Flummoxed four years!

By Roney , On e-mail
26 October 2005, 18:00 PM
I read the article "False hopes or achievements falsified" by Major General Z A Khan (Retd). He wrote that TI's one source of information is national dailies, and indeed I do not want to point out that not much of this information is substantiated by accuracy, not to speak of their being backed up by empirical research.

We, the common people, know that every sector of the government is smeared with corruption. The only unbiased voice is heard from our print media. Today pressure groups' interests are preserved well. He wrote that one would agree that corruption that has been embedded in our lives would not tiptoe out that soon. Efforts are afoot at the government's behest, and now it is for us citizens to help the government to translate its pledge to reality. His expression in optimistic mood is attractive but he is not the first one to solace the countrymen. Mere eloquence doesn't work today, people want to see results.

He wrote militancy has gripped the world after 9/11. Bombs are hurled at all with no holds barred, secured Green Zone of Baghdad, parliament in New Delhi, subway system in London, harmless Bali nightclub, NE Indian states, resorts of Cairo, mosques of Pakistan, motorcade carrying dignitaries, anywhere and everywhere.

How many of the perpetrators of these heinous acts were brought to book? It is an over-simplified generalisation of the menace that Bangladesh has been encountering for years.