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There had in fact been some American unease during the campaign when the Awami League, the party of the outgoing prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, claimed that there was little to distinguish the ideology of the Jamaat-i-Islami and the smaller Islami Oika Jote parties from that of the Taliban of Afghanistan.
ECONOMIST: Big defeat for the ruling party
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The Jamaat-e-Islami wants the trial of its leaders for crimes allegedly committed during the 1971 independence war to be stopped.
BBC: Dhaka police and protesters clash over war crime trials
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Its popularity exercises Qazi Hussein Ahmed, the grand old man of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the most fundamentalist of the political parties, for the Jamaat works within the state, not against it.
ECONOMIST: Pakistan