Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed today urged all to learn from the mistakes of the history and drive the country towards the right track.

The Chief Justice said this while addressing as the chief guest at the inauguration of the two-day 14th Biennial International History Conference and General Assembly of the Bangladesh History Council at Dhaka University TSC here, a DU press release said.

"We must utilize the rare opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the history and lead the country on the right path," he said.

"In the light of the experience of the student-people uprising, a rare and golden opportunity has come to lead Bangladesh on the path of peace and prosperity, and reorganize the country by learning from the mistakes of the history," he said.

Laying importance on collective effort to utilize this opportunity, he said, "If we cannot implement the hopes and aspirations of the people in the new Bangladesh, we will lag behind as a nation."