Dhaka, April 19 -- Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar has urged the interim government to ensure comprehensive political reforms and initiate trials for crimes against humanity committed by former ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her collaborators before holding the next national election.

Speaking at a party conference in Laksam, Cumilla, on Friday, Parwar said an impartial election must follow a reckoning with what he described as a "dark era" under the previous Awami League regime.

Parwar voiced his party's conditional support for the upcoming election under the newly-formed interim government, headed by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, who has pledged to oversee the transition to an elected ...