The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 today issued death warrant against convicted war criminal Mir Quasem Ali, paving the way for executing the Al Badr commander, notoriously known as Bengali Khan in 1971.

"After getting the full text of the Appellate Division verdict, the three judges signed on the death warrant," news agency BSS quoted an official of the tribunal.

Earlier today the Appellate Division released the full verdict, three months after its pronouncement of the judgment. At around 3.30 pm, copies of the judgment were sent to the tribunal.

According to the concerned officials, the tribunal will send the copies of the warrant along with the verdict to Dhaka District Administration, law and home ministries and the jail authority.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, meanwhile, told newsmen that the verdict would now reach the prison authorities in due process through the country's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) which originally had handed him down the capital punishment.

Mir Quasem, 64, was initially sentenced to death by the ICT-2 on November 2 in 2014. On March 8, 2016, the apex court upheld death for Jamaat central executive council member Mir Quasem Ali for his monstrous crimes against humanity in 1971.