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Thursday, December 31, 2009

[ALOCHONA] Salute to three drivers




A new government, a deep-seated recession, and yet a remarkable growth -- our kudos goes to farmers, workers and migrant labourers this year. Without them, Bangladesh could face different music in the year that rolled by.

Good agricultural production supported by sufficient injection of farm credit boosted domestic demand. A surprising spurt of remittance flow by a dwindling number of migrant workers also helped the cause. And garment workers chipped in cheap labour to keep the country's apparels floating in harsh times.

All this in turn kept domestic demand and the economy buoyant. We salute these three drivers of the economy, who helped navigate us through the turbulent waters of 2009.

There were many moments of glory for the government in the last-one year. The prudent economic policies helped achieve a macroeconomic and fiscal stability in a time of the worst recession since the World War II. Inflation was relatively low. Reserves and balance of payments were good.

The stimulus package that came belatedly was channelled in the right direction. Many might say Bangladesh handled its stimulus package even better than the US. The US was criticised for its Buy American clause in the package.

"It was a prudent stimulus package and directed properly. The good point was the government did not give in to pressure groups in allocating funds," said Dr Zahid Hossain, a senior economist of The World Bank.

Despite the undue pressure of the readymade garment exporters, the government kept the sector out of the first stimulus and only included it in the second package with a host of conditions.

Food security was another point of comfort in 2009 with a 13 lakh tonnes stock of grains and 17 lakh tonnes import of wheat until December. We had a good boro rice production and an aman too. The preparation for 2010 boro rice cultivation is satisfying too.

However, agriculture will remain a major challenge for 2010.

"How to ensure farmers a fair price to encourage them in production and how to provide consumers food at low price would appear as a matter of policy choice," says Dr Mustafizur Rahman, executive director of the Centre for Policy dialogue (CPD).

The answer lies in agricultural productivity enhancement through research and development. A major effort could be to welcome the second technological frontier where hybrid seeds and technologies would reduce production cost and increase agriculture growth.

"This now looks like the only answer to the riddle," Dr Mustafiz observes.

Despite this, the past year was one of entrepreneurial inactiveness -- businessmen yet had to recover from two years of regimented disciplining coupled with inadequate infrastructure. Also businessmen had yet to get a clear picture of who the real players in policymaking were.

Many would see the past year as a timeline of lost opportunities. This is more so when the government enjoyed an unusual patch of political calm -- there were no hartals, the opposition was too weak to even put up a political protest and the government overwhelmingly strong in parliament.

This all served the perfect recipe to accomplish some thorny and urgent missions. The key recommendations of the defunct Regulatory Reforms Commission and the Better Business Forum (BBF) could be implemented to improve the business environment and thereby jack up confidence of businessmen. Most recommendations remain unimplemented today.

The tax, VAT and business registration process could have been simplified and turned into a one-step procedure. Time for business registration could have been shortened.

Steps could have been taken to utilise the funds of the much-vaunted public-private partnership (PPP) scheme. Not a single penny of the Tk 25 billion fund has been spent and the major reason was saddling the Board of Investment with the task of implementing PPP. Successful records worldwide show it is the finance ministry that can handle such schemes successfully and Bangladesh could have been no different a case.

"The non-implementation of a promising scheme like PPP to address the crucial need of the economy is disappointing," says Dr Zahid Hossain of the World Bank. "This is one project that could have taken the government a long way into solving many crucial infrastructure needs."

The climate change fund remained unutilised while the country was ravaged by repeated cyclones. The glaring plight of the Aila victims could not pry the government's eyes open -- to motor its machinery into utilising the climate fund for meaningful mitigation of the Aila victims' miseries.

The port surfaced as another sedentary point after the initial bustle during the caretaker government and businesses are not at all happy about that.

"But the major challenge for 2010 would be how to translate macroeconomic stability into an accelerated growth rate through higher investment," says Dr Mustafiz.

In absence of a timely Quantum Index of Production (that measures industrial performance), proxy indicators such as capital machinery import, term loan disbursement and industrial use of electricity point to a sloth in investment.

