Jamaat-e-Islami will observe a nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday protesting the death penalty of its chief Motiur Rahman Nizami in one of the 10-truck arms haul cases.
Earlier on Friday, Jamaat’s acting Secretary General Shafiqur Rahman called the hartal. Later, the party has postponed its Monday's hartal to Thursday because of Akheri Munajat of Bishwa Ijtema and Saraswati Puja.
A Chittagong court on Thursday handed down death sentences to 14 people including Jamaat ameer and former industries minister Motiur Rahman Nizami for masterminding the country’s largest ever smuggling of weaponries in 2004. He was given life-term in the arms case.
