The International Crimes Tribunal–1 is scheduled to announce its verdict on Monday on whether Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami would be indicted for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
ICT-1, trying crimes of 1971 Liberation War, on May 3 set May 28 for delivering its decision on Nizami's indictment.
Tribunal chief Mohammad Nizamul Huq had fixed the date after Nizami's counsel Abdur Razzaq concluded his argument moving a discharge petition against the prosecution's move seeking Nizami's indictment.
The prosecution has brought 15 charges against Nizami including crimes against humanity and genocide covering murder, rape, arson and loot.
However, the absence of a specific charge against Nizami for allegedly masterminding the execution of intellectuals of Bangladesh days before the Pakistan Army surrendered on Dec 16 1971, became more conspicuous as the defence counsel did not have to utter a single word in that regard as he refuted every charge against his client.
Nizami is widely alleged to have been instrumental in masterminding and executing a plan that would cripple the potentials of a newborn country substantially.
Razzaq had argued in support of the discharge petition that president of the Islami Chhatra Sangha, the Jamaat's student wing, Nizami believed in Pakistan and its sovereignty. "He was a Pakistani, 100 percent."
ICT-1, trying crimes of 1971 Liberation War, on May 3 set May 28 for delivering its decision on Nizami's indictment.
Tribunal chief Mohammad Nizamul Huq had fixed the date after Nizami's counsel Abdur Razzaq concluded his argument moving a discharge petition against the prosecution's move seeking Nizami's indictment.
The prosecution has brought 15 charges against Nizami including crimes against humanity and genocide covering murder, rape, arson and loot.
However, the absence of a specific charge against Nizami for allegedly masterminding the execution of intellectuals of Bangladesh days before the Pakistan Army surrendered on Dec 16 1971, became more conspicuous as the defence counsel did not have to utter a single word in that regard as he refuted every charge against his client.
Nizami is widely alleged to have been instrumental in masterminding and executing a plan that would cripple the potentials of a newborn country substantially.
Razzaq had argued in support of the discharge petition that president of the Islami Chhatra Sangha, the Jamaat's student wing, Nizami believed in Pakistan and its sovereignty. "He was a Pakistani, 100 percent."
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