Bangladesh now has 5th International Cricket venue
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1. Bangbandhu National Stadium (Dhaka)
2. MA Aziz Stadium (Chittagong)
3. Bir Shrestha Shaheed Ruhul Amin Stadium (Chittagong)
4. Shaheed Chandu Stadium (Bogra).
5. Bir Shrestha Ft. Lt. Shaheed Matiur Rahman Stadium
(Khulna)
Bangladesh outplay Kenya: Syed Rasel Man of the Match
By UNB, Khulna
Mon, 20 Mar 2006, 11:05:00
Host Bangladesh took a 2-0 lead in the four-match Banglalink Tiger Cup ODI
series, beating Kenya by record nine wickets in the 2nd match at the new
International venue Bir Shreshtha Ft. Lt. Shaheed Matiur Rahman Stadium here
Monday.
Earlier, in January 2005, Bangladesh achieved their previous biggest
eight-wicket win against Zimbabwe on home soil to earn their first ODI
series victory.
With the day's match, Bir Shrestha Ft. Lt. Shaheed Matiur Rahman Stadium
here emerged as the country's 5th International Cricket venue after
Bangbandhu National Stadium (Dhaka), MA Aziz Stadium and Bir Shrestha
Shaheed Ruhul Amin Stadium (Chittagong) and Shaheed Chandu Stadium (Bogra).
Bangladesh took the field against Kenya Monday with high morale as the
Bengal Tigers thrashed the visitors by 131 runs in the first ODI in Bogra
showing total command all through the match.
After the match, Bangladesh skipper Habibul Bashar expressed total
satisfaction over the day's performance and reiterated his previous pledge
to win the series 4-0 whitewashing the visiting East African country.
Kenya's stand-in captain Thomas Odoyo hoped that his team would be able to
bounce back displaying a better brand of cricket in the remaining two
matches.
In the day's one-sided affair, acting skipper of Kenya Thomas Odoyo opted to
bat first after winning the toss and were dismissed for 161 runs in 49.5
overs after initial batting collapse losing two quick wickets for eight
runs.
Pacer Syed Rasel did the job again for the home side picking up opener KO
Otieno by trapping him lbw at Kenya on three.
Another pacer, "Narail Express" Mashrafee Bin Mortaza, then sent number
three DO Obuya with team total on eight.
Tanmoy Mishra was the highest scorer for Kenya with 33 runs off 51 balls
that featured three fours while Hitesh Modi scored 30 runs off 48 balls with
five fours.
Opener DO Obuya (30), skipper Thomas Odoyo (18), JK Kamande (12) and Otieno
Suji (11) were the other Kenyan batsmen to reach double digits giving the
team total a semblance of respect.
Debutante medium pacer cum lower order batsman Kalpesh Patel failed to make
any impression as he returned to the pavilion without opening his account.
Syed Rasel was the most impressive among the Bangladeshi bowlers capturing
three wickets for 28 runs in 10 overs and was later adjudged man of the
match.
Another pacer Mashrefee and spinner Abdur Razzak Raj claimed two wickets
apiece for 26 and 30 runs respectively.
In reply, Bangladesh cantered to their target of 162 runs in 23.5 overs
losing one wicket after the two openers gave a good start to the innings.
Opener Javed Omar Belim in partnership with in-form Shahriar Nafees
contributed 69 runs in the first wicket before Nafees fell a victim to an
Ongondo delivery.
Javed remained unbeaten on 64 runs off 79 balls that featured 11 fours while
number three Aftab Ahmed Chowdhury hammered not out 59 playing 31 balls with
nine fours and two sixes much to the delight of the local fans.
After the departure of Nafees, right-handed batsman Aftab played
aggressively picking up 22 runs in a Collins Obuya over.
Earlier, Aftab was dropped by Ongondo in the deep mid wicket region off a C
Obuya delivery.
Ongondo was the only Kenyan bowler to take one wicket for 17 runs in three
overs.
Bangladesh will play the 3rd and the 4th ODI matches on March 23 and 25 in
another newly approved International venue Narayanganj Osmani Stadium in
Fatullah.
