, Dec. 28 -- Tajnuva Jabeen, joint convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP), resigned from the party on Sunday, expressing strong objections to the manner in which its electoral alliance was formed.

She made the announcement in a post on her verified Facebook account.

In the post, Tajnuva said many were assuming her objection stemmed from ideological or gender-related concerns regarding the alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami, but stressed that the real issue was "far more alarming."

"What is more frightening than ideology is the process through which this has been done. It is being labelled as political strategy or an electoral alliance. I would call it a planned move, carefully staged to reach this point," she writes.

Emphasising that...