Public life went completely unruffled during the early hours of yesterday of the countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the Supreme Court (SC) verdict that upheld the death penalty of war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed, reports UNB.
People performed their daily activities and moved on the road absolutely fearless during the time unlike in the other strikes.
Centring the verdicts against Mojaheed and BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, strict security measures were taken at the key point installations across the country, especially in the divisional cities.
Makbul Ahmad, acting ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, announced the strike on its website hours after the SC order on the review petition of Mojaheed against his death penalty on Wednesday.
Jamaat has ever enforced shutdowns over the similar issues; as happened centring the executions of the party’s two bigwigs- Abdul Quader Mollah and M Kamaruzzaman.
But the strike this time unlike the previous ones gave a totally different picture—with traffic flow on the capital’s roads not less normal than ever.
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