Writing from the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum

Habibullah Mizan, Dhaka, Bangladesh
A group of common people yesterday urged the Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia to refrain from celebrating her birthday on August 15 as the whole nation observe the day as National Mourning Day.

They said they did not support any specific political parties but they were politically conscious.

People, who visited the historic residence of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at 32 Dhanmondhi where he along with most of his family members was assassinated on this day, came up with the suggestion.

They said the celebration of her birthday on the day would definitely tarnish her image among the common people.

Rezaul Karim, a student in the Electric and Electronic Engineering Department of the Daffodil International University said, “If August 15 is an actual birth day of the Opposition Chief, she should refrain from celebrating the day in a bid to respect Bangabandhu, who led the war of independence.”

‘‘If prime minister Sheikh Hasina, also the president of the Awami League, starts celebrating such ‘false’ birth day on May 30, the assassination day of BNP founder and former president Ziaur Rahman, how the nation will feel,” he asked.

As a common people, I strongly condemn such celebration and will continue to raise my voice against such celebration as it only helps to destroy inter-party relationship, he observed.

He said, If Khaleda Zia is an ordinary people like me, it may not raise any question but as she is also a political celebrity, she should not be misguided by some opportunist party men in celebrating such a controversial birthday.

Niranjan Majumder, an employee of a private company, also echoed with Rezaul.

“The image of the opposition leader will not be elevated through celebrating birthday on the day,” he said.

Towfiquzzaman Mamun, a masters student of Dhaka University standing inside the Banganbandhu Memorial Museum said, “I have talked to many grassroots level BNP activists and they are also dissatisfied over the celebration on National Mourning Day.”

Terming it a poor political culture, he urged the BNP leader to come out from such practice.

Christian Life employee Zuthika Sikder said BNP had been celebrating the day only to hit the feelings of the millions of Bangabandhu fans.

She urged Khaleda Zia and her party men to refrain from such practice in a bid to face political rival Awami League.

Md Hossain, a freedom fighter hailing from Monirumpur Upazila of Jessore, said, Khaleda Zia should celebrate her birthday either one day before or one day later.

She should not celebrate her birthday on National Mourning day respecting the feelings of thousands Bangabandhu supporter.

CPB express concern over abduction of its Mymensing leader by zealots, demands security for comrades

Habibullah Mizan
President and the general secretary respectively of the Communist Party of Bangladesh Manjurul Ahsan Khan and Mujahidul Islam Selim in a statement expressed their concerned over the kidnapping of its Mymensingh city unit president Abdur Rab Mosharaf by religious extremists.

They urged the government to ensure the security of all of their party comrades.

They CPB leaders claimed that the miscreants not only kidnapped Mosharaf, but also tortured him mentally and physically,forcing him to listen to a compact disc of waz (religious sermons), while being forced to take a microbus ride on July 13.

Some unidentified terrorists kidnapped the communist leader when he was returning to his residence at Shehara Nirmalabash area in Mymensingh town.

The two CPB leaders alleged that the kidnappers threatened him to give up left politics and join the Islamic path.

Meanwhile, CPB Mymensingh district president Abdul Aziz Talukder and General Secretary Advocate Imdadul Haque Millat in another statement demanded of the government to immediately arrest the culprits behind the abduction of CPB leader Mosharaf.

BRTA drive sends time-worn buses, trucks of the city streets

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday conducted a drive against over 20 -25-year old buses and trucks, declared unfit to ply the city roads.

The first day’s drive netted only four buses, seized by the mobile courts, which also slapped fines and realised Tk 1 lakh 94 thousand and 200, filing 236 cases under the Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1983.

The drive, supported by the Dhaka district administration with 15 mobile courts, each headed by an executive magistrate was aimed at improving the city’s traffic situation, reducing accidents and pollution..

But the drive sent the city’s aging fleets of rickety buses off the roads, producing long ques at bus stoppages and compelling commuters to jostle for a place to stand on their feet in the crowded buses.
It also helped the drivers of auto-rickshaws, taxis and rickshaw peddlers reap a windfall profit charging higher fare than usual making it difficult for many, faring them including school children and their mothers to take a long walk to their destinations.
After the drive, the seized buses were sent to the dumping ground at Kanchpur.

The BRTA also conducted a separate mobile court with it’s own magistrate at the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.

During the drive, people are seen in long queue as they faced severe transport crisis, said traffic sergeant Nowsher Ahmed while discharging his duties near Jatiya Sangshad.

Additional District Magistrate of Dhaka Amitav Sarker, who supervised 15 mobile courts said, ‘‘We shall continue the ongoing drives until the situation improves to considerable level.”

Explaining the reasons behind lesser number of buses on the streets, Sarker said that being afraid of the drive, the owners of unfit vehicles did not bring their vehicles out of their garages.

BRTA chairman Ayubur Rahman Khan told the Independent “ We will evaluate the progress and try to find out a solution to remedy the plight of the passenger’s during the drive.

57 per cent tenants pay 50 per cent of monthly income as house rent, reveals a survey

Habibullah Mizan
Staff Reporter, The Independent,Dhaka, Bangladesh

Fifty seven percent tenants in the city have to part with almost half of their monthly income as house rent, revealed a recent survey conducted by Nagorik Sanghati, a NGO.

