Proposed Asian Highway to give India corridor

The proposed route that the government has selected for Asian Highway linking two parts of India would be like giving India the corridor, BNP and Jamaat leaders said yesterday.
They alleged that the government is busy serving the interests of the foreign forces rather than fulfilling their pledges to the countrymen.
The speakers said this at a seminar on 'Asian Highway, Transit and Corridors: Way to Tackle Authoritarianism,' organised by Liberty Bangladesh, a pro-BNP-Jamaat research organisation, at the National Press Club.
The speakers at the seminar said the route that the government has chosen would also take extra money for construction.
They added that the nationalist forces should get united to forge a movement against the government on different issues like the Asian Highway, transit and Tipaimukh.
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain said the country is in a deep crisis and its independence and sovereignty are threatened.
The nationalist forces should get united to prevent the aggression of authoritarian forces against the country, he said.
The BNP secretary general alleged that the ruling Awami League wants to eliminate the opposition so that they can keep the promises they had made to their foreign patrons to come to power.
Jamat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mojahid, BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and former director general of BDR Maj Gen (retd) ALM Fazlur Rahman also others spoke at the seminar while Vice Chancellor of Manarat University Dr Abdur Rob presented the keynote paper.