Re: [ALOCHONA] Core Issues - National Interests

I wholeheartedly agree!

- M. Raheem
New York

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From: Wohid <bidrohee@yahoo.com>
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 1:37:40 AM
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Core Issues - National Interests

Do we have any other issues of national interest, please????? Not Jamat, not AL, not BNP, not Hannan, not Amnesty ... please highlight core issues of national interest.... It seems you guys have only agenda, only mission, only topic, only politics, only discussion - guess what - when it comes to talk anything about the country. Please give us a break.... Let's talk about future socio-economic agenda of Bangladesh. If you really care Bangladesh, and I'm sure you all do care so much, let's highlight issues like:

 

A. How to bring foreign institutional and High Net Individuals (HNI) investors to Bangladesh taking cue of our neighboring India where investors swarm and compete who should put how much.

 

B. How to generate positive image of the country. Remember again every Indian citizen and agency abroad work as an Indian ambassador whereas there are plenty of factors within and without Bangladesh to destroy good image of the country and campaign for exposing all it's bad images so as to prove that the country is always and hell that she deserves, if at all, charity rather than investment.

 

C. How to improve strong diplomacy of economy rather than remaining as a subject of mercy. Remember, because of India's strong economic diplomacy big international players frequent to India for strategic partnership while they visit Bangladesh if there is any charity call. Indian government agencies and policy makers when travel to foreign countries, they bring on their discussion table issues around bilateral trade, investment and many other agenda of economic import while their Bangladesh counterparts table the only agenda - how many laborers can be recruited into those countries.  

 

D. How to marginalize the bad impact of national and student politics, specially the politics that create thugs, family dynasty and hooligans to rob the nation and keep the mass people in captive. We do not want to see any more any Hawa Bhaban or Sudha Sadan to appear as vultures in the sky of the country's fate.

 

E. How to promote economic activities and corporatocracy to bring about expected level of economic growth and development and financial stability.

 

F. How to institutionalize democracy at national level and within party politics.

 

G. How to promote and improve technical training, education and use of state-of-the-art technology in all economic and other activities to ensure efficiency and enhance productivity.

 

And I leave it open for you to add some more to the above list. If you are capable of any intellectual and professional service to the nation, the country really need all the above from you and not the disservice that you are giving to the country by highlighting putrid political agenda. Best regards. Sincerely, Wohid 

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M. Wohidul Islam

(LLM, Harvard Law School)

SVP - Head of Legal and Compliance

United International Bank B.S.C.

PO Box – 18373, Manama, Bahrain

Web:                www.uib.bh

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Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:

Mr. S. A. Hannan wrote the following with the bland confidence that no one will be able to detect or notice the lies that hide the truths that all Bangladeshis hold dear to their hearts:

We know that Amnesty is a respectable organization .However, we do not think involving in domestic politics is a part of agenda of Amnesty. Knowledgeable people know that the present demand by some quarters for war crime trial after 36 years of independence of Bangladesh has been raised for partisan political purposes, to malign nationalist and Islamic forces .This is obvious also from simultaneous demand by the same quarters for banning of Islamic parties. Every body knows that in a popular referendum extremist secularism of 1972 constitution has been overthrown and Islam was made a pillar of the statecraft. The left and extremist seculars have no support in the country, so they take political cover to reach their unpopular agenda. After all the war prisoners of 1971 war was released and the then President of Bangladesh gave amnesty to all people except specific cases of murder etcetra, there is no justification except partisan politics to raise such old issues.

We think the Amnesty has done grave error in this matter; this has become possible because the present secretary general of Amnesty is a person of Bangladesh origin and she has been influenced by a group. We hope Amnesty would realize its mistake.

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It is bad enough for everyone in Bangladesh at present, for the poor as well as for the not-so-poor, to have to cope with the rising food and medicine prices, accommodation and transportation difficulties of everyday life, not to speak of Acts of Nature. In the midst of the harsh realities of an uncertain economy and unpromising political future, this Jamaati 'Honcho Supremo' wants us now to deal with a 'make-believe' description of 1971 War of Liberation and the 1972 Constitution!

Let us remind ourselves who is complaining about outsiders "involving in domestic "affairs. We know that he is the Islami Bank brain behind the arrangement of funds from mysterious Middle Eastern sources that have gone into financing the Islamist terror groups in Bangladesh involved in unspeakable blood-spilling and murderous activities for the past decade.

A gun runner who exploits his high position in the Govt. and banking skills to organize clandestine financing from abroad to arm the Islamist groups to terrorize the innocent citizens of Bangladesh is complaining about Amnesty International showing an interest in the trial of the War Crimes of 1971 Genocide of Bangladesh!
Perhaps we need to help Mr. Hannan with a reality check -- and we need to do it in a hurry!


-Farida Majid

 

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