Mariam-Khatun

One note reads, "Love is not a matter to be shared." Another says, "I have lost, you have won." Yet another reads, "I bow before you again and again because I am caught in affection." Some of the notes are on plain white paper, while others are on pad paper bearing the seal of the National Parliament—these pages are filled with the tensions and turmoil of a complicated relationship.This is the story of multiple notes found by police last night (Sunday) from the flat of Member of Parliament G.M....

Police have arrested Maksuda Islam, the first wife of Member of Parliament G.M. Nazrul Islam, after the hanging body of his second wife Mariam Khatun was recovered. Nazrul is also being questioned. After Mariam’s hanging body was recovered from a flat at the residential building for MPs, known as the NAM Flat, in Dhaka on Sunday evening, police took Nazrul and Maksuda into custody and began questioning them. Later that night, Mariam’s father Masum Billah filed a case with Sher e Bangla N...