Re: [mukto-mona] The passing away of my mentor Prof. I.C. Gunsalus - a beautiful mind

Dear Jaffor:

 

Thank you so much for sharing the news of Professor Gunsalus' death.

An exceptional man with outstanding contributions.

 

Season's greetings and a great New Year.

 

Cheers

-fazle

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Fazle Hussain
Departments of Mechanical Engineering,
   Physics, and Geosciences
University of Houston
4800 Calhoun Rd.
Houston, TX 77204 - 4006
(713) 743 - 4545
fhussain@uh.edu

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Jaffor Ullah <jhankar@bellsouth.net> wrote:

My mentor Prof. Irwin C. Gunsalus died in his sleep on October 25, 2008 at the age of 96.  He was a very influential biologist of twentieth century.  His obituary note - a full-length article - was published in New York Times on November 22, 2008. 

 

Prof. Gunsalus was a freethinker all through his life.  He was a co-adviser to Nobel laureate Dr. James D. Watson (JDW), the co-discoverer of DNA structure.  Prof. Gunsalus was a teacher at Indiana University in Bloomington where JDW did his doctoral research in biology. Prof. Gunsalus was invited by Prof. S. Luria, JDW's main thesis advisor, to join the faculty at IU Bloomington in late 1940s.

 

In 1958-59 Prof. Gunsalus also advised another young teacher at the University of Illinois who was a natural product chemist.  His name is Prof. E. J. Corey who went on to receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1990.  Prof. Corey synthesized many terpin like compounds for Professor Gunsalus. As a researcher, I had the chance to use many of the manmade terpins synthesized by Prof. Corey.  As per NY Times article Prof. Gunsalus discovered vitamin-like substance, Lipoic Acid. 

 

I joined Prof. Gunsalus's lab in 1981 when he was about to retire from active duty at the age of 70.  He mentored me not only in the field of protein biochemistry but also taught me to be a freethinking human being.  I was in his lab for nearly 4 years (1981 through 1985).  Prof. Gunsalus and I became very good friend in the last two decades when he moved to Pensacola, Florida - a town only 4 hours drive from where I live.  He visited New Orleans few times and I also visited him several times; we communicated on a regular basis. 

 

With the passing away of Prof. Gunsalus the world lost a very creative mind.  The word "retirement" was never in his vocabulary.  Until his death he served as the founding editor of "Biochemical Biophysical Research Communication: - a premier scientific journal.  His life should serve as a prototype for many of us who took up writing not only as an avocation but to teach younger folks how to seek out truth and how to be a better and compassionate human being. 

 

Here is the link to Professor Gunsalus's obituary note published in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/health/22gunsalus.html

 

A.H. Jaffor Ullah      

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[ALOCHONA] Jagonari Whitechapel - The No 1 Muslim Ladies' Cycling Club in London

