Dhaka, May 23 -- Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman has called on Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus to convene an all-party meeting to resolve the ongoing political turmoil in Bangladesh.

The call followed an emergency meeting of Jamaat's central executive committee on Thursday afternoon at the party's central office in Dhaka's Moghbazar.

The country's overall political situation was reviewed during the meeting, the party said in a media statement.

The BNP has been pushing for a general election by December.

A protest demanding party leader Ishraque Hossain's swearing-in as Dhaka South City mayor has been raging for days, triggering sharp exchanges between the BNP and National Citizen Party (NCP).

While the NCP has called for local gov...