The New Nation - Internet Edition

Without Aladin's lamp in his hand the US President George Bush wants to fulfil all his dreams and very often, out and out, he, perhaps; lacks commonsense.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has rightly warned of US 'unilateral' action against Islamic militants in Pakistan.

With more than one million US and NATO troops the US President has failed to maintain law and order in Iraq and Afghanistan. What right or logic now has USA to take 'unilateral' action against militants in Pakistan?

Let George Bush, Barack Obama, McCain, Gordon Brown, Ehud Olmert and other leaders know that terrorism would continue for indefinite period till the problem of Palestine is solved. They may also kindly note from our bitter experiences that suicide bombing by terrorists is no less dangerous and destructive than atom bombs.

O.H. Kabir

Dhaka-1203

I express my thanks to the writer (who preferred not to be named) of the captioned letter published in a leading Dhaka daily on July 28, 2008.

Yes, we saw some so-called Bangladeshi bigwigs (of certain colour and political lineage) tear their all eyes at the death of Indian Field Marshal Manekshaw - who died a natural death at the age of 93 a few weeks back. But, unfortunately they are all in acute shortage of words to condole the death of the BDR jawans killed by the BSF gun-runners of our big neighbour. Similarly, Indian interests bearer politicians remained shamefully non-chalant to such national threat.

However, we pray for the eternal peace of those brave sons of the soil who sacrificed their invaluable lives for the cause and dignity of the nation.

Kalpana Chowdhury

Azimpur, Dhaka