Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami this year is going to race for the mayoral post in the Rajshahi City Corporation polls independently. The BNP leaders, however, are trying to reach an understating with Jamaat and hoping that they would be able to dissuade Jamaat from the race.
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Jamaat was a part of military govt, tribunal observes
During the country’s 1971 Liberation War Jamaat-e-Islami not only collaborated with the Pakistani occupation army, but also it became a part of the military government and the Pakistan army. “Jamaat-e-Islami, is the key architect of the crimes against humanity committed, in territory of Bangladesh in 1971, in violation of customary international law,”