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Editorial
 
Editorial
Corruption and the Jamaat
The adviser's comments are surprising
Communications Adviser M.A. Matin's observations on the involvement or otherwise of the leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami in corruption have surprised us.
 
Editorial
For an ad hoc PAC
It should be constituted with persons of merit and expertise
With the parliamentary oversight of government accounts through public accounts committee (PAC) missing, an alternative arrangement has to be worked out to scrutinise state sector accounts and evaluate reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)'s office.

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Straight Talk
Praying for rain
Zafar Sobhan
It isn't only struggling cricket teams that pray for rain. The current administration must be equally happy that the weather in the week since the incarceration of AL leader and ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been so inclement, as this has helped ensure that the protests against Hasina's arrest have been muted.
 
Cross Talk
Teaching the teachers
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
To say it in the words of Gabriel Garcia Marquez a whirlwind is setting down roots, not in the center of the town as he writes in Leaf Storm, but in the heart of our politics.
 

 
   
 
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