Mir Quasem’s wife Khandaker Ayesha Khatun told the Dhaka Tribune that the prison authorities asked them to meet her husband at 3:30pm. The Jamaat-e-Islami leader, whose atrocities during the Liberation War in Chittagong earned him the nickname “Bangali Khan”, can be executed any time as the war crimes convict has refused to seek presidential clemency. Kashimpur Central Jail 2 Superintendent Prashanta Kumar Banik told the Dhaka Tribune that they are now waiting for the government’s decision to execute the war criminal. Quasem had spent a huge sum of money to appoint a US lobbyist to make the war crimes trials controversial. Suspected war criminals were put on trial after the Awami League-led government set up the International Crimes Tribunal in 2010.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 03, 2016 05:15 UTC