Bangladesh, March 16 -- This past fortnight or so was full of pistol -- mind it was not revolver -- news. In a country where encounters between law enforcement agencies on the one side and anti-social elements and rapists or the likes on the other continuously claim lives, pistol as a weapon is hardly terrifying. But apparently insignificant weapon with little firepower can strike terror in the hearts of passengers of aircraft leaving from Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport. After the wielding of a pistol -toy or otherwise -by a man in midair of a Dubai-bound flight between Dhaka and Chattogram, the mental makeup of passengers boarding an aeroplane from Shahjalal is hardly expected to remain the same. Much as the authority at the airpo...