Death-row war criminal Mir Quasem Ali has told the prison authorities of Kashimpur Jail that he will decide regarding the presidential clemency within Thursday.
Kashimpur Jail Superintendent Prashanta Kumar Banik told the Dhaka Tribune that they had met the convict in the morning.
“We asked him [Quasem] about his decision. He said he would inform us within today.”
Senior Jamaat-e-Islami leader Quasem was handed down the maximum penalty for war crimes by a special tribunal in 2014. He was also given a total of 72-year imprisonment on eight other charges of abduction, conspiracy and planning.
Quasem, one of the party's top financiers, had spent a huge sum of money to appoint a US lobbyist to make the war crimes tribunal controversial.
But all his efforts were wasted after the top court on Tuesday threw out his appeal to review his sentence.
His only option now is to seek mercy from the president after admitting to his crimes.