'Ban Pakistan loyalist political orgs'

Political organisations that supported Pakistan during the Liberation War in 1971 should be banned, speakers said at a discussion yesterday.
Mentioning that members of these organisations, which include Jamaat-e-Islami, are war criminals, treasurer of Col Taher Sangsad Dr Mushtaq Hussain said they should not have the right to vote.
He was addressing the discussion on Col Taher Day titled “War criminals trial- Future of Democracy” organised by Col Taher Sangsad at the Teachers-Students Centre of Dhaka University.
Col Abu Taher, a sector commander of the country's liberation war, was killed in a secret trial on July 21, 1976.
Communist Party of Bangladesh's (CPB) president Monjurul Ahsan Khan called upon the new generation to cultivate the spirit of Col Taher to bring positive change in the country.
Mourning the death of fiction writer Humayun Ahmed, Col Taher's younger brother and the Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University Prof Anwar Hossain said in his last novel Deyal, which was not published, Humayun Ahmed cited some secret incidents about his brother's killing.
Humayun Ahmed had given him (Anwar) the script of the novel, he said.
Col Taher Sangsad will hold several programmes today to observe the colonel's death anniversary.