Khaleda to face law over ties with war criminals

26 November 2011, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

Home Minister Sahara Khatun yesterday called upon Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Khaleda Zia to sever 'relations' with the war criminals of 1971 and said otherwise she would be brought to book. On the arrest of former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Golam Azam who had sided with Pakistan during the War of Liberation, Sahara said, “The government will make all out efforts to get rid of the stigma in time,” reports ATN Bangla, a private television channel. She said this while she was addressing a discussion organised by 'Muktijuddha Jubo Parishad' at the Dhaka Reporters Unity. Six Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP leaders, including Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami and BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, are in jail on charges of crimes against humanity committed during the War of Liberation in 1971. Another BNP leader, Abdul Aleem, is out on bail due to his illness.