Dhaka, March 7 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has stressed the importance of ensuring women's safety in determining a modern state.

"Ensuring women's safety is the most important determinant of a modern state. Let us say no to all acts of extremism, hatred, and disrespect towards women . . . So, we urge the interim government to consolidate law and order," he said in a post from his verified Facebook page this morning on the eve of International Women's Day, reports BSS.

Mentioning that thousands of men and women were victims of enforced disappearances, killings, and torture in the last fifteen years, he stated in the post that the women of those families faced inhuman struggle during the period.

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