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DHAKA:'sCommission on Sunday allowed Jamaat-e-Islami, a crucial ally of jailed former prime minister Khaleda Zia 's Opposition BNP,the Decemberelections, two months after it scraped the fundamentalist's registration.The Jamaat willfrom 25 seats in the parliamentary polls with 'sheaf of paddy', the electoral symbol of the BNP."The Commission does not have a legal optioncancel their (Jamaat leaders) candidacies. Their candidatures will, therefore, stay in place,"secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed told reporters here.The's decision came after the High Court earlier this week directed itswiftly decide on a plea of 25 leaders of the unregisteredtheas independent candidates on behalf of their alliance partners.On October 29, theformally scrapped Jamaat's registration as a politicalin compliance with an order of the Supreme Court.A high court bench in 2013 declared Jamaat's registration with theillegal on a writ petition filed by several Islamic groups, saying the's ideology was contrary's Constitution.The Supreme Court upheld the high court judgment when Jamaat challenged the verdict in the apex court.The, however, is now in a dilapidated state with most of its senior leaders executed in the past five years after being convicted by special tribunals on 1971 war crimes charges.Jamaat was opposed's 1971 independence from West Pakistan and its leaders and workers sided with Pakistani troops in carrying out atrocities and genocide in then East Pakistan (now).'s post-independence government banned Jamaat but the subsequent regimes withdrew the ban allowing there-emerge in politics.Thebecame a crucial partner of Zia's BNP-led four-alliance government in 2001 and its chief Moti-ur-Rahman Nizami and secretaryAli Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed became ministers.The incumbent Awami League government assuming power after its victory in the 2008 elections and initiated a processbringjustice the Bengali perpetrators of the 1971 war crimes.Both Nizami and Mujaheed were sentenceddeath along with several otherstalwarts by special courts.