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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Apologists for police
Professor AI Mahbub Uddin Ahmed and his team recently conducted a study on Dhaka Metropolitan Police. In the report they said that people are 'satisfied' with the service of police! However, a few days back, TIB showed the police department as the top ranking corrupt organisation of the country.
I exactly don't know how to criticise this report. We all know how corrupt our police department is. There are many incidents that people are beaten to death in police custody just for money. We also know what happened to a girl who went to a police station seeking help after being molested by hooligans. Seeing that she was helpless, some members of the police gang-raped her inside the thana! Some police officers of DMP lead such luxurious lives that even a CEO of a multinational company cannot dream of!
Moreover, every single day people are being harassed by police. When this is the reality, a group of teachers of Dhaka University are beating the police's drum. If the DU teachers give up all their pride and behave like paid agents, what can we expect from others?
Motiur
Dhaka
"The legacy of partition"
This refers to Syed Badrul Ahsan's above titled thought provoking write-up dated 14.8.13. Many blame Nehru for torpedoing the Cabinet Mission Plan for a confederated union of India comprising A, B, and C zones, the B zone roughly constituting what is now Pakistan together with East Punjab and possibly Kashmir and the C zone roughly comprising what is now Bangladesh together with West Bengal and North East India. The reason behind Nehru's outright rejection of the plan, which was accepted by the Muslim League, was the latter's insistence on the implicit right of the B and C zones to secede from the Union through a future referendum, Hindu-Muslim parity at the centre and other undemocratic, unreasonable and unacceptable demands. His greatest nightmare was the distinct possibility of the loss of roughly a third of India through such a referendum leading to chaos, civil war and the break-up of the sub-continent.
S. Ahmed
Culshan, Dhaka
TDS section on agriculture
I am delighted to know that TDS is launching five new supplements soon. But I am disheartened that there is no space for agriculture. Earlier I had expressed my views in this column for a separate page on agriculture that may contain the latest technologies in agriculture, agricultural economy, marketing, product price, food value, etc. I hope the TDS authorities would reconsider the proposal to widen its horizon.
Md. Refatul Hossain
Program Director
Dept, of Agricultural Extension
Khamarbari, Dhaka