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“I do not understand politics.”
Justice MA AZIZ
newly appointed chief election commissioner.
In a desperate attempt to woo the main opposition Awami League, Aziz also said,
"I would not want to be an MP, even if anyone says I do not need money to become an MP."

“There is no handicap system in Test cricket as there is in horse racing or golf, but on yesterday's evidence in the first npower Test at Lord's it would require England to give Bangladesh a start of 200 runs and three wickets in each innings before a decent contest emerged.”
DEREK PRINGLE,
former England cricketer
in his Friday's column for The Daily Telegraph
on Bangladesh's performance against the home-side at Lord's.

“I would prefer not to make any comment on it.”
Prof DILARA HAFIZ
According to a Daily Star report, "A bulk of the 500 books the education ministry has selected as extra-curricular reading for secondary school students are on issues too hard for the target age-group to understand." The books include: 'Issues in Training and Development' by Cabinet Secretary Dr Sadat Hossain, 'Bangladesh: Rajniti Sankat o Bisleshan, an analysis of political crisis of Bangladesh by Dr Talukder Maniruzzaman, and Bangladesh: Rastra o Rajniti (Bangladesh: state and politics) by Dr Tarek Samsur Rehman.

“In the light of the High Court order, people may think that the Supreme Court lawyers are rowdy and lawbreakers.”
MAHBUBEY ALAM
supreme court bar association president.
High Court issued a suo moto order banning agitation on the court premises.

“Police have violated the constitution as well as Islam by trying to prevent them from holding rally.”
NUR HOSSAIN NURANI
nayeb-e-emir of International Khatme Nabuyat, an anti-Ahmadiyya outfit.
Satkhira police demolished a rostrum that the group erected to hold a rally in the town.

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