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Cross-examination at ICT-2

Shahriar Kabir answers 60 questions

Staff Correspondent
The defence counsels of war crimes accused and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed yesterday continued cross-examining eminent writer and journalist Shahriar Kabir for the second day at the International Crimes Tribunal-2.
Defence counsel Mizanul Islam asked Shahriar 60 questions, mosdy over the sub-continent's division in 1947.
On August 26, Shahriar, executive president of Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, testified and appealed to the tribunal to try Jamaat-e-Islami and its then associated bodies along with Mojaheed for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
Replying to questions yesterday, Shahriar said apart from the All India Congress and the Muslim League, many other political parties led the
Indian independence movement.
Initially, Congress and the Indian Communist Party opposed the division.
Mizanul suggested that Allama Iqbal in his speech as the chair of Muslim League Convention in 1930 formally and politically placed the two-nation theory.
“I am not aware of that,” said Shahriar.
Shahriar said the demand for one more Muslim state in the subcontinent was placed at the Muslim League Convention in Lahore in 1940.
Replying to another question, he said many political parties including some Hindu communal parties opposed the division.
The proceedings of the three-member tribunal headed by Justice ATM Fazle Kabir with members Justice Obaidul Hassan and Judge Md Shahinur Islam were adjourned until tomorrow.
Jamaat secretary general Mojaheed
is facing seven charges of crimes against humanity.
The Tribunal-2 yesterday also recorded the cross-examination of Amir Hossain Mollah, a prosecution witness in a war crimes case against Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah.
Amir, a war-woundedfreedom fighter, testified on August 26 that Quader along with the Pakistani army opened fire and killed around 400 people of Alubdi near Mirpur in the capital on April24,1971.
Replying to questions, Amir said he filed a case against Quader and others in 2008 butwasnotawareofitspresentstatus.
A Daily Star report says Amir filed a murder case on January 24, 2008, against Jamaat leader Motiur Rahman Nizami, Mojaheed, Quader and seven others for the massacre of 345 people during the Liberation War.
Quader is facing six charges of crimes against humanity.