Monday, 05 October 2026

Jamaat-e-Islami

Jamaat leader (retd) Akhtaruzzaman arrested

Dhaka Metropolitan Detective Branch (DB) police have arrested Major (retd) Muhammad Akhtaruzzaman Ranjan, a Jamaat-e-Islami member, over allegations that he threatened the executive director of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and assaulted a security supervisor during an airport dispute. DB c

MP Gazi Nazrul remanded for 4 days over second wife’s death

A Dhaka court on Monday, 21 September, granted four days’ remand for Satkhira-4 MP Gazi Nazrul Islam and one day for his first wife, Maksuda Begum, for questioning in a case over allegedly abetting the suicide of Nazrul’s second wife, Mariam Khatun. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ehsanul Isl

Presidential election voting tomorrow, oath-taking Friday: Chief Whip

Voting to the country’s presidential election will be held tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon, while the newly elected president will take oath at Bangabhaban on Friday evening, Chief Whip of Jatiya Sangsad Md. Nurul Islam Moni said today. He disclosed this at a press conference at the Jatiya Sangsad Bha

Opposition Firm on Constitutional Reform, Set to Intensify Movement

Jamaat-e-Islami-led opposition alliance has rejected a special parliamentary committee formed to amend the Constitution, insisting that the referendum verdict be implemented through a Constitutional Reform Council instead. The alliance said it would not join the committee and warned that its movemen

Jamaat is a secret party, Shibir is inside the lungi of Chhatra League; BNP is the open party: Fazlur Rahman

A History Marked by Double Standards

Perhaps the concept of double standards is easier to understand if described as hypocrisy. Although Jamaat initially opposed the creation of Pakistan, it later established its headquarters there and continued its anti-people activities. In Punjab, it instigated communal riots by demanding that the Q

Home Minister calls for neutral probe into interim government’s 18-month record

Bangladesh Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed on Sunday called for a neutral investigation into the interim government’s 18-month activities, saying the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) should be instructed immediately to examine where corruption took place and who was involved.