"Voicebox"

"Moeen wanted to be Zia [late president Ziaur Rahman]. Fakhruddin Ahmed, then chief of the caretaker government, was his puppet while he [Moeen] was backed by foreign forces. He wanted to be the president of the country by forming a political party."
BNP CHAIRPERSON KHALEDA ZIA
about the 1/11 changeover in the country.

"Besides implementing the policy, the issue of equal rights of women should be clearly and specifically incorporated in the constitution."
MIZANUR RAHMAN
chairman, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
about implementing the newly formulated National Women Development Policy for empowering women.

"We will take steps to save the investors from deception and regulate the stock market according to the market fundamentals."
PROF M KHAIRUL HOSSAIN
the newly appointed chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
about making investor friendly securities rules.

"I haven't got any documents about any land being given to Rab-10. Maybe the proposal is at the land ministry, which will give us necessary instructions later."
MD JASIMUDDIN
the land acquisition officer of Dhaka district administration
about Rab-10's putting up a signboard at Nobaber Char Gudaraghat beside the Dhaka flood embankment near Hazaribagh that reads, "Rapid Action Battalion-10 owns this property”.

"The use of CNG by the affluent people has increased tremendously. They should pay more for the sake of the poor."
SYED YUSUF HOSSAIN
Chairman, Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC)
about raising the price of CNG by 50 percent and defending the price hike as logical.

"When we asked him [Sayedee] about his original name, he first refused to say anything. But when we showed him some relevant documents, he admitted he changed his name when the Liberation War was over."
SANAUL HUQ
a member of the investigation agency probing the war crimes
about Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee's taking a new name after liberation war.