What the trained personnel of the Fire Service and the Civil Defence could not do in 23 hours a small group of youths did it in 23 minutes to the heartrending cry of the parents and close relatives of 4-year old Jihad, who fell into a 300 feet long abandoned pipe at Shahjahanpur Railway Colony in the city on Saturday. Though we did not get back poor Jihad alive, his death reminded us presence of so many talents in the country, but we often missed their service.
We condole the death of Jihad and send message of sympathy to his parents and relatives with request to the concerned department to cover the mouths of all the open pipes and manholes in order to check second heartbreaking death as faced by Jihad.
Abdullah Akber
Dhaka
Violence against women
The violence against crime is on rise alarmingly in our society because most of us treat women subservient to males although Allah has created male and female, one from another and He has made taking proper care of wives compulsory for males for entering paradise. Allah has said in Verse no. 42/42 that His allegation is against oppressors, who will suffer painful punishment.
And in our society, political link is given preference to law for which cases against hundreds of criminals have been withdrawn. We think that the Islami scholars must stress in their lectures on the consequence of crimes in the Hereafter while the government must be hard equally on the offenders. It all these are done, situation will improve.
A Citizen
Dhaka
