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 […]