Top Islamist party leader charged with war crimes

Bangladesh yesterday charged the former leader of its main Islamist party with war crimes committed during the 1971 war that liberated the country from Pakistan, court officials said. Ghulam Azam, who was a regional leader of the far-right Jamaat-e-Islami party and later headed it, was charged with helping Pakistani forces attack civilians during the nine-month conflict by a specially appointed court, the International Crimes Tribunal.

Bangladesh: Heaven for Child and Women Hunting

by Mohshin Habib
January 27, 2012 at 3:30 am

Malik 42, a rickshaw-puller, described to his wife Anwara, "If we send our daughter to Middle East, the land of the Emirs, all of our stresses and adversities will fade away. She will get an attractive job over there. A very reliable, kind and rich man came from Dhaka. He will provide everything. In case of money shortage, he will let us a sum of expenditure as credit."