DHAKA, July 31 -- Jamaat-e-Islami, the party that opposed Bangladesh's independence and was banned shortly after the country defeated Pakistan in the 1971 Liberation War, is set to face another ban.

The decision comes over 50 years after its initial prohibition in 1972 for 'misusing religion for political purposes'.

The current ban is being imposed because of the party's perceived threat to public security.

During Ziaur Rahman's rule, the Jamaat regained its political rights, but demands for its ban had emerged as early as the 1990s from the movement led by Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam.

These demands intensified during the 2013 Shahbagh Movement, which sought the highest penalties for war criminals.

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