Interim govt lifts ban on Jamaat-Shibir

The interim government has withdrawn an order from the Awami League government banning Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir. A gazette notification in this connection may be issued on Wednesday. 

On Monday, the party's lawyer Mohammad Shishir Manir said an application was placed to the government to revoke the ban. 

The previous government banned Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir and all its front organizations on 1 August. 

According to a gazette notification issued by the Public Security Division of the Home Ministry, the decision was implemented under Clause 18(1) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009.

The Gazette, issued amid a curfew, said that the government has sufficient evidence that Jamaat-Shibir members were involved in the recent killings and destructive and terrorist activities, both directly and through incitement.

Prior to the gazette notification, the Law Ministry gave its legal opinion and forwarded the file to the Home Ministry. Afterwards, the then law minister Anisul Huq told reporters that these groups would no longer be able to engage in politics under their current names.