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PM: Zafar Iqbal’s attackers are fanatics
[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister  ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. has termed "fanatics" the attackers of Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and urged all to keep their children away from militancy, terrorism and drug abuse. "Those who are committing these crimes are fanatics...we earlier decided not to allow terrorism and militancy in Bangladesh, we are conducting drives against drug abuse as well," she said on Sunday. Sheikh Hasina made the statement while distributing Bangabandhu Fellowship, National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship and research donations among students and researchers for 2017-2018 sessions at a function at Osmani Memorial Auditorium. She said the government wants the peaceful atmosphere to prevail in all educational institutions of the country. "Yesterday [Saturday], an unwanted incident took place at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology campus where Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal came under attack. I asked the Air Force to bring him to Dhaka and admit him to the CMH for his better treatment. His condition is stable [now]," she said. A young man, aged around 24-25, swooped on Prof Zafar Iqbal around 5:40pm on Saturday while he was delivering his speech on the closing day of a two-day celebration program of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) department at Mukta Mancha. The prime minister wanted to know who these people are. "We want to make the country free from militancy, terrorism and drug abuse." Posted by: Fred 2018-03-05 |
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