Dhaka, May 9 -- BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said their party's new challenge is to rebuild the country from what he described as 'ruins'.

"You have finished a major struggle. That battle was to protect the country, protect the people and safeguard democracy. You have won that war," he said while addressing a views-exchange meeting with district-level leaders of BNP and its three associate bodies.

Fakhrul said BNP secured a parliamentary majority and formed the government under the leadership of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman.

"We now face a very big challenge. We have come to government from a state of destruction. Wherever you look, you will only hear 'nothing, nothing, nothing'-that is the reality. Ri...