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  Jamaat-e-Islami ineligible for next elections: Bangladesh EC

  World | November 07, 2013 21:26 IST

  Dhaka: In a major blow to the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami ahead of polls in Bangladesh, the Election Commission today said the party cannot participate in the general election in line with a court order. Election Commissioner Shah

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  Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party declared illegal, barred from polls

  World | August 01, 2013 20:20 IST

  Dhaka, Aug 1: In a landmark ruling, Bangladesh's biggest fundamentalist party Jamaat-e-Islami was today declared “illegal” by the High Court which disqualified it from contesting future polls, leaving the once-most powerful right-wing outfit with an

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  One injured as homemade bombs explode in Shahbagh Square

  World | March 08, 2013 19:03 IST

  Dhaka, Mar 8: Two homemade bombs exploded in Dhaka's Shahbagh Square, the epicentre of anti-Jamaat protest, in Bangladesh on Friday, leaving a senior security official injured.Witnesses said that the bombs were hurled by unidentified miscreants

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  Khaleda Zia calls off meeting with Mukherjee

  World | March 03, 2013 18:20 IST

  Dhaka, Mar3: Bangladesh opposition leader and former prime minister Khaleda Zia has cancelled her meeting with visiting Indian President Pranab Mukherjee citing security concerns amid a strike called by a former party ally, Jamaat-e-Islami.Zia, who

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  Bangladesh on the boil, 21 killed in fresh clashes

  World | March 03, 2013 22:02 IST

  Dhaka, Mar 3: Bangladesh today deployed army in its north as a fresh wave of violence claimed 21 lives, taking the death toll to about 80, in clashes that have rocked the nation since the

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  Four more killed in Bangladesh as war-crime protests continue

  World | March 02, 2013 19:38 IST

  Dhaka, Mar 2: At least four people, including two teenagers, were killed in violence that rocked Bangladesh for the third day today as the death toll rose to 50 in clashes over death sentence given

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  Jamaat-e-Islami Says, 9/11 A Jewish Conspiracy

  World | September 11, 2011 20:20 IST

  Islamabad, Sept 11: Supporters of  fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami  party in Pakistan used the anniversary Sunday of the Sept. 11 attacks to stage anti-American protests.In Islamabad, about 100 people chanted and held up banners that repeated conspiracy