Most of the tenants are from low income and middle-low income groups of people.

Nagorik Sanghati conducted the sample survey among 300 tenants in the city from June 1 to 30 June this year.

Sixteen percent of the tenants spend Tk three thousand to five thousand, thirty seven percent pay Tk five thousand to seven thousand, twenty eight percent pay Tk seven to ten thousand, ten percent pay Tk ten to fifteen thousand , three percent pay Tk fifteen to twenty thousand while three percent pay above twenty thousand, the survey said.

The findings said that fifty percent of the tenants do not know the actual size of their rented premises while seventy three percent have no written contracts with their land owners.

Fifty seven percent of the tenants are not provided money receipts while forty three percent are not supplied the copies of bill of different utility services.

Forty five percent tenants alleged that their land lords increase the house rent every year while fifty percent people are not aware of house rent related laws.

Almost all the tenants favoured uniform policy on house rent.

My government college teacher brother’s brutal killing: And my letter to a honest, dynamic, Face book user police officer

Dear Sir,
How are you in your honorable but tougher job like International Peacekeeping mission? I always pray for your well being. I dream, days shall come when this dynamic DU man will lead the GOOD police.

About us? Being frustrated by the over all situation, I have to going to organize massive people especially our non-political real students so that my widow bhabi Mrs. Afroza Harun, my love, my care, my hope , our future, her two unfortunate kids LOBDHUK and ARHAM get justice against his government college teacher father’s killers and their corrupt all patronizers . You know how my brother Harun-Or-Rashid was brutally killed on Match 21 in Sylhet. No people dared to protest the killers, really it’s a coward area, all coward lives there.

It's our bad luck that we failed to meet you face to face before you leave for peace mission. The days may come you may meet me in your police custody being arrested in any false cases. They may take me into illegal remind, dare to physically torture me to stop me from my fight. I’m ready to face all these probable circumstances. Kindly pray for me so that noting can stop me from my social movement

You may assume that our life, personally I may be harassed by the killer's family, the other third parties criminals. I challenged the evil forces from my student life which continues till now.

Even your corrupted and later suspended Sylhet Kotowali Model Thana Officer- in- Charge Mr. Mohamad Ali, his corrupt gangs may try to commit second mistake by attempting to harass me.
But sorry to say, I'm worried but never afraid. CROSS FIRE? Sorry, I don’t care because my first love, my lost love Nigar Sultana Lata, also my BLACK DIAMOND cousin, has left me. From then I am leading a different life. I don’t care my life, my future. I have decided to dedicate my whole life for the distressed, oppressed across the globe, at least for the surrounding helpless people as a way to forget my burnings , my pains.

Stupid, corrupt journalism? This is just to gather another experience. However, I always tried to be a minimum fair, a minimum honest while I am in this nasty, fucking journalism. Because I never forget that I am a Dhaka University student and give up student politics and later joined in reporting to fight. I have a very bad reputation that I misbehave with so many fake, some times powerful but corrupt journalists.

In future, if I try to fight in the election, my vote will be zero. But I don’t care. However, still there some GOOD police, GOOD journalists. Unfortunately, the number is decreasing day by day in our society.


I’m begging door to door to meet the respectable IGP sir and some honest ministers face to face. But their closed people are very busy with their selves; there are very few people who are actually helping us.

All give us false and values assurance. From now, I don’t believe in any such assurance. I want to see the action. Even if necessary, we ready to meet more VVIPs than these.

My family is fully ready to go the different places and stay in hunger strike to meet our honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina face to face. We believe she will definitely help us to get justice. We are also ready to meet our opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia. We need help, support from all political parties, professional bodies to get justice.

SIR, as our old well wisher, you can help us by legally providing the official numbers of the IGP, some concerned high officials like AIG, DG (RAB), NSI and CID bosses as they are members of the Home Ministry’s Monitoring Cell.

No way, we want to express our increasing concerned over the fair trial of the brutal murder case to these higher police officers.

SIR, if possible, kindly give us the cell numbers of ex Manikgonj SP Helal Uddin Badri. I respect him as he is also a helpful man.

SIR, all these cell numbers I can manage from the senior journalists but I want to say my fellow people about you that one ex DU student now police officer whom I failed to meet face to face, are helping us in the this peaceful fight even from his very busy peacekeeping mission .

SIR, I also need your kind full help to remove the increasing frustration of my family, our supporters, and the peace loving people of my over four thousand Face book friends. They are worried that the killers may not get exemplary punishment because they have huge money, power and political connection.

SIR, valo thakben, amader janna doa korben, jodi paren amar oshahi bhabi ke ekta phone diyen, amar val lag be, gorba lagbe,plz my dear Dhaka University boro bhai,plz

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Let’s celebrate the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr and Sharodhia Durga Puaj in such a universal way so that at least we don’t see any crying, pains on these days of joys.


I wish you a joyful life everyday, every moment like these upcoming festivals

Habibullah Mizan
Department of International Relations,
University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
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