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To the Editor
W^SA Water: A Clarification
Sir, My attention is drawn to news item published in your esteemed daily on 12.2.96 captioned "50 pc of WASA water has harmful germ". In this respect. I may point out that, there is no such contamination in the source of water produced and supplied by WASA
WASA senior Engineers have visited the spots mentioned in the news item immediately and found that the samples of water collected are from the ground reservoirs maintained by the owners of the said community centre and hotel/restaurant and not from the WASA supply source. This news has created confusion and misunderstanding in the minds of the water peers.
The news is hot based on facts. Water produced and supplied by WASA are safe for human consumption. Samples are everyday collected from the source before delivery in the pipeline and tested in WASA laboratory to maintain standard of purification. I don't disagree that there is possibility of contamination in the pipeline temporarily through leakages and such leakages are repaired immediately on being detected.
AFM Ziauddin Ahmed Chairman, Dhaka WASA
Bangabazar fire
Sir. We were all spell bound and shocked by the second devastating fire which
ravaged Bangabazar on Jan-uay 29. 1996 soon after rebuilding the market and re-openlng it on January 15. 1996 following a first Inferno on November 27. 1995.
We strongly feel that the recurrence of the fire at Bangabazar within a short period of two months which gutted all the 2500 shops on the first occasion and more than 150 newly constructed shops for the second time might has been due to sabotage. conspiracy or enmity of some disgruntled quarters who do not like the existence of the market to cater to the variety of needs of the middle and lower middle class people.
We demand of the Ministry of Home Affairs to kindly make a CID investigation into the matter and find out the actual culprits. ’
O H Kab ir
Dhaka -1203 .
Merrill's initiatives
Sir. Days back. I encountered one of the Dally Star's esteemed reader's explicitly intra-cellular antagonism, concerning Washington's Dhaka assigned ambassador Mr. David N. Merrill's positively catalytic Involvement in honestly resolving the grid-locked Bangladesh's political crisis, which is coherently existing between the ruling government and the opposl-on alliance. Although the seemingly prudent reader coined the American envoy's so-called Involvement in our state politics as interference: but to me especially, his dy-
namically high-spirited drive does not at least sound anything of that sort. Virtually. I did not smell any odour of dollar-diplomacy in Mr. Merrill's spontaneously dedicated initiatives to settledown our Indigenous political ambiguity, which is dreadfully stamping a deep-rooted impact on our national economic growth, nourishment, K' activity and infrastruc-stabillty as well. Aid un fortunately, during the 22-month-old impasse, that has been pretty patiently witnessed by the peace-loving people of this country. The government and the opposition parties have repeatedly failed to maneuvre any significant change ir£ order to germinate the renaissanceessence of a mutually negotiated solution, which could have healthily and reasonably eliminated their skyhlgh hardline dogmatic political differences.
Monitoring point-blank, all these sarcastically deteriorating trend of the stranded political diversity of Bangladesh, even if the US ambassador could genuinely fusionize the deadlock and thus. If he is turned capable to help the nation, currently submerged in massive dis tress, to evaporate our po tentially patentless crisis — hence, does not Mr. Ambassador's euphoric efforts, optimistically displays custom made Pax-Americana gen eroslty? I wish to urge my fellow valued readers to freeze their roving visual field towards Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Citizens of the global community of nations must not capriciously forget the
nakedly crude reality that, when the mammoth European Community finally transformed practically imbecile to stop the brutal atrocities and indiscriminate gang-rapes. carrled-out routinely against the Bosnian Muslim women in the geophysical arena of the former Yugoslav republic; finally It was again the US-engineered diplomatic drive that eventually brought about and stimulated the cosmic ray of hope and optimism among the war-ravaged and mentally pulverised psyche of our Bosnian Muslim brothers and sisters. Dayton peace agreement among the three major players of the conflict was signed in the US state of Ohio — but not in the' fictional world of surrealism.
So, the bottomline Is: It's no harm at all to our national security, sovereignty and Integrity. if a dignified personality like Mr Merrill could mobilise and bolster a bit of non-lethal dose of effectively spell-bound momentum In the long-sought pacifist aspi ration for a negotiated set tlement of our unusually pro longed and uniquely-strange political gridlock
After'all. we are not paying the distinguished American ambassador any service charges as did we. to intra venously support the reck lessly extravagant hospitality expenses, billed directly to the national exchequer, dur ing the Commonwealth spe clal envoys stillborn dlplo matic mission In Dhaka
Is not it. a point ponder9
Space-walker