The 24-hour hartal in Dhaka and dawn-to-dusk hartal in eight other districts adjacent to the capital enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance are underway peacefully.
In Dhaka, the hartal began at 6am on Thursday and would end at 6am on Friday.
Vehicular movement is normal in the capital city. No unpleasant incident is yet to reported till updating of this story at 8:47am.
On Wednesday, BNP called the hartal in nine districts including Dhaka protesting cases filed against party chairperson Khaleda Zia and repression on the opposition leaders and activists.
Earlier, the shutdown was called in Dhaka, Gazipur, Narsingdi, Manikganj, Munshiganj, Narayanganj, Tangail, Mymensingh and Kishoreganj.
The capital was out of the purview of the shutdown but two hours later the capital city was also included.
BNP Dhaka Division Organising Secretary Fazlul Haqu Milon in two separate press releases called people of the country to enforce the shutdowns.
Two cases — one in Jatrabari and other in Chawddogram — were filed against BNP chairperson on arson attacks. Meanwhile, party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was taken on three-day remand in another case,