The reasons for the slack are also understandable and a major challenge for 2010. When power supply is uncertain, gas fizzling out and roads and ports inadequate, investors would think twice before flashing out money.

Power was a special area that could have been better handled in the past one year. But the initiative came quite late and 2010 is going to be a victim of the lagged plans.

"Investment which stimulates further investment did not take place leading to the current hesitation of investors," says Dr Mustafiz.

The implementation of the annual development programme (ADP) is another region that requires better handling in 2010. The government planned a big ADP and the implementation so far is good, especially in relation to absolute amount of money spent so far.

But given its importance to crowd in private investment, the pace of implementation has to accelerate in the second half of the fiscal year that begins with the New Year.

"One vulnerability that Bangladesh is now exposed to is the volatility in its major earning sectors -- exports of goods and manpower," says Dr Mustafiz.

Exports posted positive growth and yet it had seen a topsy-turvy flight. The situation is likely to spike in 2010 as major garment export competitors such as India, Vietnam and China had offered stronger stimuli to their economies and gained competitiveness, Dr Mustafiz explains.

When the global economy recovers definitively, these countries would be in a competitive advantage to grab the opportunity of demand increase.

This is exactly why Bangladesh would have to be vigilant on its own competitiveness through aggressive policy instruments.

As the New Year comes, hopes now lie on tackling the quick implementation of a string of promises and plans, strategies and tactics to bring dynamism to the private sector to motor the economy.
  http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=119983



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[ALOCHONA] FW: University Teacher Beatenup by Chhatra League Leader





--- On Thu, 12/31/09, Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

 
Subject: University Teacher Beatenup by Chhatra League Leader


http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2009-12-31/news/31139



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[ALOCHONA] A Petition to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh



 

The Prime Minister

Government of the Peoples Republic of Bangladesh

 

Respected Madame Prime Minister:

 

I write this letter with a sense of humiliation and hesitation sincerely hoping that this will reach you and find your serious attention.

 

The tragic event (murder of your family members) that befell you is beyond human comprehension and description. Any law, whether Islamic, Western, Eastern or even a primitive tribal community based one call for justice and punishment proportional to the crime.

 

We are in favor of law and order and as such all crimes (violence against women, corruption, drug and human trafficking, bribery, nepotism, terrorism, murder, rape, stealing just to name a few) must be pursued vigorously and the criminals must be punished accordingly, free of political influence.

 

Recently the verdict has been given to the perpetrators of the murder of your father and other members of your family.

 

In a few days a petition will possibly be sent to the President for the final say on this matter, who will not act against your will, nor should he. So the decision lies on your shoulder. What would you do? 

While we appreciate the action taken to bring criminals to justice and punish them promptly and judiciously we also feel that you need to consider the following point of view.

 

Logic, love and compassion for the family, pressure from your fellow party members, even a sense of justice call for immediate execution of the people who carried out this brutal act against your family members. But I am pleading to you to show mercy and commute their death sentence and keep them behind bar for the rest of their lives.

 

A member of my immediate family, a decorated war hero, was hanged to death along with many other officers of the patriotic armed forces of Bangladesh. I have the first hand knowledge of utmost suffering it caused the children, parents and siblings and other member of the family.

 

My request is not politically motivated. I do not know any of the convicted people, never seen them in my life. As a matter of fact I lived on the same street as your parents, in Dhanmondi RA, two houses away. The only time I voted, I voted for your party.

 

Hangings and executions do not stop crime it only increases the desire for revenge. If hangings and killings would improve law and order then Bangladesh would be a society free of murder.

 

If you allow these people to be hanged like ordinary criminals then your father would have died at the hand of murderers and criminals. By hanging them you would elevate them to the level of martyrs with the possibility of their becoming national heroes under future changed circumstances.

 

You may also show clemency to them thus elevating yourself to a level beyond imagination.

 

Because, I know that you are a believer in the One True God so listen to what He says in His last and Final Revelation to mankind in the Qur'an:

 

"The recompense for an injury is an injury equal thereto (in degree) but if a person forgives and makes reconciliation, his reward is due from Allah: for Allah loveth not those who do wrong" (Al Qur'an, Surah Al Shura: Ayah 40).

