DHAKA
\nBangladesh\u2019s new authorities on Wednesday lifted a ban on the country\u2019s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, imposed in the final days of the rule of now ousted autocrat Sheikh Hasina.
\n\u201cThe government\u2026 has canceled the previous order of August 1, 2024 that banned Bangladesh\u2019s Jamaat e Islami,\u201d the order read. \u201cIt will come into effect immediately.\u201d
\nJamaat-e-Islami, which has millions of supporters, was banned from contesting polls in 2013 after high court judges ruled its charter violated the secular constitution of the Muslim-majority nation of 170 million people.
\nJamaat was also barred from participating in elections in 2014, 2018 and again in January this year, when 76-year-old Hasina won her fifth term in widely discredited polls without a credible opposition.
\nHasina\u2019s government then banned the party outright under an anti-terrorism act on August 1, just four days before she was ousted from power after weeks of student-led protests, fleeing to India by helicopter.
\nThe government order said it had lifted the ban, including on the party\u2019s student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, because there was \u201cno specific evidence of involvement with terrorism and violence.\u201d
\nJamaat is one of the country\u2019s main political parties, along with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
\nIt is unclear what strength Hasina\u2019s once all-powerful party, the Awami League, still holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DHAKA Bangladesh\u2019s new authorities on Wednesday lifted a ban on the country\u2019s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, imposed in the final days of the rule of now ousted autocrat Sheikh Hasina. \u201cThe government\u2026 has canceled the previous order of August 1, 2024 that banned Bangladesh\u2019s Jamaat e Islami,\u201d the order read. \u201cIt will come into effect …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":69527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69529,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69511\/revisions\/69529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}