Den Haag, 1 februari 2012

Voortouwcommissie: vaste commissie voor Buitenlandse Zaken

Activiteit:

bijzondere procedure

Datum:

donderdag 2 februari 2012

Tijd:

10.00 - 10.45 uur

Openbaar/besloten:

besloten

Onderwerp:

delegatie uit Bangladesh over rechtszaken tegen oorlogsmisdadigers

Agendapunt:

Het lid Ferrier ontvangt in het kader van de bijzondere procedure een
delegatie uit Bangladesh over de rechtszaken tegen oorlogsmisdadigers (1971).

Het lid nodigt u van harte uit hierbij aanwezig te zijn.

Zaak:

Brief derden - International Committee for Democracy in Bangladesh (ICDB) te
Leiden - 8 januari 2012
Verzoek ICDB en BASUG, namens delegatie uit Bangladesh, om gesprek met
vaste commissie voor Buitenlandse Zaken over de rechtszaken tegen
oorlogsmisdadigers (1971) - 2012Z00140

Griffier:

T.J.E. van Toor

Activiteitnummer:

2012A00157

BIODATA ZEAD-AL-MALUM

Prosecutor

International Crimes Tribunal, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Old High Court Building, (West Block)

e-mail: zamalum54@gmail.com

Zead-al-Malum was born in 1954 in the District of Tangail, Bangladesh. He successfully completed
his institutional education in 1978 and was awarded bachelor’s degree, master’s and post-graduate
degree from the University of Dhaka. In 1979 he was duly enrolled as an advocate. Since 1981, Mr.
Al-Malum is practicing very regularly and successfully, building a remarkable reputation at the
Supreme Court of Bangladesh, working as an advocate in the field of constitutional and criminal law
etc. As a law researcher, he has contributed to the development of personal law/family law. He has
drafted many laws in this field, thus contributing in a valuable manner towards ensuring children’s
rights; the rights of the aboriginal people; labor and garment workers’ rights, and the rights of
agricultural workers. As a researcher, he has drafted a uniform Family Code, deliberately structured in

conformity with UHRD, CRCH and CEDOW. He joined and contributed to many workshops,
seminars and symposia in the country and abroad. Further, he has been the General Secretary of
Bangladesh’s Democratic Lawyers Association (DLAB). Presently, he is the Vice President of the
national affiliate of IADL, an international lawyers’ organ with consultative status at the
UNO/UNHRC. He is also the Treasurer of SAARC-Lawyers, Bangladesh Chapter. Mr. Al-Malum has
participated in many international lawyers’ conferences and congresses. Lastly, in 2009 he participated
in IADL’s International Congress XXVII held in Hanoi, Vietnam. On the basis of his proposal, the
Vietnam Congress adopted a resolution in support of Bangladesh’s initiative towards the trial of
perpetrators of 1971 war crimes, i.e. committed during Bangladesh’s liberation war. The trials are
being held under the country’s International Crimes Tribunal Act, 1973. He has conducted the
people’s inquiry commission as one of the secretariat’s member. He is a bonafide freedom fighter and
human rights’ activist. He has extensively worked on national awareness capacity building, and on
knowledge, transfer and legal empowerment in the core area of international crimes in Bangladesh. In
March of 2010, he was appointed prosecutor of the ICT-BD, a domestic tribunal with the power to
adjudicate international crimes. Since then he has helped build the Tribunal’s effective investigation
agency and prosecution agency. As head of the prosecution team he conducts key ICT-cases

DR. PETER CUSTERS

Peter Custers holds an M.A. in international law from Leiden University, the

Netherlands (1970). He subsequently followed a three-year course in

international relations at the Johns Hopkins University, in Washington D.C..

He obtained his Ph.D. in sociology from the Catholic University, Nijmegen, the

Netherlands (1995). In the first part of the 1970s, after Bangladesh gained

its political independence, Custers gathered first-hand experience in

grassroots’ peasant organizing, while stationed in Bangladesh as leading

Dutch journalist, writing for both Dutch and international newspapers. He was

incarcerated under the military dictatorship that came to power in late 1975,

and faced a kangaroo trial in September 1976, emanating in his deportation

‘for life’.