"'Women should not be riding bikes. They are stimulating themselves.'" November 27, 2008 The No 1 Muslim Ladies' Cycling Club Despite opposition from some of their community, increasing numbers of Muslim women in East London are riding into new cultural territory with their cycling club Karen Bartlett Pull your brakes. Put your foot under. No, under. Set the pedal. Now release the brakes..." Most people remember learning to ride a bike. It is easier when you are 5 and not wearing a full hijab. It is also easier when small boys are not whizzing past on mini-BMXs laughing at you as their parents, on the way to Saturday morning shopping, stare and mutter under their breath. The participants in Britain's only known Muslim women's cycling club are having their weekly lesson in a small park close to the East London mosque. "Most have never ridden," says Erika Severina, their cycling instructor. "Some make excuses, such as saying their clothes aren't suitable, but we've found bikes to accommodate that. Others don't want to ride outside. But now we've got them in parks and on back roads." Learning to ride turns out to be one of the lesser hurdles the group faces. Women from other backgrounds and faiths have taken part, but most are religiously observant Muslims and wear full Islamic dress. The group was formed shortly before the July 7 bombings in 2005 - and in the aftermath it was not an easy time to take to the streets of London clad in a veil. Even more off-putting is the significant disapproval the women face from their own community. "Women should not be riding bikes. They are stimulating themselves. If they want to stimulate themselves they should get a man," says one Asian market trader on the pavement outside the Jagonari Women's Educational and Resource Centre in Whitechapel, where the cycling group is based. Jagonari is Bengali for "Women wake up", but most of the local men appear to believe that women have woken up far too much. A common sentiment - perhaps held by men generally - is that a woman in charge of a bicycle is a dangerous proposition. "They're bad enough in cars," other men in the street agree. Nurjahan Khatun, the director of the Jagonari Centre, and founder of the cycling project, points out that "there's nothing in the Koran to say that women shouldn't ride bikes". Despite this, various postings on Muslim websites debate the point and the cultural barriers are strong. The Jagonari Centre is in the heart of Bengali East London. A few miles away, the London 2012 Olympic site is under construction at Stratford, but comparatively few local girls and women from the Bengali community take part in sport. A 2006 report for Sport England found that only 19 per cent of Indian and Bengali women took part in any sport, compared with 31 per cent for women nationwide. Alema, 19, is the co-ordinator of the cycling group. "It's always the boys and their bikes," she says. Her father is an Indian chef and the family lives in Woodford, Essex. She has just started a BA in economics and politics at Goldsmiths University of London, in New Cross. "My parents never said 'You can't have a bike'. I never asked them. I once rode my cousin's bike in Sheffield and I loved it. I rode for three hours non-stop, I didn't want to get off." Like many of the younger women in the group, Alema has a Westernised lifestyle and goes rock climbing and camping. But she also takes a more active interest in her religion than the older, more socially conservative, women who attend the Jagonari Centre. She wears the hijab scarf and the jilbab, a long black dress, and says that she became interested in Islam after 9/11. "I didn't know anything about Islam, but people started to say negative things about it, so I felt I had to find out the truth." She is considering wearing a face veil, and is not put off by her parents' concern that it will attract negative attention. "This life is full of thorns, the next life is Paradise. So if you want to wear a veil, it's going to be a struggle - but this life is supposed to be about struggle." Like other women in the group, however, she says that the best thing about riding a bike is "freedom". "You don't see many women out cycling, especially in the hijab," says Rajana, who is in her twenties and likes to ride the biggest, raciest bike in the group. "I'm a bit of a rebel," she says. The other women learn on foldaway bikes with low crossbars to accommodate traditional garments. Various pins and clips are used to stop their long loose clothes getting caught in gears and spokes. Underneath many of the women are wearing fashionable shoes, or flipflops and have painted toenails. They look rather immaculate compared with the cycling instructor, who is wearing fingerless gloves, shorts and torn fishnet tights. When the group started, the women rode large cumbersome Dutch bikes, turning tight circles in the tiny closed-off courtyard behind the centre. Now their confidence has grown and the women have already taken part in group rides in Hyde Park and past the Houses of Parliament. "When I started the project it was because I had really wanted to learn to ride when I went to university at Cambridge, but I didn't have the nerve," Khatun says. "I started the cycling group and expected young girls to come along, yet what's really surprised me was how many older women wanted to take part as well." With low levels of English, older Bengali women have traditionally been one of the hardest ethnic groups to reach. But these are the women who attend the Jagonari Centre to talk to their friends and take part in activities. Naz is one such lady, whose commitment to cycling has been dedicated, despite slow progress. She struggles with her knees and finds it hard to work the pedals. At her weekly session the cycling instructor is holding her on with one hand while propelling her along a path with the other. Two other members of the group are watching. "She is having problems with the circling," says one. "It's the turning," the other agrees. "I'm just frightened I will veer off and hit someone," Naz tells the instructor. She appears to be making a beeline for an alarmed group of local drinkers, lounging on the grass. "Do you know how not to hit someone?" the instructor asks the group. After some thought one pipes up "Brakes?" "My son has told me to get some stabilisers," Naz says, both relieved and disappointed to have finished her lesson. She came to England from Pakistan as a young woman, but while her husband works in America she lives in East London with her grown-up son, who is an avid cyclist. "He loved riding his bike when he was a little boy. It would not have occurred to me to have a bike. But now he is supporting his old mum." Most of the women say that their husbands and sons are more bemused by their new hobby, rather than opposed to it - although the cycling group had one member who cycled in secret because she feared her father's disapproval. Since the group began three years ago, it has seen dozens of women progress from wobbly beginnings to more confident riding, with a little independence thrown in. Khatun is proud that her project has borne unexpected fruit and encouraged the kind of "active citizenship" of which the Home Office would no doubt approve. On a late Saturday morning session, the younger girls of the club meet and cycle along the backroads of East London to Mile End Park. There they fly up and down paths, rashly ignore instructions about braking and signalling - and cheer on impromptu races across the grass. Naz is there too - casting an elder stateswoman's eye over proceedings and tutting occasionally, but generally enjoying the atmosphere. They may be the only Muslim women's cycling club in the country - and an excellent example of active citizenship and community engagement - but for that morning at least they look just like carefree girls.

