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Tigers edge 

Aussies in 

Mirpur epic 

› 2 

Mushfiq: Bangladesh can 

be aggressive too › 18 

Clarke, Sachin lead 

Tigers praise › 2 

MD MANIK

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News 

Tigers create history, beat 

Aussies by 20 runs 

• Minhaz Uddin Khan 

Clarke, Sachin 

lead praise 

after Tigers 

edge Aussies 

• Tribune Desk 

SPORTS 

SPORTS 

Inspired by the world’s No 1 Test 

all-rounder Shakib al Hasan’s 10 

wickets, Bangladesh registered 

their maiden Test match win 

against Australia yesterday. 

The Tigers filed a 20-run win after 

playing the Aussies for the first time 

in 11 years and a game that swung 

around like a pendulum in Mirpur’s 

Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium finally 

tilted in the Tigers’ favour. 

When opener David Warner and 

captain Steven Smith walked out to 

bat on day four, Bangladesh needed 

another eight wickets while the 

visitor needed another 156 runs in 

pursuit of 265. 

With the two set batsmen and 

Bangladesh coming into the day 

with the experience of bite-less 

bowling to end the previous day, 

Australia had all the time in the 

world to cruise to victory. 

The visiting side strengthened 

their position as Warner reached 

his 19th Test century, and his second 

in Asia. 

His stay saw Australia post a 

130-run partnership alongside 

Smith for the third wicket. 

Warner scored 112, including 16 

fours and one six, before Shakib 

pinned him in front to give Bangladesh 

hope. 

Smith was caught-behind trying 

to cut the Bangladesh all-rounder 

four overs later for 37 to set up an 

exciting finale – Australia still needed 

94, and Bangladesh six wickets. 

Bangladesh bowlers availed the 

opportunity and bounced back 

hard taking advantage of the turning 

deck at Mirpur. 

The Tigers then removed the remaining 

Australia batsmen as the 

tourist fumbled from 171/4 to 244 

all out. 

Bangladesh had two of their 

seniors, Shakib and Tamim Iqbal, 

to thank for their brilliant 50th Test 

appearance. 

Tamim was poetic with his willow 

as he anchored both the Bangladesh 

innings with his 78 and 71-run 

knocks when the majority had failed. 

Shakib meanwhile, was forceful 

with the ball with five-wicket hauls 

in each innings to encourage the 

junior bowlers of the side to do the 

other half of the job. 

Shakib in the process got his second 

10-wicket haul in the format. 

Young spinners in the fold, Taijul 

Islam and Mehedi Hasan Miraz, 

ensured they backed their senior 

from the other end of the crease. 

Taijul in the game picked up four 

wickets while Miraz, who is still 

budding in the international arena, 

secured five wickets in two innings. 

The final nail on the coffin was 

hammered by left-arm spinner 

Taijul as he removed lower-order 

batsman Pat Cummins, who looked 

threatening and was walking his 

way to spoil the Bangladesh effort. 

Cummins had just slammed 15 

off Miraz in the previous over to cut 

the chase from 36 to 21 when Taijul 

trapped No 11 Josh Hazlewood in 

front for a duck. 

This made the decent turnout 

and the Bangladesh team members 

burst into celebration. 

The teams will now travel to 

Chittagong for the second and final 

Test, to be played at Zahur Ahmed 

Chowdhury Stadium from Monday 

to Friday. 

Bangladesh are 1-0 ahead and 

have accomplished half of their 

mission of a clean sweep. 

In contrast, Australia will be 

desperate to save their image 

and target a rare Test win at the 

sub-continent. 

A 2-0 series sweep in favour of 

Bangladesh will see the Aussies 

drop down to sixth in the ICC Test 

team ranking, their worst ever position 

since the ranking was introduced. 

• 

Record boy Shakib dazzles in historic win in Mirpur 

• Ali Shahriyar Bappa 

SPORTS 

Many records have been rewritten 

by Shakib al Hasan in his dazzling 

career for Bangladesh. 

And once again yesterday, the 

left-arm all-rounder created a host 

of records during his match-winning 

performance against Australia 

in Mirpur. Shakib scored 84 and 

five in two innings and took 10 

wickets in the match. 

His first innings bowling figure 

stands at 26.5-7-68-5 while his second 

innings bowling figure reads 

28-7-85-5. 

Shakib al Hasan is the toast of his team mates following Bangladesh’s 20-run win over Australia during day four of their first 

Test in Mirpur yesterday 

MD MANIK 

This is the second time in his 

career that Shakib has claimed 10 

wickets in a match. He is now the 

only Bangladeshi bowler to achieve 

that feat. Previously, left-arm spinner 

Enamul Haque Jr and Mehedi 

Hasan Miraz touched the incredible 

landmark once. 

Shakib’s first 10-wicket haul 

came against Zimbabwe in 2014 at 

Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna. 

He had also scored a hundred in 

that same Test. It was a milestone 

Test for Shakib as he was playing 

his 50th Test for Bangladesh. 

And he definitely owned this 

Test and made it memorable with 

a stunning all-round performance. 

qFirst Bangladesh bowler to claim 

10 wickets in Test twice 

qFourth bowler in Test history to 

claim five-wicket hauls against 

every Test playing nation after 

Muttiah Muralitharan, Dale Steyn 

and Rangana Herath 

qShakib became the second player to 

take five-fors in each innings of the 

50th Test after Sir Richard Hadlee 

(5/73 & 5/29 v SL, Colombo, 1984) 

While the nation revelled in the 

streets and on social media following 

the historic win over Australia, 

a number of former and current 

cricketers and commentators took 

to Twitter to react and congratulate 

Bangladesh. 

Tweets by several former cricketing 

greats, including cricket legend 

Sachin Tendulkar’s one congratulated 

West Indies for their 

magnificent five-wicket win over 

England in a thrilling second Test 

on Tuesday. 

The list of cricketers who showered 

Bangladesh with praise includes 

Michael Clarke, Mahela Jayawardena, 

India’s Virender Sehwag 

and Mohammad Kaif, New Zealand’s 

Jimmy Neesham, Pakistan’s 

Umar Akmal. 

Former Australia captain Clarke 

tweeted: “Congratulations Bangladesh. 

didn’t think I would be writing 

this tweet but you need to give 

credit where credit is due. #testcricket” 

Sachin in his tweet said: “2 upsets 

in 2 days! Inspiring performance 

by @BCBtigers! Test cricket 

is thriving #BANvAUS” 

Reacting to the Tigers’ win, former 

Sri Lankan captain Jayawardena 

tweeted: “Well played @BCBtigers 

on historical test win. Very 

good test match.” 

Former Sri Lankan cricketer and 

now a commentator, Russel Arnold 

said: “Very well done @BCBtigers 

#BANvAUS Congratulations on a brilliant 

test win and a hard fought one 

at that. extremely happy for you !!!” 

Cricket Australia in its official 

profile tweeted: “Tigers win! What 

a game. Bangladesh win an instant 

classic to secure their first Test victory 

vs Australia.” • 

With an overall 89 runs with the 

bat and 10-153 with the ball, the 

world’s No 1 all-rounder also made 

some other records his own in Mirpur. 

The Magura lad became the second 

cricketer in the history of Test 

cricket to claim five-wicket hauls in 

both innings in an individual player’s 

50th Test after New Zealander 

Sir Richard Hadlee. 

Australia were well on course 

for victory after a dominating display 

in the latter part of day three. 

They started day four quite convincingly 

as well, with two of their 

best batsmen in the crease - David 

Warner and Steve Smith. 

And when the team needed him 

the most, Shakib rose to the occasion. 

Australia batted 40.5 overs 

on day 4 before being all out and 

Shakib bowled continuously from 

one end until the Aussies succumbed 

to a loss. 

And the aggression and positive 

attitude of Shakib kept Bangladesh 

in the hunt even though things 

weren’t looking all that bright at 

one stage as Australia were coasting 

on 158/2. This is the first time 

Shakib played against Australia. 

The last time these two nations 

played against each other was in 

2006. In his first outing against 

Australia, Shakib became the 

fourth man in Test history to claim 

five-wicket hauls against every 

Test playing nation. 

The other three bowlers are 

Muttiah Muralitharan, Dale Steyn 

and Rangana Herath. •

News 

THURSDAY, 

3 

AUGUST 31, 2017 

DT 

Are BNP’s reformist leaders in from the cold? 

The party plans to bring them back with the aim of bagging at least 50 seats in the next national polls 

• Manik Miazee 

POLITICS 

The BNP has moved to bring its reformist 

leaders back into the fold 

with the hope that they will help 

the party gain at least 50 seats in 

the next parliamentary election expected 

to be held between late 2018 

and early 2019. 

The party, led by former prime 

minister Khaleda Zia, has taken 

up the idea some 11 years after the 

leaders, who had expressed reformist 

views for the BNP during 

the 2007-08 military-backed caretaker 

government, either left it or 

was expelled. 

According to sources, BNP is 

also considering giving some of 

them the party’s central posts and 

even nominations in the national 

polls once they are officially back. 

Following Chairperson Khaleda’s 

instruction, the party top brass 

has already contacted more than 

50 reformist leaders. But they will 

have to apologise first for their past 

activities before they are welcomed 

back into the party with open arms, 

said sources. 

Some of the top leaders have already 

held meetings with several 

reformist leaders where the latter 

did not accept the “apology clause” 

at the beginning, party sources, 

who attended those meetings, told 

the Dhaka Tribune asking not to be 

named. 

But they finally agreed to the 

terms saying their return would be 

guaranteed only if they get back 

their previous positions in the party’s 

committees and receive nominations 

from their respective constituencies, 

according to sources. 

Khaleda in February this year 

had met with former MPs Zahir 

Uddin Swapan, who was also 

BNP’s former information and research 

affairs secretary, and Sarder 

Shakhawat Hossain Bakul at her 

Gulshan political office, and apparently 

asked them to become active 

again in the party. 

Following the political changeover 

in 2007, these two leaders had 

sided with BNP’s reformists group 

which was led by the party’s former 

standing committee member Saifur 

Rahman and the then secretary 

general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan. 

After meeting Khaleda in February, 

both of them had reportedly 

said they were returning to party 

activities with the chairperson’s 

blessing. 

Party sources said Khaleda, 

who is currently in London since 

last month, will gradually sit with 

many other reformist leaders after 

returning home in mid-September. 

A little bit of history 

The idea of getting such leaders, 

some of whom are popular in their 

areas and have huge vote banks, 

back to the party is something the 

Awami League has done about 10 

years ago. 

Ahead of both 2009 and 2014 

general elections, Prime Minister 

Sheikh Hasina, the ruling party 

chief, had had most of the reformist 

leaders of her party return home 

to secure Awami League’s victory. 

After BNP’s last term in power 

ended in October 2006, many leaders 

in both BNP and Awami League 

had raised their voices on several issues 

aiming to reform their parties. 

In BNP, when Khaleda and 

Khaleda to return on Sept 15 

• Manik Miazee 

CURRENT AFFAIRS 

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set 

to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha in London 

with her family members, after 

which she plans to fly back to Bangladesh 

on September 15. 

The 20-party alliance chief went 

to London for eye and knee treatment 

on July 15. Earlier this month, 

doctors of Moorfields Eye Hospital 

completed her surgery successfully. 

Party sources said Khaleda 

would celebrate Eid with her son 

Tarique Rahman and his family. 

Khaleda’s younger son late Arafat 

Rahman’s wife and their two 

daughters will also join in the celebrations. 

During her UK visit, Khaleda attended 

several meetings with political 

leaders, international political 

parties and leaders of India’s ruling 

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), where 

she discussed Bangladesh’s current 

political situation as well as the party’s 

next moves before the upcoming 

election, said party insiders. 

A top BNP leader from the UK 

unit, requesting anonymity, told 

the Dhaka Tribune that the BNP 

chief also met with the top leaders 

of Jamaat-e-Islami, her main political 

ally. Tarek and Khaleda also 

discussed the next election and alliance 

policies with Jamaat leaders. 

During her tour, BNP committee 

member Amir Khosru Mahmud 

Chowdhury and several other top 

leaders accompanied her. • 

REFORMIST LEADERS ON BNP’S LIST 

• Mymensingh’s Md Delwar Hossain 

Khan Dulu 

• Former Narayanganj MP Ataur 

Rahman Angur 

• Former adviser to BNP chairperson 

Maj Gen (retd) ZA Khan 

• Former Chandpur MP SA Sultan Titu 

• Former Cox’s Bazar MP Shahiduzzaman 

• Former Barguna MP Nurul Islam Moni 

• Barisal’s Esrat Sultana Elen Bhutto 

• Rajshahi’s Abu Hena 

• Meherpur’s Abdul Gani 

• Former Moulvibazar MP MM Shaheen 

• Noakhali’s Fazle Azim 

• Former Bogra MP Ziaul Haque Mollah 

• GM Siraj 

• Former reserve seat MP Shammi Sher 

• Shahriar Akhter Bulu 

her eldest son party’s Senior 

Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman 

denied their demands, Mannan 

Bhuiyan and former finance minister 

Saifur Rahman had led the 

like-minded leaders to form the 

‘Reformist BNP’ after the Fakhruddin 

Ahmed-led caretaker government 

came to power on January 1 

in 2007. 

