Shibir calls hartal for Sunday if leaders not released by Saturday

Islami Chhatra Shibir on Friday threatened to enforce a nationwide daylong hartal on Sunday if its arrested leaders and activists are not released and missing ones are not traced by Saturday.

Shibir, the associate student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, will stage demonstrations across the country on Saturday to press home the demands and protesting the killing of its men by ‘ruling party men’.

“We will be compelled to enforce the hartal on Sunday if our demands aren’t met by Saturday,” Shibir secretary general Abdul Jabbar said in a statement.