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[ALOCHONA] Mumbai Attack – India and the Axis of Evil

We have proof that Pak Army played this game before. Something like this always happens, whenever elected leaders try to mend fences with India.   1. Pak Army had invaded Kargil right after Bajpai's visit to Pakistan in Nawaz Sharif days.  2. Pak Army's Agent JmaaTay Islami had caused a riot in Lahore at Bajpai visit. 3. As soon as Pres. Musharraf sided with Bush, Pak Army had felt like having fun with India using Bush's shoulder. It had caused an attack on Indian National Assembly in 2002.   If Pakistan starts having good relations with India, such a huge Army would not be needed and this is why 'Srkaari SaaNd' of Pakistan doesn't want such developments. Only a stupid Pakistani can not see this. --- On Sat, 12/13/08, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@yahoo.com> wrote: Mumbai Attack – India and the Axis of Evil « India has suffered a series of terror attacks in recent months but last night`s massacre – with a combination of grenades and automatic weapons – marks a new and deadly milestone in its continuing battle against extremists. Most of the attacks have been blamed on extremist Muslim groups but, in recent weeks, police have rounded up 10 members of what they say is its first Hindu terror cell. », The Independent, Andrew Buncombe in Delhi, Thursday, 27th November 2008.   « With a traumatized nation and a paralyzed government, a core group of secular right-wing ideologues and Hindu nationalists are executing a 'soft coup' in New Delhi to bring to power hawks who want to pursue America's agenda of grooming India as a regional policeman, sort out Pakistan and confront China. India will self-destroy in the process.  India's military and intelligence has been penetrated. The man who uncovered the plot, Hemant Karkare, the antiterrorism chief of Mumbai police, was the first target of the mysterious terrorists. Patriotic Indians need to wake up and save their country.  » Ahmad Quraishi, Saturday, 29 November 2008.   Acts of terror There is no agreed definition of terrorism, but, according to the CIA, terrorism is the « premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience. »  According to former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, his country (the USA) is « the greatest purveyor of violence in the world ».  That same country finances the worse kind of terrorist acts, the extermination of a large part of the population in Palestine as well as carries out acts of barbarity against defenceless citizens in both Afghanistan and Iraq.  The US officially has the greatest army of mercenaries in the world, Blackwater, with 140,000 "contractors".   In recent history, people have witnessed terror against Native Americans, Aborigines, Maoris, Vietnamese, Indians of the sub-continent, Algerians and more.  While the lands of the Aborigines, Maoris and Native Americans have been stolen, India became independent at the cost of partition giving birth to Pakistan and Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan).  But the world is still witnessing European terror through invasion of sovereign countries, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and the murder of hundreds of thousands of their people.  The terrorist occupation of Palestine by Jewish Europeans, the killings of her people, including women, children and babies have been going on for half a century !   For her part, India is still occupying Kashmir, which was part of Moghal Hindustan, against the will of the Kashmiris, and committing unspeakable acts of terror against them.  It is also a common practice for States which perpetrate and sponsor acts of terrorism to organise false flag operations against their own people and allies in order to blame the 'enemies' and rally support for their 'cause'.  Often, they are caught but they are above the law.  For example, members of the Irgun Jewish terrorist movement dressed up as Palestinian army officers attacked the British HQ at King David Hotel in 1946 Palestine.  During the six-day war in 1967, the Israelis attacked USS Liberty and murdered many US non-combatants in an attempt to blame it on Egypt and suck the Americans into the war. (Ref. Phil Tourney, survivor of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty).      Apart from the official conspiracy theories, it has been demonstrated that the 9/11 terror attacks against the World Trade Centre (WTC) and the Pentagon in 2001 were an inside job with Israeli involvement.  In January 2000, Indian intelligence detained 11 'Muslim preachers' on the ground of hijacking conspiracy, but they turned out to be Israeli nationals sent with false passports to infiltrate Muslim organisations in India and were released.  Similarly, the five dancing Israelis arrested on 9/11 « as suspected conspirators » when they were celebrating the attacks against the WTC were all released.  [Ref. The Record, New Jersey, 12 Sept 2001].  On 13 Sept 01, The New York Times reported that the group of five men (who turned out to be MOSSAD agents) had set up video cameras aimed at the Twin Towers prior to the attack.   The recent terror attacks against the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan on 20 Sept 2008 had the hallmark of a military operation and not that of "Muslim terrorists"!  Similarly, the well planned and sophisticated attacks in Mumbai on 26/11 by attackers against various targets, including the Taj Mahal and Oberoi Hotels, killing around 200 people have immediately been blamed on "Pakistan, Al-Qaeda and British Muslims".  The Indian authorities say there were 12 such attackers, but many others 'escaped'.                                                'Unknown' gunman at Chattrapati Shivaji  railway station, Mumbai, wearing a sacred Hindu wristband     « The deadly embrace » - CIA-MOSSAD connection There is no denying that the United States and Israel have been grooming India to become a regional superpower for their benefits.  In so doing, they have to persuade India that she is a victim of terror herself, especially from her enemies in Pakistan, occupied Kashmir and Muslim extremists within India proper.   Lal Krishna Advani, former Deputy Prime Minister of India [2002-2004], former President of the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), strong advocate of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) and current Leader of the Opposition, met the heads of the MOSSAD when he visited Israel in June 2000 and advocated "closer India-Israeli cooperation on all security matters". [Note : Israelis were responsible of security during both the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks!].  