Mir Quasem wants more time

Condemned war criminal Mir Quasem Ali has wanted more time to decide that whether he will seek presidential mercy.  

Prashanta Kumar Banik, senior superintendent of Kashimpur Jail-2, on Thursday confirmed the matter to Samakal.

Mir Quasem wanted more time when several jail officials met him around 11:00am and asked his decision about the mercy petition, he said.  

On August 30, the Supreme Court upheld the death penalty for the Jamaat-e-Islami moneyman rejecting a petition filed by him seeking review. After the verdict there is now no bar to proceed with his execution.

On June 19, Quasem submitted the petition to the apex court through his lawyers, seeking review of the verdict.


The International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced Mir Quasem Ali, Al-Badr chief in the port city of Chittagong in 1971, to death on November 2, 2014.


 On November 30, 2014, he filed an appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the death penalty.


Top Jamaat-e-Islami financier Quasem, now 64, was president of the Chittagong town unit of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the then student wing of Jamaat, till November 6, 1971.


He was then made general secretary of the East Pakistan Chhatra Sangha.