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“Five days after Jamaat leaders met Advani, Babri Mosque was raged down.”
Mufti SYED MUHAMMAD FAZLUL KARIM
leader of Islami Shasontontro Andolon (Movement for the Establishment of Sharia).
The sixteenth century mosque was brought down by a Hindu mob in 1992. Advani (Lal Krishna) led a rally of hundreds of Hindu zealots in the town of Ayoddha before the attack. He is now the chief of Bharatya Janata Party, India's main opposition.

"No-one has complained about the transparency of the boxes.”
MA AZIZ
chief elections commissioner.
A European Union delegation recently proposed to supply free transparent ballot boxes to Bangladesh Election Commission.

“But Ershad still is in the hearts of the people.”
HM ERSHAD
deposed president and chairman of a faction of Jatya Party
about himself.

“The money which we earn from the concert will be utilised for underprivileged people.”
LUTFUR RAHMAN CHOWDHURY
former president of Rotary Club (Dhaka North; RCDN).
The club brought three "Indian Idols" to the country to organise a concert. Indian idol is a TV programme. Rahman did not, however, explained who these "underprivileged people" were and how the RCDN was going to help them.

“It seems that all the talk of the famed British tolerance is strictly for export.”
PRAVDA
Russian newspaper
"After the explosions which rocked London last week, mosques are being burned and Muslims beaten up in England," Pravda said.

“Everyone must confront the problems of Islamophobia, racism, unemployment, economic depravation and social exclusion.”
Twenty Two British Muslim Leaders and Scholars
After the London Bombing. Fifty one people died and around a hundred were injured when bombs went off in the British capital on the 7th of this month.

“However, REM and Queen's weekend gigs in Hyde Park remain cancelled.”
A BBC newsreport
Though the report said, "Theatres, cinemas and other venues in the capital are opening as usual after closing on Thursday in the wake of the London bomb blasts."

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