In the same year, The Times of India reported on the Israeli presence in India : « Israeli counter-terrorism experts are now touring Jammu and Kashmir and several other states in India at the invitation of Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani to make an assessment of New Delhi`s security needs.  The Israeli team, headed by Eli Katzir of the Israel Counter-Terrorism Combat Unit, includes Israeli military intelligence officials and a senior police official. »  India  has forged a strategic alliance with Israel  to perfect India 's methods of occupation of Kashmir  where all Indian atrocities, mass graves of Kashmiris, shootings of civilians, rape and human rights abuses are brushed under the carpet like the atrocities perpetrated against Palestinians.   India's responsibility The US have allowed India to set up military training camps in Afghanistan, and they are training, arming and financing rebels who are being sent to Pakistan to destabilise the government. The MOSSAD, Hamid Karzai and India are fuelling ethnic insurgency in South West Pakistan where China is building a strategic port. In addition, with her nuclear and military deals with the US and the launching of an Israeli satellite as the MOSSAD increases its control of India, India seems to pay lip service to her diverse peoples with a high risk of further partitions of India. Remember, it was India which financed and armed East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to breakaway from then West Pakistan.  She also boasted the sinking of alleged pirate ships within Somali coastal waters (19 Nov 08) to help the US and pro-US Saudis.   Given India's behaviour, she should have been better prepared to prevent and deal with such attacks and not leave her people and visitors open to such risks..  In this light, the Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil and National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan have submitted their resignations (Sunday, 30 Nov 08).   The blame game The first reaction of the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was to blame Pakistan.  But witnesses suggested that the attackers « are probably members of an Indian militant group rather than foreigners » (The Independent, 27 Nov 08).  It is also reported that the attacks were claimed by an unknown group called « Deccan Mujahideen » and the « Indian Mujahideen » from South India and trained in Bangladesh.  Other suspects are a Kashmiri freedom group called Lashkar-e-Taiba held responsible for the bomb attacks on trains in 2006 and, of course, Al-Qa'ida which, apart from being a CIA-MOSSAD database, is a non-existant organisation.  The Indian government asserted that some of the attackers were British-born Pakistanis from Leeds, Bradford and Hartlepool.  It was also alleged that some have Malaysian and Mauritian links.   But, in spite of pointing his finger at Pakistan, in a telephone conversation with Pakistan PM Yousuf Raza Gilani on 28 Nov 08 PM Manmohan Singh urged Gilani to send his spy chief to share intelligence over the Mumbai attack.  Pakistan has agreed to send a senior official to India.  It does seem very strange that, even though there may be 'Pakistanis' among the attackers, Pakistan would be responsible for such an attack after President Asif Ali Zardari recently told the Indian government that Pakistan would not be the one to resort to first use of nuclear weapons, an announcement welcomed by India. It seems more likely to be the work of external forces, with internal complicity, which do not want peace between those two sister countries and sister communities.  The plan is clearly to provoke a war between India and Pakistan as Pakistanis want to detach themselves from US murdering ventures.   Hindutva As reported by Andrew Buncombe in Delhi, The Independent Thursday, 27th November 2008, « most of the attacks have been blamed on extremist Muslim groups but, in recent weeks, police have rounded up 10 members of what they say is its first Hindu terror cell ».  In early November 2008, the Mumbai Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), headed by Hemant Karkare, arrested 10 Hindutva extremists, including Dayanand Pandey (a prominent religious leader of Uttar Pradesh) belonging to Sangh Parivar, an umbrella organisation comprising the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bajrang Dal, and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, in connection with the 8 Sept 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts in a Muslim cemetery in Maharashtra killing dozens of Muslim pilgrims and injuring scores more.  The ATS investigation has uncovered connections with the Israeli MOSSAD whose Indian home-grown agents have infiltrated many Hindu organisations in India, as well as connections between the Indian military and Hindu extremist groups.  In the very early hours of the Mumbai attack on 26/11, the unknown terrorists eliminated Hemant Karare, Head of the ATS, along with Mumbai`s additional commissioner of police Ashok Kamte and high-level police officer Vijay Salaskar, The Times Of India reported.  The killers must have had inside information as Indian security services have been infiltrated.  One of the 'unknown' terrorist caught on CCTV camera at the Chattrapati Shivaji railway station wore a sacred Hindu wristband.  The victims included Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Jews, Indians, Britons, Americans and a Mauritian.   Conclusion India has the strength to overcome this trauma.  She must and she will take all necessary measures to prevent such carnage happening again on Indian soil and make all efforts to live in peace with her neighbours and resolve the issue of Kashmir peacefully.  At the same time, India must look at the underlying causes of this serious problem and review her association with the perpetrators of terror and occupation around the world as well as the infiltration of terrorists into local organisations and her security services.  India must return to her non-aligned philosophy, demand the removal of all terrorist occupiers from nearby countries and the closing of the terror base at Diego Garcia Mauritius.  India must understand that she does not form part of the European West which is in quest of hegemony and world domination.  If India allows herself to be recruited into this Axis of Evil, the destruction and further partitions of India seem inevitable.  India's 'security' arrangements with Israel and the US may well be the source of her problems as they do not serve Indian interests.   http://www.paktribu ne.com/news/ print.php? id=208835

