Bangladesh to ban fundamentalist Jamaat following nationwide unrest

The Bangladesh government on Tuesday decided to ban the Jamaat-e-Islami following the deadly nationwide student's protests over quotas in government jobs, accusing the fundamentalist party of exploiting the movement that left at least 150 people dead.

The development to ban the Jamaat-e-Islami from Wednesday comes a day after a meeting of the ruling Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League-led 14-party alliance passed



a resolution that Jamaat, an ally of former prime minister Khaleda Zia Bangladesh National Party (BNP), must be banned from politics.

“God willing . . . the decision (of banning Jamaat) will be announced tomorrow,” Law Minister Anisul Huq told newspersons at his office on Tuesday, adding it would be an “executive order” that will ban the Jamaat-e-Islami, a party founded in 1941 in undivided India under British rule.