Jamaat-e-Islam

You won! Now what?

We don’t need more violence, not even in the name of punishment.
14 February 2026, 17:07 PM

I never agreed to endorse a political party: Sohel Towfiq on controversial ad linked to Jamaat

In a Facebook post, the actor said he had agreed to the project believing it to be a socially driven initiative. According to him, the advertisement was presented as a social complaint–receiving app aimed at empowering citizens. “I had agreed to act in an advertisement for a social complaint–receiving app, which was meant to be a platform for people to report injustice, corruption, extortion and harassment,” he wrote.
5 February 2026, 23:02 PM

Jamaat forms all-Hindu union committee in Rangpur

In a first, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam has formed an all-Hindu committee in a Rangpur union yesterday.
26 October 2024, 18:20 PM

Jamaat-Shibir men clash with cops in Rajshahi

Law enforcers open fire on activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir during a clash in Rajshahi.
11 May 2016, 09:16 AM

Jamaat calls hartal for Sunday protesting death penalty to Nizami

Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 24-hour countrywide hartal (shutdown) for Sunday after the Supreme Court upheld death penalty awarded to the party’s chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for his 1971 war crimes.
5 May 2016, 06:42 AM

Verdict on Nizami's review plea May 5

SC will deliver its verdict on May 5 on war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami’s petition seeking review of his death penalty.
3 May 2016, 03:51 AM

Jamaat withdraws hartal after Islam retained as state religion

Jamaat-e-Islami withdraws countrywide hartal after the High Court rejects a writ that challenged legality of Islam as state religion of Bangladesh.
28 March 2016, 05:38 AM

History will judge this verdict: Defence

War criminal Mir Quasem Ali’s lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain says the history will judge this verdict that upheld the death penalty of the Jamaat-e-Islami leader.
8 March 2016, 05:23 AM

Jamaat men clash with cops in Jatrabari, 3 held

Police detain three persons during a clash with activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir at Jatrabari in Dhaka.
28 October 2015, 05:34 AM

The Boat and the BNP-Jamaat

The election symbol of the Awami League is a boat; interestingly, AL now resembles a boat as big as Noah's Ark as it accommodates anybody from any party, irrespective of political colour and ideology.
15 July 2015, 18:00 PM

War crimes: Probe report on Shakhawat, 11 others submitted

Probe report on ex-lawmaker Shakhawat Hossain and 11 others’ alleged war crimes was handed to the prosecution.
18 June 2015, 07:50 AM

2 Shibir leaders face contempt proceedings

A tribunal in Dhaka initiates contempt of court proceedings against the president and secretary general of Islami Chhatra Shibir for their statements about a war crimes verdict.
4 May 2015, 06:15 AM

Jamaat man killed in Pabna

Unidentified gunmen today hacked and shot a Jamaat-e-Islami activist to death this evening.
19 April 2015, 16:26 PM

Trucker burnt in Comilla petrol bomb attack

A trucker burnt when miscreants hurl a petrol bomb at his vehicle on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Daudkandi upazila of Comilla.
13 April 2015, 04:25 AM

Al Badr organiser Kamaruzzaman executed

On a July morning in 1971, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman marched into Sohagpur, a remote hamlet, and unleashed cold-blooded savagery.
11 April 2015, 18:02 PM

Jamaat calls 48hr hartal from tomorrow

Jamaat calls 48-hr nationwide hartal from 6:00am tomorrow to protest SC rejection of Kamaruzzaman’ plea seeking review of his death penalty.
6 April 2015, 05:59 AM

SC upholds Kamaruzzaman’s death penalty

Supreme Court upholds its verdict on Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman rejecting his plea for reviewing death penalty for 1971 war crimes.
6 April 2015, 03:34 AM

Jamaat lawyer Tajul Islam ‘detained’

Tajul Islam, a top member of the defence team of war crimes accused Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, has been allegedly picked up by law enforcers from his chamber in Dhaka this evening.
5 March 2015, 15:47 PM

Hartals, blockade eat up Tk 1.20 lakh crore: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the country has incurred a loss of over Tk 1.20 lakh crore in the hartals and nonstop blockade since January 6.
25 February 2015, 14:29 PM

3 Shibir leaders held for ‘plotting Ctg oil depots’

Chittagong police arrests three leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, on charge of conspiracy to blow up the depots of state-run oil companies -- Padma, Meghna and Jamuna.
21 February 2015, 10:22 AM