Voicebox

"If you had (Hasina) been sincere about contacting me she would not have called to my dead phone. Instead of trying to call to this dead phone you should have asked your staff to contact mine to arrange the phone call."
KHALEDA ZIA
BNP Chairperson
In response to Prime Minister Hasina's attempt to contact her over phone.

"Why should your (Khaleda) phone remain dead? I don't know whether it was dead or somebody kept it dead. I will get it checked tomorrow. "
SHEIKH HASINA
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
In response to Khaleda Zia's statement that her phone was dead when PM called her.

"It might well be the last bus for negotiation; if we miss it the country would suffer a lot."
PROF SAYED MANZOORUL ISLAM
Eminent litterateur and academician
Commented on BNP and Awami League's possibility of dialogue to seek a political solution of current crisis.

"Don't try to Control Qawmi Madrasa. There will be a civil war if you do."
SHAH AHMED SHAFI
Emir of Hefajat E Islam
Warning government not to impose any control over Qawmi Madrasa by passing Qawmi Madrasa Shikkha Kartripakkha Ain-2013 (Qawmi Madrasa Education Authority Act-2013).

"It's a ridiculous announcement. Should we hang a banner in front of the vehicle that my child is an examinee?"
GUARDIAN OF AN O LEVEL EXAMINEE
In response to the announcement of BNP-led 18 party alliance that all examinations including the O- and A- levenl ones, will remain out of the purview of its 60- hour hartal.

"Obama did not halt the operation (mobile phone tapping against German Chancellor Angela Merkel) but rather let it continue."
A HIGH RANKING NSA OFFICIAL
Told the reporter of German Newspaper the Bild am Sontag regarding NSA's spying operation over German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

"It is not the drone that is the problem. The problem is the lack of clarity under which it is lawful to deploy lethal force by drone."
BEN EMMERSON
UN Special Rapporteur
Urging United States and other countries using drone to release information on the justification for their use.