Voicebox

“We warned them earlier but they still do not mention an expiry date on some of their products.”
MD ROKAN UD DOULAH
magistrate
filing a case against Fu-Wang Foods.
Summons has been issued against the owner of Topkapi, a restaurant frequented by the city's elite.

“The number of days needed to start a business in Bangladesh is 35 while it takes 71 days in India.”
A Survey
conducted by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation.

“The speaker does not let us talk. Then why should we go to parliament?”
SHEIKH HASINA
leader of the opposition and chairperson of Bangladesh Awami League.

“We don't see any reason to shift the hartal on September 18 due to Queen's Baton Relay as the demands we have placed are more crucial than the Commonwealth programme.”
MUJAHIDUL ISLAM SELIM
general secretary
Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB).
Though other partners of the opposition 14-party Alliance shifted their dawn-to-dusk strike to September 21 for the relay, the CPB refused and stuck to its previous programme.

“He gave a short speech… Allah hamara sath hai and mulk hamara sath hai. Pakistan Payendabad.”
FAZLUR RAHMAN
state minister for youth and sports
reminiscing a speech made by Pakistani dictator Field Marshal Ayub Khan. Rahman was a college-student at that time. The line that he quoted goes, "Allah is with us and the world is with us". It is not clear though, what made Rahman walk down memory lane while he was addressing the visiting Bangladesh National Cricket team in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo.

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

Copyright (R) thedailystar.net 2005