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The Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is the highest-ranking official and leader of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. As the executive head, the Ameer is responsible for guiding the party’s overall strategy, organizational management, and political activities. The Ameer supervises all departments, ensures the implementation of party decisions and ...
'Bangladesh Islamic Congress'), previously known as Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, [13] is a Bangladeshi Islamist political party; it is the largest Islamist political party in Bangladesh. [ b ] The origin of the party can be traced back to the original Jamaat-e-Islami party founded by Abul A'la Maududi in 1941.
Shafiqur Rahman [1] [2] [3] (Bengali: শফিকুর রহমান; born 31 October 1958) is a Bangladeshi politician and physician who has been serving as the Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami since 2019. [4]
He became a Rukon of Jamaat in 1982 and a Shura member of Majlis in 1989. In 1996, he became a member of the executive council of Jamaat. He served as Naib Amir of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from 2009 till his death. [17] Having gained recognition, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was elected as a member of parliament for constituency Pirojpur-1 in the ...
The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, after coming to power in 2009, sought to try Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s top leaders for their role in acts of genocide and war crimes during the ...
In 1991, he was elected as a Member of Parliament, representing Jamaat-e-Islami for the constituency of Pabna-1; he was Jamaat's Parliamentary Party leader until 1994. [22] During the 1996 elections , he lost to the candidates of both the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), an ally of Jamaat, and the Awami League in his constituency.
Bangladesh's interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday lifted a ban on the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party that was imposed by the former prime minister who was ousted in ...
Many residents [66] strongly criticized Zia and BNP for allying with Jamaat-e-Islami, [67] which had opposed the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. The four-party alliance participated in the 1 October 2001 general elections, winning two-thirds of the seats in parliament and 46% of the vote (compared to the principal opposition party's 40%).