Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hasan has condemned the Dhaka High Court decision banning the Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh and revoking its registration with the BD Election Commission. While terming the court decision as unconstitutional, partial and biased, the JIP Ameer has appealed to the world nations, democratic forces and the Muslim states to play their role in checking the vendetta of the pro-India Hasina Wajid regime in Dhaka against the Jamaat leaders in the country.
In a statement here on Thursday, he said that the JI, Bangladesh was being victimised and its leadership had been convicted and handed down sentences of life term and even death. He said so far, this was being done by a so called tribunal but now the High Court had stepped in to do the same. The registration of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh had been declared unlawful so as to keep it out from the elections.
Syed Munawar Hasan said that in fact, the Hasani Wajid government in Dhaka wanted to keep the Jamat-e-Islami away from the people and to crush it at the behest of India whereas a majority of the Bangladesh people stood with the JI Bangladesh in the present situation. Millions of people were staging protest in different parts of the country due to which the Hasina Wjid regime was afraid. However, he said, that the democratic and forces in the world and the Muslim states were criminally silent over the state oppression against the Jamaat-e-Islami, BD.
He said that the Foreign Office, Islamabad had termed the matter as an internal issue of Bangladesh, which was the worst form of injustice, and totally unexpected. The charge against the JI leaders in Bangladesh was that they opposed the creation of Bangladesh and supported the Pakistan army to crush the separatist movement in that part of the country. Thus, the JI leaders in Bangladesh were being punished for their struggle to keep Pakistan united. The JI Ameer appealed to the world nations, especially the Muslim world to go beyond the verbal protests over the victimisation of the JI leadership by the Hasina Wajid government and play their role in freeing the elderly JI leaders including Professor Ghulam Azam and his colleagues from the state terrorism.