Dhaka, Aug. 10 -- A group of students from Dhaka University, under the banner of Agitated Students of Dhaka University, has issued a 24-hour ultimatum demanding the cancellation of the government's approval for a United Nations Human Rights Office in Dhaka.

At a press conference held in front of the university's central library at 4pm, Md. Ziaul Haque from the Social Welfare and Research Institute (sessions 2012-13) read a written statement expressing strong opposition to the establishment of the office, UNB reports.

In the statement, Ziaul Haque alleged that during the previous authoritarian period, certain NGOs had introduced narratives such as the stories of Sharif and Sharifa into school syllabus, which, according to him, attempted ...