Jamaat calls hartal for Wednesday too

Jamaat-e-Islami today called a 24-hour hartal for Wednesday protesting the death penalty of party leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, putting the country on a nine-day hiatus till Sunday.

The hartal call was made through a press release floated this morning by Jamaat hours after the apex court upheld Kamaruzzaman’s death verdict.

Earlier on Wednesday, Jamaat called the 72-hartal for Thursday, Sunday and Monday after International Crimes Tribunal-1 handed down death penalty to Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for his crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.

On Sunday, it called another 24-hour hartal for next Thursday protesting the death penalty of war criminal and Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali.

That means, all the working days in this week have been ‘annulled’ as there is also a one-day holiday for holy Ashura on Tuesday.

TODAY’S HARTAL CURTAILED

Jamaat has curtailed its ongoing hartal by 12 hours due to the holy Ashura to be observed across the country tomorrow.

The hartal will now end at 6:00pm today instead of 6:00am tomorrow (Tuesday), said in a press release of the party.