STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Jamaat-e-Islami has demanded that Syeda Rizwana Hasan, a former adviser to the interim government, and Khalilur Rahman, former security adviser who currently serves as the country’s foreign minister, be questioned and put on trial over allegations of “election engineering”.

The demands were made yesterday at a press conference at the party’s central office in Dhaka’s Moghbazar, where Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer and Deputy Leader of the Opposition Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher spoke about the country’s political situation.

Taher alleged that remarks made by Rizwana during a conversation with a journalist suggested interference in the electoral process.

Referring to her comments, he said they implied that certain political parties were not allowed to emerge as a “main force” in national politics, which he described as “an admission of election engineering”.

“We want to know from the then interim government and the present government whether there was any He

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