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It's not expected of a friendly neighbour
I became wordless when I came to know from an article published inTDS (Sept. 28) that members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) have killed 577 Bangladeshi people during 2001-2006 and 300 during 2009-2013.1 can not understand how a neighbouring country that provided shelter and fed approximately 1 crore people of Bangladesh during our Liberation War can allow such killing at the border now.
Most of the victims of border killing were unarmed cattle traders and farmers. India claims itself to be our friend; now it should behave like a friend and not like an enemy.
Mobarak Hossain
Bhairab
US and the Muslim world
From the role of the United States and its allies, it appears that they are more interested in encouraging factional politics among the Muslims, instead of solving their problems. American presidents, from Eisenhower to Obama, have been responsible for the phenomenal rise of Islamist forces throughout the Muslim world. Hillary Clinton and some top American diplomats and politicians have publicly admitted that the Cold War exigencies had led their country to support Islamist forces, including the Afghan Mujahedeen and those who later founded al-Qaeda. The ISIS, which is widely believed to be a creation of the CIA even in the western media, has meanwhile appeared as a Frankenstein and one should not be surprised if in the near future the American politicians also admit that it was wrong for them to create ISIS.
But there is no scope to blame them singularly, for this has been possible only because of the rise of the so-called political Islam, which is antithetical to the basic tenets of Islam. Small wonder the United States, despite their anti-terrorist rhetoric, is eager to accommodate such entities as the Jamaat-e-Islami, in order to weaken the secular democracies in the Muslim world.
HafeejulAlam
On e-mail
Shocking DU admission test results
Only two students have passed in the admission test of Dhaka University to be enrolled in the English Department for the session 2014-15. Nearly seventy-two thousand students got GPA-5 in the HSC examination this year and most of them couldn't even pass in the competitive exams. Whither quality education?
Mawduda Hasnin
Rajshahi