The demand came from a human-chain protest staged by Bangladesh Online Activists Forum in front of the National Press Club on Friday, the organisation said in a media release.
Azam, who led the Jamaat-e-Islami during 1971, died on Thursday in the prison cell at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital while serving jail term that the International Crimes Tribunal awarded him for crimes against humanity committed during the war.
Speakers at the human chain said the soil of Bangladesh liberated at the cost of huge blood could not be allowed to be desecrated by the burial of Ghulam Azam here.
Azam’s family said he would be laid to rest at family graveyard at Dhaka’s Moghbazar on Saturday after the funeral prayers at Baitul Mokarram.
Calling Azam a citizen of Pakistan, the speakers said his remains should be sent to Pakistan.