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"There's no scope of having a peaceful election without a non-party neutral (polls-time) government. There must be an election and that is under a non-party neutral government."
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Nobel Laureate
about Bangladesh's present political crisis.
"I still do not see any ray of hope, as the parties are unwilling to sit together. They did not even respond to the UN's previous calls."
AKBAR ALI KHAN
former adviser to a caretaker government
about the possibility of a negotiated settlement between the two major political parties.
"Yunus is a traitor because he advocated for restoration of the caretaker government system violating the constitution. He should be punished for the offence. Yunus is lucky that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is yet to take any action against him."
ABDUL LATIF SIDDIQUE
Textiles and Jute Minister.
"He is a politician, but doesn't wear the costume of a politician."
AMA MUHITH
Finance Minister
about Muhammad Yunus.
"Joy in one of his articles claimed that around 35 percent members of Bangladesh Army are militants. It's a deep rooted conspiracy."
MIRZA FAKHRUL ISLAM ALAMGIR
BNP acting secretary general
Joy is Prime Minister's Shiekh Hasina's son.
"My client Oishee is a mental patient. Police influenced her to give confessional statements."
PRAKASH RANJAN BISWAS
lawyer of Oishee Rahman who has confessed to have killed both her parents.
"We are all hearing the drums of war being beaten around us. If these countries are willing to launch an aggression or military act against Syria, I believe, the pretext of chemical weapons is false, baseless and groundless. And as I said, I challenge, I dare them to produce any single piece of evidence."
WALID MOUALEM
Syrian Foreign Minister
denying his regime used chemical weapons in the ongoing civil war.
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