Over the last twenty years, Custers has led or helped initiate a variety of

international campaigns on Southern causes, while lobbying actively towards

the European Parliament and other Brussels-based European institutions. He

notably helped organize two major international conferences which in 1993

and 1996 respectively were held in the European Parliament around a highly

controversial World Bank-led ‘flood protection’-scheme, i.e. the ‘Flood Action

Plan, Bangladesh’ (FAP).

In 2007/2008, Custers was an affiliated fellow, researching on religious

tolerance and the history of Bangladesh, at the International Institute for

Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands. In 2010, he was granted an award as

Human Rights’ Defender and Friend of Bangladesh, by the country’s current

government. Presently, he is working as Special European Correspondent of

the Bengali language daily Prothom Alo, and as International Columnist of the

English language newspaper The Daily Star, Bangladesh. Besides being a

committed lobbyist and journalist, Custers is also a theoretical economist. His

book ‘Capital Accumulation and Women’s Labor in Asian Economies’ (1997) is

shortly being republished (Monthly Review Press, New York, 2012). His

original theoretical study ‘

Questioning Globalized Militarism’ (Tulika, New

Delhi/Merlin Press, London, 2007) covers both the production and exportation

of arms and nuclear production in its broadest sense (i.e. civilian plus

military). The study was prefaced and hailed for its innovative significance by

the world-renowned Egyptian economist Samir Amin.

The Daily Star, Friday, January 20, 2012

Army foils bid to topple govt

Spokesman says group of 'religious fanatic' serving, retired officials behind conspiracy; some non-
resident Bangladeshis instigated it; 2 arrested; 2 top ranking officers under interrogation
Major Zia, absconding (plotter) and Ishraq Hossain, Zia's (associate)

Staff Correspondent

The army has foiled a “coup attempt to overthrow the present democratic government”, a
military spokesman said yesterday. A band of religious fanatics, made up of mid-ranking
officers and their retired colleagues, was involved in the failed putsch at the instigation of
some non-resident Bangladeshis.
Brigadier General Muhammad Mashud Razzaq, director of Personnel Services Directorate,
made the disclosures at an unprecedented press briefing at the Army Officers Club in Dhaka
cantonment. Reading out a statement, he said the army had already unearthed specific
information regarding some serving officers' involvement in the conspiracy to halt the
democratic government system.
“But this evil plot has been resisted thanks to sincere efforts by the well-disciplined members
of the force,” he said adding that some serving and retired officials had already admitted their
involvement. Replying to a query, Brig Gen Mashud said no more than 14 to 16 mid-level
officers were believed to have been involved in the coup attempt. He said some undisciplined
and disgruntled officers were still involved in attempts to execute the scheme.
To unearth details about the scheme, a court of inquiry was formed on December 28 last
year. That court is still in operation, the brigadier general said adding that stern actions would
be taken against the plotters once the investigation was complete. Two retired officers --
Lieutenant Colonel Ehsan Yusuf and Major Zakir -- have been arrested in connection with
the failed coup and they are now being interrogated, according to the statement read out at
the press briefing.
Meanwhile, army sources at the press briefing said two senior officers have been kept at
Dhaka cantonment log area for interrogation. Brig Gen Mashud said Ehsan and Zakir were
arrested after they confided in two serving officers on December 13 and 31 last year their
intent to topple the government and provoked them to join the design by ceasing to be loyal
to the government. Informed by the two serving officers, the army authorities arrested Ehsan
and Zakir.
On December 22 last year, a serving major named Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque alias
Major Zia met another serving officer and provoked him to get involved in the anti-state plot.
As the officer approached by Major Zia informed his high command about the plot, the
authorities telephoned Zia to join the Dhaka cantonment log area by cancelling the leave that
he was on after completing training at Military Institute of Science and Technology. Zia

