Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua, Advocate, Supreme Court: Lawyers have agreed to provide legal aid for the quota reform activists. This is no big deal, nor are we heroes. We are some ordinary people who have agreed on serving our professional responsibility. According to the constitution, every single person has the right to receive legal aid. The…
ASM Abdur Rab, President, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal: No conclusion can be drawn about the situation that will prevail if flat lands aren’t created in the upcoming eleven parliamentary elections. It is extremely difficult to portray an image of the circumstances that will occur if the forthcoming parliamentary elections aren’t acceptable to all if all the…
Dr. Mohammad Abdul Majid, Former Secretary and Former Chairman of NBR: Widespread misunderstanding will be created if the reasons for asking for the political identity of the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) are not explained. Those who have been appointed as UNOs, came through a process. Their identities have been verified by the police after passing…
Sayeed Muhammad: Police have purportedly picked up at least two persons and manhandled a Dhaka University teacher when a platform of parents and teachers gathered at Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka for holding a demonstration. They protest was aimed at expressing concern over the detention of quota reform leaders, reports The Daily Star. The detainees…
Lt. Gen. (retd) M. Harun Ar Rashid, Bir Pratik: Pakistanis never looked at us as equals. The way they talked with us was laced with vitriol and spite. “Oi Shala, ei dike ay!” (Hey <expletive>, come here!), they used to address us. There were always verbal abuses. I used to reply to their bitterness with,…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age: When he lived, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a complex figure for those who observed his rise and fall. Thirty nine years after his execution by a military regime, he remains that way. There are his fans, largely within Pakistan, who have consistently believed that he is a shaheed,…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy: Development and education coexist and they are so linked that one cannot flourish without other. Without education, modernization and development are absurd. Like other developing countries, Bangladesh is no exception, though it is giving priorities to education. But how far is it meant…
Abrar Hussain: Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar want justice and a safe return home, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a tweet after visiting Rohingya camps yesterday. The UN Secretary General, who reached Cox’s Bazar on a special flight of Biman Bangladesh at 8:45am Monday, also said he heard “unimaginable accounts of killing…