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agency
to
silence
political
the
prisoners
dissident
were
kept
political
voices,
incarcerated
years
after years without trials etc.
Thus, if we are to summarize the long and dark
two
and
half
decades
Pakistani
rulers—
conclusion
that
of
we
as
struggle
come
nation,
to
we
against
an
the
unavoidable
went
through
the
toughest struggle to achieve a constitution. In fact,
throughout the Pakistani era, all our struggles were
aimed at a single purpose and that purpose was to
achieve
framework
a
democratic
was
unable
constitution.
to
give
this,
The
Pakistani
and
hence
we
“through a historic struggle for national liberation,
established
the
Republic
Bangladesh”.
of
independent,
This
sovereign
People's
is
see
how
I
the
constitution of Bangladesh. The constitution that our
Founding Fathers adopted in 1972 was not a spark of a
moment— it was not an accidental achievement, rather
it
was
the
contemplation
result
of
of
this
a
prolonged
nation
and
deep
germinated
over
centuries. And this document is an excellent example
of our “collective political wisdom.”