disobeyed the order and absconded. He is still involved in subversive activities against the
army, the written statement said.
On January 9 and 10, he sent two operational orders to different serving officers through
email and wanted to know from like-minded serving and on-study [MIST students] officers
about the preparations for the coup. He was relentless in efforts to inspire the officers to
execute the plan on January 10. On the same night, he called a non-resident Bangladeshi
named Ishraq Ahmed, possibly living in Hong Kong, and discussed the “developments and
execution process of the coup”.
Maj Zia told Ishraq to ask local and international media to telecast and publish reports on “the
army coup”. Ishraq, who hails from Naogaon and is believed by the army to have connection
with a Saarc country intelligence agency, then asked Zia to contact him on completion of “the
coup” so that he could fly to Bangladesh as quickly as possible. Maj Zia had a long telephone
conversation with some officers at different cantonments, the army sources said. He urged
all the officers, some mid-ranking and some juniors, to come out of the cantonment with their
forces to establish Islamic rule in the country.
The two officers -- the major general and the brigadier general -- have been kept detained as
per the army rules because they had remained silent rather than informing the high
command even after being approached by the conspirator, added the sources. At the press
briefing, Brig Gen Mashud Razzaq called upon all to any plot that would harm the army's
hard-earned image and said all the members in the army are ready to sacrifice for the
country's sovereignty and integrity.
It is not acceptable that any vested quarter, foreign or national, will implement their evil
design using the army, he added. The army spokesperson also said a newspaper [Daily
Amar Desh] on January 3 had published a fabricated tale based on Maj Zia's Facebook write
up titled “Mid-level officers of Bangladesh Army are bringing down changes soon” as a
motive to create confusion about the security force.
On January 8, banned fanatic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir distributed across the country
provocative leaflets based on Zia's Facebook post. The next day, a major political party
[BNP] of the country alleged in line with the fabricated, misleading and instigating news that
incidents of disappearances have been occurred in the army, giving rise to unexpected
debates in the army and also among conscious citizens, added the brigadier general.
Mashud sought cooperation of the country's democratic patriotic people and others
concerned to overcome the temporary challenge, and urged all to inform the concerned
authorities about the whereabouts and activities of Maj Zia. Senior army officials, including Lt
Gen M Mainul Islam and Brig Gen Ridwan-Al-Mahmood, among others, were present at the
press briefing.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Asked whether the plot was still on, Mashud said there was an “ill-attempt” and they have
“succeeded to stop it.” Asked what type of coup attempt it was, he again said it was an ill-
attempt and in due time they came to know about it and successfully quelled it through
combined output of command channel and discipline. On a media report regarding the name
of a major general of Comilla Cantonment, Mashud said, “He is now in the Log Area Sadar
and staying at his residence with his family.” Asked whether he is under house arrest, he
said there is no term like 'house arrest' in army law.

Replying to a question whether any foreign state or force was involved in the coup plot, he
said, “We will not brush aside the possibility and the investigation is going on taking
everything into consideration. We cannot say anything specifically before the probe ends."
Asked about the ranks of the officials involved in the failed attempt and if there was any such
attempt outside Dhaka Cantonment, he said, “I firmly want to say that the number is very,
very limited. So far we have learnt that they are mid-level officers and the topmost position is
a retired lieutenant colonel.” He also said absconding Maj Zia contacted one or two officials
outside Dhaka over telephone, but “be clear that there was no move from outside the
capital”.
To a question whether any steps will be taken against the political organisations who had
talked about disappearance in the army, Brig Gen Mashud answered if the probe body
recommends, action can be taken as per the law of the country. “We have arrested two and
investigation is going on about others whom we cannot arrest until we get concrete evidence.
The number is in no way more than 14 and 16,” he said replying to another query. He also
said two to three have already admitted their link with banned Hizb ut-Tahrir. Asked whether
non-resident Bangladeshis will be brought to the country for trial if found their complicity, Brig
Gen Mashud said the high-ups had already started initiative to locate him [Ishraq] and take
necessary measures.

