State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Hasan Mahmud has said that the judicial officials and lawyers should put their best efforts to establish a knowledge-based society.

"Independence of judi-OT^i ^JM^W ^R both judges and lawyers to contribute more in establishing rule of law in the society and timely delivering of justice to the litigants," Dr Hasan said while speaking as the special guest at the installation ceremony of newly elected office-bearers of Chittagong District Bar Association (CDBA) here on Thursday night.

Held at the CDBA auditorium at Court Building with its president Advocate Mohammad Rafiqul Quader, District and Session Judge Majnul Ahsan, Metropolitan Session Judge Bhabani Prashad Singha, newly elected general secretary Advocate Ziauddin Ahmed and former president Advocate AKM Serajul Islam Chowdhury, among others, spoke on the occasion.

Speaking at the function, Dr Hasan Mahmud said time has come to work together for an integrated society' with the introduction of politics of e^WOdAM^h^^ the politics of division aiming at establishing 'Sonar Bangla' as dreamt by the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

He said all we have to work unitedly to achieve a self-reliant economy for building "Digital Bangladesh" as per vision-2021 declared by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

He said the wheels of progress and process to turn the country as the "Golden Bengal" by reshaping the war-ravaged Bangladesh in the post-Independence period under the leadership of Bangabandhu were halted by killing him and his family members.

"The killers could not have

dared to unleash such barbaric killing at the BDR headquarters at Pilkhana if trial of the killers of Bangabandhu was taken place timely," he viewed.

Speakers at the meeting opined that the real independence of judiciary must be upheld and protected for the sake of ensuring justice and establish Digital Bangladesh imbued with the spirit of rule oflaw.

Alleging that conspiracies are on against the independence of judiciary, they said freedom and dignity of the country's judiciary would be preserved at any cost.

Participating in the discussion, the judges said that the judicial officials have been depriving of their legitimate rights and benefits and the judicial sector has been facing enormous problems that hampers the timely disposal of cases and other functions of the department which ultimately mounting the sufferings of the litigants.