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“Minor changes are done only for the beautification of the area.”
ALTAF HOSSAIN
Rajshahi district Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader
on the recent government move to build a shopping mall on a land that belongs to the Rajshahi Medical College.

“They said I had been sold for prostitution.”
A Minor Girl
who was allegedly sold to the owner of Hotel Capetown in the city. The unnamed girl was later raped and forced into prostitution.

“100,000 people had paid with their lives for false assumptions on Iraq, 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.”
GEORGE GALLOWAY
member of British House of Commons at the US Senate.
A senate committee alleged that Galloway was the recipient of highly lucrative allocations of cheap Iraqi oil under the UN-administered Oil For Food programme.

“The prime minister herself is responsible for all the killings without trial in the name of crossfire.”
SHEIKH HASINA
leader of Awami League.

 

“I noticed that Bangladesh is blessed with wide cultural heritage.”
SHUZEN TANIGAWA
Japanese senior vice minister for Foreign Affairs.


QUOTATIONS ARE TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS. .
Compiled by: AHMEDE HUSSAIN. Quotes can be sent to <ahmedehussain@gmail.com>
Cartoon : MUSTAFA ZAMAN

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