SHAHRIAR KABIR : A HUMANIST

By Prof. Ajoy Roy
Shahriar Kabir, a reputed freelance journalist in Bangladesh, a documentary filmmaker, a writer, a
humanist, and above all- an uncompromising human rights activist, was born in Dhaka,
Bangladesh on 20th November 1950. Mr. Kabir after completing his schooling in 1966 with
Higher Secondary Certificate in 1968 and formal education in 1971 he began his career as a
journalist since 1972. As a freedom fighter he participated in the liberation war of Bangladesh
against the Pakistani occupation force in 1971.
As Shahriar was exposing himself as an humanist and activist against human rights violation
through his writings exposing the ugly desire and design of seizing power by fundamentalist
forces to turn secular-liberal democratic Bangladesh into a theocratic state based on fundamental
Islamic principles he became one of the principal target of the Islamite force in Bangladesh. He is
considered as one of the champion of the civil society movement for trial of war criminals. So far
he has written 20 books on necessity of the trial of the perpetrators of genocide, war crimes and
crimes against humanity. He is a relentless fighter against any form of minority deprivation,
discrimination and atrocities. He became more active and courageous in defending and upholding
the cause of minorities when the victorious armed cadres of the 4-party alliance were persecuting
the minorities following October General election of 2001. He with his vigilance eye extensively
toured various parts of the affected areas, collected data of minority repression for future
documentation. He was arrested twice first time in November 2001 and 2nd time in December
2002 by the BNP-Jamat led govt. Humanists in Bangladesh built up a movement inside
Bangladesh and mobilized international pressure for his release. The Amnesty International

termed him „Prisoner of Conscience

‟ (AI Report on Bangladesh: Attacks on members of the

Hindu minority December 2001, AI Index ASA 13/006/2001).
Shahriar Kabir, a noted documentary filmmaker earned fame for his documentary films on
genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the war of liberation of
Bangladesh in 1971 and also on rise of Islamic militancy entitled 1) "Cry for Justice", 2) “SOS”,
3) “Songs of the Freedom Struggle”, 4) “War Crimes 71”, 5) “Portrait of Jihad” and 6) “A Friend
in Difficult Times”.
Shahriar Kabir has edited white papers in three volume (2700 pages) titled „500 days of

Communal Persecution in Bangladesh

‟ published in October 2006. So far he wrote 80 books both

fiction and non-fiction mainly on socio political problems focusing human rights. He has received

several awards from home and abroad including Bangla Academy award, the highest one of
Bangladesh for major contribution to the Bengali literature.
At present he is the Executive President of “Forum for Secular Bangladesh & Trial of War
Criminals of 1971”, Convener of “Platform for Supporting International Crimes Tribunal” and

General Secretary of “South Asian People

‟s Union against Fundamentalism & Communalism”.

He has visited nearly 40 countries and attended more than 100 international
conferences/seminars/workshop in different countries mainly on human rights.

The War Crimes’ Issue, Bangladesh

Dr. Peter Custers
Bangladesh’s issue of the trial of war criminals refers to the adjudication of persons who were
involved in the mass murders executed by or on behalf of the Pakistani army during Bangladesh’s
liberation war of 1971. The issue has been pending for long in Bangladeshi politics. It in fact
needs being addressed in any human rights’ report on contemporary Bangladesh. During the 9
month’s liberation war now 34 years back, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people were
indiscriminately killed. The scale of human rights violations was such, that various observers
spoke of a ‘genocide’ of the Bengali people. These violations were a part of the last-ditch attempt
by the Pakistani army to re-subjugate the people of East Bengal. However, the killings, tortures
and other forms of cruelty were not only executed by regular soldiers of the Pakistani army, but
also by a section of Muslim politicians who opted to collaborate with the forces of occupation.
Whereas the overwhelming majority of the population of East Bengal during the 1970
parliamentary elections had clearly indicated they stood for national self-determination and for
secular politics, - a small but significant section of politicians favoured the ‘integrity’ of the
Pakistani state with Islam as state-religion, and such at all costs.
In order to understand clearly how the history of 1971 is interlinked with contemporary politics
and the violations of human rights in Bangladesh today, we need to take a brief look at the civilian
and para-military structures which were devised in support of the Pakistani occupation. After the
first wave of mass slaughter, which had started on March the 25th, Tikka Khan, the chief of the
Pakistani army in East Bengal, on April the 4th met some 12 politicians, including the Jamati
leader Golam Azam. The meeting paved the way for the building of socalled ´Shanti´(´Peace´)
Committees, members of which not only helped the Pakistani army by identifying civilian
sympathisers with the nationalist cause, but also engaged in killing civilians themselves.
Subsequently, in June, after proclamation of a specific ordinance, a special para-military force
was established, termed ´Razzakar Bahini´. These razakkars, mainly recruited from among
university students, and from among students and teachers of the religious schools, the
madrasahs, plunged into action without much training. Rather than engaging in combat with
freedom fighters, they were primarily employed to terrorize the population. But perhaps the most
notorious instruments created in 1971 were the various death squads, i.e. groups such as the Badar
Bahini which operated semi-clandestinely, and which picked up, tortured and summarily executed
intellectuals suspected of being nationalist-minded.
Now, whereas there were several communal and fundamentalist-oriented parties that agreed to
help the Pakistani army in building the above mentioned civilian and para-military structures, the
political party that played the most crucial role in terrorising and murdering civilians was the
Jamat-Islam. Leading politicians of the Jamat-Islam joined the Shanti Committees, and leaders of
the Jamat Islam, and of its student wing, then called the Islami Chattro Sangha, also commanded
the mass para-military force, the Razzakars, and the death squads such as the Badar Bahini.
According to several investigations implemented to document the given history, - the Jamat Islam
helped Rao Forman, a Pakistani army officer, in drafting his policy of killing nationalist
intellectuals. Further, the collaborationist role of the Jamat Islam was shaped quite openly. Party-
leaders spoke out publicly in favour the Pakistani army´s operations of mass slaughter, they

