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Editorial
 
Editorial
Tragedy of 21st August
Grossest example of criminal investigation stifled by partisan politics
What happened on August 21, 2004 at the city's Bangabandhu Avenue is a blot on the country's political culture. The grenade attack took a toll of at least 23 lives and overtly brought the element of terrorism into politics in blatant violation of all norms of civility and humanity.
 
Editorial
Reckless abuse of power and corruption
Find out similar instances and punish all perpetrators
We are flabbergasted, outraged and hard done by at the most blatant form of corruption committed through contemptible abuse of power during the erstwhile four-party alliance government as revealed yesterday through our front-page investigative report titled Houses up for grabs.

Post Editorial
 
Strategically Speaking
US focus on Bangladesh
Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd)
We ought to feel happy that Bangladesh has reached such a point of "eminence" that it has merited the only superpower to demonstrate more than a passing interest in our country, which had for most part of its existence been relegated to insignificance, being, to them, nothing more than a dot in the backwaters of the Indian Ocean.
 
Straight Line
Understanding the corruption escalator
Muhammad Nurul Huda
Even the most naive have been baffled by the depth and rapacity of the corruption of those that have been apprehended in the recent anti-corruption drive.
 
Plain Words
Two perspectives
MB Naqvi writes from Karachi
In the current political situation two major perspectives dominate the political scene; they contend with each other.
 

 
   
 
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