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Voicebox

“Black money holders are joining politics and politicians are trying to earn black money.”
GAYESHWAR CHANDRA ROY
joint secretary general of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

“It looks odd for a judge to seek justice in court.”
MAHABUBEY ALAM
president, Supreme Court Bar Association.
Bangladesh Bar Council cancelled Judge Faisal Mahmud Faizee's certificate of enrolment as an advocate. Faizee filed a writ petition against the decision.

“In fact General Aurora was a father figure for us.”
RAFIQUL ISLAM
commander of Sector-1 of the Mukti Bhahini
lamenting over the death of Lt General Jagjit Singh Aurora. During Bangladesh's Liberation War, the general led the joint forces that comprised both the Mukti Bhahini and Indian army.

“Bangladeshi government has remained indifferent to the rising influence of political parties and organisations of fundamentalist and radical Islamist orientation.”
INDIAN DEFENCE MINISRY
in its annual report.
The ministry, however, praises Bhutan and Myanmar for displaying "exemplary good neighbourliness".

“There is a saying that 'it's a squeaky wheel that gets oil' and the East End did not just squeak on Thursday, it roared.”
GEORGE GALLOWAY
former British Labour Party MP the newly-elected member for Bethnal Green and Bow who left the party protesting the government's support to the US-led war on Iraq. Contesting the general elections under the banner of newly formed Respect Party, Galloway has defeated Labour candidate Oona King. ""It is one of my first missions to bring him (Tony Blair) in front of a court in The Hague and behind bars," an angry Galloway told a huge crowd.

“Election campaigns in Britain are good because, first of all, they are brief, and secondly, they are relatively cheap.”
ROSSIYSKAYA GAZETA
A Russian newspaper
in an editorial piece on British general elections.

“What will I do with the money? Will it call me Ma?”
AYESHA BEGUM
whose only son Milan was killed when a garment factory building collapsed in Savar. Around 90 people died and many were wounded in the tragedy. Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers Association handed over checks of TK 79,000 to the families of the dead. The wounded did not get anything.

 

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

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