THE Law Commission Chairman Justice A.B.M. Khairul Haque found himself in the limelight when at a discussion he said: “He (the police chief) should have resigned that very day (when Avijit was murdered)…..We don't have this culture in our country.”

WITH the Dhaka City Corporation polls schedule just announced, the mayoral and councillor aspirants have come out with a flurry of pledges, which, if implemented, will give Dhaka a dazzling look.

THIS is my first opportunity to speak to an audience after our Independence. I convey my sincere thanks to Bangla Academy for affording me this opportunity.

I had a dream, which is not unusual given the time that we get to sleep during the traffic jam, which is the hallmark of the ongoing hartal imposed by the opposition out of parliament.

Every moment of the night of March 25 in 1971 and the following two-months will always shine brightly in the depths of my memory.

Visit the historic Capitol Hill. While I'm there, walk the aisle through which your President walks in during his State of the Union address, take the US foreign policy hostage and then tell all present there along with the citizens they represent how stupid your President is.

STABILITY is an illusion that nations advertise to comfort citizens.

WHAT we miss is what we value; and what we value is what we long for.

ONE of the buzzwords of the 21st century attached to other buzzwords like 'democracy,' 'progressive thinking' and 'participatory' is 'transparency.'

AS you open newspapers you read that East Pakistanis are fleeing their country, taking shelter in refugee camps and dying in thousands from cholera. But why? What is the genesis of this holocaust? Who is responsible for this human misery?

SALAHUDDIN is not the first politician who has gone missing in Bangladesh and I think I echo the feelings of most of my fellow beings in this country that he is the last of any politician or any citizen to vanish.

THE year 2014 and the 10th Parliamentary election are turning points in the political history of Bangladesh.

You will remember that from March 26 the brave Bengali soldiers of the East Bengal Regiment (EBR), the brave soldiers of former EPR and Ansar, Mujaheed and the brave armed jawans belonging to the police had pounced on the enemy to resist them. They were joined by the youth and students.

A spectre of insecurity is looming large on the citizens of the country. This feeling is particularly pronounced among the opposition political activists.

THE ongoing blockade and shutdowns are crippling the economy, with the garment sector seemingly set to receive the hardest blow.

OUR nationalist movement that led to the War of Liberation began soon after the creation of Pakistan. Since inception, the Pakistani rulers began maligning our culture to destroy our independent cultural identity.

THE South China Sea has seen its share of troubles over the decades.

WHICH memories of 1971 are horrific? The whole period from March 25 to December 15 was one continuous hell.

IN his speech on January 6, 1941, 22nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt said: “A world founded upon four essential freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression … everywhere in the world.

IN the absence of a political solution the crisis thrown up by the events in East Pakistan can only get worse.