Of checkpoints and sufferings

Police intensified frisking people entering the capital at different entry and exit checkpoints of Dhaka, ahead of the BNP's scheduled rally on Saturday.

Law enforcers said they checked visitors' identity, luggage, and vehicles -- especially passengers of buses and motorcycle riders at the checkpoints at Gabtoli, Tongi, Narayangaj and Saidabad -- as part of stepping up their security measures, causing sufferings of passengers.

Here are the snapshots taken by our photojournalists Amran Hossain and Palash Khan.