As I see Mohammad Asghar When the 75 million people of East Pakistan, minus the vast majority of its non-Bengali populace, were fighting the armed forces of West Pakistan with the help of I also saw many non-Bengalis and Bengalis fighting and killing each other, when the battle between the freedom fighters of A few years after the birth of When I recall the events that had taken place before and after the independence of Bangladesh and the situation that obtains in this country today, I feel tempted to ask myself if there are something inherently wrong with the land of Bangladesh and the people that live on it that could be held responsible for the problems this country has been facing since its inception in 1971. An honest and critical soul-searching led me to the conclusion that I believe that Muhammad Ali Jinnah's decision to impose Urdu on the Bengali speaking people of East Pakistan was what had laid the ground for the creation of But the irony was that, though, Awami League stood behind the language movement and wanted Bengali to be the national language of Imagine a political party fighting for the Bengali language, while calling itself by a name that is composed with foreign words! Having said that, let us now turn to some statistical facts of Population and the landmass of In 1971, East Pakistan had a population of 75 million, while Let us assume that the Census Board of Bangladesh was right and the country's population really stands at about 140 million today, but can this assumption override an important question: On what size of a land does this huge number of people live? The total size of Above data should make it clear that Bangladesh is not only one of the densely populated countries of the world, it is also going to see a day soon, when its people would not have enough land to live on, and to engage themselves in most of the essential activities of their lives. But, unfortunately, the leadership of the country has not been able to grasp this enormous problem that this country is going to face in the days to come, hence its failure to come up with corrective measures that would help But will the leadership of It can, provided: -it is willing, and becomes courageous enough, to prohibit those parents, who already have more than two children from having more, and restrict newly-wed couples to having not more than two children in their lifetime; -it is committed to developing a monitoring system to see whether or not people are conforming to the birth control requirements, and, -it is also prepared to penalize those people, who violate the ban and reward those, who comply with it. Agricultural and Natural Resources: There was a time when But with the passage of time, the demand of Jute diminished and with it, many Jute Mills in There is no other agricultural product that In the early 1980s, some farsighted Bangladeshis began looking into the possibility of producing garments for export. In a short time, their effort caught the attention of other Bangladeshis and today, ready-made garment is the largest exportable item of the country. But are the so-called garment [industries] the largest earners of foreign exchange of the country? To understand the issue, we will have to dig deeper into it. The stated scenario would help us compute the amount of foreign currency -a garment factory in -since all the materials for the production of the shirt are not available in Bangladesh, the factory opens a back-to-back letter of credit on China, Hong Kong or elsewhere and imports those items, which it cannot procure locally. Say, hypothetically, that if the factory spends 60 percent of the total order of 1,000 dollars on import, it would mean that the factory retains only 400 dollars within Based on the above hypothesis, it can be safely said that if The answer to the question is: The man-power sector. It is a sector that has become the back-bone of Bangladeshis working in foreign countries remitted nearly $6 billion dollars, a record in the country's history, in fiscal 2006-07, and not a single cent out of it left The way they are treated at the airports of It is their money that pays for the officials, who roam around the world in tailor-made suits in search of what they call the opportunities for those Bangladeshis whom they cannot provide employments in their own country. These officials, and for that matter, the entire nation of the Bangladeshis, prove that they are nothing, but a bunch of ungrateful people, who not only fail to show their gratitude to the very people, who have been contributing to their wellbeing, but also to mitigate the sufferings they are made to endure both on their own soil and on the soils of their foreign employers. On the other hand, the same officials, who are charged with the responsibility to run the country, lavish all of their praises on the exporters of garments and accord them all kinds support and cooperation they need to facilitate their exports. In fact, the organization of the Garment Exporters is one of the most powerful trade bodies of I hope readers themselves will find answers to the questions and share them with me by posting them on this site. In the meantime, I will concentrate on other issues that are important for -to continue-
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Sign the Petition : Release the Arrested University Teachers Immediately : An Appeal to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
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Daily Star publishes an interview with Mukto-Mona
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Mukto-Mona Celebrates 5th Anniversary
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MM Project : Grand assembly of local freedom fighters at Raumari
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