At a press conference in the evening, JSD President Hasanul Huq Inu said, "We will observe a 12-hour country-wide hartal on February 3, and again a 36-hour hartal on February 5 and 6. Besides, on February 2 and 4, we will take out mourning processions across the country while on February 7 and 8 we will hold mass demonstrations at district and upazila levels protesting the series of killings of opposition leaders and their arrests."

"Today we are living in a state of insecurity as the government has failed to prevent cold-blooded murders that took place over the years one by one, Kibria being the latest victim," he added.

Earlier, JSD leaders held a closed-door meeting with Awami League President Sheikh Hasina.

"We came to a consensus on the programmes with AL leaders," said Inu.

In reply to a question about the ensuing Saarc Summit scheduled to be held on February 6 and 7 in the capital, Inu said, "We have full support for the conference, but we think that resolving the issues like rising domestic violence, planned killings and organised terrorist activities including bomb attacks on opposition leaders is more important than the conference.