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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.
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