Readers’ Forum

Pabna Rly Station

The construction work of the Pabna Railway Station and Ishurdi-Pabna Railway line has been completed, but mysteriously there is no initiative to cut the tape. Pabna is 16 miles from both Ishurdi Junction and Chatmohar Railway Station and 99 miles from Dhaka. The People of Pabna are eagerly waiting for inauguration of Pabna Railway Station in order to reduce their dependency on the buses.
May we ask Paksey Railway Division authorities to open the Pabna Railway Station as quicker as possible?

Khurshida Hena
Pabna

Commodity prices

 It has been a terrible practice of increasing commodity prices in the month of Ramadan in Bangladesh. Whoever, wholesaler or retailer, does it, he is mischief-maker. They should know that Allah will take account of all things, – (Ref: Al-Quran, Surah An-Nisa, Verse No.86).
Allah says about the mischief-makers in Verse Nos 12 and 13 of Baqarah, “And when it is said unto them, ” Make not mischief on the earth,” they say, “We are but reformers.” Unquestionably, it is they who are the mischief-makers, but they perceive [it] not.

Ameer Hamzah
Dhaka