Bangladesh was on the boil on Thursday as at least 23 people, including three policemen, were killed and scores injured in violence after a death sentence was handed down to a top leader of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for "crimes against humanity" during the 1971 liberation war. The violence followed the verdict of the special Bangladeshi tribunal that handed down death penalty to Delwar Hossain Sayedee, vice-president of the party, amid...
08:17 PM, Feb 28, 2013
At least five people, including a woman, were killed and over 50 others injured on Sunday as police opened fire during clashes with Islamists who enforced a nationwide shutdown demanding execution of "atheist bloggers" for alleged blasphemy. Five people were killed when strike supporters clashed with the police and local people in Manikganj's Singair upazila during the nationwide strike called by 12 Islamist parties, police and witnesses said. ...
07:00 PM, Feb 24, 2013
Bangladesh remained tense as three people died in clashes during a bandh called by the country's right wing extremist party Jamaat-e-Islami to halt an ongoing trial of their top leaders for 1971 war crimes. The bandh was called in protest against the ongoing trial of the party's extremist leader, Abdul Quader Mollah, who was awarded life sentence. However, the government gave a nod to push for tougher sentences, which are...
09:28 AM, Feb 19, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis have been thronging Shahbagh, a Dhaka landmark, demanding death sentence for 1971 War criminal Abdul Quader Mollah of the Jamaat-e-Islami. Following the murder of blogger Rajib who spearheaded the agitation, the gathering has grown manifold and the sentiments have been further galvanised. CNN-IBN's senior editor Suhasini Haidar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the massive agitations in Dhaka over the 1971 War Crimes trials....
06:32 PM, Feb 18, 2013
What is underlying these protests and calls for counter strikes and meetings by the Jamaat is the secular-Islamist clash in Bangladesh. The Islamists who had seen much better days when Bangladesh was in army hands have seen their control slipping over the last decade. ...
06:05 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Dhaka is bracing for a day of violence on Monday, after the Jamaat-e-Islami called for a bandh across the country to protest against what they see as a victimisation of their party. The right wing extremists were caught at the centre of a controversy after students in many Bangladeshi cities, particularly in Dhaka, protested against life term given to Jamaat-e-Islami members for 1971 Liberation war crimes The protesters are demanding...
09:52 AM, Feb 18, 2013
Bangladesh Parliament on Sunday amended the war crimes law to allow the prosecution to try and punish any organisations, including the Jamaat-e-Islami, a significant move that could pave the way for banning the country's largest Islamic party. The move was cheered by tens of thousands of protesters who have been camping in Shahbagh for the past 13 days demanding a ban on Jamaat, whose leaders are on trial for war...
10:47 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Bangladeshi police on Friday shot dead three Islamist activists who were protesting against two of their leaders' convictions for war crimes, while far larger demonstrations calling for the men to be executed continued for an 11th day. A tribunal sentenced Abdul Quader Mollah to life in prison on February 5 for war crimes including murder, rape and torture, the second verdict in trials that have reopened wounds of Bangladesh's 1971...
08:15 AM, Feb 16, 2013
2008 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind and Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed says he roams freely as his fate is in the hands of god and not America, in an interview to the New York Times. Saeed one of India's most wanted terrorists and a key accused in the 26/11 attacks has claimed that he is free to move around Pakistan as an ordinary person. ...
09:14 AM, Feb 08, 2013
Even as the Line of Control remains tense, the war of words between India and Pakistan has intensified. India has raised Pakistan's continuing support to terror groups at the United Nations, seeking international action against state sponsors of terror. India named Pakistan terror groups Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa as major security threats to South East Asian countries. ...
11:15 AM, Jan 16, 2013
India highlighted terrorism as a security threat at the UN security council. India's representative to the UN Hardeep Puri said, "The international community cannot afford selective approaches in dealing with terrorist groups or in dismantling the infrastructure of terrorism. Resort to the use of terrorism as an instrument of State Policy is short-sighted. Those who have taken recourse to it have invariably themselves suffered immensely from it." ...
09:39 AM, Jan 16, 2013
For ensuring safety and security to women, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has suggested to Justice Verma committee that co-education system should be abolished in the country. ...
12:22 PM, Jan 10, 2013
The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has demanded that co-education be abolished in India to prevent rapes from happening. In recommendations submitted to the Justice JS Verma committee on ensuring women's safety, the organisation also demanded that women be made to wear what it calls "dignified dresses". It also proposed banning live-in relationships. ...
06:26 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Execution of rapists in full public glare, abolition of co-education and "sober and dignified" dress for girls are among the 11 suggestions made by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) to Justice JS Verma committee on ensuring safety and security to women. ...
10:31 AM, Jan 07, 2013
A Pakistani court has adjourned till December 31 the hearing of Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed's petition seeking help from the government to defend himself in a US lawsuit filed by relatives of victims of the Mumbai attacks. ...
12:04 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Lahore: A Pakistani government committee has endorsed the renaming of a roundabout in Lahore after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh despite stiff opposition from extremist groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah. About two weeks ago, the City District Government of Lahore had put on hold a move to rename Shadman Chowk after Bhagat Singh due to objections from hardline groups like the JuD and Jamaat-e-Islami and a section of local residents. The matter...
02:25 PM, Nov 16, 2012
New Delhi: Alleged 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed has said that he condemns the attacks and is willing to answer questions by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that will soon be visiting Pakistan in connection with the ongoing trial in the case. This is the first time that the Jamaat-ud-Dawat (JuD) chief has condemned the terrorist attacks in which nearly 164 people died and several others were injured....
07:06 AM, Nov 03, 2012
Lahore: Giving in to the pressure from hardline groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah and a section of local residents, a move to rename a roundabout here in Pakistan after freedom fighter Bhagat Singh has been put on hold. The City District Government of Lahore had announced last month that Shadman Chowk would be renamed Bhagat Singh Chowk to acknowledge his revolutionary spirit and his role in the movement against the erstwhile...
11:14 AM, Nov 01, 2012
Srinagar: Separatist group Jamaat-e-Islami has issued a dress code advisory for tourists in Kashmir - no short or tight clothes. It has asked the tourism department to enforce the rule, but surprisingly, the Omar Abdullah government is silent on the matter. "We are not forcing them to wear Islamic dresses. It is quite against the local ethics and culture. We just want them to follow our local traditions," Jamaat-e-Islami spokesperson...
08:12 AM, Jul 05, 2012
Srinagar: The Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir has asked tourists visiting the Valley to desist from wearing skimpy clothes and warned them of an angry reaction if they failed to do so. "Some tourists, mostly foreigners, are seen wandering in short mini-skirts and other objectionable dresses openly which is against local ethos and culture. "This is not acceptable to civil society at all," the Jamaat, a politico-religious organisation, said on Tuesday...
11:15 PM, Jul 04, 2012