Since “1/11”, when the military-backed 

caretaker administration 

took over, Bangladesh witnessed 

numerous “ups and downs” 

in the political arena including imprisonment 

of Hasina and Khaleda 

on corruption charges along with 

many leaders of both parties. 

When Khaleda was in jail, the 

reformist leaders had dominated 

BNP avoiding the party top brass. 

After she was released in September 

2008, some of them left the 

party and some stayed back by 

apologising to her for their “mistake” 

and even took part in the national 

polls. 

However, most of the reformist 

leaders became inactive in politics 

after that while a handful others 

passed away under different circumstances. 

Fear made top brass scramble 

The BNP high command took the 

initiative to bring back the reformists 

last year when they feared that 

many central leaders including 

Khaleda could be convicted in several 

cases. 

They contacted and held meetings 

with the reformist leaders who 

did not join other parties after leaving 

BNP. The top brass thinks their 

return will strengthen BNP at the 

grassroots level while somewhat 

increasing the party’s chances to 

secure at least 50 constituencies in 

the next polls, sources said. 

Many reformist leaders said, after 

being inactive and on the sidelines 

for the last 10 years, they do 

not want to waste the opportunity 

to return as they could also get party 

nominations as well. 

Several leaders said they were 

considering positively responding 

to Khaleda’s call to return both to 

the party and politics. 

One of them, requesting anonymity, 

told the Dhaka Tribune 

that the top leaders had contacted 

them and assured of giving back 

their past posts in the committees 

with chances of nominations in the 

next election. 

Many have already met with 

Khaleda Zia and others will also 

receive calls soon, said the leader. 

Sources, however, said the central 

committee will “prioritise the 

leaders with healthy bank balances 

while handing out party nominations 

as election campaigns need 

adequate financial backup”. They 

will be followed by the ones who 

have not joined other political parties 

and/or are popular too in their 

areas. 

The “expelled reformists” will 

only be able to return to the party 

and hope for nominations once 

they fulfil “some conditions” fixed 

by the top brass, said the sources. 

Before the last national election 

held in January 2014, then BNP acting 

secretary general Mirza Fakhrul 

Islam Alamgir had met with a number 

of reformist leaders and ordered 

them not to take part in the 

polls. 

At the time Fakhrul had told 

them that BNP would take them 

back at a later but convenient time. 

Three years later, Fakhrul, now 

the secretary general, and other 

top leaders are working to bring 

them back keeping his word. 

Senior Joint Secretary General 

Ruhul Kabir Rizvi told the Dhaka 

Tribune: “There are no reformists 

in BNP right now. Those who made 

mistakes in the past have come 

back after realising their faults.” 

“Now all of us are working together 

for the party and the country,” 

he added. • 

Indo-China rivalry looms over BRICS summit 


WORLD 

• Joypurhat’s Abu Yusuf Khalilur Rahman 

• Maj Gen (retd) Anwarul Kabir Talukder 

• Netrakona’s Abdul Karim Abbasi 

• Gaibandha’s Shamim Kaiser Lincoln 

• Sunamganj’s Nazir Hossain 

• Former MP Khalil Rahman 

• Mani Swapan Dewan 

• Salek Chowdhury 

• Dildar Hossain Selim 

• Abdul Matin 

• Abu Reza Fazlul Haque 

• Former state minister of finance 

Shah Md Abul Hossain 

• Former state minister Alamgir Kabir 

• Expelled reformists include, among 

others, former joint secretary general 

Asharaf Hossain and former office 

secretary Mofidul Hasan Tifti 

China and India may have ended a 

tense border standoff for now, but 

their longstanding rivalry raises 

questions about the possibility of 

meaningful cooperation at an upcoming 

summit of major emerging 

economies, the Associated 

Press reports. 

The annual summit of the 

BRICS grouping encompassing 

Brazil, Russia, India, China and 

South Africa gets under way this 

weekend in the southeastern Chinese 

city of Xiamen, hoping to 

advance its vision of an alternative 

to the Western dominance of 

global affairs. 

The leaders of all five nations 

are expected to attend, offering 

the best opportunity for Chinese 

President Xi Jinping and Indian 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi 

to talk since the border tensions 

flared in June. 

While both their countries 

view BRICS as a significant forum 

for progress, their rivalry 

for global influence and fears 

of containment by the other 

threaten to overshadow those 

aspirations. 

Attempting to start the BRICS 

summit off on a positive note, 

Beijing and Delhi on Monday 

announced a resolution of their 

most protracted and potentially 

explosive border standoff in 

years. The saber-rattling had 

raised fears of renewed conflict 

between the nuclear-armed Asian 

giants, who fought a bloody 

border war in 1962 and remain 

locked in disputes over extensive 

chunks of territory along their 

border. 

Yet, while India’s Ministry of 

External Affairs said that troops 

were leaving the face-off site, China’s 

official response avoided any 

mention of Chinese concessions 

or the fact that troops from both 

sides will continue patrolling in 

the area. •

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Thousands more Rohingya flee to 

border as Myanmar violence flares 

• Reuters 


More than 18,000 Rohingya Muslims, 

many sick and some with 

bullet wounds, have fled the worst 

violence to grip northwest Myanmar 

in at least five years, while 

thousands more are stuck at the 

Bangladesh border or scrambling 

to reach it. 

Friday’s series of coordinated 

attacks by Rohingya insurgents on 

security forces in the north of Myanmar’s 

Rakhine state and ensuing 

clashes triggered the Rohingya exodus, 

while the government evacuated 

thousands of Rakhine Buddhists. 

Since the attacks, about 18,445 

Rohingya - mostly women and 

children - have registered in Bangladesh, 

the International Organisation 

for Migration (IOM) said on 

Wednesday. 

“They are in a very, very desperate 

condition,” said Sanjukta Sahany, 

who runs the IOM office in the 

southern town of Cox’s Bazar near 

the border. 

“The biggest needs are food, 

health services and they need shelter. 

They need at least some cover, 

some roofs over their heads.” 

Sahany said many crossed “with 

bullet injuries and burn injuries,” 

and that aid workers reported that 

some refugees “gave a blank look” 

when questioned. 

“People are traumatised, which 

is quite visible.” 

The UN, while condemning the 

militant attacks, has pressured Myanmar 

to protect civilian lives without 

discrimination and appealed to 

Bangladesh to admit those fleeing 

the military counteroffensive. 

At least 109 people have been 

killed in the clashes with insurgents, 

Myanmar says, most of them 

militants but also members of the 

security forces and civilians. 

The treatment of about 1.1m 

Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar is 

the biggest challenge facing national 

leader Aung San Suu Kyi, 

who has been accused by Western 

critics of not speaking out for a minority 

that has long complained of 

persecution. 

The Rohingya are denied citizenship 

in Myanmar and regarded as illegal 

immigrants, despite claiming 

roots that date back centuries. 

The violence marks a dramatic 

escalation of a conflict that has 

simmered since October, when a 

similar, but much smaller, series 

of Rohingya attacks on security 

posts prompted a fierce military 

response, in which the UN has said 

security forces probably committed 

crimes against humanity. 

“The situation is very terrifying, 

houses are burning, all the people 

ran away from their homes, parents 

and children were divided, 

some were lost, some are dead,” 

Abdullah, 25, a Rohingya from the 

region of Buthidaung, told reporter, 

struggling to hold back tears. • 

Rohingya 

boats capsize 

in Teknaf, 

4 bodies 

recovered 

• Adil Sakhawat and Abdul 

Aziz, Cox’s Bazar 


DT 

Police have recovered the bodies 

of four Rohingyas from near Shah 

Porir Dwip under Teknaf upazila of 

Cox’s Bazar district. 

The bodies were recovered 

Wednesday morning. 

Teknaf police station Officer-in- 

Charge (OC) Moinuddin told the 

Dhaka Tribune: “The bodies were 

seen floating off the shore in the 

morning. 

“We then went to the spot and 

recovered the bodies of two women 

and two children.” 

On the other hand, our correspondent 

Adil Shakhwat reported 

that two boats carrying Rohingya 

refugees capsized near Shah Porir 

Dwip in the morning. 

When asked, Border Guard 

Bangladesh (BGB) Commanding 

Officer SMS Ariful Islam said: “We 

have not heard about the boat capsize 

but we have been informed 

that four bodies were seen off the 

shore.” 

Mohammad Solim, a boatman 

living in Shah Porir Dwip, told the 

Dhaka Tribune: “The boat capsized 

while trying to enter Bangladesh 

through the Bay of Bengal. One of 

the boats was carrying at least 22 

Rohingyas.” 

Locals claimed that at least 50 

Rohingyas died in the incident. • 

PM to US: Put pressure on Myanmar to stop pushing out Rohingya 



Newly arrived Rohingya refugees sit inside a shelter at the Kutupalang refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar on August 30 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has 

urged the US to put pressure on 

Myanmar to stop pushing its Rohingya 

nationals into Bangladesh, 

UNB reported. 

“We have given shelter to a huge 

number of Rohingyas in Bangladesh 

on humanitarian grounds, 

and it is a big problem for us. So I 

call upon you to exert pressure on 

Myanmar in this regard,” she said 

during a meeting with Alice Wells, 

US acting assistant secretary of 

state for South and Central Asian 

Affairs, at her office yesterday. 

Ihsanul Karim, press secretary 

of the prime minister, briefed reporters 

after the meeting. 

At the meeting, Wells asked the 

prime minister whether there had 

been any political dialogue between 

Bangladesh and Myanmar 

on resolving the Rohingya issue. 

DHAKA TRIBUNE 

REUTERS 

In reply, the prime minister said 

said: “Our foreign office is in contact 

with the Myanmar authorities.” 

Wells, also US acting special 

representative for Afghanistan and 

Pakistan, expressed the US interest 

to work with Bangladesh to combat 

terrorism and highly appreciated 

Bangladesh government’s initiatives 

for curbing the menace. 

Reiterating Bangladesh’s zero-tolerance 

policy on terrorism, 

Hasina said: “We will not allow 

anyone to use our land for plotting 

terrorist acts in other countries.” 

The US acting assistant secretary 

highly appreciated Bangladesh’s 

massive socioeconomic 

development in different sectors, 

especially the 7.24% GDP growth 

achieved last fiscal year. 

Hasina said the main aim of her 

government was to strengthen the 

rural economy. 

About the bilateral trade with 

the US, she said the volume of 

trade between the two countries 

increased manifolds from only $25 

million in 1996. 

Wells pointed out that the economic 

relations between the two 

countries had developed significantly 

and mentioned that the US 

is the largest market for Bangladeshi 

RMG products. 

Prime Minister Hasina’s International 

Affairs Adviser Dr Gowher 

Rizvi, Principal Secretary Dr Kamal 

Abdul Naser Chowdhury and the 

US charge d’affaires in Dhaka were 

present at the meeting as well. • 

TEMPERATURE FORECAST FOR TODAY 

LIGHT TO MODERATE 

RAIN LIKELY 


Dhaka 34 27 Chittagong 32 27 Rajshahi 34 27 Rangpur 33 27 Khulna 33 37 Barisal 33 27 Sylhet 32 25 

DHAKA 

TODAY 

TOMORROW 

SUN SETS 6:18PM 

SUN RISES 5:40AM 

YESTERDAY’S HIGH AND LOW 

35ºC 24.5ºC 

Madaripur 

Kumarkhali 

Source: Accuweather/UNB 

PRAYER 

TIMES 

Cox’s Bazar 28 26 

Fajr: 5:00am | Zohr: 1:15pm 

Asr: 5:00pm | Magrib: 6:41pm 

Esha: 8:30pm 

Source: Islamic Foundation

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News 

In smartphone age, the 

Hajj is for sharing 

• AFP, Mecca 

WORLD 

Muslim pilgrims pray at the Grand Mosque in the holy Saudi city of Mecca, on August 29, 2017, on the 

eve of the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage 

AFP 

More than two million Muslims 

begin Hajj pilgrimage 

• AFP, Mecca 

WORLD 

More than two million Muslims from around 

the world began the Hajj pilgrimage at 

Islam’s holiest sites Wednesday, a religious 

duty and an epic multi-stage journey. 

This year sees pilgrims from Shia Iran 

return to Mecca in Saudi Arabia after a hiatus 

following a diplomatic spat between the 

regional rivals and a deadly stampede in 

2015. 

It also comes with the Gulf mired in a 

major political crisis that has seen thousands 

of faithful who would usually make the 

journey from neighbouring Qatar stay away. 

On the esplanade of Mecca’s Grand 

Mosque, the excitement was palpable as 

crowds from all four corners of the world 

gathered for a pilgrimage that all able 

Muslims are required to perform at least 

once in their lives. 

Wearing the simple garb of the pilgrim, 

the faithful waited at dawn with their 

suitcases for buses to take them to Mina 5km 

to the east. 

There, hundreds of thousands will gather 

before setting off on Thursday at dawn to 

climb Mount Arafat, the pinnacle of the Hajj. 

First, however, they must perform a ritual 

walk known as the tawaf seven times around 

the Kaaba, a black masonry cube wrapped in 

a heavy silk cloth embroidered in gold with 

Koranic verses at the centre of Mecca’s Grand 

Mosque. 

Tight security 

Saudi authorities have mobilised vast 

resources including more than 100,000 

security personnel to avoid a repeat of the 

stampede in 2015 in which nearly 2,300 

people were killed. 

