Barrister Razzaq will return home soon after an era

Special Correspondent

Barrister Abdur Razzaq, the former assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, who is staying abroad, is going to return to the country after an era. It has been confirmed by responsible sources that he will come to the country very soon.

Barrister Abdur Razzaq was the head of the panel of lawyers who fought the legal battle on behalf of the top leaders of Jamaat accused of crimes against humanity in 1971.

On December 17, 2013, five days after Jamaat's assistant secretary general  Abdul Quader Mollah was hanged in a war crime case, he left the country and went to London and started living there. Before leaving the country, a case was registered against Barrister Abdur Razzaq for inciting sabotage in the capital's Kalabagan police station.

Sources close to Barrister Razzaq said that on February 15, 2019, in an e-mail message from London, Barrister Abdur Razzaq resigned from the post of Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat.

In that resignation message, he suggested apologizing for his role in the 1971 Liberation War and said that he had tried to convince the Jamaat for two decades that there should be an open discussion about the role of the party in 1971. An apology should be made to the nation citing the role of Jamaat at that time and the reasons for supporting Pakistan. His resignation gave rise to widespread discussion in the politics of Bangladesh apart from the Jamaat. Following him, some top leaders defected. Barrister Abdur Razzaq has been staying abroad for almost a century. Barrister Abdur Razzaq decided to return to the country immediately after the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, several of his close sources confirmed to The Daily Tribunal.