Jamaat calls hartal for Wednesday

Jamaat-e-Islami has called a dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal for Wednesday protesting the Supreme Court verdict that upheld former Al-Badr leader Mir Quasem Ali`s death sentence.

The party announced the hartal on its website after the verdict was delivered on Tuesday.

Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court upheld the war tribunal’s death sentence awarded to Mir Quasem Ali for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.