 

Our beloved Prophet (SWS) has shown personal example of mercy. Upon victory he forgave all his enemies even to the people who murdered his beloved uncle brutally, tortured and oppressed him and his family.

 

 

Aziz Huq

December 31, 2009

 

PS:  If a reader agrees with the contents then please forward to others, newspapers and specially to the Prime Minister. If you support the case for the mercy petition then express your support but please do not bring in political considerations. Look at this strictly from humanitarian angle.  

 

 


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[ALOCHONA] Seikh Hasina Freedom Fighter Chilen ? Never



Aslam son, asnwer me:
Kakatua Seikh Hasina ki freedom fighter chilen? Never.
Sheikh Hasina to receive Indira Gandhi peace prize
Sheikh Hasina to receive Indira Gandhi prize for selling the country to India like her father?
 

--- On Thu, 12/31/09, Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [khabor.com] Kobi Almahumd ki Freedom Fighter Chilen ? Never
To: khabor@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, December 31, 2009, 3:42 AM

 
 
Poet Al Mahmood's Kolkata days in 1971 were very interesting .....
Did he write any poem to encorage the Liberation warriors?
 
 
Related:
 

 
On 12/29/09, niloy Sobhan <bashiala@yahoo. com> wrote:
 
Read  more about Kobi AlMahmud
 
 
 
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[ALOCHONA] Attack on Mahmudur Rahman,M Abdullah Amardesh, Where is Amenesty ?



Dear All,
Many persons and organizations protest and condemn the attack on Mahmudur Rahman,M Abdullah and Amardesh,
but where is Amenesty international?



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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

RE: [ALOCHONA] Prince Joy shamachar











good reading, by Sirajur Rahman, UK.




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[ALOCHONA] Re: Sahara has no knowledge of extra Indian mission forces




Source: http://www.amadershomoy.com/content/2009/12/31/news0355.htm

Indian HC Remark
Sahara faces cabinet music  

Home Minister Sahara Khatun was advised to talk to media after knowing the facts on the topics.  At a regular cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, the home minister came under criticism for her comment that she does not know about deployment of India's own security personnel at its high commission in Dhaka.
 
During the meeting, some of her cabinet colleagues said she should have known the facts that any embassy or high commission could arrange their own security and deploy their personnel to this end, one of the members of the cabinet told The Daily Star yesterday.
 
Referring to the deployment of US marine soldiers at its embassy in Dhaka, UK High Commission's Special Air Service (SAS)--Special Forces regiment within the British Army, and German embassy's personnel security deployment, the members told the meeting that India could also deploy its own security personnel at its high commission and the concerned minister should know about it.
 
The ministers also told the meeting that Bangladesh has also deployed its own security personnel at it's high commissions including in India and London.
 

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@...> wrote:
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> Security analysts on SSB troops in Indian mission
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> --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Isha Khan bd_mailer@... wrote:
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> From: Isha Khan bd_mailer@...
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> To: "Dhaka Mails" dhakamails@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 4:25 PM
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> Dhaka, Dec 28 (bdnews24.com) â€" Home minister Sahara Khatun on Monday said she did not know anything about the presence of 'Indian forces' brought to provide extra security to the Indian High Commission premises in Dhaka.
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> Responding to queries from the reporters the minister said, "I have heard this for the first time from you. My ministry is not aware about this."
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> Home secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder told bdnews24.com that If India wanted to send any state troops to Dhaka for security purposes a bilateral discussion should have been held. But no such discussions were held between Dhaka and Delhi.
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> The High Commission might have brought private security men from India, he said. "But I don't know."
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> New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Facing threat from terror group Laskhar-e-Taiba, India will soon deploy its para-military troops to guard it's mission in Dhaka.
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> http://www.ptinews.com/news/428467_Indian-mission-in-Dhaka-to-be-guarded-by-SSB-troops
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RE: [ALOCHONA] Re: [Dahuk]: Muslims Take Hindu Names to Work



I am appalled by the anger and frustration expressed by this member of  Alochona who could not find anything better to post his views other than choosing street language. If I am not wrong the word Kuttajibi means Buddhijibi and Hindusatan means Hindu Satan. What a poor show of perception. In 1947 when India was partitioned on the basis of religion fortunate were those who lived inside the boundaries of Pakistan and sorry for those who gave their heart and soul for Pakistan but could not migrate to their dream land (Is it a dream land any more?). Moulana Azad was spitted upon by the students of the Aligarh University for his views against the partition but the majority of the Indian Muslims started to ask for his guidance how to be Indians again after the partition. What a shameful turn of the fate that after living on a soil for thousands of years they had to learn how to become Indians again. This divided mentality of the Indian Muslims is still hurting them but looking at Pakistan now they must be coming out from their obsession.

The truth is that religion was not a uniting force in the past or neither its now nor it will be ever. When Islam was first introduced to India, the missionaries had a plan to divide the society by making the converts to eat cows and take Arabic names so that they can be separated from the majority to create minority. Same thing was done by the Christian missionaries by compelling the converts to eat pork and take English names. That was a vicious conspiracy and worked very well according to their plans.

Your so called kuttajibis are the people who bring these conspiracies into the open and oppose them. If you want to continue this conversation please respond with gentle language.

 

Akbar Hussain

 

  


 

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From: faruquealamgir@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:04:57 -0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: [Dahuk]: Muslims Take Hindu Names to Work

 
This is nothing new. If you see in early 40's to 60's many Bollywood actors took hindu name to enroll.This is only only possible in world only n the only n the only  SECULAR HINDU( close friend of our Kutta jibis)   country  called HINDU STAAAAN.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Mahmudul Hasan <mahmudwp2000@yahoo.ca> wrote:
 


Muslims Take Hindu Names to Work


IslamOnline.net & Newspapers

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Indian Muslims, estimated at 140 million, complain of social and economic neglect and oppression. (Google)
CAIRO – With access to jobs in the lucrative diamond industry closed to them, many Muslims in Hindu-majority India change their names and assuming Hindu ones just to get a chance. "We would not get a job if we are known to be Muslims," Allarakha Khan, a Muslim worker who uses a Hindu name, told the Indian Express on Tuesday, December 29.
"We have been doing this for a long time, and we take great care not to reveal our real names or addresses at work."
There are some 140 million Muslims in Hindu-majority India, the world's third-largest Muslim population after those of Indonesia and Pakistan.
Indian Muslims have suffered decades of social and economic neglect and oppression.
They have been decrying for years that they comprise only a tiny percentage of police, army officers, public servants and public university students.
They register lower educational levels and, as a consequence, higher unemployment rates than the majority Hindus and other minorities like Christians and Sikhs.
Costly Price
Mehboob Pathan changed his name and those of his son and daughter to Hindu names to find a job in the diamond industry.  
"Like me, my father too was hiding his religion only so that we could have a job," asserted his son Mushtaq, who goes by the Hindu name Mukesh.
But the family paid a tragic price for hiding their Muslim identity.
The father, who went by the Hindu name Jayenti Bhatti, disappeared recently and the family reported his absence.
To their shock, they discovered he was killed over monetary dispute and was cremated as a Hindu.
"How could the police dispose of his body the Hindu way?" fumed Mushtaq.
"An examination would have shown he was a Muslim."
But police insist the family was too late.
"We disposed it of according to Hindu rites not knowing he was a Muslim," said police sub-Inspector V R Malhotra.
"The family turned up too late and we are now helpless."
In Islam, cremation is prohibited as it is disrespectful to the dead body and Islam calls for respecting human beings whether alive or dead.
It is an obligation on Muslims as a community to ensure that every Muslim who dies is properly washed, shrouded, and buried according to the teachings of Islam.
"We are too poor to do anything," said a helpless Mushtaq. 

