Dear Alochoks
Its very easy to appear like a rabid anti governmnet hyena. I'm talking about myself here. But the more I learn about the Asian Highway the more unhappy I am that it exits Bangladesh back into India.
Why SHOULDN"T it exit into Burma? We could always have a road branching from the main road and up to the north east if necessary.
I also find it difficult to reconcile the 'India is our great friend' argument with the fact that the BSF regularly kills our citizens att he border. Okay, with our population I can see why the 'India is our great friend' brigade doesn't mind if dozens of people are shot dead at our borders.
But surely it shouldn't be surprising that many, many people are unhappy with India.
Apparently the single most important reality that should guide policy in 2009 is that India helped us in 1971. This is how most countries operate their policies. Right?
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, erfanul haque <erfanhaque@...> wrote:
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> hey, if there is no question of sovereignty of our country and we are not compromising anything, then why don't we ask the Indians to give us access to Pakistan the same way. i am sure they wouldn't mind us going thru their country to Pakistan? she must be dreaming. India doesn't have to come to bangladesh to take over our beloved country, they already controlling major businesses as well as people... atleast that's what looks like. i might be jumping the gun too quickly but it do'esn't seem a good idea to have such so called Asian Highway going thru our country.
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> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Asian Highway no threat to Bangladesh sovereignty: Hasina
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> Asian Highway no threat to Bangladesh sovereignty: Hasina
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> Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has told parliament that Bangladesh will have sole control over its stretch of the proposed Asian Highway, rejecting the perceived threat to sovereignty from the highway's probable re-entry into India.
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> While answering questions from the House on Wednesday, she said Bangladesh would have full control. "Our patriotism is not so fragile that we cannot protect our sovereignty. "Even though it will come from India and re-enter through Bangladesh, we will have the control of the huge highway which will connect other countries," Hasina said in reply to a supplementary question from Jatiya Party MP Mujibul Huq Chunnu.
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> "No, we do not believe in the policy of remaining isolated contemplating a so-called fear: India will take our everything," the prime minister said. "The Asian Highway is an international network of routes. There is a propaganda that the highway will connect India from one corner to another. We have to clear the confusion. "It will not only connect Bangladesh with India, but also with Iran, Europe and the middle eastern countries. "Anyone can see the routes of the Asian highway with a Google search," Hasina said. "We will be snapped from the outside world if we don't get connected with the highway".
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> The prime minister's statement comes in line with the recommendation of the parliamentary standing committee on communications ministry, which recommended choosing one of the two routes of the proposed highway. The first recommended route (AH1) is : Benapole-Jessore- Bhanga-Kanchpur- Sylhet-Tamabil. The other route (AH2) is Banglabandh- Hatikumrul- Tangail-Dhaka- Kanchpur- Sylhet-Tamabil.
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> The main opposition BNP, which remained absent from parliament, has already said it is in favour of the third proposed routes of the Asian highway. That route is Mongla-Khulna- Jessore-Pakshi- Hatikumrul- Dhaka-Kanchpur- Comilla-Chittago ng-Cox's Bazar-Teknaf. It says the first two routes will make Bangladesh strategically dependent on India. The BNP further says these routes will also violate the ESCAP's "connecting capital to capital" principle for the highway.
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> Hasina said UN's ESCAP had already given green signal for Bangladesh's accession to the Asian highway in response to Dhaka's application to be added to the highway. She said the cabinet on June 15, 2009 decided to be added to the Asian highway considering huge potentials for trade and communications with the outside world. The prime minister said the BNP-led four-party coalition government cancelled the ESCAP proposal for the highway on the plea that India would extract transit facilities from Bangladesh.
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> http://bdnews24. com/details. php?id=142248&cid=2
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