<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir have been banned. Home ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard Thursday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The political activities of Jamaat, Chhatra Shibir and other associate bodies of the organisation has been banned under the section 18 (1) of the anti-terrorism act.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, the law ministry sent the file to the home ministry with its legal counsel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These parties cannot do politics under the names when the ban will come into effect, the law minister told the media after sending opinions to the home ministry this noon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier on Tuesday, law minister Anisul Huq has said Jamaat will be banned through an executive order by Wednesday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier, a decision was taken at a meeting of governing Bangladesh Awami League-led 14-Party Alliance to ban Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Presided over by Awami League president and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the 14-Party Alliance’s meeting was held at her official residence, Ganabhaban, in Dhaka on Monday evening.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader and 14-Party Alliance coordinator Amir Hossain Amu briefed the newspersons after the meeting at Ganabhaban.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Obaidul Quader said, “A decision has been taken at the meeting unanimously to ban the politics of evil forces of Jamaat and Shibir.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The election commission has already scrapped the registration of Jamaat following a verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to several sources attending the meeting, prime minister Sheikh Hasina said at the beginning of the meeting that Jamaat and Shibir were behind the recent sabotages, arsons, attacks on police across the country during the quota reforms movement. She had intelligence report on it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier in 2013, following a verdict of the top court, the election commission cancelled registration of Jamaat-e-Islami.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami were executed on charges of crimes against humanity during the liberation war in 1971.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jamaat appealed challenging against the High Court verdict scraping the registration.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On 19 November 2023, the Applleate Division of the Supreme Court rejected the appeal. So the registration remained cancelled.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The law ministry made a draft law a few years back to try Jamaat-e-Islami as a party on charges of war crimes. However, there was no progress over the matter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>