BD Government bans Jamaat and its student wing Chatra Shibir today.

The government of Bangladesh  banned Jamaat-e-Islami, and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir and all of its associated organizations as political parties and entities today under the Anti-Terrorism Act-2009.

The home ministry early afternoon today issued a gazette notification  banning the anti-liberation party and all its associated front liners  following the law ministry's approval.

The government took the decision as per Section 18 (1) of the Anti-Terrorism Act-2009 and enlisted it as banned entity according to the gazette notification.

The section as follows: "For the purposes of this act, the government, on reasonable grounds that a person or an entity is involved in terrorist activities, may, by order, enlist the person in the schedule or proscribe the entity and enlist it in the schedule."

"As the government possesses enough evidence that Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing  Islami Chhatra Shibir were both involved in recent killings, destructive and terrorist activities directly and through incitement," reads the gazette.

"As the government believes that Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir and its front organizations are involved with terrorist activities, the government, following the Section 18 (1) of the Anti-Terrorism Act-2009, declared Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir and its front outfits banned as political parity and entity," it said.

Citing three verdicts of the International Crimes Tribunal related to Jamaat-e-Islami leaders including former Jamaat Ameer Ghulam Azam, the gazette said Jamaat (previously named as Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh) and its student wing Shibir (previously known as Islami Chhatra Sangha), the tribunal held Jamaat and its front organisation liable for committing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.