Fakhrul skirts question on Ghulam Azam’s death

The BNP is yet to react to the death of war crimes convict Ghulam Azam, former chief of its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami and icon of anti-Liberation forces.

Staff Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 24 Oct 2014, 12:56 PM
Updated : 24 Oct 2014, 12:56 PM

BNP’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir skirted a question on the issue at a media call on Friday.

Azam, who led the Jamaat during the 1971 Liberation War, died at the BSMMU Thursday.

The 92-year old was serving a 90-year sentence for his war crimes handed down last year.

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As reporters pressed Fakhrul, he said, “We only talked about topics for which this media briefing was convened. Thank you.”
He then rose from his seat, signalling the end of the briefing.
Azam's body was handed over to his family earlier in the morning after a post-mortem examination.
BNP chief Khaleda Zia, in an interview with the Indian media, claimed the ruling Awami League had “a long history of close relations” with the Jamaat and other fundamentalist organisations.
“Our alliance with Jamaat is only an electoral understanding. It is by no means an ideological one,” she told The Times of India.
Azam is the second war crimes convict to die in the hospital's prison cell after Abdul Alim, a minister in Ziaur Rahman's cabinet in the late 1970s.