Jamaat strike fails to attract response in Bangladesh

May 08, 2016 19:22

A nationwide strike called by Bangladesh's fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami to protest against the apex court verdict handing down death sentence to its chief for war crimes largely went unheeded today.

Witnesses and media reports said the 24-hour strike call beginning at 6 am - three days after the final verdict on Motiur Rahman Nizami was given - affected little the public life across the country including the capital Dhaka, that witnessed its regular notorious traffic jams nevertheless. Schools, offices, shopping malls and financial institutions operated as usual while transport operators said intercity buses, trains and ferries also plied as scheduled.

"We have kept a sharp vigil but no law and order situation was reported," a police spokesman told reporters.

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