Mir Quasem Ali in 1977 began his new mission of re-establishing Pakistani fanatic ideology in independent Bangladesh right from where he had ended his killing operations opposing the birth of a nation in 1971.

He is the man who founded Islami Chhatra Shibir as perfect successor of culprit Islami Chhatra Sangha, which had formed the Al Badr as an armed wing to annihilate the freedom fighters and intellectuals of a country in process of the final victory in the war of liberation.

Yes, Mir Quasem Ali was the third top organizer of the infamous Al Badr, led by Motiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid; and formed at the directive of Jamaat-e-Islami guru Ghulam Azam.

While Azam-Nizami-Mujahid trio regrouped to re-launch Jamaat following a gift permission from General Ziaur Rahman to form a political party, Mir Quasem formed Islami Chhatra Shibir as their student front on February 6, 1977.

He became the founding President of the Shibir proved to be the true successor of Chhatra Sangha and para-military Al Badr.

We all know what Shibir did by establishing the politics of killings and cutting tendons in last 37 years. The world also knew about it.

Just see where the Chhatra Shibir stands globally and how it is considered across the world now.

A US think-tank organization's study titled "IHS Jane’s 2013 Global Terrorism & Insurgency Attack Index” published in February 2014 listed the Chhatra Shibir as the third largest armed group in the world.

In fact, that the so-called Islamic State (IS) is now in Syria and Iraq, and that the Al Qaida and Taleban are in Pakistan and Afghanistan; they were in Bangladesh in 1971 in the name of Al Badr-Razakar-Al Shams.

And their political umbrella was the Jamaat-e-Islami of which international network and financing were managed in Bangladesh by Mir Quasem Ali, sentenced to death by International Crimes Tribunal for his crimes against humanity committed in 1971.

International studies found Mir Quasem Ali served as the de facto treasurer of Jamaat-e-Islami for long, with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt and other militant outfits across the world.

He had close ties with Saudi Arabia for long four decades and he was known as Saudi Arabia’s money man in Bangladesh, being involved major Wahhabi-backed institutions.

Researches and intelligence reports said that Mir Quasem, as country director for the Saudi-backed Rabeta-al-Alam-al-Islami Bangladesh, collected funds for not only local militants, but also Rohingya fighters from Myanmar as well as Afghan mujahedeens.

Money Jihad, a site combating terrorist financing, blogged about his activities in 2011 although his outlawed activities were open secret in Bangladesh. He had long been out of book, perhaps for his close ties with the Saudis.

As finance operator of Jamaat, Mir Quasem Ali was also involved with banking, healthcare, transport, NGO and media sectors of Bangladesh.

According to the Policy Research Group, the brain behind Jamaat’s financial and business empire was Mir Quasem Ali. And the Bangladesh Economic Association says that Jamaat’s foot-print is visible in a wide spread area.

Money Jihad had put Jamaat’s annual revenue on financial par with Hamas and al-Shabaab.

That was the reason many had doubted and many had apprehension and suspicion about the verdict in his case specially when it is believed that the international campaign against the trial of the war criminals was being carried out by Mir’s network of petro-dollars.

Finally he has been sentenced to death as third key-leader of Al Badr after Nizami and Mujahid. Their guru Ghulam Azam escaped the hanging as he was awarded imprisonment for 90 years on age ground although the tribunal had found him guilty to be given death sentence, and he died at the age of 92.

Now it seems whatever gossips of compromises are there, the key organizers of infamous Al Badr have to walk to gallows. May be Kamaruzzaman will be next in the list after execution of Abdul Kader Mollah in December last year.

Ghulam Azam could escape the manila rope for becoming too old. But, Bangladesh waits to see hanging of other war criminals. The desire is not for revenge, but for peace in the long run.

BDST: 1531 HRS, NOV 02, 2014