e_Paper (11 November 2016)

News 7
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016
DT
Post office still bearing name
of Pakistani governor
• Md Wali Newaz, Faridpur
After forty four years of independence,
a sub-post office at Titumir
Bazaar in Faridpur town still carries
the name of the then East-Pakistan’s
governor Azam Khan.
Lieutenant general Mohammad
Azam Khan inaugurated the
market while he was the governor
of East Pakistan, present Bangladesh,
from 1960-62.
5 rescued while
being trafficked
to Iraq illegally
• FM Mizanur Rahaman,
Chittagong
The market, which was known
as new market that time, was renamed
Azam Khan Market and
the post office was named Azam
Market Town Sub-post Office.
Though after the independence,
the market was named Titumir
Bazaar, the name of the subpost
office remained unchanged.
Md Khalilur Rahman, deputy
commander of the district Muktijoddha
Sangsad, an association of freedom
fighters, and also a businessman
of the market, said: “It is very
shameful that after so many years of
independence, a government organisation
has been carrying the name
of a Pakistani governor.”
He said he had informed the district
post office of the fact verbally,
but they did not take any step.
Mohammad Mohosin Uddin,
postmaster of the district post office,
told the Dhaka Tribune that
he did not know about it.
He, however, assured that he
would take steps to change the
name as soon as possible.
Post-Master of Faridpur Post
Office Mohammad Mohsin Uddin
told the Dhaka Tribune that he
was not aware of the matter.
He also assured the correspondent
that he would request higher
authorities to rename the post office.
•
Two-day Lalon
festival begins
• Kudrote Khoda Sobuj,
Kushtia
A two-day Lalon Festival began yesterday
at the Lalon Akhrah in Kushtia.
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy,
Kushtia organised the festival.
The festival will see many
events such as musical events, discussions
on Lalon’s philosophy, Lalon’s
fair and so on.
Organisers arranged a seminar
titled at Lalon Academy auditorium
where Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy,
Kushtia, Director General Liaquat
Ali Lucky, Additional Deputy
Commissioner Mujib-ul-Ferdous, Islamic
University, Kushtia VC Dr Abul
Ahsan Choudhury were present. •
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB 7)
rescued five fortune seekers from
Chittagong Shah Amanat International
Airport on Wednesday while
they were being sent to war-torn
Iraq illegally.
“The five victims were rescued
from the waiting room of Immigration
of Chittagong Shah Amanat International
Airport while they were
waiting to board on a Qatar-bound
Air Arabia flight”, said Senior Assistant
Superintendent of Police
(ASP), RAB 7 Md Sohel Mahmud.
“They were handed over to
Patenga police station and a case
was filed in this connection”, said
ASP Sohel Mahmud. On October 12,
RAB personnel rescued 39 fortune
seekers from the airport. •
KUNIO HOSHI MURDER
Court for appointing
lawyer for accused at
government’s cost
• Liakat Ali Badal, Rangpur
A Rangpur court yesterday gave
directive to the government to appoint
a lawyer for members of the
banned Islamic outfit Jama’atul
Mujahideen of Bangaldesh (JMB),
who are accused in Japanese citizen
Kunio Hoshi murder, at its own
cost.
Special Judge Nareah Chandra
Sarkar passed the order after
he came to know that no lawyer
has been recruited for them. Five
members of the JMB were produced
before the court. The court
A human chain was formed on Rajshahi University campus yesterday, protesting attacks in minority people across Bangladesh
also fixed November 15 for the next
hearing.
On August 7, a court accepted
the charge sheet pressed against
eight members of the JMB in the
killing case.
The Court of Senior Judicial
Magistrate Arifur Rahman also excluded
five people, including BNP
leader Rashedun Nabi Khan Biplab,
from the case, as their involvement
in the killing was not found during
the investigation.
Knunio Hoshi, 65, was shot in
Kachu Alutari area on October 3,
2015. •
AZAHAR UDDIN
Bholaganj Land Customs Station
counting losses as limestone
import from India suspended
• Mahammad Sirajul Islam,
Sylhet
Limestone import from India
through Bholaganj Land Customs
Station in Sylhet has remained suspended
since Monday, causing an
economic loss to the country.
The forest department of the
India village Majai, located in the
taluk of Shella Bholaganj in Meghalaya,
from where the limestone
was imported through the land
customs station, had not been giving
car passes for limestone export
to Bangladesh for several days, said
Mujibur Rahman Mintu, secretary
to limestone importers group of
Bholaganj.
The forest department was doing
it, as Indian High Court had
imposed a ban on extracting limestone
from mines by machines on
August 2015, said Mujibur.
Due to the ban, limestone import
through other land customs
stations of Bangladesh had been
decreased significantly, as the Indian
exporters were now supplying
limestone from their stocks, added
Mujibur.
Every day around three to four
thousand metric tones of limestone
were imported through Bholaganj,
yielding about Tk1.1 to 1.2 millions
revenue, said Abul Hossain, superintendent
of the land customs station.
Bashir Ahmed, former general
secretary of limestone importers
group of Bholaganj, said the sudden
suspension of the import would affect
the cement industry of Bangladesh,
as limestone is the main raw
material for producing cement.
The price of cement might rise
for this reason, he added.
Besides, around 200 people,
who worked in stone crusher mills
in Bholaganj, have lost their earning
sources, as the mills were dependent
on limestone. •