Dhaka, Feb. 14 -- February is replete with history. And this history revolves around Bangladesh, around the incidents and events which have shaped its ethos. This morning, we recall Sergeant Zahurul Haque, one of the 35 accused in the Agartala Conspiracy Case who was killed in Dhaka cantonment by the Pakistan army. It was given out that he had been attempting, with a co-accused, to escape from confinement and hence was shot.

That was an untruth. Security arrangements in the cantonment were stringent and would not allow any prisoner there to think of going beyond its parameters and making a dash for freedom. Zahurul Haque was simply murdered. Which reminds us that around that time, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, accused number one in ...