DHAKA, Dhu-AlHijjah 2, 1437, Sep 3, 2016, SPA -- Bangladesh hanged a top Islamist party figure on Saturday for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, the law minister said, Reuters reported. Mir Quasem Ali, 63, a key financier of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was executed at Kashimpur Central Jail on the outskirts of the capital, for murder, confinement, torture and incitement to religious hatred during the war. Ali was hanged at 10.35 pm local time (4.35 pm GMT), Law Minister Anisul Haq told Reuters, days after Bangladesh's highest court rejected his final appeal against the death sentence for atrocities committed during the nine-month war. -- SPA 22:32 LOCAL TIME 19:32 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w