Pakistan Jamaat: Stop Bangladesh’s ‘illegal action’ against Jamaat

Dhaka Tribune

Pakistan Jamaat: Stop Bangladesh’s ‘illegal action’ against Jamaat
Mohammad Abu Bakar Siddique
The Pakistan Jamaat also announced a gayebi janaza (funeral prayer in absentia) for Ghulam for today

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan has urged the Muslim world to stop Bangladesh from taking “illegal actions” against Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.

Pakistan Jamaat chief Siraj-ul-Haq made the call on Thursday night following the death of former Bangladesh Jamaat ameer and convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam.

Mastermind of many notorious war crimes of Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War with Pakistan, Ghulam Azam died of cardiac arrest at 10:10pm Thursday.

Pakistan Jamaat mourned the death of the war criminal who had been serving a 90-year jail term. Its official Facebook page also prayed so Ghulam Azam is granted heaven.

The Pakistan Jamaat ameer said: “Bangladesh government put him [Ghulam Azam] into jail because he stood against Indian conspiracies.

“Muslim world should stop bangladesh from taking illegal actions against Jamaat-e-Islami.”

The page calls for accepting Ghulam’s “good efforts for the Muslim world.”

The Pakistan Jamaat also announced a gayebi janaza (funeral prayer in absentia) for Ghulam for today.

Ghulam Azam, the guru of anti-liberation Jamaat-e-Islami, became the symbol of all war crimes of 1971. He was given 90-year imprisonment by a tribunal although he deserved death by hanging for committing heinous crimes, the trial court said in its judgement last year.

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