Riyadh and Tehran cut ties months later, 

after the execution of a Shia cleric in Saudi 

Arabia sparked attacks on Saudi diplomatic 

missions in Iran. 

Iranian pilgrims were absent from last 

year’s Hajj for the first time in decades after 

the regional rivals failed to agree on security 

and logistics. 

This year’s pilgrimage comes amid a 

diplomatic crisis between a Saudi-led bloc 

of Arab countries and Qatar, accused of 

supporting extremist groups and being too 

close to Riyadh’s arch-rival Tehran. • 

Muslim pilgrims take a selfie at the Grand Mosque in the holy Saudi 

city of Mecca, on August 30, 2017 

AFP 

Arm outstretched, Abdul 

Rahman sweeps his mobile 

phone across the vista of 

Mecca, the Great Mosque 

dazzling in the sun, so his 

son in Tanzania can experience 

the pilgrimage to Islam’s 

holiest sites. 

He may be thousands of 

kilometres away and on another 

continent, but thanks 

to his father’s smartphone 

and video sharing app, 

18-year-old Nabil might as 

well be standing right next 

to him. 

“Some day I hope I can 

make the pilgrimage,” he 

says on the screen, his father 

wearing a broad smile. 

Abdul Rahman is one of 

the more than 1.7 million 

foreign pilgrims travelling 

to Mecca in Saudi Arabia for 

this year’s Hajj, which began 

on Wednesday. 

For the faithful it is a 

deeply spiritual journey, 

which for centuries every 

capable Muslim has been required 

to make at least once 

in their lifetime. 

In the age of smartphones, 

social media and 

live video streaming, it’s 

now also an experience to 

be shared in real time. 

“I’m showing him live... 

how happy we are, how 

lucky we are,” Abdul Rahman 

says, showing off imo, 

the application he uses for 

video calls. 

Across the holy city, pilgrims 

from around the world 

can be seen with their arms 

extended, showing off their 

surroundings to friends and 

family back home. 

Travel agencies in charge 

of organising trips to the 

Hajj are now offering packages 

that include mobile 

internet so they can avoid 

roaming fees. 

In a shopping centre 

where the faithful flock to 

buy souvenirs, one pilgrim 

is scanning the images on 

his phone. 

He stops at a selfie and 

hesitates – what effect to 

choose, black-and-white or 

retro? He puts it away when 

the call to prayer sounds and 

the pilgrims roll out their 

carpets between escalators 

and boutiques to pray. •

News 

THURSDAY, 

7 

AUGUST 31, 2017 

DT 

Tanners face liquidity shortage ahead of Eid 

• Shariful Islam 

BUSINESS 

An estimated four out of five tanneries 

are expected to face a liquidity 

crisis in purchasing rawhide 

during Eid ul-Azha this year 

following the forced relocation of 

their factories. 

In keeping with a Supreme Court 

order to improve the environment 

of Hazaribagh, the Department 

of Environment (DoE) cut off the 

power, water and gas connections 

to the Hazaribagh tanneries in Old 

Dhaka on April 8. 

Shahid Ullah, the owner of 

Ajmeer Leather, has been exporting 

leathers to 20 countries over 

the past 15 years but said his production 

had “almost stopped” 

since moving from Hazaribagh to 

the purpose-built Savar Tannery 

Estate on the edge of the capital 

last April. 

“I bought 60,000 pieces of rawhide 

with a bank loan during the 

last Eid ul-Azha, but due to the 

tannery relocation I have not been 

able to run my factory for the last 

five months,” he told the Dhaka 

Tribune. 

Shahid said he had failed to adjust 

the bank loan and had been 

forced to cancel a 30,000-piece export 

order for hide. 

“I will not be able to buy rawhide 

this year for liquidity shortage,” 

he said. 

The Salma Tannery owned 

by Md Shakawat Ullah - also the 

general secretary of Bangladesh 

Tanners Association (BTA) - told 

the Dhaka Tribune that there are 

100,000 pieces of wet blue hide 

still stored in his factory and that 

he too would not be able to adjust 

his bank loan from last year. 

“I bought 2.10 lakh pieces of 

rawhide last year, but I could not 

export them for tannery relocation,” 

he said. “I do not know how 

I will be able to buy rawhide this 

year.” 

The Bangladesh Finished 

Leather, Leather Goods and 

Footwear Exporters Association 

(BFLLFE) said most tanners 

had failed to sell their 2016 hides 

and will be unable to take fresh 

loans. 

“The tanners will face a liquidity 

crisis and with the disbursed 

liquidity we will be able to buy 

only 20% of the rawhides,” BFLLFE 

President Mohiuddin Ahmed Mahin 

said. 

However, the four state-owned 

banks have decided to give loans 

worth Tk735 crore to tannery-owners 

to purchase rawhides. 

Of the banks, Janata Bank will 

disburse the largest amount of 

credit worth Tk300 crore, followed 

by Rupali Bnak Tk185 crore, Sonali 

Bank Tk150 crore and Agrani Bnak 

Tk100 crore. 

Rupali Bank managing director 

Ataur Rahman Prodhan told the 

Dhaka Tribune that his bank was 

still disbursing loans to its regular 

clients and to those whose factories 

are in operation. 

“We will disburse credit to them 

who can adjust their previous loan. 

Otherwise, the dues would be adjusted 

as fresh loans,” he said. 

This year, the tanners have 

planned to collect 80,000 pieces 

of rawhide and have urged the 

Finance Ministry to issue a special 

order to the banks for giving them 

loans considering the overall 

situation of the leather sector. 

“The banks are not giving us 

loans at the eleventh hour and 

that’s why we will face a liquidity 

crisis as we have already counted 

our losses due to the complexity 

with tannery relocations,” 

BTA General Secretary Md 

Shakawat Ullah told the Dhaka 

Tribune. 

“Moreover, if we do not get 

loans the next season will be the 

worst year for the country’s leather 

industry. That’s why the government 

has to take necessary steps 

immediately.” • 

MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU 

Russia officially agrees to take 

back nuke plant waste 

• Aminur Rahman Rasel 

ENERGY 

Bangladesh has signed an 

agreement with Russia to 

return the spent nuclear fuel 

from Rooppur nuclear power 

plant, which is being built 

with Russian assistance. 

Science and Technology 

Minister Yeafesh Osman and 

Alexey Likhachev, director 

general of Rosatom, Russia’s 

State Atomic Energy Corporation, 

signed the agreement 

in Moscow yesterday. 

Earlier on March 15, the 

two countries had approved 

a draft of the agreement on 

spent fuel management of 

the project after a bilateral 

meeting in Dhaka. 

According to the agreement, 

Russia will take back the spent 

fuel from Bangladesh territory 

for reprocessing, recycling 

and management, confirmed 

Science and Technology Ministry’s 

Information Officer Md 

Kamrul Islam Bhuiyan. 

From the outset of the 

project, Bangladesh has been 

keen to return nuclear waste 

to Russia, he added. 

Science and Technology 

Secretary M Anwar Hossain, 

Bangladesh ambassador in 

Moscow Dr Saiful Hoque 

and Rooppur plant’s Project 

Director Dr Shawkat Akber 

were present among others 

during the signing ceremony 

at the Rosatom headquarters 

in Moscow. 

“The plant will be 

equipped with two Russian 

water-water energetic reactors 

(WWERs), each with a 

minimum capacity of 1,200 

MW. The WWER-1200 offered 

by Rosatom is a modern 

generation 3+ project which 

meets all post-Fukushima 

safety standards and international 

rules,” said a press 

release from Rosatom. 

At an estimated cost of 

$12.65 billion, ASE Group of 

Companies (Rosatom’s subsidiary) 

on December 25, 

2015, signed a contract to 

construct the plant consisting 

of two WWER power units, 

each with a capacity of 1200 

MW, at Rooppur in Pabna. 

The first of the two units is 

expected to go into operation 

in 2023 and the second the 

next year. 

The Bangladesh Atomic 

Energy Commission, under 

the Science and Technology 

Ministry, is in charge of implementing 

the project that 

is expected to add 2,400MW 

of electricity to the national 

grid by 2023. •

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News 

Indian court: Taj Mahal is Muslim 

tomb, not Hindu temple 


WORLD 

Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers by the Taj Mahal on June 26 

A court in India has heard 

testimony from government 

archaeologists that the Taj 

Mahal is a Muslim mausoleum 

built by a Mughal emperor 

to honour his dead wife – 

delivering an official riposte 

to claims it is a Hindu temple, 

the Guardian reports. 

The Archaeological Survey 

of India (ASI), which 

protects monuments of national 

importance, had been 

ordered to give its view in response 

to a petition filed by 

six lawyers stating that the 

Unesco world heritage site in 

the city of Agra had originally 

been a temple called Tejo 

Mahalaya dedicated to the 

Hindu deity Shiva. 

The petition also demanded 

that Hindus be allowed to 

worship in it. Only Muslims 

are permitted to offer prayers 

at the 17th-century monument. 

Dr Bhuvan Vikrama, the 

ASI’s superintending archaeologist 

in Agra, said he rejected 

the claims: “Our written 

statement called the claims 

concocted and we asked the 

court to dismiss the petition. 

It’s up to the judge to decide 

what happens.” 

Claims that the Taj Mahal 

is a Hindu temple have 

surfaced periodically, either 

from lone Hindu mavericks, 

revisionists, or extremist 

Hindu groups ever since PN 

Oak, an Indian writer, published 

his 1989 book Taj Mahal: 

the True Story, in which 

he claimed it was built before 

Muslim invaders came 

to India. Proponents of this 

theory resent that its glory 

belongs to India’s Muslim 

heritage and argue that 

since some of the Mughal 

invaders destroyed Hindu 

temples or converted them 

into mosques, it follows that 

the Taj Mahal must have 

originally been a Hindu 

structure. 

Oak, who died in 2007, 

took his claim as far as the 

supreme court in 2000 where 

AFP 

it was thrown out as no more 

than a “bee in his bonnet”. 

Hari Shankar Jain, one 

of the lawyers who took the 

case to the Agra court, had 

said he was looking forward 

to winning the case and performing 

Hindu prayers at the 

Taj Mahal. Asked if he would 

disinter the body of Mumtaz 

Mahal, the Mughal empress 

buried inside, he replied: “Of 

course not because there is 

no body inside. It’s built on 

a Hindu temple so there is 

no question of anyone being 

buried in it.” • 

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi- 

Tech Park to create 14,000 jobs 


TECH 

An estimated 14,000 new 

jobs are expected to be created 

with the construction of 

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib 

Hi-Tech Park in Rajshahi, one 

of the 28 software technology 

parks the government is 

building countrywide as part 

of its Digital Bangladesh programme. 

The project, which was 

approved by the Executive 

Committee of the National 

Economic Council (ECNEC) 

in December 2016, will be implemented 

at a cost of Tk281 

crore by Bangladesh Hi-Tech 

Park Authority under the Information 

and Communication 

Technology (ICT) Division, 

reports BSS. 

State Minister Zunaid 

Ahmed Palak said the park 

will play a key role in accelerating 

the economic development 

by expanding hitech 

industries, establishing 

hardware and IT/ITeS industries, 

and creating a healthy 

investment environment for 

foreign firms. 

“Rajshahi will become 

a digital economy hub by 

generating IT-based employment 

in that park,” the minister 

said. 

Palak said the park is being 

built following a pledge 

made by Prime Minister 

Sheikh Hasina at a rally in Rajshahi 

in 2011, when she had 

promised a bright future for 

the city’s students. 

“The city is hosting more 

than 100,000 students of 

different educational institutes 

like Rajshahi University, 

Rajshahi Medical College, 

Rajshahi University of 

Engineering & Technology 

(RUET) and Rajshahi College,” 

he said. 

“Now we are implementing 

her promise and we are 

hoping we will be able to 

create job opportunities for 

around 14,000 youths there.” 

Project director AKAM Fazlul 

Haque said construction 

work on the 31.63-acre site is 

already in full swing. 

“The boundary wall 

around is taking shape along 

with the five storied incubation 

centre in the first phase,” 

he said. “We will invite tenders 

in September for different 

works including construction 

of 10 storied Multi 

Tenant Building (MTB) and 

land filling in the whole project 

area.”. 

The project director said 

youths will get the opportunity 

to work in the area once 

the construction is finished 

in June, 2019. 

“We are implementing the 

project with highest priority 

as it was promised by honourable 

prime minister. We 

hope we would be able to initiate 

the activities of the park 

by completing its construction 

within the stipulated 

time,” Haque added. 

Deputy Project Director 

Md Mahfuzul Kabir said 

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib 

Hi-Tech Park will provide 

incubation facility to new entrepreneur 

companies in IT 

and ITeS sectors along with 

drawing local and foreign investors. 

•

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News 

Nearly 25,000 people hit by 

post-flood diseases 

Purdue students 

raise money for 

BD flood victims 



• Mahadi Al Hasnat 


The flood waters may be gradually 

receding after ravaging the northern 

regions of the country, but a 

new challenge has emerged among 

the victims in the form of disease. 

The Directorate General of 

Health Services (DGHS) said a total 

of 24,669 people in flood-hit districts 

have been infected by various 

waterborne diseases, including 

diarrhoea and skin disorders. 

