Jamaat’s hartal underway

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is observing the hartal protesting the arrest and remand of its top leaders, including the ameer (chief).

The hartal began at 6am on Thursday.

The party declared the dawn to dusk hartal in the statement on Tuesday.

On Monday evening, detectives arrested nine of its members, including Ameer Maqbul Ahmad, Nayeb-e-ameer Mia Ghulam Parwar, Secretary General Dr Shafiqur Rahman and Chittagong Metropolitan Ameer Mawlana Shahjahan, from a house in Dhaka’s Uttara.

On Tuesday, eight of the nine Jamaat leaders were placed on a ten-day remand for each in connection with two cases filed with Kadamtoli Police Station for creating anarchy among people during Durga Puja and Asurah and hatching plot to topple the government.