The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) 1 on Monday handed down Jamaat-e-Islami former Ameer Ghulam Azam, who has been charged on five accounts, 90 years imprisonment .
He was charged for five counts of conspiracy, three counts of planning, 28 counts of incitement, 22 counts of complicity and one count of murder and torture.
Ghulam Azam's life at a glance
1944: Passed HSC, Govt. Islamic Intermediate College
1946: BA from Dhaka University
1944-1946: Assistant Secretary Purbo-Pakistan Shahitto Sangsad (East Pakistan Literary Society)
1946-1947: General Secretary, Hall Union, FazlulHaq Muslim Hall, Dhaka University
1947-1948: General Secretary, Dhaka University Central Student Union’s (DUCSU). He reportedly received highest votes among all candidates. The same year, on March 11, he was arrested for his role in the famous Language Movement.
1948: MA in Political Science, Dhaka University
1949: Re-elected as the General Secretary of DUCSU
1950-1955: Lecturer, and later professor, Dept of Political Science, Rangpur Carmichael College (now a university)
1951-1954: Ameer, Tabligh Jamayat, Rangpur, a worldwide religious organisation
1952-1954: Founder Secretary, Tamuddon Majlish, Rangpur District (a national socio-cultural organisation guided by Islamic principles)
1954: Became influenced by the ideas of Jamaat-e-Islami founder Syed Abul Ala Maududi; on April 22. 1954, he joined Jamaat-e-Islami and drew end line to his involvement in Tableague-e-Jamat; the same year, he formally joined Jamaat-e-Islami. Soon afterwards became the founder-president of the party’s unit at Rangpur Carmichael College
1955: Became full member of the party while in prison; upon his release from jail, quit as a professor to engage with the party fulltime
1957-1967: Became the Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami in the then East Pakistan
1964: Got arrested when Ayyub Khan regime banned Jamaat-e-Islami due to radical religious activities; was arrested while attending the party’s Central Committee meeting in the then West Pakistan
1967-1971: He was a participant in the formation of the Pakistan Democratic Alliance; the same year, became the Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami, East Pakistan
1969-1971: He became the Ameer (president) of the Jamaat in East Pakistan, a position he was going to keep until the 1971 liberation war was over; the same year, was appointed as Secretary, of the party’s Rajshahi Division
1978-2000: Ameer (president) Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami