Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the anti-liberation forces and killers of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are always active in trying to make Bangladesh a “failed state”. "We should always keep in mind that Bangladesh is our country. We had earned our independence. The anti-liberation elements and the killers of the Father of the Nation are always active to make Bangladesh a failed state," she told Awami League leaders and activists. Sheikh Hasina said this during her closing remarks while exchanging greetings with party leaders and activists at Ganabhaban after she was reelected AL President for the 10th consecutive term. The PM said other governments had tried to turn the country into a failed state for 29 years — from 1975 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2009. Read more: Accepted leadership of the party considering the volatile global economy: PM Hasina As Awami League could come to power for three consecutive terms through elections, getting the votes of people since 2009, now Bangladesh has attained the status of a developing country and its people have got dignity, she said. She said that only one decision to build Padma Bridge with own funds has  immensely brightened the image of Bangladesh in the world. Sheikh Hasina said Awami League's source of power is the people. "The general people who support us are the greatest source of power for us. So, every leader and activist will have to work for the welfare of the common people," she added. Read more: Never allow anti-liberation forces to be in power again: PM

Former Chattogram Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul Akter hired killers at Tk 3 lakh to kill his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in 2016, said a report of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Wednesday. “Babul developed an extra marital relationship with a foreign woman and they had a child. That’s why Babul took the decision to kill Mitu,” said Abu Zafar Mohammad Omar Faruk, inspector of PBI and also the investigation officer of the case. The PBI report also unveiled that Quamrul Islam Shikdar Musa and six others took part in the killing mission. After the murder, Babul asked Musa to go into hiding, said the report. PBI inspector Zafar also said that they are at the final stage of submitting the chargesheet and the mystery of the killing was unveiled with the help of technology. According to the report, Babul, who filed the murder case,  was made the main accused in the case. The six other accused in the case are—Quamrul Islam Shikdar Musa, Ehtashamul Haque alias Haniful Haque alias Bholaia Md Motaleb Mia Wasim, Anwar Hossain, Khairul Islam Kalu and Shahjahan Mia. PBI Chief, Additional Inspector General Banaj Kumar Majumdar, said “The investigation is almost done and a chargesheet is under preparation but it will take few more days to submit the report before the court.” On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul's wife Mitu at the port city's GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akhter, 7, for a bus of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College. Read: Mitu murder case: Former Chattogram SP Babul Akter detained Soon after the crime, Babul filed a murder case at Panchlaish Police Station against three unidentified men. The case was transferred to the Police Bureau Investigation (PBI) in 2019 after Mitu's father, himself a retired police officer, filed a complaint against the CMP's mishandling of the case. On May 12, 2021, the PBI submitted its final report and arrested Babul Akter in another case filed by Mitu’s father and since then he has been in prison. Babul Akhter also filed a ‘naraji petition’ against the PBI report on October 14, 2021. On November 3 last year, a Chattogram Court rejected the final report of PBI in the murder case and ordered it to conduct further investigation. PBI in an investigation found Babul’s involvement in his wife's murder.