Dhaka, Nov. 13 -- Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and seven other Islamist political parties have warned of an indefinite sit-in in front of the chief adviser's official residence, Jamuna, if their five-point demands are not fulfilled by November 16.
The announcement came Wednesday at a joint press conference of the eight-party alliance at the Al-Falah Auditorium in Dhaka's Moghbazar. Jamaat's Nayeb-e-Ameer, Mujibur Rahman, declared the new programme on behalf of the coalition.
At the press conference, Mujibur Rahman said the alliance would stage a nationwide showdown on November 13 to resist what he described as the "sabotage and conspiracies of fascist forces." He urged all "patriotic and anti-fascist citizens" to take to the streets alongsi...