DHGS Health Emergency Operations 

Center and Control Room 

reported that around 12,921 people 

have been affected with diarrhoea, 

while 971 have been suffering from 

respiratory tract infections, and 

684 people are afflicted with skin 

disorders. 

Furthermore, around 373 people 

are suffering from impaired vision, 

while 8,331 people are dealing with 

other health related issues. 

The DGHS has already taken 

action and formed 2,939 medical 

teams for deployment to the affected 

areas. 

“Five-member medical teams 

have been instructed to provide 

support to the flood victims,” 

DGHS official Abdur Rahim told the 

Dhaka Tribune. 

The authorities have distributed 

1,771,700 units of water purifying 

tablets, 3,068,156 packs of Oral Rehydration 

Solution, 123,855 units of intravenous 

fluids and 2861 anti-venom 

vaccines in the flood-hit districts 

of Rajshahi, Rangpur, Mymensingh, 

Sylhet and Dhaka divisions. 

“The government has been 

doing a good job in tackling the 

post-flood situation in the affected 

areas,” Gowher Nayeem Wahra, a 

BRAC director said. “However, the 

government should inform the rural 

people about where to get treatment 

after being bitten by snakes.” 

Gawher also said people are 

drinking boiled water due to the 

acute shortage of safe drinking water. 

Districts under Sylhet division 

were severely damaged due to 

flash floods in June. Since then, 

the country has been experiencing 

devastating floods in its northern 

districts in July and August due to 

excessive rain in South Asia, including 

Nepal and India. 

At least 1,200 people have been 

killed and several millions displaced 

following the monsoon 

floods that hit Nepal, India and 

Bangladesh in one of the worst natural 

disasters in recent history. 

According to the DGHS, at least 

198 people died in Bangladesh in 

the monsoon floods from July 16 to 

August 29. They include 168 people 

who drowned and at least 16 people 

who died from snake bites. • 

The Bangladeshi Student Association 

of Purdue has taken the initiative 

to raise money to support the 

people affected by the recent flooding 

in Bangladesh. 

The group’s publicity chairman, a 

graduate student at Purdue University, 

Md Rejaul Hoq said millions of 

people affected in the recent flood are 

in urgent need of food and supplies. 

“Our goal is to raise $5,000 to buy 

critical supplies and distribute aid,” 

he wrote in an email, and on their 

Facebook fund-raising page which 

was set up Friday. Around $600 

has been raised, so far. The page is 

called BDSA Purdue Flood Relief 

Effort 2017 on Facebook, where the 

donations can be made. •

News 11 


DT 

Mountaineer Wasfia Nazreen reaches the summit of Pico de Orizaba, the 

highest peak in Mexico and the highest volcano in North America 

Wasfia summits Pico 

de Orizaba 


ADVENTURE 

Wasfia Nazreen, the country’s 

only seven-summit mountaineer, 

has summited Pico de 

Orizaba, the highest peak in 

Mexico and the highest volcano 

in North America. 

Pico de Orizaba 

is one of only 

three volcanoes 

in Mexico that 

continue to 

support glaciers 

and is home to 

the largest glacier 

in Mexico 

Wasfia, who has been a brand 

Ambassador of Grameenphone 

since 2016, reached the 

summit with her friend Juan 

Mendoza through its northern 

route on August 24. 

Pico de Orizaba is the third 

highest peak in North America 

after Denali – which Wasfia 

Best Electronics 

donates funds to flood 

victims in Dinajpur 


NATION 

Best Electronics, one of the 

leading electronics retail companies 

in Bangladesh has donated 

funds to 1,200 flood affected 

people in Birol, Birganj 

& Kaharol upazila in Dinajpur 

on August 27, 2017. 

COURTESY 

also summitted as the first 

Bangladeshi – and Mount 

Logan. The volcano is also 

known as Citlaltépetl in Nahuatl 

language of the Aztecs, 

which means “Star Mountain.” 

It rises 5,636 metres (18,491 ft) 

above sea level in the eastern 

end of the Trans-Mexican 

Volcanic Belt. It is currently 

dormant but not extinct. 

Expressing delight at Wasfia’s 

achievement, Yasir Azman, 

Deputy CEO and CMO 

of Grameenphone, said: 

“Grameenphone believes in 

great achievements beyond the 

ordinary. Over the years, this 

belief has firmly established 

us as the leading digital service 

provider in Bangladesh. 

“Wasfia is the best at what 

she does and she resonates 

our belief. We are proud to 

have her as our brand ambassador,” 

he added. 

Pico de Orizaba is one of 

only three volcanoes in Mexico 

that continue to support glaciers 

and is home to the largest 

glacier in Mexico, Gran Glaciar 

Norte. Wasfia is the first and 

only Bangladeshi to have summited 

the stratovolcano. • 

Honourable MP and Whip of 

Bangladesh Parliament Iqbalur 

Rahim, Superintendent of Dinajpur 

Police Hamidul Alam 

were present during the fund 

disbursement. Assistant General 

Manager of Sales Nurunnabi 

Titu and Sheikh Kamruzzaman 

were present on behalf 

of Best Electronics and Zaman 

Group respectively. • 

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Editorial 


TODAY 

Villains of 

circumstance 

No one ever chooses to be radicalised, 

it’s only when the chips are down that 

picking up a gun and raising hell starts 

to make more sense than waiting for the 

world to finally say ‘enough is enough’ 

PAGE 13 

To be the best 

MD MANIK 

The safe road home 

We need our roads and highways to 

improve fast, lest we want to witness 

something truly tragic during the 

holiday seasons 

PAGE 14 

What a game. 

Bangladesh’s performance in cricket has been 

nothing if not stellar in the past couple of years. 

But yesterday’s Test match win against Australia 

has proven, once and for all, that Bangladesh is as good as any 

cricketing team in the world. 

It cannot be denied that Australia is one of the best, if not the 

best, cricketing nation in the world. They have won the World Cup 

four times. 

As such, it cannot be denied either that Bangladesh’s triumph 

over the Aussies marks a significant point in our cricketing history. 

The world needs to know this: We are a cricketing side to be 

feared and respected. 

What is important now, however, is that we keep playing the 

way we have, and work on the various weaknesses which plague 

our team. 

Though performances from the likes of Shakib Al Hasan and 

Tamim Iqbal brought us back into the game, we have to learn to 

be more consistent in the future, especially when it comes to our 

batting. 

The future for Bangladesh is bright. Let’s hope we perform 

even better in the next match. 

We are a cricketing 

side to be feared and 

respected 

Are we doing 

Qurbani right? 

Us being the most superior of creations 

does not give us unbridled authority to 

do as we like with those underneath us 

in the hierarchy or the food chain 

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This Eid, let’s keep it clean 

Eid-ul-Azha is almost upon us, which means that 

thousands of domestic animals will be sacrificed 

in the name of Allah. 

It’s a sacred religious duty that all Muslims 

uphold with enthusiasm. However, that enthusiasm does 

not have to come at the cost of environmental integrity 

and public health. 

The mass sacrificing of animals throughout our 

densely populated capital city usually leads to animal 

waste piling up at houses, running down onto the streets, 

and clogging up our already ramshackle drainage system. 

This does not have to be the way sacrifice is carried 

out. 

In most Muslim-majority nations, the sacrifice of 

animals is usually carried out at designated spots, such 

as slaughterhouses, where professionals perform the 

sacrificing ritual and dispose of the animal remains. And 

while this practice is steadily gaining traction in our 

country, it’s not being adopted fast enough. 

If cleanliness is next to Godliness, then we seriously 

need to start reconsidering the way we carry out the 

sacrifice of animals during this holy day. 

In most Muslimmajority 

nations, the 

sacrifice of animals is 

usually carried out at 

designated spots, such 

as slaughterhouses

Villains of circumstance 

Opinion 13 

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By doing nothing, the world risks turning the Rohingya situation into something much worse 

Waiting on the world puts lives at stake 

• Rubaiyat Kabir 

Oppression comes in many 

sizes and shapes. 

In fact, if we go by 

the current definition 

of the word being hollered about 

by Western progressives, the 

examples would include things 

such as using the wrong pronouns 

to refer to someone of some 

gender or another. 

Oppression, it appears, is in the 

eye of the beholder. 

Perhaps. But I doubt anyone 

would disagree when I say 

that there is nothing “eye of 

the beholder” about what the 

Rohingya are going through in 

their own homeland right now. 

With the way the Myanmar army 

is cracking down on the hapless 

minority group, their actions 

can be called nothing short of an 

ethnic cleansing. 

Subjective oppression be 

damned, when there’s an objective 

genocide in the offing. 

Better-informed fellows than 

I have already said whatever 

needs to be said regarding the 

sheer insanity that is going on in 

the Rakhine State -- about how 

toothless the UN has been in doing 

anything about it, about how Aung 

San Suu Kyi possibly took Bono’s 

advice to “Walk On” a little too 

seriously. 

There’s been little in the way of 

anything new to shed light on … 

up until now, of course. 

A little less than a year ago, 

the pogrom seemed to have been 

just that -- a one-sided battering 

of a minority ethnic group at the 

hands of a military junta. But the 

Myanmar army’s ceaseless attempt 

at an ethnic cleansing is now 

witnessing the closest thing to a 

push-back. 

While it remains to be seen 

exactly how genuine militant 

group Arakan Rohingya Salvation 

Army’s claims of being an army 

fighting for the salvation of the 

Rohingya are (nomenclature can 

only go so far, I’m afraid), the 

trouble they have stirred along the 

borders and elsewhere leave little 

scope for justification. 

If the Myanmar government 

is to be believed, apparently the 

militant group has been deploying 

child soldiers in the recent spate 

of violence that was sparked in the 

Rakhine State. Exactly what kind 

of salvation requires a child to bear 

arms? 

But, of course, it’s the 

government’s word against the 

insurgents’ -- a group that is, 

curiously, being led by a bloke who 

has a history with the Taliban, I 

might add. 

But is anyone surprised? No one 

ever chooses to be radicalised, it’s 

only when the chips are down that 

picking up a gun and raising hell 

starts to make more sense than 

waiting for the world to finally say 

“enough is enough.” 

And we, Bangladesh, were 

supposed to be a part of that 

collective. 

There’s no denying that our 

country has done its fair share in 

helping these persecuted people 

-- even though that help basically 

equates to unhooking a fish 

from a line and throwing it onto 

a desert island shore -- but our 

government’s recent proposal of 

a joint operation with Myanmar 

in “dealing” with the insurgency 

is disappointing at best and 

worrisome at worst, since an 

influx of radicalised refugees helps 

neither country. 

High on their recent victories 

over Islamists on our own soil, our 

leaders seem to have lost sight 

of what exactly it means to be a 

people oppressed by its own state. 

The Rohingya, the ones that are 

not calling for bloody revolution, 

have done nothing to deserve 

REUTERS 

No one ever chooses to be radicalised, it’s only when the chips are down 

that picking up a gun and raising hell starts to make more sense than 

waiting for the world to finally say ‘enough is enough’ 

this fate. Stuck between a state 

that would rather see them dead 

than call them countrymen and 

bloodthirsty Islamists to whom 

they are nothing more than canon 

fodder for their crusade, they face 

becoming the villains because of 

circumstances they had no part in 

influencing. 

But what can anyone do? 

Diplomacy has obviously failed 

miserably, and pleading to Ms 

Suu Kyi’s sense of self awareness 

seems to be a fool’s errand. Could 

a potential answer lie in (whisper it 

with me now) “intervention”? 

Sure wouldn’t be the first time 

in the history of the world. • 

Rubaiyat Kabir is an Editorial Assistant at 

the Dhaka Tribune. He can be followed 

on Twitter @moreanik.

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DT 

Opinion 

The safe road home 

Why are we still losing lives because of road accidents? 

• Sadrul Hasan Mazumder 

SDG 11.2 calls to “provide 

access to safe, affordable, 

accessible, and sustainable 

transport systems for all, 

improving road safety, notably by 

expanding public transport, with 

special attention to the needs of 

those in vulnerable situations, 

women, children, persons with 

disabilities and older persons” by 

2030. 

The aspirations set by the SDGs 

now require that the Bangladesh 

government needs to expedite its 

efforts in coordinating road safety 

actions. 

Given the demographic 

challenges and the standard of 

civic responsibilities, citizens’ 

engagement is required to get the 

legislation enforced effectively for 

greater social good. 

Deaths and damage to property 

caused by road accidents have 

become a daily phenomenon in 

Bangladesh, a country that has 

one of the worst crash rates in 

the world -- at more than 60 per 

10,000 registered motor vehicles. 

Why do we keep crashing into each other? 

RAJIB DHAR 

With Eid-ul-Azha almost upon us, we need our roads and highways to 

improve fast, lest we want to witness something truly tragic during the 

holiday seasons 

Studies explored multi-faceted 

causes of road crashes ranging 

from population explosion, 

unplanned urbanisation, and 

tremendous growth of vehicles. 

What to do 

Road crashes, which are caused 

by human or mechanical failure, 

negligence, or a combination of 

many other unknown factors, 

should be dealt with the principles 

of prevention, attention, and 

compensation. In any attempt 

to reduce fatalities from road 

accidents, realistic legislations 

and effective enforcement are 

necessary. 

During the pre-accident period, 

prevention and attention are 

associated with the capacity and 

skills of stakeholders where we do 

not have sufficient institutional 

arrangement or strength. 

