DHAKA: A dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the Appellate Division’s upholding the death penalty of its Ameer war criminal Matiur Rahman Nizami, is underway loosely on Thursday.

No untoward situation was reported till filing the report around 8:20am.

Passenger buses and other vehicles were seen plying like other normal days in city in the morning.

Inter-district bus services also left the city from Gabtali and Mahakhali bus stoppages in the morning.

No procession and picketing in support of hartal have been reported so far.

Fire service control room duty officer Farid Uddin told banglanews that they are yet to receive news of any violence in city.

Meanwhile, additional law enforcers have been deployed at important intersections in city and the country to thwart violence.

Earlier on Wednesday, the appellate division of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami on charge of killing intellectuals, mass killing and rape during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

Later, Jamaat’s acting Ameer Makbul Ahmad and acting secretary general Dr Shafikur Rahman declared the countrywide daylong hartal through a press statement.

BDST:  0830 HRS, JAN 07, 2016
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