Dhaka: Bangladesh Awami League joint secretary general Mahbubul Alam Hanif said Jamaat-e-Islami will be soon banned as a political party for its involvement in planning and killing intellectuals during the war of liberation on 1971.

Mahbubul Alam told journalists, after paying tribute to the Martyred Intellectuals’ Mausoleum in Mirpur on Monday morning, Jamaat’s political register has already cancelled by the apex court.

‘The party has been identified as the party of war criminals. The process of banning Jamaat-e-Islam has already started,’ said the AL leader. 

Earlier, Awami League leaders and activists led by the party’s president Sheikh Hasina placed wreath to pay their homage to the martyred intellectuals.