Thus, the party´s role during the liberation war in part has been reconstructed from news-reports
published in Dhaka dailies in 1971. Leaders of the Jamat Islam were also sworn in as Ministers of
the collaborationist cabinet. They included Abbas Ali Khan, who was to become a key leader of
the Jamat Islam after its revival in independent Bangladesh.
Some words must be devoted to the death squad of the Badar Bahini in particular, since this is of
special significance in assessing the relevance of the issue of war criminals today. As indicated,
shortly before liberation, i.e. in the weeks preceding the surrender of the Pakistani army in
December of 1971, members of the Badar Bahini, in the capital as well as in different towns of
East Bengal, abducted hundreds, if not thousands of intellectuals from their homes. The abductors
were masked and wore camouflage dresses. The victims were blindfolded, they were executed,
often after brutal tortures, and their bodies were thrown into mass graves. These murders, thus, in
no way can be said to have been killings that were the unfortunate side-events of the military
confrontations between the Pakistani army and the liberation fighters: they undoubtedly need to
be designated as war crimes. Although efforts to document these crimes have been problematic to
say the least, - according to the well-known book which has comprehensively recorded the names
and roles of 1971 collaborators (see resources below), the Badar Bahini was essentially an
extension of the Jamat Islam’s earstwile students’ wing, and its principal commanders belonged to
the same organisation. They included Matiur Rahman Nizami, who was the Islami Chattro
Sangha’s vice-general secretary, and Ali Ahsan Mujahid, who reportedly was both a member of
the Sangha’s central committee, and a city leader of the Jamat Islam.
The story regarding the war crimes, regarding the Jamat’s Islam’s responsibility for the mass
murders committed during the 1971 liberation war, has lost none of its actuality today, nearly 34
years since the end of Bangladesh’ liberation war. The process of the party’s ‘rehabilitation’ and
re-integration into Bangladeshi politics has surely started long way back. It in a sense started
during the period of the first government of independent Bangladesh, when thousands of war
criminals were released from jail, apparently under international pressure. It was accelerated
during the prolonged period of military dictatorship, when the party was allowed to resume legal
activities. But it reached a new point, when leaders of the Jamat Islam who have never repented
for the role they played in 1971, were incorporated into the coalition government of Khaleda Zia,
which assumed office after the elections of October, 2001. Two above mentioned leaders of the
Badar Bahini were included. Matiur Rahman Nizami became Minister of Industry, and Ali Ahsan
Mujahid became Social Welfare Minister in Khaleda Zia’s cabinet. A third reported war criminal
who obtained a key post is Salauddin Kader Chowdhury, who became Khaleda Zia’s political
secretary. Clearly, then, the issue of the 1971 war crimes needs to be taken on board, when
assessing the history of, and the background to, the politics of violence and intimidation in
Bangladesh today.
(Statement prepared at the request of the European Commission’s Bangladesh Desk Officer, 2005,
on behalf of BOOM, the Dutch Coalition of Developmental and Human Rights’ Organizations
concerned with Bangladesh, November 7, 2005)
Resources:
Shariar Kabeer (editor), Ekattorer Ghatok Jamate Islamir Ateet O Borteman (The Past and Present of the
Executioners of Seventy-One, the Jamat Islam – Mukti Juddho Chetona Bikash Kendra, Dhaka, February 1989);
Mukti Juddho Chetona Bikash Kendra (Centre for the Development of the Consciousness Regarding the
Liberation War)(1987), Ekattorer Ghatak O Dalalra. Ke Kothae (The Executioners and Collaborators of
Nineteen Seventy One. Who is Where - Dhaka).

