<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The interim government on Wednesday lifted the ban on Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir. The home ministry issued a notification in this regard.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The gazette notification reads, "Since there is no specific evidence of involvement of Jamaat, Shibir, and its front organisations in terrorist activities … And since the government believes that the organisations are not involved in terrorist activities."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, the government as per Section-18 of the Anti-Terrorism Act- 2009, has cancelled the previous circular that banned Jamaat, Shibir and its front organisations, it said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The decision will come into effect immediately, the notification added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On 1 August, the Awami League government banned Jamaat-e-Islami, its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir and all of its front organisations as political parties and entities under the Anti-Terrorism Act-2009.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On 5 August, Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled the country in the face of a mass uprising against her AL government.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>