Dhaka: Despite a dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the apex court’s order to uphold the death penalty for its chief Motiur Rahman Nizami , vehicular movement remains normal like other days on Thursday .

No picketing was reported from the country.

A good number of private cars, buses come out to the city roads defying the hartal.

No unexpected incident was reported from any part of Dhaka or somewhere else till filing this report around 9:30am.

Law enforcers have been deployed at all key points of the capital city.

Commuters also are seen waiting for buses to go to their offices and other destinations in the morning.

However, ambulance and dead body carrying vehicles, pharmacy, hospitals and fire service are out of hartal range.

The shutdown will continue till 6:00pm.

Earlier on Wednesday, a press release issued by the Jamaat’s acting Amir Mokbul Ahmad in its website reads that the shutdown will be enforced as the Supreme Court upheld Nizami’s death penalty rejecting his review plea against the death sentence awarded by International Crimes Tribunal for his wartime offences.

The apex court upheld the death penalty of war criminal Nizami after rejecting his appeal petition challenging the ICT verdict for his crimes against Humanity in 1971.