Opposition BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain Thursday said the remarks made by Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam proved that the government know the whereabouts of missing BNP leader M Elias Ali.
The BNP leader came up with the claim while addressing a demonstration rally organized by BNP demanding the return of the disappeared BNP organizing Secretary M Elias Ali held in front of the party’s central office at Naya Paltan in the city.
The senior leader of the party said, It is clear that a law enforcer agency has abducted Elias Ali.
Forewarning the government, he said,
Bangladeshi soldiers serving as UN peacekeepers have sent home nearly $1
billion during the past three years, the country’s envoy to the UN said
on Thursday.
Bangladesh is the biggest contributor to UN
peacekeeping forces with more than 10,000 soldiers serving in 45 out of
the global body’s 65 missions across the world.
Over the past
three years, Bangladeshi peacekeepers sent home 75 billion taka ($917
million) to their families, said the country’s UN representative, Abdul
Momen, according to a statement released in Dhaka.
Impoverished Bangladesh relies on remittances to help pay for its surging imports.
In
2010-11, the country’s seven-million-plus overseas workers sent
Intelligent batting from Junaed Siddiqui and Forhad Hossain ensured that Rajshahi ended the first day on top against Khulna in the five-day final of the NCL at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.
Rajshahi is one of the most important team of bangladesh cricket.
The left-handed Junaed Siddiqui combined with his right-handed batting partner Forhad to share an unbroken 130-run stand for the 3 wicket as Rajshahi recovered from 5 for two to reach135 runs for two wickets before stumps were drawn for the opening day in reply to Khulna s paltry 212 all out.
The manner in which the out-of-favour national
Tanjim Ahmed, also known as Sohel Taj, who resigned as an MP Monday morning, told his constituency in a letter that the reasons that led him to make the decision cannot be enlarged.
After three years he had resigned as a junior minister, Sohel Taj, the son of Bangladesh s Liberation War-time prime minister, Tajuddin Ahmed, handed in his letter of resignation to the parliament secretariat through his Assistant Personal Secretary Abu Kawser.
A New York-based Bengali newspaper newsworld.com published the letter on its website on Monday.
Abu Kawser said Taj, who is currently living in the USA, has written to
The Awami League joint general secretary has alleged that the BNP is unleashing anarchy under the guise of enforcing general strike and urged the people to stay alert.
Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Monday also urged the opposition to withdraw its Tuesday s shutdown call.
"I request the opposition to withdraw its general strike call (on Tuesday)," he told reporters at Awami League s Dhanmondi office on Monday, hours after BNP announced to continue enforcing its nationwide dawn-to-dusk lockdown for a third successive day over the alleged abduction of party leader M Ilias Ali.
Referring to the incidents of bomb explosions and arson attack on