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[ALOCHONA] US Census Bureau Needs Thousands of Temporary Part Time Workers

Dear All:

 

Following web-linkage is for the individuals who are looking for jobs, even for extra money working with the U.S Census Bureau as temporary part time Census Takers for the 2010 Census. The Census Bureau is currently recruiting thousands of individuals throughout the United States for the Census Takers position.

 

Please visit below mentioned website for complete information, such as, contact info for the job, how and where to apply, who can apply, qualifications, documents and testing needed for this job, etc.

 

http://www.census.gov/2010censusjobs/index.php 
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Kindly disseminate this message to everyone you know. Perhaps, it may be helpful to anyone who is in need of a job very badly.

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[mukto-mona] Allah Plays with His Souls

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Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: FBCCI plans to bring Khaleda, Hasina together on economic issuesþ

Friends

 

If we Bangladeshis want a new and vissionery approach for our survival against all odds created by the friendly countries we need to get rid of these women and their eunach paa chata assistants. We have to change the old set of psychphants dalas from all stairs of our political arena else we will be there where we were for last 30 years.It will be bad luck for us if these dumb headed foreigned alligned crooks are again in the steering of our destiny.

 

Faruque Alamgir

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Cyrus <thoughtocrat@yahoo.com> wrote:

We need new leaders, progressive and visionary leaders...and not these incompetent morons! Enough is enough! Hasina, Khaleda, and these politicians have got to stop prostituting our country.

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From: ezajur <ezajur.rahman@q8.com>
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 7:29:38 AM
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: FBCCI plans to bring Khaleda, Hasina together on economic issuesþ

Dear Alochoks

The FBCCI should start a match making service or a marriage
counselling service.

