Wednesday in clashes with police sparked by the arrest of three top opposition politicians charged with insulting Islam and demands by textile workers for a pay rise.Supporters of Bangladesh's ...