Bangladesh Road Transport 

Authority (BRTA) -- the sole 

government agency that looks 

after the capacity, accreditation, 

and licensing of vehicles -- and 

operators notably lack the skills 

and manpower to meet the rising 

demand. 

The post-accident period, called 

the “golden hour” -- that is, the 

first one hour after a road crash 

-- is critical when early medical 

care might prevent fatalities. But, 

historically, both the private and 

public health services in South 

Asia, including Bangladesh, 

are negligent about emergency 

medical services to accident 

victims. 

In addition, Good Samaritans 

considering helping victims fear 

legal consequences, harassment, 

involvement in litigation, and 

repeated visits to police stations. 

Good Samaritans 

To bring about changes in these 

practices, the Good Samaritan 

Law was enacted on May 2015 in 

India following a directive of their 

Supreme Court. 

Responding to a writ petition by 

BLAST, in February 2016, the High 

Court division of the Supreme 

Court of Bangladesh also issued 

“Rule Nisi” asking the Director 

General of Health Services and 

Secretary of Ministry of Health, 

Ministry of Road Transport and 

Bridges, and Bangladesh Medical 

and Dental Council to pursue 

directions and frame guidelines, 

making all hospitals and clinics 

provide mandatory emergency 

medical services to the victims of 

any road crash. 

A study conducted by BRAC 

pointed out that road crash-related 

fatalities are just not an inevitable 

concomitant of development, 

but that such fatalities can be 

addressed and minimised through 

judicious and timely action. 

Weak, inefficient, and 

traditional investigation process 

of the road crashes, have posed 

as a hurdle to justice for road 

crash victims. Road safety 

experts and activists have been 

demanding specialised road crash 

investigation mechanisms with 

institutional capacity. 

In the crash that caused the 

death of Tareque Masud and 

Ashfaque Munier Mishuk, we 

found that at the time of the 

accident it was raining heavily 

which, according to the road safety 

experts, was not the only reason 

for the collision. 

Dr Md Shamsul Hoque, a 

professor of civil engineering at 

BUET, analysed the accident and 

showed that neither the microbus 

nor the bus which collided headon 

were solely liable, rather the 

accident was triggered by an easy 

bike. 

The traditional habit of 

accusing the operators of the 

vehicles under collision has 

been an obstacle to proper 

investigation and in providing 

immediate medical care to the 

victims, which is incosistent with 

the jurisprudential issues of the 

proposed Road Transport (draft) 

Act 2017. 

Constant costs of crashes 

Current legislative initiatives 

around road and transport merely 

focus on safety issues, ignoring 

the economic aspects of the sector. 

A study shows that, in low and 

middle income countries, cost 

of road traffic-related injuries lie 

between 1-2% of their GDP, which 

clearly suggests that a country 

like Bangladesh should adopt 

immediate measures to reduce 

losses caused by road crash 

and keep pace with the nation’s 

transition to a middle income 

economy. 

Slow progress of reforming road 

safety legislation clearly misses 

the constantly-shifting ground 

realities. 

To make the proposed Road 

Transport (draft) Act 2017 work, 

the following issues need to be 

considered: 

Current reform initiatives of 

the road transport legislation 

should not only focus on road 

safety issues, but also focus on the 

economic potential of the sector 

To ensure effective enforcement 

of the Road Transport (draft) 

Act 2017, enactment of a Good 

Samaritan Law and guideline for 

the emergency medical services 

agencies should be formulated in 

the shortest possible time 

The National Road Safety 

Council should be made made 

more functional, having periodic 

interaction with the subnational 

and regional road safety 

committees 

An independent and rigorous 

investigation mechanism needs 

to be introduced, with expertise 

on engineering, legislative, and 

enforcement aspects of road 

safety with representation from 

national and regional road safety 

committees 

The road safety legislation 

should clearly spell out the 

monitoring mechanism for speed 

control and fitness of the vehicles, 

including installation of traffic 

signs and their management 

We need our roads and highways 

to improve fast, lest we want 

to witness something truly tragic 

during the holiday seasons. • 

Sadrul Hasan Mazumder is the Program 

Coordinator, Advocacy for Social 

Change, BRAC, and Coordinator, Safe 

Road and Transport Alliance (SROTA).

Opinion 15 

Are we doing Qurbani right? 

On the forgotten rules of halal slaughter 

DT 


• Taqbir Huda 

Eid-ul-Azha is perhaps the 

one time of the year when 

we get to witness the 

animals whose meat we 

love to devour being slaughtered 

in broad daylight. 

It is the one time of the year 

we are forced to ponder the 

humaneness of halal slaughter -- 

be it in response to sensationalist 

news articles written by Western 

media outlets or from witnessing 

the bloodshed ourselves. 

Aside from this, halal slaughter 

is seldom the subject of any 

meaningful discussion in our 

country, which inadvertently 

breeds a lack of awareness about 

the particularities of the Islamic 

laws meant to regulate Eid-ul- 

Azha. 

Almost everyone knows halal 

slaughter involves slitting the 

throat of the animal in the name of 

Allah by a Muslim butcher. 

But the rules pertaining to 

halal slaughter go much deeper 

than just prescribing the manner 

in which the animal must be 

sacrificed and are imposed 

from the moment the animal in 

question is born. This is because 

Islam sets standards pertaining 

to how well the animal must be 

raised, treated, and fed throughout 

No living being should be treated this way 

MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU 

Our being the most 

superior of creations 

does not give us 

unbridled authority 

to do as we like with 

those underneath us 

in the hierarchy or 

the food chain 

its entire life. 

While I am not remotely 

qualified to exhaustively list the 

requirements of halal slaughter, 

the following are a few preslaughter 

requirements listed in 

the book Animal Welfare in Islam 

by Basheer Ahmed Masri. 

Basic principles 

First, the animal must be sacrificed 

in isolation. 

Ali Ibn Abu Talib, the cousin 

and son-in-law of the Prophet 

Muhammad (pbuh) who went 

on to become the fourth caliph, 

is reported to have commanded: 

“Do not slaughter sheep in the 

presence of other sheep, or any 

animal in the presence of other 

animals.” 

Second, the animal should not 

see the knife before or during the 

slaughtering process. Prophet 

Muhammad (pbuh) said to a man 

who was sharpening his knife in 

the presence of an animal about 

to be slaughtered: “Do you intend 

on inflicting death on the animal 

twice -- once by sharpening the 

knife within its sight, and once by 

cutting its throat?” 

Third, the animal must be 

offered to drink sufficient amounts 

of water before the sacrifice. 

Umar, the esteemed companion 

of the Prophet (pbuh) and second 

caliph, once saw a man denying 

a sheep he was going to slaughter 

a satiating measure of water to 

drink. He told him: “Go, water it 

properly at the time of its death!” 

Fourth, and perhaps most 

forgotten of all, the Prophet(s) 

forbade that any beast be killed 

after it has been tied. Furthermore, 

as Basheer Ahmed details in his 

book, the Prophet (pbuh) forbade 

animals from being subjected to 

not only physical harm but also 

from any form of mental abuse. 

As such, it would seem that an 

animal can only be slaughtered 

once it is in complete and utter 

submission, preferably with its 

eyes shut and situated away from 

rest of the herd. 

Animals that become panicstricken 

are unfit for slaughter 

and, hence, should be sent 

back to the herd for it to regain 

composure. 

In contradiction 

Yet, it is common practice to 

slaughter animals in front of 

others on the streets of Dhaka, 

and no effort is made to keep 

the slaughter weapon discreet. 

Tying up animals with ropes and 

beating those that put up the 

slightest degree of resistance with 

sticks is just as commonplace and 

completely at odds with the rules. 

Once, I stood in the balcony of 

my village home, overlooking the 

open field in which all animals 

were gathered for slaughter, and 

I noticed that the butchers were 

finding it particularly difficult to 

subdue a large cow. The animal 

was in a frantic state and resistant, 

probably because it had witnessed 

the others being slaughtered. 

The men finally managed 

to restrain it for long enough 

to commence the slaughter, 

but just as the butcher swung 

the blade across its throat, the 

animal somehow broke free of 

its captivity and dashed forward. 

I then saw, in a state of shock, 

the animal’s semi-headless body 

charging ahead as blood and 

organs gushed out of the newly 

formed opening. 

Islam considers the lives of 

all creatures to be sacred and the 

reason for proclaiming Allah’s 

name during slaughter is to 

acknowledge this fact and attest 

that it is Allah alone who can 

ordain the sacred life of any being 

to be taken. 

With superiority comes 

responsibility 

Our being the most superior 

of creations does not give us 

unbridled authority to do as we 

like with those underneath us in 

the hierarchy or the food chain. 

Rather we have a heightened 

responsibility in how we exercise 

this “superiority.” 

As such, the Prophet said: 

“Allah has commanded us to have 

excellence in all things. Thus, 

when you must kill, you should 

kill well and if you slaughter, you 

should slaughter well. Let each 

one sharpen his blade and let him 

spare suffering to the animal he 

slaughters.” 

Yet, the procedure that was sent 

down as a mercy to all animals 

is today a glaring example of the 

exact opposite, either because we 

are ignorant of the detailed rules 

that seek to ensure animal welfare, 

or we willfully choose to ignore 

them as proper adherence would 

make us incur extra costs. 

Whether rules regulating the 

slaughter of animals by the meat 

industry should be incorporated 

in the recently enacted Animal 

Welfare Act 2016 is something that 

deserves contemplation. 

If the animals are killed in a 

manner that is so far removed 

from that religiously prescribed, 

in broad daylight in front of our 

homes on the day of Eid, how 

wrongly are they killed during 

the rest of the year, behind closed 

doors of far way slaughterhouses, 

when none of us are watching? • 

Taqbir Huda is currently working as a 

research officer at Bangladesh Institute 

of Law and International Affairs and 

volunteers at Bangladesh Society for the 

Enforcement of Human Rights.

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BEPZA donates to PM’s Relief and 

Welfare Fund 

17 


Walton exclusive store launched 

in Patuakhali 

DT 

Walton brand ambassador and film star Ilias Kanchan inaugurating an exclusive 

Walton showroom at Launch Ghat in Patuakhali on August 26. Dr Masumur 

Rahman Khan, Deputy Commissioner, Patuakhali, Amdadul Haque Sarker, 

Executive Director, Marketing, Md Humayun Kabir, Executive Director, PR and 

Media at Walton and Md Nazmul Ahsan Munna, Walton distributor were present 

along with other eminent guests. 

Bangladesh Export Processing 

Zones Authority (BEPZA) 

donated Tk5,86,000 to the 

Prime Minister’s Relief & Welfare 

Fund for helping flood affected 

people. Executive chairman of 

BEPZA, Major General Mohd 

Habibur Rahman Kahn, ndc, 

psc handed over the cheque 

equivalent to a day’s salary of 

• Features Desk 

The Malaysian Minister of 

Plantation Industries and 

Commodities, Mah Siew Keong 

said that the planters of 1917 

would be amazed if they could 

see how far their country has 

come since they first started 

the nascent industry a century 

ago. 2017 marks the 100 years 

anniversary of the Malaysian 

palm oil industry since its 

journey started in 1917. The 

initial commercial oil palm 

plantation was established at 

Tennamaram Estate in Batang 

Berjuntai, Selangor. The industry 

has since become a major pillar 

for Malaysian economy 

“We were not even an 

independent nation in 1917. It 

is a testament to the brilliance 

and foresight of the palm oil 

community that it has remained 

a constant success and a 

force for good throughout the 

historical, technological and 

political changes of the past 

century. It is a truly remarkable 

achievement,” the minister said 

in an interview with the Global 

Oils and Fats Business Magazine. 

“I am sure the founders 

the employees of BEPZA to the 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 

yesterday. Principal secretary 

of PMO, Dr Kamal Abdul Naser 

Chowdhury was present during 

this time. 

BEPZA has always come 

forward to help distressed 

people along with playing 

different roles in attracting 

A century of Malaysian palm oil 

of Tennamaram Estate 

would recognize one thing 

about the modern industry 

– that the commodity and its 

fundamentals remain the same: 

a high-yielding, cost-effective, 

versatile oil that is far superior 

to any competing oil. In Malaysia 

we have turbo-charged those 

fundamentals with world-class 

R&D; cutting-edge agricultural 

techniques; and a strong 

commitment to responsible and 

socially beneficial planting,” he 

added. 

Siew Keong noted that the 

most remarkable achievement 

of the past hundred years is 

the success of the smallholder 

programme. “This has 

local and foreign investment, 

increasing export through 

product diversification and 

generation of employment. The 

investors of BEPZA have also 

donated Tk6 crore to Prime 

Minister’s Relief & Welfare Fund 

and Bangabandhu Memorial 

Trust to help flash flood affected 

people of Haor.• 

transformed the lives of 

millions of Malaysians and 

brought many people out of 

poverty,” he said. 

Saying that Malaysian palm 

oil has almost single-handedly 

changed both the global 

vegetable oil and oleochemical 

markets, the minister expressed 

that the industry is underappreciated. 

“In 20 years from 

1962, the global market for palm 

oil increased by almost 500%. 

This was because we tailored 

products for specific export 

markets, and did so efficiently. 

