A shopkeeper throws water to control fire after Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP activists set the fire to drum up support for their nationwide strike in Dhaka on 21 September. Nationalist Party and their alliance call nationwide strike to protest against fuel price hike. Dhaka, September 2011. © Monirul Alam
Forty-eight hour strike: Police arrest several activists of BNP and its main ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from the city during the Hortal hour. The BNP headquarters at Naya Paltan was cordoned off since Wednesday morning as the BNP-led alliance started enforcing . . .
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Activist trying to free their party member from the police during a half day general strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh. According to media sources, National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports enforced the hartal to protest . . . .
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