"It is not true that classes are not being held. Teachers are going to the classes."
S M NAZRUL ISLAM
pro-vice chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
about the continuous class boycott by Buet teachers

"Malaysia does not even know how to submit a proposal. The country does not also have any previous experience in constructing such a bridge."
a senior communications ministry official
about Malaysia's proposal to build the Padma bridge.

"If my resignation solves the 2.9 billion loan issue, then why once, I will resign 10 times."
MASHIUR RAHMAN
adviser to the prime minister
about his resignation, which is one of the conditions the World Bank gave for release of the 2.9 billion Padma Bridge loan.

"For this reason, I appeal to the tribunal, besides Mojaheed as a person, trials of his party Jamaat-e-Islami and its associate organisations–Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams–should to be held at the tribunal."
SHAHRIAR KABIR
executive president of Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee
about the political philosophy of Jamaat-e-Islami being the major cause for the crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in 1971.

"On the Eid day last year, Limon was in the hospital. We thought we will be able to celebrate Eid together this time… The gift from Rab this Eid was an attack by its source."
HENOARA BEGUM
Limon Hossain's mother
about the attack on college student Limon Hossain by a Rab informant. Limon was shot by Rab last year.

 

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