In doing so, we were able to 

capture a larger share of the 

world’s edible oil market,” the 

minister said.• 

• Features Desk 

A Walton exclusive distributor 

showroom by Ahsania Traders 

was inaugurated at Launch Ghat 

in Patuakhali on August 26 with 

a wide collection of Walton 

The three-party consortium 

of Sumitomo Corporation, 

Toshiba Corporation and 

IHI Corporation signed an 

EPC contract with Coal 

Power Generation Company 

Bangladesh Limited for the 

construction of a coal-fired 

thermal power plant and a deep 

sea port. 

A coal-fired thermal power 

plant and a deep sea port 

modeled on Kashima Port in 

Japan will be constructed at 

designated sites on Matarbari 

Island in southeastern 

Bangladesh. Using imported 

coal as fuel, this highly efficient, 

ultra-super, critical coal-fired 

thermal power plant will have 

generation capacity of 1,200MW 

(600MW x 2 units) and thereby 

will constitute more than 10% 

of the total generation capacity 

of Bangladesh. The construction 

is scheduled to begin in August 

2017, and will be completed in 

July 2024. 

Power shortages have been 

an issue for Bangladesh as its 

economy is rapidly growing. 

Currently, power generation 

with domestic natural gas 

electrical, electronics, automobiles 

and home appliance products. 

Walton brand ambassador and 

famous film actor Ilias Kanchan 

inaugurated the showroom 

through a ceremony, a press 

released from Walton said.• 

Orders awarded for 

construction of thermal power 

plant and port in Bangladesh 

accounts for around 65% of 

the country’s total generation 

capacity, while the government 

is enhancing generation 

capacity based on LNG and 

imported coal to secure more 

reliable energy resources in the 

long term. 

Shoaling coast makes large 

vessels to transship cargoes to 

smaller ones off-shore before 

entering any port in Bangladesh. 

Once the deep sea port is 

constructed, it will enable direct 

approach by deep-draft vessels. 

So, this port construction is 

expected to play a key role in 

the industrial development of 

the Matarbari area. 

Sumitomo Corporation will 

be responsible for civil work and 

auxiliary equipment, as well 

as port construction including 

dredging works, together 

with Japanese subcontractors 

such as Toshiba Plant Systems 

& Services Corporation and 

Penta-Ocean Construction Co 

Ltd. Toshiba will supply and 

install the steam turbines and 

generators, while IHI will be 

in charge of providing and 

installing the boilers.•

DT 

18 

Sports 


1ST TEST, DAY 4 

BANGLADESH 1ST INN 260 IN 78.5 

OVERS (Shakib 84, Tamim 71) 

AUSTRALIA 1ST INN 217 IN 74.5 OVERS 

(Shakib 5/68, Miraz 3/62) 

BANGLADESH 2ND INN 221 IN 79.3 

OVERS (Tamim 78, Lyon 6/82) 

AUSTRALIA 2ND INN OVERNIGHT 

109/2 IN 30 OVERS R B 

Warner lbw b Shakib 112 135 

Smith c Mushfiq b Shakib 37 99 

Handscomb c Soumya b Taijul 15 25 

Maxwell b Shakib 14 25 

Wade lbw b Shakib 4 13 

Agar c & b Taijul 2 13 

Cummins not out 33 55 

Lyon c Soumya b Miraz 12 24 

Hazlewood lbw b Taijul 0 10 

Extras (b 7, lb 2) 9 

Total all out (70.5 Overs) 244 

Bowling 

Miraz 19-3-80-2, Nasir 3-2-2-0, Shakib 

28-7-85-5, Taijul 19.5-2-60-3, Mustafizur 

1-0-8-0 

Fall Of Wickets 

3-158 (Warner), 4-171 (Smith), 5-187 

(Handscomb), 6-192 (Wade), 7-195 (Agar), 

8-199 (Maxwell), 9-228 (Lyon), 10-244 

(Hazlewood) 

Bangladesh won by 20 runs 

MoM: Shakib al Hasan 

The Bangladesh close in fielders 

appeal vociferously as Australia’s 

Steve Smith looks on during day four 

of their first Test in Mirpur yesterday 

MD MANIK 

BCB declares 

Tk6 crore 

reward for 

Tigers 


The Bangladesh Cricket Board has 

announced a total of Tk6 crore bonus 

for the national cricketers. 

Cricket’s governing body in 

the country declared Tk2 crore 

award for their historic win against 

Australia in the first of the twomatch 

Test series while another 

Tk4 crore will be rewarded to the 

ODI side and the coaching staff 

for their semi-final appearance 

in the 2017 Champions Trophy in 

England. 

Bangladesh reached the last 

four after giving a great account of 

themselves in the group stage. 

Bangladesh played their first 

Test against Australia after around 

11 years and registered a 20-run 

win in Mirpur’s Sher-e-Bangla National 

Stadium yesterday. 

The Tigers finished the game in 

just around three-and-a-half days 

of play. 

The 14 cricketers of the Test 

squad and the coaching staff will 

share the reward. • 

Mushfiq: Bangladesh can be 

aggressive too 


Bangladesh Test captain Mushfiqur 

Rahim expects the historic 20-run 

win against Australia in Mirpur’s 

Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium 

yesterday to send out a clear message 

to the world. 

According to the wicketkeeper-batsman, 

the Tigers’ victory is a 

bold statement of change in Bangladesh 

cricket and that the side can 

play aggressive cricket for a win 

against any opponent. 

“We all know the brand of cricket 

Australia play (aggressive) but 

we also showed that Bangladesh 

can be aggressive when needed. 

They saw it in our body language 

apart from doing it with the bat 

and ball. Towards the end of the 

first session, [Glenn] Maxwell 

tried to ensure that there were no 

more overs by taking up five of the 

six minutes. The Australian team 

were on the back foot, trying not 

to play an extra over before lunch. 

I thought it is a huge message,” 

Mushfiq told the media after the 

day’s play. 

“They even talked to our tailenders, 

to our junior players. They 

know that an extra run here and 

there could be crucial. But we also returned 

them the favour. They found 

out that we are no longer the Bangladesh 

from the past, that we now 

have the players who can change the 

course of a match from any position. 

But we should be careful of not becoming 

too complacent,” said the 

confident Bangladesh skipper. 

As the two-match Test series 

approached, different members 

of the Bangladesh team had expressed 

their confidence and belief 

of a possible 2-0 victory over Australia. 

Aussie captain Steve Smith 

termed it “over confidence” on 

Bangladesh’s part but the scenario 

is speaking for itself now. 

The Tigers will travel to Chittagong 

now for the second Test, 

backed by a 1-0 lead, and the job 

half done in their belief of a clean 

sweep in the series. 

The second game is set to start 

They found out that 

we are no longer the 

Bangladesh from the 

past, that we now 

have the players 

who can change the 

course of a match 

from any position 

at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium 

on Monday. 

“It is a huge achievement. Now 

we can say it is a historic win; a 

match cannot be historic because 

we are playing after 11 years but it 

can be for the win. England were a 

strong team and while Australia do 

not have a good recent record in the 

sub-continent, they have brought 

almost everyone here. They were 

ahead of us [yesterday] but we had 

some belief since many of their 

batsmen are not used to playing in 

these conditions. I think next time 

we are in these situation, we can 

handle it better and this was a big 

statement,” Mushfiq explained. 

If left-arm spinner Shakib al 

Hasan led from the front with his 

10-wicket haul, spinners Taijul Islam 

and Mehedi Hasan Miraz made 

sure of providing support from the 

other end of the crease. 

Taijul in the game picked up 

four wickets while Miraz, who is 

still budding in the international 

arena, secured five wickets in two 

innings. 

But Mushfiq thinks the young 

duo have the ability to make better 

contributions than what they have 

done, especially in the second innings 

of the game. 

“I think Taijul and Miraz can 

bowl a lot better than they did in 

this innings. David Warner made 

nearly half of their total. We should 

have bowled better to him. Better 

performance from the other spinners 

will reduce the pressure on 

Shakib. I want more from Taijul 

and Miraz,” said Mushfiq. •

Shakib praises 

fans for belief 


Maverick all-rounder Shakib al Hasan, 

the standout performer of the first 

Test match between Bangladesh and 

Australia, thanked the home crowd 

for their support and always believing 

in the Tigers, during the post-game 

press conference yesterday. 

Australia finished day three on 

a strong note as the dangerous David 

Warner was not out on 75 runs 

while captain Steven Smith, the No 

1 Test batsman of the world, was unbeaten 

on 25. Those two undefeated 

batsmen started confidently on 

day four and at one stage, Australia 

were cruising on 158 for the loss of 

two wickets while chasing 265. 

But from that position, Bangladesh 

clinched a historic 20-run 

win. There was significant amount 

of crowd here in Mirpur as they 

constantly cheered the Tigers. 

“Special thanks to the crowd 

who came to see the match on day 

four. They believe in us, that’s why 

they came to the field. Australia 

had eight wickets in hand and were 

only 156 away from victory. But 

still, the crowd and fans had belief 

that we can win. That’s why they 

came to the stadium to support 

us,” said Shakib. • 

Shakib thanks PM for support 


Sports 

Tigers all-rounder Shakib al Hasan 

thanked Bangladesh Prime Minister 

Sheikh Hasina for providing 

support and inspiration to the 

team. The Tigers wrote history 

winning their maiden Test match 

against Australia in Mirpur yesterday. 

The home side sealed a 20-run 

win in around three-and-a-half 

days of the game and the PM witnessed 

the historic moment at 

SBNS. 

The Premier is said to have 

reached the home of cricket in Mirpur 

when Bangladesh were on the 

brink of victory. 

She met the cricketers following 

the game. 

“She is always there to support us. 

She enjoys cricket. She told us that 

she was supposed to come for the 

game [Tuesday] but was busy with 

work,” said Shakib, who was instrumental 

behind Bangladesh’s win. 

“Such support from the Prime 

Minister and people of the country 

inspires us a lot. It is very important 

for the team. Knowing that we 

are backed by the whole country 

gives us the confidence to fight on 

the field,” Shakib added. 

The occasion is one among 

many when the Prime Minister 

rushed to the stadium to be with 

the Bangladesh cricketers during 

their winning moments. • 

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‘Take five wickets 

then our team will 

win, and I think 

then I can sleep’ 


Shakib al Hasan gave credit to his 

wife Umme Ahmed Shishir for inspiring 

him as the ace Bangladesh 

all-rounder registered a memorable 

performance that led his side 

to a historic win against Australia 

in the first Test match in Mirpur’s 

Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium 

yesterday. 

Shakib was adjudged man of the 

match for his 10-wicket haul in the 

game and 84-run knock in the first 

innings. 

Following the game, Shakib 

said, “My wife is my biggest motivation. 

She always inspires me. 

Just after the match finished she 

sent me a text and wrote ‘Now I 

can sleep’. Such kind of inspiration 

really helps. [Tuesday] I thought 

defeating Australia will be difficult 

as they had the upper hand. 

Then my wife replied. ‘You can do 

it. Take five wickets then our team 

will win. Then I think I can sleep’. 

“Yes, I thought it is possible if 

I can take five wickets at one end 

and others give support and take 

two-three wickets.” •

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O’Keefe 

replaces injured 

Hazlewood for 

Bangladesh Test 

• Cricket.com.au 

Australia have dropped a selection 

bombshell by recalling Stephen 

O’Keefe from the international 

cricketing wilderness to replace injured 

fast bowler Josh Hazlewood 

on their Qantas Tour of Bangladesh. 

Hazlewood suffered a side strain 

on the third morning of the first 

Test match against Bangladesh, 

leaving the field seven balls into his 

first spell of the day. 

It was later confirmed the New 

South Wales quick would fly home 

at the conclusion of the match but 

he’s not in any doubt for the Ashes 

this summer. 

O’Keefe’s recall is a major surprise 

and paves the way for a potential 

return to the Test side for 

the second Test in Chittagong, 

which gets underway on Monday. 

Chairman of selectors Trevor 

Hohns said the panel was confident 

of going into the Test with 

Pat Cummins and back-up quick 

Jackson Bird as the only specialist 

seamers in the 14-man squad. 

“With Bird in the squad we are 

comfortable with our fast-bowling 

options for the second Test and 

have elected to add an additional 

spinner given the conditions we 

are likely to face in Chittagong,” 

Hohns said in a statement. 

South Australia fast bowler Kane 

Richardson, meanwhile, has been 

named as Hazlewood’s replacement 

for next month’s five-match oneday 

international series in India. • 

BCB announces 

unchanged 

squad for second 

Australia Test 

• Tribune Report 

The BCB announced an unchanged 

squad for the second and final Test 

match against Australia, scheduled 

to begin in Chittagong’s Zahur 

Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on 

Monday. 

The declaration from the board 

came moments after Bangladesh’s 

emphatic 20-run win against the 

Aussies in the first Test in Mirpur’s 

Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium 

yesterday. 

Squad 

Mushfiqur Rahim (Captain), Tamim 

Iqbal (Vice Captain), Soumya 

Sarkar, Imrul Kayes, Shakib al 

Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, 

Mehedi Hasan Miraz, Shafiul 

Islam, Taijul Islam, Mustafizur 

Rahman, Mominul Haque, Liton 

Das and Taskin Ahmed • 

Australia’s David Warner leaps into the air in celebration after posting his 19th Test hundred 

Smith: Bangladesh are a dangerous side 


Australia captain Steven Smith 

admitted Bangladesh have come a 

long way in recent years and that 

they have converted themselves 

into a competitive side. 

