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Sunday, September 07, 2003
National
Dhaka judge’s
court premises turned into a battle-field yesterday as lawyers, party
activists clashed before and after the arrival of the Prime Minister there
to lay the foundation stone of a new multi-storey building.
Awami League president Sheikh Hasina alleged yesterday that the BNP-Jamaat
alliance government was hatching a conspiracy to cling to power by rigging
the polls to protect their ‘looted public money’.
A week-long International Film Festival will begin in the city on
September 18 with a slogan ‘Film for the people’. A leader of the city
Awami League (AL) was gunned down and 13 others were injured in a powerful
bomb explosion near their party office on the Shankha Market premises in
Khulna town on Saturday night.
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International
A disillusioned
Mahmoud Abbas resigned as prime minister of Palestine Saturday after a
four-month power struggle with Yasser Arafat, leaving Israel and the
United States without a negotiating partner and prompting calls by some
top Israeli officials to expel Arafat.
Pressure mounted on Sunday for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to quit
over his part in the suicide of a weapons expert at the heart of a furious
row over the government's case for going to war in Iraq. A poll in the
Mail on Sunday newspaper showed 43 percent of people believed Blair should
resign over the affair, 42 percent believed he should stay in office and
15 percent were undecided.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld lashed out at Iraqi critics of the
U.S.-led occupation Saturday, demanding that they give American forces
more information about saboteurs and terrorists. Many Iraqis, as well as
some members of Congress, have said they are frustrated that security
remains a problem in Iraq four months after President Bush declared that
major combat had ended.
Iraqi assailants destroyed a car with a rocket-propelled grenade and fired
mortars late on Saturday in what appeared to be an unusual assault on
residents in Awja, the birthplace of deposed leader Saddam Hussein,
military officials said. Soldiers believed they were aimed at Iraqis who
cooperate with U.S. forces based in the village just outside Saddam's
hometown of Tikrit,
The US defence secretary is due to arrive in Afghanistan amid increased
violence in the country, reports BBC .A mobile phone company in the United
Arab Emirates is giving Muslims the option of receiving the call to prayer
(Azan) on their handsets. An image and a sound will appear on the phone at
prayer time.
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Sports
Saturday was a
shocking day for all in Bangladesh. People irrespective of their age, who
spent sleepless night like Bangladesh skipper Khaled Mahmud Sujan, tried
to attend to their respective duties after 1.30 pm when the television
viewers watched a pull shot by veteran Pakistan batsman Inzamamul Haq
cross the boundary line, taking Pakistan total to 262 for nine.
Bangladesh were kept waiting for their first Test win by Inzamamul Haq who
produced a brilliant innings of 138 to steer Pakistan to a one-wicket win
on the fourth day of the third and final Test in Multan on Saturday.
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