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“I did not take bribe. Jahangir took it before it came into my hands.”
RAFIQUZZAMAN
sub inspector
lalpur police station, Natore.
asked why he has taken bribe to release a prisoner.

“If the so-called cross-fire continues, no one knows when the ministers would be caught in the crossfire.”
SURANJIT SENGUPTA
Awami League MP
after a member of Bangladesh Chatra League was killed in a "crossfire" with the Rapid Action Battalion.

“Women, it seems, have grown more interested in Jatya Party now-a-days.”
HM ERSHAD
deposed president and leader of Jatya Party (JP)
told the women wing of the JP.

“Whenever we go out we go in groups as the narrow passages we walk through to reach the nearby market belong to the miscreants.”
HARI LAL SARKAR
A Hindu villager in Dhamrai.
Over 1200 poor Hindus are living under fear and intimidation in this remote village.

“It will be tantamount to degrading SAFTA if we go for a bilateral FTA now.”
SAIFUR RAHMAN
Finance minister on having a free trade area with India.

QUOTATIONS ARE TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS.
Compiled by: AHMEDE HUSSAIN. Quotes can be sent to <[email protected]>
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