It's wrong for USA to call for mid-term poll
The United States and Europeans are doing wrong by calling for a mid-term election in Bangladesh, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday.
He said the Westerners were doing this after being fed "wrong ideas" by the BNP and because of the party's "lobbying".
"We had invited the BNP to join the polls but they didn't respond. It's their responsibility," he told journalists after inaugurating the 28MW Shajahanullah power plant in the suburban Kumargaon area of Sylhet city, which started supplying electricity to the Rural Electrification Board (REB).
The veteran minister also asked people not to come with the "bogus" demands like the restoration of the caretaker government system.
"The BNP failed to join the polls due to their internal 'foul play'. Now they have to pay for that."
Terming the present government constitutional and lawful, he said the people had voted them to power for five years.
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The finance minister said the size of because they could not fit her into one sack, unlike Amena," said Sub-inspector Jafar Iqbal, investigation officer of Amena's murder.
Amena faced a similar fate, only in another house on the same road. The house was identified as belonging to Rana, another suspect who is on the run, said Jafar.
Both of the women had gone missing on their way home from work in the evening, and found dead around a week later.
"Amena went missing on January 6 and her body was found six days later," said Nurul Islam, commander of the security guards of the area.
On the other hand, Khadija's elder sister Minara told The Daily Star that Khadija went missing on one Friday, and her body was found on the next one.
Both the women needed to use road 20 they were found dead on to go to work, said Nurul. Amena lived on road 21, and worked in a house on road 14. Khadija lived in Pakuria of Turag, on the outskirts of the capital.
Inspector Mahmud said they closed in on the suspects using mobile phone tracking methods. "We have information about the suspects that they had in the past engaged in sexual violence with sex workers," said Mahmud.
A criminology professor of Dhaka University, Abdul Hakim, said such sadistic serial killers were not common in our country unlike in the West.
"However, it is not unlikely that such trends will grow in our country as well. In today's world of globalisation and cyber connectivity it is possible to get introduced to such ideas. People familiar with pornographic material may wish to explore such concepts in real life," he said.
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