Sentence examples for jamaat from inspiring English sources

In early 2013 judgments by a flawed but popular court, investigating crimes committed by current Jamaat members during Bangladesh's war of independence from Pakistan in 1971, seemed to boost the nominally secular League, which revived the tribunal.

But if it loses an election, the BNP would rehabilitate its disgraced heir and its Jamaat allies (at least, those not executed by then).

But the convictions may have been delayed because of street violence following earlier sentences for other Jamaat leaders.

It suggests that since then the BNP has "taken up the role of the Jamaat"—the party that opposed Bangladesh's independence in 1971, and whose current leadership looks to be headed for the gallows by the time a trial for war crimes is concluded.

This is the third occasion in recent months that an al-Qaeda terrorist has been nabbed in the house of a Jamaat activist or supporter.

He now faces the prospect of being sentenced to death twice over.The Jamaat promised protests against the smuggling verdict, but the response was weak.

In the southern port city police battled with activists from the Jamaat-e-Islami party who attempted to approach the French consulate.

Mr Mojaheed, who was minister of social welfare in the previous elected government from 2001 to 2006, was convicted of genocide and torture against Hindus during the 1971 conflict, in which anything from 300,000 to 3m people died and millions were displaced.Neither conviction is a surprise, and massive anti-Jamaat protests in February called for nothing less.

The 62-year-old is a member of Jamaat-e-Islami's highest policy-making body and considered to be one of the party's top financiers.

In protest the Jamaat-e-Islami called a nationwide general strike on Sunday, though no violence was reported.

"We will praise anyone who chops off the hands or cuts off the head of a blasphemer," Abdul Rahman Makki, a senior leader of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa group, told a crowd of supporters in Islamabad.