Jamaat-e-Islami will observe nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal today (Thursday) protesting the death penalty of its party chief Motiur Rahman Nizami in the 10-truck arms haul cases.Earlier on Friday, Jamaat’s acting Secretary General Shafiqur Rahman called the hartal. Later, the party postponed Monday’s hartal to Thursday because of Akheri Munajat of Bishwa Ijtema and Saraswati Puja.A Chittagong court recently handed down death sentences to 14 people including Jamaat ameer and former industries minister Motiur Rahman Nizami for masterminding the country’s largest ever smuggling of weaponries in 2004.