The Aussies were well on course 

for victory in the first session of 

day four as at one stage, they were 

cruising on 158 runs for the loss of 

two wickets. 

But a late collapse, spearheaded 

by all-rounder Shakib al Hasan, saw 

the visiting side fall 20 short and 

succumb to a heartbreaking defeat. 

“They’ve certainly come a long 

way over the last couple of years. 

I think they’re a dangerous side, 

particularly here at home as we’ve 

seen. They’ve just beaten us, they 

obviously beat England not too 

long ago, so they’re a team that’s 

Sports 

confident in these conditions,” 

Smith told the media during the 

post-match press conference in 

Mirpur’s Sher-e-Bangla National 

Cricket Stadium yesterday. 

“They’ve got some good players. 

I thought that Tamim Iqbal 

looked very good at the top of the 

order, chanced his arm and played 

some good aggressive cricket. 

Shakib played particularly well in 

the first innings and bowled well in 

both innings as well, so their experienced 

players really stood up in 

this game for them. I thought they 

played very well,” he said. 

Smith praised Shakib for the 

way he batted in the first innings 

and built up a game-changing partnership 

with Tamim. 

“I thought he played quite aggressively 

in the first innings. Any 

width he got, he put away. We were 

probably a little bit short and wide, 

our fast bowlers, and our spinners 

probably just didn’t hit their 

lengths quite as consistently as we 

would have liked. I think that’s the 

key to what Shakib does really well. 

His lengths are spectacular and he 

lets the ball do whatever it needs to 

do off a good length. It’s the hardest 

ball to play, the one that’s on a good 

length, and I thought our spinners 

were a little bit inconsistent with 

their lengths,” Smith explained. 

Smith believes their first innings 

went wrong for them as their batting 

should have been much better. 

“Obviously it was a pretty close 

game. I think the first innings, 260, 

and that partnership as I said with 

Shakib and Tamim, that really set 

them up in the first innings. We 

probably let them get away a little 

bit. I thought the first innings 

Mashrafe congratulates Bangladesh 


Bangladesh ODI captain Mashrafe 

bin Mortaza congratulated the Tigers 

for registering a historic 20- 

run win over Australia in the Dhaka 

Test match, which finished inside 

three-and-a-half days. 

Led by all-rounder Shakib al 

Hasan with both bat and ball and 

opening batsman Tamim Iqbal 

with the willow, the Tigers went 1-0 

up in the two-Test series. 

Veteran pacer Mashrafe took to 

social media to praise the triumphant 

Bangladesh cricketers. 

“Tamim, you brilliant, may 

MD MANIK 

probably around 180, 200 would 

have been a good total for us and 

then in the first innings we weren’t 

good enough with the bat to get in 

front of the game, which is always 

difficult particularly when you’re 

batting last on a wicket here in the 

subcontinent. It’s always going to 

be tough work,” he said. 

Fast bowler Josh Hazlewood has 

been ruled out of the second Test 

and Australia have named spinner 

Steve O’Keefe as his replacement. 

“We’ve obviously got a few options 

here. We’ve got the options 

to do what we want to do in the 

second Test match. In the end it’s 

up to the selectors which way they 

want to go. We’ve got a few options 

to play with so we’ll wait and see 

what the wicket looks like in Chittagong 

and we’ll make another assessment 

there,” he concluded. • 

be one of the best openers in the 

world. Taijul [Islam] great bowling 

mate, [Mehedi Hasan] Miraz you 

rock, Mushi (Mushfiqur Rahim) 

played a little but effective captain’s 

knock. Others supported very 

well on the field,” said Mashrafe. 

“Shakib you are a living legend. 

Mate you are born for 22 yards. Joy 

Bangla & Eid Mubarak to all,” the 

Bangladesh ODI captain added. 

Mashrafe has not been a part of 

the Bangladesh Test side for a long 

time now due to injury concern. 

The last time the Narail Express 

played a Test for Bangladesh was in 

2009, away in the West Indies. •

Sports 

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ULAB to take part in Red 

Bull Campus Cricket 


University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh 

are going to participate in the 

Red Bull Campus Cricket World 

Finals, scheduled to be held from 

September 10-16 this year in Colombo, 

Sri Lanka. 

Eight cricket playing nations are 

taking part this year for the title of 

the World Championship - ULAB; 

Business Management School, 

Sri Lanka; University of Sydney, 

Australia; National University 

of Science and Technology, 

Zimbabwe; Marathwada Mitra 

Mandal College of Commerce, 

India; Jinnah Government College 

Nazimabad, Karachi, Pakistan; 

North-West University, South 

Africa and Heriot Watt University, 

Dubai, UAE. 

Bangladesh, Australia, Zimbabwe, 

India, Pakistan, South Africa, 

and the UAE will arrive in Sri Lanka 

next Friday to participate in this 

tournament which will be held at 

Galle International Stadium, Colombo, 

including the final. 

ULAB, being the current T20 

Private University Cricket Champion 

of 2017 in Bangladesh, have received 

the invitation to participate 

in this championship. 

Previously, ULAB also played 

this tournament in 2013, 2014 and 

2016 in Sri Lanka. 

ULAB became the runners-up 

in Red Bull Campus Cricket World 

Finals 2016. • 

Abahani return to winning ways 


Reigning champion Dhaka Abahani 

Limited returned to winning ways after 

beating Arambagh Krira Sangha 2-1 

in their seventh Bangladesh Premier 

League match at Bangabandhu National 

Stadium yesterday. 

Meanwhile in the day’s other match, 

leader Chittagong Abahani Limited remained 

at the top of the points table 

after the match against Muktijoddha 

Sangsad Krira Chakra ended 1-0 in favour 

of the former. 

Zahid Hossain netted the all-important 

goal in the 85th minute. 

National striker Nabib Newaj Jibon 

and youngster Saad Uddin netted one 

apiece but it was Emon Mahmud Babu 

whose contribution in both the goals 

helped the Sky Blues register their 

fourth victory in the league this season. 

The Sky Blues created the first 

chance of the game in the 23rd minute 

when Jibon’s shot from the middle of 

the box failed to trouble Arambagh goalkeeper 

Mahfuz Hasan Pritom following 

a cutback from Nasir Uddin Chowdhury. 

In the 28th minute, Pritom made a 

fine save to deny a Rubel Mia header 

after Jibon’s initial effort. 

Jibon finally gave Abahani the lead 

in the 31st minute after poor defensive 

resistance from the opponent. 

A corner of Emon fell at the edge of 

the six-yard box where Jibon stopped 

the ball before taping home on the second 

effort. 

Details of ULAB’s participation in the Red Bull Campus Cricket were announced in a press conference yesterday 

Saad netted a spectacular goal to 

double the lead in the 37th minute. 

Receiving a short pass from Emon, 

the youngster dodged past a defender 

before unleashing a powerful strike 

from almost 30 yards that curved home 

into the top left corner. 

Arambagh earned a penalty in the 

added time of the first half after forward 

Mohammad Jewel was brought down by 

Abahani keeper Shahidul Alam Sohel. 

Nigerian striker Bukola Alamu calmly 

sent the ball home from the spot. 

Arambagh, who remained second 

from bottom with four points from seven 

matches, tried to stage a comeback 

after resumption but Sohel made two 

fine saves in the 63rd and 87th minute 

to ensure victory. • 

COURTESY 

BCB HP squad named 

for UK tour 


Led by Nazmul Hasan, a 

16-member BCB High Performance 

team are set to tour the 

United Kingdom next month. 

The BCB announced the 

squad yesterday, naming six 

stand-bys. Nazmul will have 

Tanbir Hayder as his deputy. 

The BCB HP Unit during 

their 14-day long tour will 

play eight 50-over matches. 

The tourist will play matches 

against the second XI teams 

of Nottingham, Northants, 

Lancashire, Warwickshire, 

Worcestershire and MCCYC. 

Squad 

Nazmul Hossain (C), Zakir 

Hasan (WK), Mosaddek Hossain, 

Shadman Islam, Tanbir 

Hayder (VC), Irfan Sukkur, 

Yasir Ali, Saifuddin, Al Amin, 

Mehedi Hasan, Jubair Hossain, 

Abu Haider, Ebadat Hossain, 

Imran Ali, Syed Khalid 

and Subashish Roy 

Stand-bys 

Mehedi Siddiqui, Azmir 

Ahmed, Abul Hasan, Abu 

Jayed and Nihaduzzaman • 

Nadal takes first step towards Federer US Open showdown 

• Reuters, New York 

World number one Rafa Nadal 

dismissed Dusan Lajovic 7-6 (6) 

6-2 6-2 to ease into the U.S. Open 

second round on Tuesday, setting 

the Spaniard on a collision course 

for a long overdue Flushing 

Meadows showdown with Roger 

Federer. 

While the year’s final grand slam 

is only just underway tennis fans 

have circled next Friday when, if 

all goes to form, Nadal and Federer 

would meet in the last four to decide 

a place in the final. 

One of the great rivalries in 

sport, Federer, a five-time U.S. 

Open winner and Nadal, twice 

champion, have clashed 37 times 

over the years but never have they 

stood across the net on Flushing 

Meadows’ hardcourts. 

On French Open clay, Wimbledon’s 

manicured lawns and in 

Australian heat, the elegant Swiss 

maestro and muscular Spaniard 

Rafael Nadal of Spain returns a shot to Dusan Lajovic of Serbia during their US 

Open first round match on day two at Flushing Meadows on Tuesday REUTERS 

have played for titles and while no 

trophy would be on the line a New 

York meeting would still have the 

Big Apple buzzing. 

Federer will follow Nadal on to 

Arthur Ashe Stadium later on Tuesday 

looking to hold up his end of 

the deal when he takes on American 

Frances Tiafoe. 

“I won. That’s the most important 

thing for me,” Nadal told reporters. 

“I believe that I am ready.” 

After a sluggish run-up to the 

U.S. Open that included a shock 

round of 16 loss to Canadian teenager 

Denis Shapovalov in Montreal 

and another to Australian Nick Kyrgios 

in the Cincinnati quarter-finals, 

Nadal needed a few games 

to find his range against the 85thranked 

Serb. 

The 21-year-old, chasing a 

first U.S. Open win, showed no 

sign of nerves, using his stylish 

groundstrokes to grab the early 

break on the way to 4-2 lead, the 

four games as many as he won in 

his only other meeting with Nadal, 

a round of 16 loss at the 2014 

French Open. 

But a steely Nadal found his 

comfort zone, breaking back at 5-5 

to force the opener to a tiebreak 

that he took 8-6. 

A ruthless Nadal delivered the 

young Serb another tennis lesson, 

breaking his opponent at the first 

opportunity in the second and 

third sets to improve his record in 

first round U.S. Open matches to 

13-0. 

“Tough beginning of the match,” 

said Nadal, who will next meet 

American Tommy Paul or Japan’s 

Taro Daniel. 

“The important thing is to win 

because is normal that you have 

some nerves at the beginning and 

you get a little bit tight at the beginning 

of the tournament. 

“So important thing is be 

through and that’s what I did today.” 

•

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DT 

Showtime 

The life of Abdul Jabbar 

WHAT TO WATCH 

• Showtime Desk 

Born in Kushtia in 1938, Abdul 

Jabbar developed a love for music 

very early on in his childhood. 

In his teens, Jabbar used to play 

both football and cricket and 

as a cherry on top, he used to 

entertain the crowd with his 

sonorous voice after winning the 

match. 

Jabbar’s mother was proud of 

his son’s talents and encouraged 

him further. After passing his SSC 

examinations in 1956, he went to 

learn music formally from Ustad 

Osman Gani and Ustad Lutful 

Haque. 

His formal career kicked 

off in 1958, when he became 

an enlisted singer at the then 

Pakistan radio. “Hariye elam 

kothay bolo amar shey shathirey,” 

was the first song Jabbar sang and 

composed for the radio, written 

by poet Azizur Rahman. 

Jabbar debuted in terms of 

playback singing in 1962. Along 

with Ferdausi Rahman, he 

recorded a duet titled “Tumi 

achho kachhey” for the film 

Notun Sur, directed by Ehtesham. 

He then signed up as an artist f 

BTV (then Pakistan TV) in 1964, 

at a time when television was 

first introduced in the country. 

One of the biggest 

breakthroughs in his career was 

the track, “Tumi ki dekhechho 

kobhu” from the film Etotuku 

Aasha. Written and composed 

by Dr Muniruzzaman and Satya 

Saha respectively, the number 

went on to become a massive hit 

and brought him both fame and 

plaudits. 

Some of his numbers including 

the likes of “O rey nil doriya” 

from Sareng Bou, “Khelaghar 

barey barey keno bhengey jaay” 

from Chhadmabeshi, “E prithibi 

amar proshno shono” from 

Naacher Putul, “Dukkho koro 

na bandhu tomra” from Alor 

Michhil, and “Amon korey bolo 

na go tumi,” a duet with Runa 

Laila from the film Iman, became 

very popular during the 60s and 

the 70s. 

During the turbulent period 

of the Liberation War, Jabbar 

chose his voice as a weapon to 

fight against the oppressors and 

inspired the whole nation with 

his songs. Jabbar sang the first 

song of Swadhin Bangla Betar 

Kendro - “Joy Bangla Banglar 

joy” - written and composed by 

Gazi Mazharul Anwar and Anwar 

Parvez respectively, a song which 

became synonymous with the 

Liberation War itself. 

