Overview
- Jamaat-e-Islami leaders said women cannot hold the party’s top post of ameer under the group’s interpretation of Islamic instruction.
- Officials confirmed the party has not nominated female parliamentary candidates, calling it an internal organisational decision.
- Women’s Wing leaders argued that female leadership at the national level has not by itself resolved women’s rights or reduced violence against women.
- The party reported at least 15 attacks on its female activists in various districts to the Election Commission, alleging political vendetta.
- A six-member delegation led by Ahsanul Mahboob Zubair met Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin to raise electoral concerns ahead of the February 12 polls.