Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said that Jamaat will face strong resistance if it creates panic among the public through subversive activities during its hartal on Thursday. Obaidul, also the road transport minister, made the comment while visiting the Metro Rail Depot at Diabari in Dhaka on Wednesday morning. On Tuesday evening, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami called a dawn-to-dusk countrywide shutdown protesting the arrest and remand of its top nine leaders including the ameer, the nayeb-e-ameer and the secretary general. On Monday evening, detectives arrested Jamaat Ameer Maqbul Ahmad, Nayeb-e-ameer Mia Ghulam Parwar, Secretary General Dr Shafiqur Rahman and Chittagong Metropolitan Ameer Mawlana Shahjahan among others from a house in Dhaka’s Uttara area. A Dhaka court on Tuesday afternoon put the nine to remand for a total of 10 days, for two cases previously filed under the Special Act and Explosives Act.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 11, 2017 11:03 UTC