Brief score: Kenya - 161 for all in 49.5 overs, T Mishra 33, D Obuya 30, H
Modi 30, T Odoyo 18, Kamande 12, A Suji 11, extras 14, S Rasel 3/28,
Mashrafee 2/26, A Razzak 2/30, Kapali 1/26, Rafique 1/26.
Bangladesh - 162 runs for 1 in 23.5 overs, Javed Omar not out 64, Shahriar
Nafees 28, Aftab Ahmed not out 59, extras 11, Ongondo 1/17.
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> Bangladesh now has 5th International Cricket venue
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Nishan-E-Haider Rashid Minhas's grave is at the Fauji graveyard off
Shara-e-Faisal in Karachi.
Bir Sreshtha Flt. Lt. Matiur Rahman was buried in the graveyard for
fourth class employees of Pakistan Air Force at Masrur Airbase. The
grave of Motiur Rahman remains there uncared for and neglected.
The Pakistani authorities even dared to disgrace the gallant hero by
hanging his photograph and identifying him as a Gaddar (Traitor) at the
main entrance to the Mashrur Airbase.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Minhas
Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed (born February 17, 1951 / d.
August 20, 1971) was a Pilot Officer in the Pakistan Air Force during
the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. He was new to the Air Force having
been commissioned that year.
On August 20, 1971 Minhas was getting ready to take-off in a T-33
trainer in Karachi when a Bengali pilot, Matiur Rahman forced his way
into the back of the plane. Rahman knocked out Minhas with some blunt
object and tried to defect to India in order to join the liberation
movement for Bangladesh.
Minhas regained consciousness and realized that the plane was heading
towards India. What happened next has not been ascertained, but it is
widely believed that the ensuing struggle between Minhas and Rahman
resulted in the crash of the plane just thirty miles from the border of
India.
For his act he was awarded top military honor, Nishan-E-Haider, becomes
the youngest man to win the award, and the only member of the Pakistan
Air Force to win it. With this award he has become a national hero. The
Pakistan Air Force base at Kamra has been renamed in his honor.
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Rashid Minhas's grave stone at his grave at the Fauji graveyard off
Shara-e-Faisal in Karachi reads the following epitaph:
"Parwaaz hai ik hi fiza mein dono ki
momin ka nishaan aur hai munafiq ka nishaan aur
Hai Rashid ki shahaadat pai Iqbal ka yeh qaul
shaheen ka jahaan aur hai kyrgyz ka jahaan aur"
Translation:
"Both glide in the same air yet
the aim of a momin is another, that of a hypocrite another
On Rashid's martyrdom Iqbal's quote is
the world of a falcon is another, that of a vulture another."
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>From Banglapedia:
[Matiur Rahman was buried at the graveyard of fourth class employees at
Masrur Airbase]
Rahman, (Bir Srestha) Matiur (1941-1971) martyr in the war of
liberation. Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman was born in dhaka on 29
November 1941. He received his primary education at Dhaka Collegiate
School. Next he got himself admitted into Pakistan Air Force Public
School at Sargoda in West Pakistan. After completing his twelfth class
course there he entered Pakistan Air Force Academy. He was commissioned
in June 1963 and was posted at Risalpur, West Pakistan. He successfully
completed the Jet Conversion Course in Karachi before he was appointed
a Jet Pilot in Peshawar.
Rahman made a secret plan of hijacking an aircraft. His aim was to join
the liberation forces with the hijacked plane. On the morning of 20
August Pilot Officer Minhaz Rashid was scheduled to fly in a T-33
aircraft from Masrur Airbase in Karachi with Matiur Rahman as his
trainer. The T-33 aircraft was code-named 'Bluebird'. During the
training flight Matiur Rahman attempted to take control of the aircraft
into his own hands, but failed. The plane crashed in Thatta, a place
near the Indian border. Matiur's dead body was found near the crash
sight, but no traces of Minhaz's dead body could be discovered. Matiur
Rahman was buried at the graveyard of fourth class employees at Masrur
Airbase.
Matiur Rahman was awarded the highest state title of honour 'Bir
Srestha' in recognition of his patriotism and sacrifice.
