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Farhad Iqbal

Correspondent

Working as District Correspondent at Cox’s Bazar for the Daily Observer since April 2014.

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E-mail : farhadiqbal.cox@gmail.com

Hundreds of Rohingya women being trafficked for unsocial activities

Farhad Iqbal

COX'S BAZAR, Dec 27: Hundreds of Rohingya women are being trafficked from the district, according to field sources.The members of armed forces arrested a Rohingya teenage girl and a hotel employee searching a vehicle at T&T area in Ukhia Upazila of the district. Both the arrestees introduced themselves as Bangladeshi nationals but the real fact ...

36,373 Rohingya orphans to be brought under special protection scheme

Farhad Iqbal

COX'S BAZAR, Dec 21: Nearly 36,373 Rohingya orphans will be given special protection, keeping them to their nearest relatives. According to sources, among the 36,373 children, 17,395 are boys and 18,978 are girls. At least 6.50 lakh Rohingyas came to Bangladesh to save their lives from the atrocities of Myanmar army in the last three ...

Rohingyas selling relief goods at low price

Farhad Iqbal

COX's Bazar, Nov 18: Adequate relief goods are stocked at the shanties of Rohingyas; they are selling some of the relief items to locals and markets at low price. Many people are coming to the camps to buy the relief goods. The highest stocks are in Balukhali, Thaingkhali, Baghghona, Tajnimarghona and Hakimpara Rohingya camps in ...

2 lakh poor locals, 5 lakh old Rohingyas lead miserable life in Cox’s Bazar

Farhad Iqbal

COX'S BAZAR, Nov 13: Two lakh poor local people and five lakh old Rohingayas are unemployed in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas of the district. The poor locals have no income as there is no work. The old Rohingyas are out of relief assistance as they are not registered; they cannot come out of camp for ...

100 friendly centres set up to make Rohingya children happy

Farhad Iqbal

COX'S BAZAR, Nov 6: One hundred Children-Friendly Centres have been set up at Kutupalang in Ukhia Upazila of the district with a view to helping Rohingya children to bring them out of their mental trauma which they experienced in Myanmar.The centres have become crowded places with the presence of thousands of children.Sources said there are ...

Rohingyas suffer from acute water scarcity in C’Bazar

Farhad Iqbal

COX'S BAZAR, Nov 3: The Rohingyas who arrived in Bangladesh following the recent turmoil in their country and have taken shelter at different slums across the district, are suffering from acute water scarcity.Each of the Rohingya family had its own sources of water in Myanmar. They never had to face trouble for water. Even they ...

Rohingyas face dearth of safe drinking water

Farhad Iqbal

COX'S BAZAR, Oct 16: The Rohingyas got shelter in the newly built 12 camps here, but they are facing many problems including scarcity of pure drinking water. As a result, the Rohingyas are getting infected with many diseases.Sources said, with an excuse of attack on police outposts in Myanmar by a separatist organisation on August ...

Rohingyas face shortage of fire materials

Social forestry being destroyed

Farhad Iqbal

Rohingyas face shortage of fire materials

COX'S BAZAR, Oct 14: The lakhs of Rohingyas who took shelter in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas in the district built new sheds for themselves. But they are facing acute shortage of fire materials. So the Rohingyas are moving towards forest to collect wood. As a result, the social forestry is being destroyed day by day, ...

Rohingyas laud govt, locals for generosity

Chance reunion of long-lost mother daughter in Kutapalong

Farhad Iqbal

Rohingyas laud govt, locals for generosity

COX'S BAZAR, Sept 28: Rohingya refugees have applauded local people's generosity in responding to the humanitarian crisis created by the Rohingya influx from Myanmar. Rohingyas have highly praised both the government and the local people.Bangladesh Orthopedic Society medical team treated at least 25 injured Rohingya refugees on Monday. A ten-member team of the Society has ...

Envoys to urge Myanmar to stop persecution

Farhad Iqbal

Heads of 40 Dhaka-based foreign embassies, missions and agencies on Wednesday have urged Myanmar to stop persecution and bring back peace in Rakhine State.A delegation of 40 foreign diplomats has visited the Kutupalong Registered Camp at Ukhiya in Cox's Bazar for displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar.The ambassadors, high commissioners, chargés d'affaires and head of missions of ...