, Nov. 4 -- Prime Minister's Political Assistant Rashed Khan on Tuesday described the Jamaat-e-Islami's embrace of Major (Retd.) Akhtaruzzaman as a union of two razakars, the colloquial for traitors.

While Jamaat are usually tagged as razakars for the role they willingly took on in 1971 during the Liberation War, Akhtaruzzaman, Rashed alleged, had called the participants in the 2024 July Uprising as "children of Razakars".

Rashed wrote: "Seeing Jamaat's programme for Major Akhtaruzzaman today, people are saying that the Razakars of 1971 have welcomed a Razakar of 2024 with flowers," he said, referring to a reception for Akhtaruzzaman by the Jamaat Ameer, Dr Shafiqur Rahman, following the former's release from jail on Tuesday.

"Razakars...