Nothing can be achieved through arson, violence, says PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday nothing could be achieved through arson violence, expressing her hope that the BNP-Jamaat alliance will come back to their sense and put an end to the anarchy.
"Nothing can be achieved through burning people to death. This is wrong. Something can be gained by the power of general people. Working for the people's welfare and staying beside them are other requirements to achieve something," she said.
The prime minister was addressing a reception accorded to the gallantry award winning freedom fighters of the armed forces and their heirs at the Army Multipurpose Complex at Dhaka Cantonment marking the Armed Forces Day in the morning, reports BSS.
She also presented peacetime awards to the selected members of the armed forces for their outstanding contribution to their respective fields during 2022-23.
The prime minister said the path of arson violence is to be shunned to achieve something, wishing that the BNP-Jamaat clique will come back to their sense to stop the arson violence to relieve the countrymen from suffering.
The BNP-Jamaat clique has started recurrence of the arson terrorism likewise 2013-14 in the name of movement to dislodge the government.
"We had seen the incidents of burning people to death by the Pakistani occupation forces during the War of Liberation in 1971. BNP-Jamaat has started the same thing. I don't know how a man can burn people to death. I want they come back to their sense," she said.
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq, PM's Security Adviser Major General (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, Chief of Army Staff General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral M Nazmul Hassan, and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan were present on the dais.
Principal Staff Officer (PSO) of the Armed Forces Division (AFD) Lieutenant General Waker-Uz-Zaman gave the address of welcome.
The prime minister earlier in the morning paid glowing tributes to the martyred members of the Bangladesh Armed Forces by placing a wreath at the Shikha Anirban (flame eternal) in Dhaka Cantonment on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day-2023.
After the wreath-placing ceremony, the prime minister went to the AFD where her security adviser and chiefs of the three services made a courtesy call on her.