About 20-25 members carrying by six microbuses reached the jail gate around 3:36pm.
Family member sources said there are physicians and nurses in the team to look after Mir Qasim's wife Khandaker Ayesha Khatun as she is sick.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told the Dhaka Tribune that they have already sent the executive order of the execution to the jail authorities.
Earlier, the jail authorities had asked Mir Quasem's family to meet him at Kashimpur Central Jail 2 in Gazipur in the afternoon.
Mir Quasem’s wife Khandaker Ayesha Khatun confirmed it to the Dhaka Tribune, saying the prison authorities had asked them to meet him at 3:30pm.
The Jamaat-e-Islami leader, whose atrocities in Chittagong during the Liberation War earned him the nickname ‘Bangali Khan’, can be executed any time as the war crimes convict has refused to seek presidential clemency.
Kashimpur Central Jail 2 Superintendent Prashanta Kumar Banik told the Dhaka Tribune that they are now waiting for the government’s decision to execute the war criminal.
Quasem had spent a huge sum of money to appoint a US lobbyist to make the war crimes trials controversial.
His efforts were in vain when the Appellate Division threw out his plea to review his death sentence on Tuesday. Jail officials said the verdict was read out to him the following day when he appeared “worried”.
Suspected war criminals were put on trial after the Awami League-led government set up the International Crimes Tribunal in 2010.
Most of the convicts are from Jamaat, which openly opposed Bangladesh’s independence.
The party claims the tribunal falls short of international standard and accuses the government of carrying out a political vendetta – a charge the government denies.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