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1260258473688&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout


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[ALOCHONA] Mr. M A Arafat talks on the latest Amar Desh on corruption implicating Sajeeb Wazed Joy



Take a look at the talk show footage where Mr. M A Arafat talks on the latest Amar Desh report on corruption implicating Sajeeb Wazed Joy in light of journalistic integrity

here is the link

http://www.shuchinta.com/bdinfo24-videos/videodirectlink-6.html


and also can put your comments


 http://habib.amarblog.com/posts/95294


Regards


Habib




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[ALOCHONA] Re: Govt plans to rename ZIA



 

 

I totally agree. I hate this politics of vengeance. Changing existing name is nothing but meanness. It does not matter who has a higher degree of meanness. This cannot be and should not be supported by any quarter. But have we ever thought why:

 

·         The slogan (Joy Bangla) on which the liberation war of Bangladesh was fought was changed to Bangladesh Zindabad? Ever since the nation has been divided by these two slogans.

·         Radio station was Islamized from Bangladesh Betar to Radio Bangladesh?

·         Name of Bangabandhu Avenue was changed again to Quaid-i-Azam Avenue after the assassination of Sk. Mujibur Rahman? (Though for a short time)?

·         The name of Bangabandhu Bridge was changed to Jamuna Bridge?

·         The name of Bangabandhu Theatre was changed to Bhashani theatre?

·         The name Bangabandhu Convention Center was changed to China Moitri Center? And you insist to call it China Moitri Center though it has been renamed again.

·         The name of Nazurul Islam Bridge at Bhairab was changed?

·         The name of M. A. Hannan Airport was changed to Shah Amanat Airport?

 

Above all, can anybody tell what Shaheed Ziaur Rahman portrait was doing at Bangabandhu stadium? What Shaheed Ziaur Rahman murals were doing there?

 

Hasina asked to change the name of Airport. Why worry, the name will change again when BNP comes to power (hopefully then we will see a Prime Minister called Tariq Zia, a President called Begum Zia, a foreign minister called Mirza Abbas and an Interior Minister called Lutfuzzaman). And don't get the illusion that Zia International Airport will remain Zia International Airport for most of the people in Bangladesh. For commoner it is only Dhaka Airport and shall remain so what may ever you name it. Everything and every name may change except Mazar of Shaheed Zia which shall remain "Mazar Sharif of Shaheed Zia".

 

And you will remain confused if you choose to do so.

 

Regards

 

Junaid

 


