Jamaat calls hartal Thursday

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called a 24-hour countrywide hartal for Thursday protesting at the execution of its Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami.

Shortly after the execution, the party announced its program in a press release at 12.30am on Wednesday.

Calling Nizami a martyr, the party announced three day program.

They are: holding ghayebana janaza (funeral prayer in the absence of the body) across the country on Wednesday, 24-hour countrywide hartal from 5am on Thursday and saying prayers for Nizami on Friday.

Earlier, War criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami, Jamaat-e-Islami chief hanged for his crimes against humanity in 1971.

He was hanged around 12.01 midnight inside Dhaka Central Jail for his wartime offences on Wednesday.