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Editorial
 
Editorial
Too many things on the president's plate
Delegate responsibilities to the advisers
The President and the Chief Adviser (CA) has decided to keep yet another committee under him directly. As it is, as the Chief Adviser he has far too much on his plate.
 
Editorial
Violence during blockade
Why the path can't be shunned?
The death of two LDP supporters in Chittagong on Tuesday and some sporadic incidents of violence in a few places outside Dhaka on Monday marred an otherwise violence free period of blockade of the last two days. We are highly concerned at the incidents that took place in Natore in which 50 received bullet wounds and as many as 150 were injured in gun fights between the 14-Party activists and the BNP jockeying for positions in various parts of the city on Monday.

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Ground Realities
All the time President Iajuddin has lost
Syed Badrul Ahsan
President Iajuddin Ahmed has been stumbling all the way through. Not everyone, though, will agree with such an assessment. To a very large number of people, it is something more serious.
 
Bottom Line
An Option to Reconstitute The Election Commission

How to replace the chief election commissioner
Harun ur Rashid
Under Article 118 of the constitution, the chief election commissioner and the election commissioners constitute the Election Commission.
 
Change in America?
MB Naqvi writes from Karachi
November 7 mid-term elections in the US were decisive. US President George W Bush's policies cost his ruling party, Republicans or Grand Old Party dear: it lost the control of both Houses of Congress.
 

 
   
 
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