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Bangladeshi Islamist party stages strike to protest execution of leader

Xinhua, May 12, 2016 Adjust font size:

Bangladesh's largest Islamist party chief staged a one-day strike on Thursday to protest execution of its chief Motiur Rahman Nizami.

Seventy-four year old Nizami, ameer (president) of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged on early Wednesday for war crimes.

Hours after his execution, Jamaat called the nationwide strike for May 12.

Despite the strike, the traffic on short routes in and around Dhaka was almost regular as no activities of pro-strike activists were visible.

In other parts of the country, the shutdown also reportedly have almost no impact on people's routine life.

But academic activities were hampered to some extent though attendance in the government and private offices was as usual. But businesses in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country opened as per schedule Thursday morning.

No major incidents have so far been reported.

Seventy-four year old Nizami served as the agriculture and industries minister in ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's 2001-2006 cabinet.

Nizami, who was Jamaat chief since November 2000, did not seek the president's mercy to stall his execution. Endit