Summary Abdul Kader Mullah was hanged in Bangladesh on Thursday night on charges of war crimes.
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (JI) on Friday held protest against the execution of Bangladeshi leader Abdul Kader Mullah.
A large number of workers held protest demonstration near JI headquarter Mansoora in Lahore.
Addressing the gathering Jamaat-e-Islami chief Syed Munawar Hassan said the governments of Pakistan and Bangladesh were under the influence of India.The protesters offered funeral prayer in absentia for Abdul Kader Mullah.
The JI also held protest in Multan at Shah Masoom Road and offered funeral prayer for the deceased leader. The JI workers also staged demonstration in Okara against the hanging of Mullah.
In Peshawar, activists of Jamaat-e-Islami Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ALSO staged a protest demonstration. The protesters blocked GT Road and chanted slogans against Bangladeshi government. The Islami Jamiat Talba activists offered funeral prayer in absentia in Islamia College mosque.
JI workers also held protest outside Sukkur Press Club. The protesters said that Abdul Kader Mullah was executed for his favouring Pakistan.
The JI also organised a protest demonstration in Hyderabad outside Aurangzeb Gari Khata Mosque and condemned Bangladeshi government for hanging of the leader.
Workers of Jamaat-e-Islami also held protest in Muzaffarabad and shouted slogans against Bangladeshi government.
Bangladesh on Thursday hanged a senior Islamist leader Abdul Qader Mullah, 65, at 10.01 pm (1601 GMT) in a jail in the capital Dhaka.
Earlier, Bangladesh’s highest court upheld the death penalty for a top Islamist leader convicted of war crimes, just two days after he was given a dramatic last-minute reprieve from execution.
The Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Muzammel Hossain "dismissed" Abdul Quader Mullah s appeal for a final review of his death sentence, meaning he could now be hanged as early as midnight Thursday.
On Tuesday night a judge stayed the hanging of Mullah, just 90 minutes before his scheduled execution at a jail in Dhaka, amid a global outcry over the fairness of his and other trials held for alleged war crimes.
Mullah, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party leader, would have been the first person put to death for massacres committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 independence war following a series of verdicts by a special war crimes court that have sparked deadly protests.
Mullah was convicted of rape, murder and mass murder, including the killing of more than 350 unarmed Bengali civilians.
Since Wednesday the Supreme Court has heard an appeal on whether Molla could seek a review of the death sentence, with his lawyers arguing that he had "a constitutional right" to do so.
However Attorney General Alam told the court that there was "no scope for a review in war crimes cases".