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[Bir Srestho Motiur Rahman remained buried in the graveyard for fourth
class employees of Pakistan Air Force. They said that the grave of
Motiur Rahman remains there uncared for and neglected]
http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/news/mar/26/26032005mt.htm#A10
Independent, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Saturday, March 26, 2006
Call to bring back mortal remains of Bir Srestho Matiur Rahman
Speakers at a citizens' rally and human chain yesterday urged the
government to take initiative to bring back mortal remains of Bir
Srestho Motiur Rahman from Pakistan.
They regretted that Bir Srestho Motiur Rahman remained buried in the
graveyard for fourth class employees of Pakistan Air Force. They said
that the grave of Motiur Rahman remains there uncared for and
neglected.
The speakers recalled that Bir Srestho Motiur Rahman hijacked a PAF
trainer jet and embraced martyrdom during an abortive bid to fly the
plane to India on August 20, 1971 during the Liberation War of
Bangladesh.
They submitted a four-point demand which includes an initiative to
bring back the remains of Matiur Rahman, one of the greatest sons of
the soil, and his burial in Bangladesh with state honour, preservation
of the graves of all Bir Sresthos and publication of their biographies
by the initiative of the government.
Coordinator of Biswa Shahitya Kendro Golam Kibria, contingent commander
of Liberation War Captain Abul Kashem, among others, spoke at the rally
presided over by Abu Naser Khan. Save Environment Movement organised
the citizens rally and human chain.
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http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/03/26/d50326011816.htm
Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Bring Matiur's remains back from Pakistan
Citizens held a rally and formed human chain at Shahbagh in the city
yesterday demanding the government's immediate initiative regarding
bringing back the remains of martyred Birsreshtha flight lieutenant
Matiur Rahman from his grave in Pakistan.
Speakers at the rally organised by the Save Environment Movement (SEM)
expressed solidarity with Milly Rahman, wife of Birsreshtha Matiur
Rahman, who recently applied to the prime minister in this regard.
Although 34 years have passed since the Liberation War, no governments
took any initiative to bring back the body of Birsreshtha Matiur Rahman
who had been buried at the Mashrur Airbase graveyard in Karachi,
Pakistan, entitled for the fourth class employees, SEM convenor Abu
Naser Khan said.
The Pakistani authorities even dared to disgrace Matiur by identifying
him as a "gaddar" (traitor) at the main entrance to the airbase, he
added.
"There are numerous examples of relocation of graves in our
country--late president Ziaur Rahman's grave was shifted from
Chittagong to Dhaka," Golam Kibria, co-ordinator of Bishwa Shahitya
Kendra, reasoned.
"If we cannot shift Matiur's grave from Pakistan, it will be a great
shame for the nation as well as all freedom fighters of the country,"
freedom fighter Abul Kashem said.
The speakers also placed emphasis on publishing a complete biography of
the seven Birsreshthas nationally.
Shahjahan Mridha Benu, AKM Maksud, advocate Abul Kalam Azad,
environment activist Subrata Das, Binoy Mandal and Robin Biswas also
spoke at the rally.
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[The Pakistani authorities, vilifying him as a traitor, buried him in a
lowly grave in Karachi, where his remains happen to be after all these
years]
http://www.newagebd.com/2005/mar/26/edit.html#1
New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Saturday, March 26, 2005
EDITORIAL
Bir Sreshtha's remains
On this auspicious day of a remembrance of the struggle for national
freedom, it makes sense for the nation to recall the men and women who
died so that the nation could live in freedom and dignity. One of the
courageous souls in the history of this land is Flight Lieutenant
Matiur Rahman, the patriotic Bengali who lost his life even as he
attempted to find his way from Pakistan to the field of struggle in
Bangladesh. His was an unfortunate flight, for it crashed even before
it could make its way out of Pakistani territory. The Pakistani
authorities, vilifying him as a traitor, buried him in a lowly grave in
Karachi, where his remains happen to be after all these years. A
grateful Bengali nation conferred on him the highest honour of Bir
Sreshtha for his extraordinary devotion to the struggle for liberty.
It now becomes reasonable to ask the government of Bangladesh to
undertake the moves necessary for his remains to be brought back home.
