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Hartal hits life in Bangladesh

By Haroon Habib

DHAKA: Thousands of security forces patrolled the streets of Dhaka and the nearby Tongi industrial town on Sunday as a country-wide hartal called to protest the murder of an Opposition law-maker brought Bangladesh to a near standstill. Ahsanullah Master, popular Opposition law-maker and president of the labour front of the main Opposition Awami League, was shot dead in Tongi on Friday. The Opposition parties blame `terrorists' of the ruling alliance of the Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia for the murder. The dawn-to-dusk hartal shut down educational institutions and business establishment in Dhaka and other towns. Attendance in government and private offices was also thin. Opposition workers clashed with police when they were barred from staging anti-government demonstrations in several district towns.

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