Pakistan Jamaat wants 'intervention' in Bangladesh

Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan (JIP) has sought intervention of the international community against, what it claimed, victimisation and targeting of Jamaat-e-Islami and its leaders in Bangladesh.

Condemning the Dhaka High Court’s decision of banning Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh on Thursday, Ameer of the JIP Syed Munawwar Hassan appealed to the world nations, especially the Muslim world, to go beyond the verbal protests over the “victimisation” of the Jamaat leadership by the “Hasina-Wajed” government and play their role in freeing the elderly Jamaat leaders from the “state terrorism.”

Pakistan’s leading newspaper, The News quoted Hassan as claiming that Hasina-led Bangladesh government was hatching conspiracy to separate public from the party and attempting to crush it at the behest of India.

Syed Munawwar Hassan said that Jamaat was being the target of grudge in Bangladesh and leaders of the party were being given death sentence and life imprisonment. At first it was war crime tribunals who made Jamaat target of their vendetta and now the high court is following in their footsteps, he added.

The strong worded reaction from the JIP chief comes after a Dhaka High Court bench declared the registration of Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party with the Election Commission of Bangladesh as “illegal and void”.

While terming the court decision as unconstitutional, partial and biased, the JIP Ameer said the registration of the Jamaat e Islami Bangladesh had been declared unlawful so as to keep it from the elections.

“Millions of people were staging protest in different parts of Bangladesh due to which the Hasina Wazed regime was afraid,” he claimed.

JIP ameer was also critical of the democratic forces and Muslim nations for their silent over the “oppression against the Jamaat e Islami, Bangladesh.”

He said Islamabad’s terming the matter as an internal issue of Bangladesh, was the worst form of injustice, and totally unexpected.