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Revision as of 04:22, 28 August 2006 by Shomajtontro (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Motiur Rahman Nizami is the current president of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, the largest Islamic party in Bangladesh. Nizami is also a cabinet minister in the current government of Bangladesh, after supporting the four party alliance win the 2001 election. He is one of the 18 MPs in this term who won the 2001 elections from the party of Jaamat.
Career
Motiur Rahman Nizami has long been an Islamist activist in Bangladesh. He and his party, the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh believe in establishing a state based on Islamic laws known as Sha'ria. Nizami was blamed of being involved in the series bombings of August 17, which occurred in Bangladesh. Nizami has claimed innocence, even though almost all of the arrested suspects had, at one time, links with the student wing of Nizami's party.
He was notorious for his collaboration with the Pakistan occupation forces in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. He is accused of having drawn up hit lists of prominent pro-independence intellectuals and Hindus, and of having orchestrated the creation of the vigilante Razakar and Al-Badr forces. Nizami has never denied his active role in seeking to preserve Pakistani rule over Bangladesh, and has insisted that his position was politically justified.