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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 ...
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 June 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.
When East Pakistan became independent as Bangladesh, the East Pakistan wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan became Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh. [citation needed] Jamaat-e-Islami participated in the democratic movement in Pakistan during the Period of Martial Law declared by Ayub Khan. An all-party democratic alliance (DAC) was formed in 1965.
Bangladesh on Thursday banned the Jamaat-e-Islami party, its student wing and other associate bodies as “militant and terrorist" organizations as part of a nationwide crackdown following weeks ...
Excerpts from Azam's speeches after 25 March 1971 used to be published in the spokespaper of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami named The Daily Sangram. On 20 June 1971, Azam reaffirmed his support for the Pakistani army by citing that 'the army has eradicated nearly all criminals of East Pakistan'.
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 ...
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 ...
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]