Nizami buried

The executed Jamaat-e-Islami amir Motiur Rahman Nizami was buried at Santhia in Pabna on Wednesday morning while Jamaat and Shibir activists held ghayebana janaza for Nizami at places including Dhaka amidst some incidents of clashes in Chittagong and Rajshahi.
Jamaat called a 24-hour countrywide general strike beginning from 5:00am today protesting against the execution of Nizami.
The Higher Secondary Certificate examinations scheduled for today were deferred to May 20.
An education ministry release on Wednesday said that the HSC and equivalent Alim and vocational examinations of Thursday would be held at 9:00am and 2:30pm on May 20.
Nizami was hanged early Wednesday for crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh’s War of Independence in 1971.
Nizami’s son Najib Momen said that his father was buried at their family graveyard at Manmathpur of Santhia upazila in Pabna at about 7:00am after a namaj-e-janaza.
An ambulance carrying Nizami’s body left Dhaka Central Jail for Pabna at about 1:30am. The ambulance escorted by huge number of police arrived at Manmathpur at about 6:35am.
Dhaka Central Jail deputy jailer Majharul Islam handed over Nizami’s body to his son Najib Momen at Manmathpur at about 6:40am.
Activists of Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Shibir held ghayebana janaza (funeral prayers in absence of the body, for Nizami at places including Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka.
New Age correspondent in Chittagong reported that Jamaat and Shibir activists clashed with police and activists of ruling Awami League-backed student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League at the parade ground of Chittagong Government College where they were trying to hold a ghayebana janaza at about 1:30pm.
Chittagong Metropolitan Police additional commissioner Devdas Bhattacharya said that Jamaat and Shibir men gathered at the parade ground in the afternoon when a group of Chhatra League activists tried to resist them, triggering a clash.
Police fired several blank cartridges to contain the situation, he said, adding that no casualties were reported.
Jamaat men, however, held a ghayebana janaza at the parade ground, witnesses said.
New Age correspondent in Rajshahi reported that police arrested 12 Jamaat and Shibir activists when they tried to hold a ghayebana janaza at Kazirganj in the city, reported our correspondent.
Police also chased them, firing blank cartridges and tear gas shells, witnesses said.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Iftekhar Alam said that police chased some Jamaat and Shibir men who assembled at Hetamkha at about 2:00pm.
Twelve Jamaat and Shibir men were arrested, he said.
At Baitul Mukarram National Mosque, several hundred activists of Jamaat and Shibr attended the ghayebana janaza after Juhr prayers, witnesses said.
Jamaat activists were seen showing victory sign and airing slogan when they were leaving the national mosque.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net