Resist Jamaat-Shibir to protect nat'l security

The government, progressive forces and people from all strata will have to form unity to resist the ongoing Jamaat-Shibir anarchy across the country, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday.
They also demanded banning the politics of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and student body Islami Chhatra Shibir.
If the anti-liberation forces cannot be resisted, the country's national security will be threatened in the near future, they told the discussion, "National Security and the Rise of the Evil of Communal Forces", jointly organised by Shuchinta Foundation and Saptahik Kagoj in the capital's BILIA auditorium.
Noted writer Shahriar Kabir urged the government to bring Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami to war crimes trial as a party.
"Restore the constitution in light of the spirit of our Liberation War and ban the politics of the Jamaat," he said. "Otherwise, our national security and regional security will not be ensured."
Kabir, also acting president of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, said the Jamaat maintained around 100 underground militant organisations.
Echoing Kabir, Sammilito Sangskritik Jote President Nasiruddin Yusuf Bachchu called for restoration of the '72 constitution and banning the political forces which do not obey the constitution.
Cultural personality Aly Zaker said, "We all should join hands to resist those who do business using the name of religion."
Noted journalist Abed Khan criticised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's recent comments on Sharia laws and said such remarks created confusion.
The premier recently said those who assaulted police to hinder the war crimes trial could be tried under the Sharia law.
Chairman of the central command council of Muktijoddha Sangsad Maj Gen (retd) Helal Morshed Khan said, "We, the freedom fighters and pro-liberation forces, have decided to take to street to resist Jamaat-Shibir."
Meanwhile, more than a hundred cultural activists at Rajshahi University yesterday formed a human chain protesting the recent attacks on police by the Jamaat-Shibir activists.