Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party enforces nationwide strike

Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party enforces nationwide strike

Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party enforced a nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike Thursday in protest against the death sentence handed down to its chief in a 10-year-old arms smuggling case. Fourteen people, including two former Bangladeshi ministers and Indian separatist leader Paresh Baruah, were awarded death penalty by a court in the country’s southeastern port city of Chittagong […]

Bangladesh’s Jamaat gives strike call

Bangladesh’s Jamaat gives strike call

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party Friday gave a call to observe a nationwide strike Monday in protest against the death sentence awarded to its chief Matiur Rahamn Nizami in a 10-truck arms haul case. Shafiqur Rahman, the party’s acting secretary general, made the announcement about the dawn-to-dusk strike in a statement Friday night, Xinhua reported. He described […]