After a few days into the war, 

With a harmonium hanging around his neck, 

Jabbar used to visit the freedom-fighters’ 

camps around Kolkata and inspired them 

with his voice. 

Jabbar met legendary Indian 

singer Hemanta Mukhopadhyay 

in Bombay (now Mumbai) and 

together they roamed around 

the corners of India to raise 

public opinion in favour of the 

independence of Bangladesh. 

With a harmonium hanging 

around his neck, Jabbar used to 

visit the freedom-fighters’ camps 

around Kolkata and inspired 

them with his voice. The crooner 

collected an amount of 12 lakh 

rupees by singing on the streets 

of India and donated all of it to 

the relief fund of the liberated 

new country, Bangladesh. 

Jabbar has a number of famous 

patriotic songs to his credit. Many 

of today’s treasured renditions, 

including, “Salam salam hajar 

salam,” “Mujib baiya jao rey,” 

“Banglar shadhinota anlo ke,” 

were rendered and composed 

by Jabbar during the pre and 

post-Liberation period. Many of 

his songs have become a staple of 

modern Bangladeshi culture and 

music. 

For his unparalleled 

contribution to the country and 

its culture, Jabbar was awarded 

the Bangabandhu Padak in 1973, 

Ekushey Padak in 1980, and the 

Swadhinata Padak in 1996, among 

numerous other accolades. 

But apart from all these 

accolades, were we really able 

to treat Abdul Jabbar the way 

he deserved to be? Maybe we 

weren’t. “The nation and the 

government recognised me with 

awards. But this is not how it 

works. I don’t have any feelings 

left for it because the media 

abandoned us. Artists have 

families too. We too have to eat 

to survive. We still sing but not 

for any recognition, we sing to 

keep music alive,” Jabbar said in 

one of his last interviews with 

Jugantor. 

Abdul Jabbar’s demise, 

however, is not only a loss for our 

culture, but for the country as a 

whole. With his death, questions 

regarding the financial security 

in the local artists’ life, especially 

at the dusk of their lives, started 

to make rounds again. Sharing 

the news of Jabbar’s death with 

profound grief, singer Fahmida 

Nabi wrote, “Why does an artist 

have to think of his living during 

his retirement? They don’t have 

any pensions. So they have to 

think. They have to struggle. But 

then again, he left a lot of songs 

to keep the people alive. So, why 

does an artist have to live such 

a life who did all those great 

things?” • 

John Carter 

6:50pm, Zee Studio 

Transported to Barsoom, a 

Civil War vet discovers a barren 

planet seemingly inhabited by 

12-foot tall barbarians. Finding 

himself prisoner of these 

creatures, he escapes, only to 

encounter Woola and a princess 

in desperate need of a saviour. 

Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn 

Collins, Samantha Morton, 

Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds 

The Accountant 

7:30pm, HBO 

As a math savant uncooks the 

books for a new client, the 

Treasury Department closes in 

on his activities, and the body 

count starts to rise. 

Cast: Ben Affleck, Anna 

Kendrick, J. K. Simmons, Jon 

Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor, 

Cynthia Addai-Robinson, John 

Lithgow 

Toy Story 

9:30pm, Movies Now 

A cowboy doll is profoundly 

threatened and jealous when a 

new spaceman figure supplants 

him as top toy in a boy’s room. 

Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, 

Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, 

Annie Potts 

The Dark Knight Rises 

2:58pm, WB 

Eight years after the Joker’s 

reign of anarchy, the Dark 

Knight, with the help of the 

enigmatic Catwoman, is forced 

from his exile to save Gotham 

City, now on the edge of total 

annihilation, from the brutal 

guerrilla terrorist Bane. 

Cast: Christian Bale, Gary 

Oldman, Tom Hardy, Joseph 

Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway

Mosharraf 

Karim 

hospitalised, 

calls off 

shooting 


Mosharraf Karim has been 

hospitalised after the actor fell ill 

on Tuesday night. 

During the filming of a 

TV series on the outskirts of 

the capital, the popular actor 

experienced chest pains, and was 

rushed to a nearby hospital in 

Uttara. 

Tahsan returns 

with his seventh 

solo album 

The actor is currently under 

treatment at the hospital. The 

physician ruled out any danger 

regarding his health. However, he 

has been advised to take rest. 

Because of his sudden illness, 

Mosharraf Karim, who is one of 

the busiest actors on television, 

has postponed all of his shooting 

prior to Eid-ul-Adha. 

Mosharraf Karim was 

Showtime 

wrapping up a television play 

titled Married Life-e Average 

Aslam when he fell ill, and he was 

taking part in the shooting of two 

television plays without a pause. 

The actor was featured in 

more than 30 television plays 

during the last Eid-ul-Fitr, and is 

expected to be featured in around 

the same number of television 

plays this Eid as well. • 

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Sandra Bullock 

donates $1 million to 

hurricane victims 


Sandra Bullock has donated 

$1 million to the Red Cross 

relief fund, to help victims of 

Hurricane Harvey, the relief 

organisation confirmed. 

Elizabeth Penniman, vice 

president of Communications 

for American Red Cross 

national headquarters, told 

People, “This is an incredible 

gift. We’re so thankful. It’s 

times like this when we do 

receive such an incredible 

amount of support. Especially 

during times of disaster, people 

see what’s happening in Texas 

and our hearts all go out to 

them.” 

“Having someone like 

Sandra Bullock make this kind 

of commitment, it helps bring 

people together and open 

their hearts and be even more 

generous,” Penniman added. 

The Oscar winning 

actress, who has a 

home in Texas and 

is a long-time supporter of 

the American Red Cross, is 

encouraging others to help 

those affected by flooding 

and the destruction caused by 

hurricane Harvey. 

The 53-year-old actress 

expects that the disaster 

wrought by Harvey should 

bring all Americans together 

although the country may be 

politically polarised. 

The Gravity star said, 

“There are no politics in eight 

feet of water. There are human 

beings in eight feet of water.” 

“I’m just grateful I can do it. 

We all have to do our part,” she 

added. 

More Hollywood celebrities 

including Dwayne “The Rock” 

Johnson, Chris Rock, Dave 

Chappelle, Jay Z, and Beyoncé 

joined the actress to donate 

$25,000 to help out. Jennifer 

Lopez and her boyfriend 

Alex Rodriguez, as well 

as DJ Khaled, pledged 

$25,000 each.• 

DT 


It has been three years since 

Tahsan’s sixth studio album 

Uddesho Nei was released. 

Recent incidents in his 

personal life contributed to the 

idea that he might quit music. 

Proving everybody wrong, this 

popular artist has come back with 

a brand new studio album named 

Oviman Amar for his fans. 

As the title suggests, the new 

album is a reflection of Tahsan’s 

recent personal turmoils. The 

album comprises of seven songs, 

among which six have been 

written by Tahsan himself and 

one song along with Fazbir Taz. 

The singer himself has 

composed music for three songs 

among the seven, and the rest 

have been composed by Sajid 

Sarkar and Nahid Noman. 

Talking about his new album, 

the star said, “Tahsan’s first 

identity is that of an artist. I have 

been able to reach out to my 

fans and earn their love through 

music. At this moment my focus 

is towards my seventh album. I 

hope my fans will also love this 

album.” 

“I did not make any 

compromise to ensure that my 

fans are pleased. I have given 

my best here and I believe that 

will be reflected in my music,” he 

added. 

Currently, the music industry 

has almost come out of the trend 

of releasing albums. But Tahsan, 

considering the demand of his 

fans, obliged with an album. 

The album is releasing on the 

night before Eid, on September 

1, under the banner of CD 

Choice. Listeners will be able to 

exclusively listen to the songs 

of this album on one of the 

most popular music streaming 

services, GP Music. 

On the other hand, the music 

video of Oviman Amar can 

be experienced on the video 

streaming service, GP Bioscope 

Apps and on its web platform at 

bioscopelive.com. 

Tahsan’s first solo album 

Kothopokothon was released in 

2004, then Kritodasher Nirban 

(2005), Ichche (2006), Nei (2008), 

Prottaborton (2011) and Uddessho 

Nei (2014) were released. •

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Horrified reaction to Tangail gang-rape and murder 


CRIME 

There have been strong reactions 

to the brutal gang-rape and murder 

of Jakia Sultana Rupa on a moving 

bus from Sirajganj to Mymensingh 

on August 25. 

Women’s rights activist advocate 

Salma Ali of Bangladesh 

National Women Lawyers´ Association 

(BNWLA) said this is the 

highest form of sadism. 

Speaking to the Dhaka Tribune, 

she said: “I have no words for this. 

The women in our country have 

no right to movement. She was a 

victim of systemic violence, men 

‘We know, there is a 

trial process ahead. 

But, it should be 

completed fast. We 

need to make some 

examples’ 

took pleasure from inflicting violence 

on someone and that says a 

lot about our social degradation 

now. Even the way they killed her 

… breaking her neck … I have no 

words. This keeps happening because 

there is no accountability 

and rape sentences never have a 

guideline.” 

Rupa was gang-raped by five 

men on a bus, the driver of Chhoa 

Paribahan, Habib, 45, bus supervisor 

Safar Ali, 55, driver’s assistant 

Shamim, 26, Akram, 35, and 

Jahangir, 19. Shamim, Akram and 

Jahangir confessed to the police 

that they raped and murdered 

Rupa. 

Rupa was on her way to Mymensingh 

on that fateful night after 

taking an exam for non-government 

teachers in Bogra. 

Her colleague got off the bus in 

Elenga area in Tangail at 8:30pm. 

Rupa’s rapist confessed that she 

was the only passenger after everyone 

got off the bus at Sirajganj 

intersection, west side of Bangabandhu 

bridge and Elenga. 

As the bus reached Kalihati 

upazila, Shamim pushed Rupa to 

the back of the bus. Scared, she 

offered him money and her mobile 

phone which he refused and proceeded 

to rape her. 

She was then gang-raped by 

Shamim, Akram and Jahangir. 

When she screamed they broke 

her neck. The men threw her body 

on the roadside in Madhupur’s 

Panchish Mile area on Tangail-Mymensingh 

Highway. 

There have been numerous 

calls for justice on social media: 

“We know, there is a trial process 

ahead. But, it should be completed 

fast. We need to make some examples,” 

said Sadia Senjuti, a student. 

“What about executing them at 

open firing squad following court 

order?” commented another user 

Mahdunnabi Sabuj. 

Police recovered Rupa’s body 

on Friday and filed a murder case, 

seeing the injuries on her body. Her 

elder brother identified the body 

on Monday. 

Locals of Tarash upazila of Sirajganj 

district formed a human chain 

in front of the local press club, demanding 

justice. • 

Britain remembers 

Diana, 20 years after 

her death 

• AFP, London 

WORLD 

Princes William and Harry 

prepared to pay tribute to 

their late mother Princess 

Diana on Wednesday for 

the 20th anniversary of her 

death as wellwishers left 

candles and flowers outside 

the gates of her former London 

residence. 

Handwritten notes on 

bouquets left in front of 

Kensington Palace read: 

“Diana, a brave princess, your sons have your courage” and 

“Dear Diana, our country was so very lucky to have you”. 

“I came 20 years ago with my mother, and my son, who is 

now 21,” said teaching assistant Stephanie Davinson, 52, after 

leaving a bouquet. 

“I’m doing it for her sons, they’re following in her footsteps, 

I think there’s a lot of her in them”. 

Pictures were left of Diana, her children and grandchildren, 

while hardcore fans of the princess brought a cake 

bearing her picture. 

“It doesn’t matter now or in say 100 years, it will still be 

the same kinds of feelings towards her, in a really good way,” 

said Australian tourist Clint Wilde. 

William and Harry will tour Diana’s memorial garden at the 

palace later on Wednesday together with representatives 

from the charities she supported, including those helping 

AIDS sufferers and children in need. 

Two decades on, William and Prince Harry only now feel 

able to talk publicly about her death, a seismic event which 

continues to resonate in the monarchy and British society. 

Diana died in a car crash in Paris in the early hours of August 

31, 1997, along with Dodi Fayed, an Egyptian film producer, 

speeding driver Henri Paul, who was trying to evade paparazzi. • 

Abdul Jabbar 

passes away 


OBITUARY 

Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra artist 

and eminent singer Abdul Jabbar 

has passed away at the age of 80. 

He breathed his last at Bangabandhu 

Sheikh Mujib Medical 

University (BSMMU) in Dhaka 

Wednesday morning. 

Dr Debabrata Banik, in-charge of 

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of BSM- 

MU confirmed the news to BSS. 

Abdul Jabbar had been suffering 

from kidney complications for 

a long time and was hospitalised at 

BSMMU for the past three months. 

The “Salam salam hajar salam” 

famed singer started his career in 

erstwhile Pakistan Betar in 1958 

and made his debut in playback 

singing in 1962. He had recorded 

over six thousand songs during his 

lifetime. 

Many of his songs have become 

a staple of modern Bangladeshi 

culture and music. 

Jabbar was awarded the Bangabandhu 

Padak in 1973, Ekushey 

Padak in 1980, and Swadhinata 

Padak in 1996, among numerous 

other accolades. • 

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