Supporters of Pakistan’s Islamic political party Jamat-e-Islami pray as they demonstrate against the verdict of a Bangladeshi court against former Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ghulam Azam during a protest in Karachi, yesterday. A former leader of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist opposition party was sentenced to 90 years in jail on 15 July for war crimes, as his party called for a nationwide strike in protest. Ghulam Azam, former chief of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, was tried by a special war crimes tribunal investigating alleged crimes by several of the party’s leaders during the country’s 1971 war of independence against Pakistan.
July 15, 2013 | 11:07 PM