DR. TUREEN AFROZ

Tureen Afroz is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, BRAC University,
Bangladesh. She has studied Ph.D. at the Monash University, Australia; LL.M.
at the University of Western Sydney, Australia; and LL.B. (Hons.) at the
University of London, UK. She has also studied M. A. in economics at the Delhi

School of Economics, India and B. A. (Hons.) Economics at the Lady Shri Ram
College for Women of the University of Delhi, India. She has been admitted as
an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and a Barrister and Solicitor
of the NSW Supreme Court of Australia. Tureen has published her academic
research works in various national and international refereed journals. Her areas
of research interest include international humanitarian law, law and
development, law and society, law and economics, international business law,
securities market law, investment law, energy regulatory law and consumers’
protection law. She is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Law and Development.
Tureen's publication include the book, Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes
against Humanity in Bangladesh: Trial under International Crimes (Tribunals)
Act, 1973 (published in Dhaka by the Forum for Secular Bangladesh and Trial of
War Criminals of 1971 in 2010). Tureen is also the Member-Secretary of the
Platform for Supporting International Crimes Tribunal, Dhaka

The Daily Star, Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Ghulam Azam, Nizami

War crimes charges accepted

Warrant if Azam does not appear in court tomorrow
Staff Correspondent
The International Crimes Tribunal yesterday accepted formal charges against former Jamaat
ameer Ghulam Azam and its present Chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for their alleged
involvement in crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
The tribunal directed Ghulam's chief counsel barrister Abdur Razzaq to produce the ex-
Jamaat-e-Islami ameer before it by 10:30am tomorrow, or it will issue an arrest warrant
against him. It also fixed February 12 for thehearing on charge framing against Nizami.
The two Jamaat leaders have been charged with involvement in genocide, rape and arson
during the Liberation War, the prosecutors said.
The prosecution on January 5 submitted to the tribunal 62 charges of crimes against
humanity against Ghulam Azam. On December 11 last year, the prosecution submitted at
least 15 charges of crimes against humanity against Nizami.
The tribunal said it had examined the formal charges, probe reports and documents
submitted by the prosecution, and primarily found proof that Ghulam and Nizami committed
crimes against humanity in 1971.
It asked the prosecution to submit copies of formal charges against Ghulam to the registrar's
office tomorrow for making the papers available to his lawyers.
The tribunal, headed by Justice Nizamul Huq, rejected a petition from Ghulam Azam who
sought dismissal of the charges against him. It asked Abdur Razzaq whether he could
produce Ghulam Azam before the court.
Razzaq told the court that he could produce Ghulam before the court after a day or two, as
his elderly client needs time for preparation to appear before the tribunal.

On December 26 last year, the tribunal sent back to the prosecution formal charges against
Ghulam Azam, since the charges brought against him were not classified and organised
properly.
The court yesterday asked the prosecution to turn in copies of formal charges against Nizami
to the registrar's office by January 12 so that the defence lawyers could collect those by
January 15.
The orders came after the tribunal took into cognisance formal charges against Nizami, who
is now in jail custody.
Following the court orders, prosecutor Zead Al Malum told reporters that Ghulam, the then
ameer of East Pakistan Jamaat-e Islami, along with Kamaruzzaman, Mir Kashem Ali and
others had formed Shanti Committee, and Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams Bahinis that
collaborated with the Pakistan occupation forces.
He had instigated killings of intellectuals, rape, torture, looting and other offences during the
Liberation War. Nizami was also involved in similar offences, said the prosecutor.
The prosecutor said they had found that Ghulam and Nizami were involved in a number of
crimes that were classified in five categories.
Abdur Razzaq said he was happy with the tribunal's order that gave him time to produce
Ghulam before the court.
Nizami was present at the tribunal during the legal proceedings against him.
Meanwhile, Ghulam Azam told private TV Channel NTV, “If there is a case [against you], you
have to be present at the court. I am happy that I got the opportunity to appear before the
court without the hassle of arrest… I will go to the court