As Bangladesh jail authorities prepare to execute war criminal Mir Quasem Ali, his family has been asked to meet him one last time at the Kashimpur Central Jail on Saturday. The family has come to terms with the execution of Quasem, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader and one of the financiers of the fundamentalist party. The jail Superintendent Prashanta Kumar Banik told bdnews24.com on Friday night, "The jail authorities are always ready to carry out the government's order. On Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court upheld his death penalty for war crimes, Quasem had sought time to decide his next course of action. Quasem had spent a huge sum of money to appoint a US lobbyist to make the war crimes trials controversial.

Source: bd News24 September 03, 2016 09:11 UTC