But the main point of course is that Hasina and Khaleda are back. So
the men of AL and BNP have found their genitals again. Poor guys. How
they suffered for two years without these two women - and without a
real man in their ranks.

Yeah - blame it on the ordinary people.

Bangladeshi party men are the biggest bunch of eunuchs since the fall
of the Chinese Empire.

Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait

--- In alochona@yahoogroup s.com, "badrul_islam2001"
<badrul_islam2001@ ...> wrote:
>
> The Staff Correspondent of New Age on its issue of December 13,2008
> writes,"The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and
> Industry president, Annisul Huq, on Friday told New Age that Hasina
> during meeting with business leaders the day before Eid-ul-Azha,
gave
> her consent to attend the convention and the businesspeople hoped
> Khalda would also agree.
> The business community expects an appointment with Khaleda Zia
in
> a day or two to discuss issues related to the convention scheduled
> for December 27.
> `The two leaders at the convention may hear what the business
> community expects from the next elected government and the
> opposition,' said Annisul.
> `The business community wants to place the priority development
> agenda which are to be essentially and immediately implemented to
> foster economic or industrial development, ' he said. The federation
> at the convention will hand over to the leaders its own vision
paper
> detailing the priority agenda.
> The vision paper was prepared according to the suggestions made
by
> affiliated trade associations and chambers across the country and
was
> discussed in two business conferences in Dhaka and Chittagong in
> November."
> Both AL and BNP have, in the meantime, placed before the Nation,
> people-oriented manifesto, and therefore I should sincerely
> hope ,that both would eagerly sieze this oppurtunity to finalize
> this programme with FBCCI which in turn will boost the morale of
the
> Citizens who are set to Vote on December 29,2008.
> 0ne important point of "Hartal " has not been mentioned here, but
has
> been widely talked about FBCCI Members and Citizens and Mr. Annisul
> Huq has on TV had mentioned that this point would be highlighted
too
> in this programme. 0n this issue there is a catch that has been
> intelligently mentioned by New Age Editor,Mr.Nurul Kabir during his
> interview recently one Channel 1(one); that "Hartal is a
> constitutional right" but the manner in which it is being followed
> here in Bangladesh; that is the "violence that accompanies Hartal",
> is unconstitutional.
> I mention this here because the honourable Netri's would
definitely
> menton about the constitutional right but not mention the last
part.
> Having mentioned that I would suggest if at all Hartal is to be
> implemented then there are conditions that should be go with it to
> prevent violence and disruption of essential services and movement
> abilty of the Citizens. A Committee consisting of all Political
> Parties should be formed to find from the Citizens the required
> constraints and a Law should be passed to follow those. My
> suggestions for consideration are the followings:- -
> 1.That the Political Party that wishes to excercise Hartal would in
> advance inform all its politcal members,followers and activists
that
> under no circumstances they are to use any violence on Citizens.The
> members ,followers and activists will be under some senior Member
who
> would be responsible for any mischevious activity.In the even of
> violence or destruction of public or private property the party
would
> be liable to court proceedings the case being registered in the
name
> of the senior Member who will be responsible for party activists
> throughout the Country. The Courts final decision on recovery of
cost
> or replacements and or prison term would have to be accepted by them
> 2.That Essential services like DESA,WASA,TITAS GAS,AMBULANCE and
> HOSPITAL staff,(both Government and private),Fire Brigade,Export
> oriented Industies, Airport and Chittagong Port activities would be
> exempted from Hartal.
> 3.That only party workers,members or activists will implement the
> hartal in different areas so that it will be possible to identify
the
> culprits by the senior Members and the members would be able to
place
> the culprit in the court.
> 4.That NO STUDENTS either from school,college and universities
will
> be able or encouraged to participate in Hartals.
> 5.Cars/Vehicles carrying patients to hospitals will be allowed to
> move freely throughout the road.
> 6. Public grievance centre with published Telephone numbers are to
> placed at important centres- this to be arranged before
implementing
> Hartal and widely publicised through newspapers and TV channels.
> I sincerely hope that though the media this information will reach
> Mr.Annisul Huq,President of the FBCCI as well as to the honourable
> Netris.
> Wishing the best to the Netri's and the Citizens for the Elections
> 2008.
> Badrul Islam
>

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