BNP vice-chairman Abdus Salam Pintu, implicated in the 2004 grenade attack on Sheikh Hasina's rally, was released from Bangladesh's Kashimpur Central Jail after nearly 17 years. The attack had ...

Abdus Salam was arrested on 21 August in 2008. Another former BNP minister, Lutfozzaman Babar, involved in the same case, was also released last week. Charges Against Pintu ...

A Dhaka court has granted relief to Abdus Salam Pintu, a former junior minister and senior member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who had been incarcerated for 17 years. Pintu was ...

Abdus Salam Pintu was elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Tangail-2 (Gopalpur-Bhuyapur) in the 1991 and 2001 national elections. In 2001, he was appointed as a deputy minister.

Because of his alleged connection to the 2004 grenade attacks, Pintu was sentenced to death in 2018, which was on December 1 overturned by a Bangladesh HC. ... Who is Abdus Salam Pintu?

BNP leader Abdus Salam Pintu walks out of jail after 17 years. Pintu, who was sentenced to death in the August 21 grenade attack case, walked out of Kashimpur Central Jail Part-2 at 11:04am.

BNP vice-chairman Abdus Salam Pintu, implicated in the 2004 grenade attack on Sheikh Hasina's rally, was released from Bangladesh's Kashimpur Central Jail after nearly 17 years. The attack had ...