--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "ezajur" <Ezajur@...> wrote:
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> Wow!
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> Hasina asked to change the airport name and she puts it to a vote!
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> How elegant, how democratic!
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> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan bd_mailer@ wrote:
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> > Govt plans to rename ZIA
> > PM requested to rename structures named after Zia
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> > The government is going to change the name of the country’s
> biggest airport, now called the Zia International Airport, and rename it
> after the great saint, Hazrat Shahjalal (RA), said highly placed sources
> in the government.
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> > The Cabinet at its weekly meeting on Monday decided, in principle, to
> go along with the proposal of Awami League’s general secretary
> and LGRD and cooperatives minister, Syed Ashraful Islam, who suggested
> the renaming of the capital’s aerodrome, a minister told New Age.
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> > Named after Bangladesh’s former president and the Bangladesh
> Nationalist Party’s founder, Ziaur Rahman, the airport began
> operating in 1981. ZIA is the nation’s largest airport with a
> total area of 1,300 acres. More than 16 international airlines use this
> airport which handles half a million passengers and 98,000 million
> tonnes cargo annually, according to official records.
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> > Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who presided over the meeting of the
> Cabinet, was requested to change the names of the structures which were
> named after Ziaur Rahman during the tenures of the BNP-led governments,
> said the minister.
> > Â Â Â
> > Ashraf proposed the changing of the name of ZIA, and then the PM asked
> all present to propose the new name, and the name of Hazrat Shahjalal
> (RA) was approved, said insiders who were at the meeting.
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> > Referring to BNP’s secretary-general Khandaker Delwar Hossain,
> Hasina, also the ruling Awami League’s president, said that the
> BNP has spent cores of taka for holding its council session but has
> appointed the same man as the secretary-general, said the minister.
> > Â Â Â
> > Referring to the BNP’s newly constituted national standing
> committee, she said that Khaleda had appointed terrorists and corrupt
> persons to the BNP’s highest policy-making body, said sources.
> > Â Â Â
> > The Cabinet also decided to recruit 2,627 diploma nurses on an
> emergency basis and to upgrade their status from Class III to Class
> II.The PM’s press secretary, Abul Kalam Azad, told newsmen that
> currently 9,000 nurses, who passed the 4-year diploma course, are
> unemployed. The present doctor-nurse ratio is 2:1 but standard ratio
> throughout the world is 1:3.
> > Â Â Â
> > Hasina stressed the need for improving the professional quality as
> well as social status of the nurses.She asked the concerned ministry to
> formulate a new policy for recruitment of the nurses and said the
> government would encourage the private enterprises to set up training
> centres for nurses to improve the standard of nursing so that the
> country can send skilled nurses to work abroad, said the minister.
> > Â Â Â
> > The Cabinet also endorsed a proposal to set up Barisal Science and
> Technology University in response to Barisal City Corporation
> mayor’s request, and to this end it approved the Barisal
> University (Amendment) Bill 2009 and also approved, in principle, the
> Barisal Science and Technology (Amendment) Act.
> > Â Â Â Sheikh Hasina said that the government would set up a
> full-fledged university in Barisal and the university would be named
> Barisal University, said sources.
> > Â Â Â The premier, during her previous tenure in 1996,
> announced the setting up of Barisal University, but the next government
> of Khaleda Zia changed the name of the university to Ziaur Rahman
> College.
> > Â Â Â Hasina asked the law and home affairs ministers to take
> immediate steps for withdrawing the ‘politically
> motivated’ cases filed against Awami League leaders and activists
> by the BNP-Jamaat regime, said sources.
> > Â Â Â The government on February 17 set up an inter-ministry
> committee to review the ‘politically motivated’ cases,
> especially those filed against politicians, during the regimes of the
> BNP-Jamaat government and the interim administration, and the committee
> has so far recommended withdrawal of a total of 1,183 cases.
> > Â Â Â The Cabinet has also shifted the responsibility of
> running Fazil and Kamil education to the Islamic University from the
> National University after giving the final approval to the Islamic
> University Amendment Bill 2000, and in this regard endorsed the draft of
> the Islami University (Amendment) Act 2009.
> > Â
> > http://www.newagebd.com/2009/dec/15/front.html
> >
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Re: [ALOCHONA] Pak ISI and BDR mutiny-- why ISI agents here in these forums could not stop circulating blithering lies about India's hand in it



Interesting read. When will Judge Mia will show up ?

--- On Sat, 12/26/09, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Pak ISI and BDR mutiny-- why ISI agents here in these forums could not stop circulating blithering lies about India's hand in it
To:
Date: Saturday, December 26, 2009, 3:07 PM



Watch Tower: Fresh light on mutiny in Bangladesh

Category »  Editorial Posted On Thursday, December 24, 2009
 

SQC pumped in huge funds to induce and motivate the BDR personnel, ensure their participation in the mutiny and keep their morale high. Funds were also organized by Pervez Ispahani, Pak Presidents Special Envoy who undertook a visit to Dhaka two days ahead of the mutiny- M Rama Rao

As the year 2009 draws to a close, some fresh light is emerging on what and who caused and how the mutiny staged by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), a paramilitary force, on Feb 25. BNP lawmaker, Salauddin Qader Chowdhury (SQC), played a key role in the mutiny. A long time associate of Pakistans ISI, he is close to several top ranking BNP and JEI leaders.

The planning for the mutiny took place at two meetings  one held at Hotel Seagull in Coxs Bazar on Feb 6, 2009 and the other at Al Falah auditorium in Dhaka on Feb 13, 2009. Both meetings were convened by Salauddin.

A former DG BDR Maj Gen Fazl-ur-Rahman attended the meetings. So did some retired army officers with known BNP and JEI leanings.  Gen Rahman is rabidly anti-India and is in synch with JEI. One of his greatest achievements, as his CV tells, was the BDRs confrontation he had engineered with the Indian border guards, the BSF, in 2001.

