Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal announced that the curfew in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur, and Narsingdi districts will be lifted for nine hours on both Friday (July 26) and Saturday (July 27). The curfew will be suspended from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on each day.
He made this announcement late Thursday.
However, Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram, Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman, stated that the district will experience a 12-hour curfew lift starting at 6 a.m. on Friday morning.
The government is expected to decide on reopening educational institutions and lifting the curfew in most areas after Friday, following widespread violence linked to the quota-reform protests last weekend.
According to sources present at a high-level meeting at the home ministry, the government will assess the situation on Friday and deploy a significant number of law enforcement personnel in Dhaka that day. If Friday passes without major incidents, authorities are likely to proceed with reopening educational institutions and lifting the curfew, the sources added.
Key figures present at the meeting included Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, Law Minister Anisul Huq, Education Minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury, Prime Minister`s Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman, State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat, Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, and police`s Special Branch chief Monirul Islam.
