Dhaka, May 27 -- Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman has offered an unreserved apology to anyone who may have been harmed by the party or its members, saying no individual or political party is free from error.

"We are human, and as a party, we do not claim to be infallible," Shafiqur said at an emergency media briefing held at the Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh in Kakrail on Tuesday.

"Whoever has been hurt--wherever, whenever--by any member or associate of our party, we sincerely ask for your forgiveness. Please forgive us."

The press conference came hours after the Appellate Division overturned the death sentence of senior Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam and acquitted him of war crimes in a rare reversal following a r...