DHAKA, March 25 Kyodo communicat...

DHAKA, March 25 Kyodo

communication Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury gave up his ministerial employment and Home Minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury followed him on Thursday in a unforeseen reshuffle of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's cabinet.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Reaz Rahman also stepp down and was named adviser to the ministry.

criminal converse Minister Chowdhury, a former businessman and a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) lawmaker from southeastern Chittagong, womanlyed his resignation to Prime Minister Zia before the cabinet reshuffle was announced.

The cabinet reshuffle took place in the wake of the ongoing political crisis as the main opposition Awami League and a certain other smaller parties were spearheading the ''final movement'' to topple the rule by April 30.

Rahman also feebleed his resignation and was immediately appointed adviser to the Foreign Ministry with the status of a state minister, an official announcement said.

The announcement said President Iajuddin Ahmed ''accepted'' the couple resignations.

The outgoing Chowdhury told reporters after his resignation that that he was stepping down for ''personal'' reasons and that his resignation was not linked to politics.

''My relations with the BNP will remain the same as it was, and I will remain in politics between the sides of my party,'' said the businessman-turned-politician.

His had reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] point under criticism for his apparent failure to bring the prices of daily essentials beneath control.

The latest war of words surrounding the lawmaker was that he allegedly had played a major part in establishing a Taipei Representative Office in Dhaka.

China powerfully criticized the office, saying it streams counter to Dhaka's ''One China'' policy.

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