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http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/04/24/d70424011610.htm The key-accused in Rajshahi University professor S Taher Ahmed murder case and RU Islami Chhatra Shibir president Mahbubul Alam Salehi was sent to jail custody yesterday. The court of Rajshahi district and sessions judge Abu Bakar Siddik ordered his jail when he appeared before the court filing a miss case seeking ad interim bail. Salehi’s capture was delayed for 14 months following influence of Jamaat-e Islami leaders on administration, although five others accused in the case were caught within one week of murder. Pressurised by continued police haunts, Salehi managed ad interim bail from High Court on July 3 in 2006. On January 1 this year, the HC bail was extended for the third time. But the HC bail, granted for no criminal charges against him till then, went useless on March 18 last when police submitted charge sheet accusing Salehi and five others – Prof Mia Muhammad Mohiuddin, Zahangir, Salam, Nazmul and Azimuddin in the c

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0704200367apr21,1,5525669.story?page=2&cset=true&ctrack=1&coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed Military fights Bangladesh's infamous graft By Laurie Goering Tribune foreign correspondent April 21, 2007 DHAKA, Bangladesh -- For five of the past six years, Bangladesh's people have ranked their nation the most corrupt on Earth on an international graft watchdog list. It isn't hard to see why. Economists estimate that thieving politicians, including the families and cronies of the country's two feuding political dynasties, have pocketed more than $5 billion a year by taking a cut of nearly everything sold in the country. About $40 billion in foreign aid has been misappropriated over 35 years in this poor and densely populated delta nation, analysts say. In Bangladesh, judges throw cases for cash, bureaucrats sell jobs, businessmen run strong-arm cartels and, until recently, outgoing Prime M

Ex-BNP lawmaker and Rajshahi city mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu was sued in an extortion case with Rajpara police station yesterday. He was blamed for abetting extortionists and terrorists. Shamsul Islam Khan of Mohisbathan areas in the city lodged the case accusing the Mayor and 10 others including district BNP vice president Nazrul Huda and former city BNP secretary Shafikul Haq Milon. Other accused persons are – BNP adherents Sentu, Mainul, Babu, Ranju, Shamsul, Islam, Ashraf and Mamun. Khan, a governing body member of Evergreen Model College at Baharampur alleged in his complainant that the accused persons are allied with each other and they demanded Tk 4 lakh toll on March 29. The plaintiff alleged said, Minu called him and the college principal Abu Yusuf Selim at his office during setting up of the college in 2006. Minu requested them to include Nazrul Huda, Milon and local BNP adherent Sentu in the college governing body, the plaintiff was describing in the case. As denied,

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9052421 Bangladesh No going back Apr 19th 2007 DHAKA From The Economist The army exiles the country's leading politicians AFP Get article background ENDING an era in Bangladeshi politics dominated by the two mutually-loathing heads of feuding dynasties, the generals behind the interim administration this week exiled them both. On April 17th, Khaleda Zia (pictured left), leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) and prime minister until October 2006, agreed to go into exile in Saudi Arabia—which also took in another exiled former prime minister, Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif. The next day Mrs Zia's nemesis, Sheikh Hasina Wajed, prime minister from 1996 to 2001 and leader of the Awami League, the other big party, was declared a "national-security risk" and barred from Bangladesh. Mrs Zia had, in effect, succumbed to blackmail over the fate of her two sons, both facing corruption charges. Her departure