, March 14 -- Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Saturday pledged to build a peaceful and secure Bangladesh through united efforts of people of all religions and warned against any attempt to create division among them.

"Today people of all religions are sitting together in one row here. This has been a long-standing tradition of Bangladesh. No one should be allowed to create division among us. Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Christians-we will all work together, Inshallah, to build a peaceful Bangladesh," he said.

People of all religions in Bangladesh have always lived together in peace, the Prime Minister said at the inauguration of a government pilot programme to provide monthly honorariums to imams, muazzins and other religious leaders...