Comments on news analysis

“Our neo-historians,” published on September 4, 2014

Dev Saha
It is rather sickening to see some people are rewriting history with no corroboration of any historical facts. They think, if they keep repeating certain things, those will become historical facts. This kind of distortion should be considered a serious crime against the nation.

Abul Kalam
I was a student of BUET at that time and I was sitting in front of the dais from where Bangabandhu was delivering the historical speech of March 7, 1971. He never uttered 'Joy Pakistan'. The mass people present there were not in a mood to tolerate the word 'Joy Pakistan'. AK Khondokar's assertion is completely unfounded and devoid of truth.

A Freedom Fighter
From this discovery by AK Khondokar, it seems probably he was not in the gathering at that time. A person with zero IQ would realise that after having said, “This is the struggle for emancipation, this is the struggle for independence” followed by 'Joy Bangla', if the leader would say 'Joy Pakistan', the whole essence of the speech would have been nullified. Moreover, could Khondokar show any such thing that the newspapers in the then East Pakistan printed?

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“Padma corruption probe laid to rest”(September 4, 2014)

Sayed Rahman
Padma corruption probe laid to rest or the matter has come to the surface again? This massive project should be kept above politics.