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Call tp stop distortion of liberation war history

Staff Reporter

A group of vested politicians practises of distorting the glorious history of liberation war for their trivial political interests, said sector commanders at a seminar yesterday.

They said success in the war does not depend upon the magnitude of military forces involved, as the collective effort of people is inevitably needed for this. This was proved in the Liberation War-1971.

They made the remarks while recalling many incidents of the liberation war on the second-day of a two-day long seminar, organized by Bangladesh Itihas Parishad at the auditorium of the Teacher Student Centre (TSC) of Dhaka University.

Prof AF Salauddin presided over the seminar, while Maj Gen KM Shafiullah, Maj Gen CR Datt, Lt Col Abu Osman Chowdhury and Maj Rafiqul Islam, among others, addressed it.

Terming the language movement as the catalyst of the partition of Pakistan, Maj Gen KM Shafiullah said the seed of breaking up erstwhile Pakistan was sown with the speech of Jinnah 'Urdu alone will be the lingua franca of Pakistan'.

He said Ziaur Rahman was never appointed as Sector Commander. He was in safe shelter at Chittagong after being failed to enter into the sector commanders' committee.

That is why his name is uttered after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he added.

Underscoring the need of preserving the history from distortion, Maj Rafiqul Islam said the history of liberation war is going to be divided into two political paths.

The new generation could not learn the true history due to this although they should have to be encouraged to learn, he added.

He also asserted that the true history of the liberation war could not be written based on 'oral speech' and 'documentary', yet the opinion of the people and direct instances needs to be added.

Release of Mufti Shahidul demanded

Staff Reporter

Leaders of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis (BKM) yesterday demanded of the Government to release the party Naebe Ameer and former MP Mufti Shahidul Islam.

Their demand came at a 'doa' mahfil held at the central office of the party in the city.

Moulana Mamunul Huq, BKM city unit president presided over the programme.

Saikhul Hadith Allama Azizul Huq, Ameer of Khelafat Majlis blamed the Government for keeping Mufti Shahidul Islam in the custody for baseless and fabricated cases.

It was attended, among others, by Moulana Yousuf Asraf, general secretary, Humayun Kabir, organising secretary, Hafez Mahmudul Huq, social welfare secretary, Mufti Habibur Rahman, assistant organising secretary, Moulana Jalaluddin Ahmed, general secretary of the city unit, Moulana Ataullah Amin and Moulana Qauser Ahmed, assistant general secretaries of the city unit, organising secretary of the city unit Moulana Enamul Huq Musa, Moulana Hedayetullah Hadi, editor of 'Baitulmal' and Moulana Jainul Abedin of BKM.

The programme followed a 'doa' conducted by Saikhul Hadith Allama Azizul Huq seeking early release of Naebe Ameer of the party.

Wari murder 3 'killers' arrested

Staff reporter

The Detective Branch (DB) of Police yesterday arrested three people who were accused in Wari murder case.

The arrestees were Manzurul Abedin Russell, Mahbubul Alam and Mohammad Ali Munna.

Police said arrested persons were the killers of Apu.

However, according to the case, the main accused of the murder Moniruzzaman Mridha was abroad when the incident took place.

The police recovered two-shutter guns, three pistols, five magazines and 64 round bullets in this connection.

A young man was shot dead and three others were wounded at their residence at 4/1 Rankin Street at Wari in the city on 24 May.

Robin, 22, also suffered bullet wound as he was standing there during the incident.