Dhaka: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called an eight-hour countrywide hartal for Monday protesting what it called the ‘planned killing’ of its leader Mir Quasem Ali for war crimes.

The announcement was made in a statement issued by Jamaat acting secretary general Shafiqur Rahman on Saturday night.

The shutdown will begin at 6:00am and end at about 2:00pm, it said.

Jamaat will also hold gayebana janaza for Mir Quasem Ali and prayer seeking salvation of his departed soul across the country on Sunday.

Mir Quasem Ali, believed to be the main financer of anti-liberation party Jamaat-e-Islami, was hanged on Saturday night for the atrocious crimes he had committed against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971 to prevent Bangladesh’s independence.

After over four years of trial, the 63-year-old Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami central leader was executed in Kashimpur Central Jail at about 10:30 pm.

‘Mir Quasem was hanged at 10:30pm for his crimes against humanity,’ Kasimpur Jail Super Prashanta Kumar Banik told reporters at the jail gate at about 10:44 pm.