Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat has declared fresh programmes demanding the arrest of the killers of their leader Shaikh Nurul Islam Faruqi and seeking neural investigation of the incident.
Member Secretary of Sunnat Wal Jamaat Committee Advocate Mosaheb Uddin Boktiar declared the programmes in a press conference held at Chittagong Press Club on Thursday afternoon.
They party will form a human chain in front of the National Press Club in the capital around 11am on Saturday. Ollama Mashayek will stage a rally around 10am on Sunday.
Boktiar said: “The government does not have any update regarding the murder of Faruqi even after 16 days of his killing.”
“The government is playing a mysterious role and doing politics out of Faruqi's murder. They are not willing to do the trial of the case,” he said.
He also criticised the police for filling a robbery case in Faruqi's murder incident.
Boktiar said the party will declared tougher programmes after Eid-ul-Azha if the culprits are not arrested and brought under proper judgement.
On August 27, unidentified armed assailants slaughtered Faruqi, a presenter of religious programmes on Channel i, at his residence in the capital’s east Rajabazar area.
The deceased was the presidium member and international affairs secretary of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat – an organisation known for opposing the views of Jamaat-e-Islami and Hefazat-e-Islam.
Apart from anchoring the “Shantir Pothe” and “Kafela” programmes on Channel i, he owned Faruqi Tours and Travels Private Limited, a Hajj travel agency, and served as the imam of the Supreme Court Mosque.