Indeed, the task of negotiating with the Pakistan authorities about
retrieving Matiur Rahman's remains from Masrur air force base and
bringing them to Dhaka ought to have been undertaken long ago. Ten
years ago, his daughter made an emotional trip to Karachi to see her
father's grave. Now the time has surely arrived when this nation must
seriously impress upon the authorities the need to have our martyred
hero come home. We understand that Matiur Rahman's widow has already
appealed to the prime minister on the issue. We know too that there are
people with religious perspectives on the question of reburial. But
since there are precedents for such reburials and since the bigger
cause is a full preservation of history, it is only fitting and proper
that Matiur Rahman's bones are brought back to this country. He has
lain in foreign land for too long.
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[He was buried at a graveyard entitled for the fourth class employees.
The Pakistani authorities even dared to disgrace the gallant hero by
hanging his photograph and identifying him as a Gaddar (Traitor) at the
main entrance to the Mashrur Airbase]
http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/03/24/d5032401098.htm
Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Thursday, March 24, 2006
Elegy for a Bir Sreshtha
Ashiqur Rahman
Thirty-four years have gone by since the Liberation War, but successive
governments have not taken any initiative to bring back martyred Flight
Lieutenant Matiur Rahman's (Bir Sreshtha) grave from Pakistan.
Recently Milly Rahman, wife of Matiur Rahman, has appealed to the prime
minister for steps to shift her husband's grave to Bangladesh so that
the nation can pay homage to Matiur, a martyr to the cause of the
country's independence.
Matiur died in a crash on August 20 in 1971 while endeavouring to join
the Liberation War with a T-33 aircraft from the Mashrur Airbase of
Karachi.
He was buried at a graveyard entitled for the fourth class employees.
The Pakistani authorities even dared to disgrace the gallant hero by
hanging his photograph and identifying him as a Gaddar (Traitor) at the
main entrance to the Mashrur Airbase.
"My husband's grave still lies in Pakistan amid sheer dishonour despite
the fact that 34 years have gone by since the Liberation War," Milly
Rahman aggrieved.
"My daughter, Mahim Matiur Khandaker, first officially applied to the
government for relocating his father's grave to Bangladesh immediately
after visiting the grave in Pakistan back in 1994," she said.
In 2003, the government decided to build memorials to the country's
seven Bir Shrestha in the places where they died. But for Matiur
Rahman, the government decided to build the memorial near the city's
Bijoy Sarani though he died in Pakistan, she added.
"In a programme of laying the foundation stone of the memorial to
Matiur Rahman, I once again requested the government to act to relocate
the grave," Milly said.
"After writing about it in a national daily on December 2004, I
received huge response from the public and everyone encouraged me to
apply to the prime minister," she added.
She called on the entire nation to join her in demanding the
relocation.
Citing examples of former president Ziaur Rahman and Momtaj, wife of
emperor Shahjahan, Milly said "Shifting graves from one place to
another is nothing new in the Muslim world, so I hope the concerned
authorities will act to meet my demand," she said.
A concerned government official recently said that religious provisions
do not permit replacing a grave.
He said, however, that the government would take its decision in this
regard after considering various factors.
Justice Mohammad Golam Rabbani, retired judge of the Supreme Court
Appellate Division, said that Islam does not directly prohibit moving a
grave to another place.
"In the case of relocating a grave, there is no specific example in
Islam," he said.
Besides, lifting bodies from graves for the sake of proper
investigation are not unusual in the country, he added.
"On the principles of justice, the concerned authorities should decide
in favour of moving the grave to Bangladesh," Rabbani observed.
"There are numerous examples of relocation of graves, and even in our
country late president Ziaur Rahman's grave was shifted from Chittagong
to Dhaka," he said adding that Yasser Arafat was recently buried in
Ramallah in a way that Palestinian people can shift their leader's
grave to Jerusalem in future.
A number of social and environmental organisations have already
expressed solidarity with Milly Rahman.
Abu Naser Khan, Convenor of Save the Environment, said that they would
demonstrate ahead of the Independence Day in favour of relocation of
Bir Sreshtha Matiur's grave.
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