Top fundamentalist Quamaruzzaman to be executed tomorrow: Minister

April 11, 2015 02:16

Top fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Quamaruzzaman, who has lost his final bid to overturn his death sentence for the 1971 war crimes, will be hanged in Bangladesh tomorrow, a minister said today.

"Quamaruzzaman's execution process will not be carried out today, he will be hanged tomorrow," junior home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told the 'Prothom Alo' newspaper, ending speculation over the execution of the 63-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami assistant secretary general.

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