In this December 5 Focus Bangla photo, BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka waves to party activists while being taken to a Dhaka court.
In this December 5 Focus Bangla photo, BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka waves to party activists while being taken to a Dhaka court.
None of the 48 people who died and around 400 others injured was affiliated with politics, but they became victims of violence in 26 days of hartals and blockades imposed by the opposition alliance since November.
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An activist of Jamaat-e-Islami, who suffered bullet wounds during Saturday’s clash with law enforcers in Joypurhat, died at a private hospital in the capital early today.
...Five Jamaat-Shibir activists were killed in clashes with joint forces in Satkhira, a southern district that virtually turned into a valley of terror during recent hartals and blockades of the opposition.
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The nonstop countrywide shutdowns and blockades complete with intense picketing are preventing patients in the north from visiting hospitals or clinics.
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Leaders and activists of Awami League bulldozed the houses of Satkhira district and upazila Jamaat chiefs in presence of law enforcers this evening.
...Each of the 9.19 crore voters has the constitutional right to vote in a general election to choose his or her representative, who will take part in governing the country on his or her behalf.
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Expressing concern over the political developments in Bangladesh, Pakistan has said the recent trials have added to the current instability in the country.
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