Several functionaries of the BNP and JEI also attended the Cox Bazar and Dhaka meetings. And many such meetings Salauddin held in the run up to the D-day to fine tune the action plan for implementing the blue print he had received.   ISI authored the blue print. The objective was limited: undermine the Awami League government and project Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as ineffective.
One decision taken by Salauddin and his friends was that BDR personnel should go about their plan cautiously. Enough ground should be prepared to show that the mutiny was over a just cause, they resolved.

Accordingly, BDR personnel were to place a charter of demands before the Prime Minister on Feb 24. In case she refused to take cognizance of the demands, the BDR soldiers were to open fire and kill her the very day, if possible on the spot, as an expression of their anger.   This plan did not materialize as a section of BDR soldiers said they would better to do so on Feb 25, the day the Prime Minister was to hold a Durbar  open house with the BDR personnel.
Discontent is not something new to the BDRs lower ranks.  There had been mutinies of varying intensity by the lower tiers in the past. SQC, his masters in ISI and  companions in BNP and the JEI had sought to exploit the  mood of bitterness or  discontent whatever one may call that pervades the border guards and present it as mutiny to the world.

Towards this end, SQC pumped in huge funds to induce and motivate the BDR personnel, ensure their participation in the mutiny and keep their morale high. Funds were also organized by Pervez Ispahani, Pak Presidents Special Envoy who undertook a visit to Dhaka two days ahead of the mutiny. The investigating agencies have come across evidence that Tk 6.5 crore was withdrawn from Al Arafah Bank, Motijheel branch a couple of days ahead of the mutiny.

Many BDR rebels (arrested from the spot) were carrying around Tk 3 lakh in cash. All the arrested key conspirators confessed to the investigators that they were paid handsome amounts.  Gen Fazl-Ur- Rahman received Tk 40 crore. He in turn paid Tk 5 crore to each of the four Deputy Assistant Directors (DADs) including Tauhid (who was at the forefront of the mutiny). Key players at the level of soldier received Tk 1 crore each as advance.

A meeting was held at Maruf Foundation auditorium in Dhaka on Feb 25 after outbreak of the mutiny.  Mominul Islam Patwari, JEI central executive committee member and president of Board of Directors of Islami Bank, Zahid-ur-Rahman, President of JEI student front, Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) and Secretaries of JEI and ICS units (Thana level) of Dhaka city attended the meeting for stock taking.

The meeting decided to extend all possible support to the BDR rebels to ensure their safe exit from the BDR HQ at Pilkhana. Instructions were sent to this effect to all JEI and ICS cadres across the country on telephone. Thereafter on Feb 26, students of Dhaka Aliya Madrassa and ICS cadres of Dhaka University organized logistics to ensure safe escape of the BDR rebels.  Boats were organized on Buri Ganga River with prefixed banners for easy identification. Fifty taxi cabs were placed on the roads near Pilkhana for the rebels to drive to safe hide outs.

Most senior army officers working at the BDR HQ were killed soon after the outbreak of mutiny.  This killing spree took place between nine and eleven on Feb 25 morning. Yet, the rebel team led by Tauhid  which went to ventilate  their grievances to the Prime Minister was under clear instructions not to betray their emotions but keep engaged in negotiations with Prime Minister and her aides as long as possible. This they were told was necessary to gain enough time for escape. And they succeeded literally in misleading the Prime Minister.

Simultaneously, word went to the BNP and JEI cadres to take out processions in favor of the rebels in order to incite them to go for an open confrontation with the Army. JEI and ICS cadres dominated the processions.
 
Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, BNP leader and a former Minister, organized safe exit for rebels through Hazaribagh. Salauddin and his close circles did like wise at Chittagong and Coxs Bazar. Local JEI leaders chipped in with their help at Motijheel, Comilla and Sylhet to the great relief of BDR rebels. Moral and logistic support also came from close associates of JEI chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and JEI Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mujahid.




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[ALOCHONA] Police to restore old monogram, change uniform




We don't need a freakin boat or a paddy sheaf or a flower on the police badge! Freakin what is it with Deshi men and flowers? Perhaps our police like to stand next to flowers and smell them as their boyfriends take photos of them? Hmm. Not unusual eh? Perhaps we could have a buxom village maiden carrying water on the emblem? How about a jackfruit? Or a toast biscuit?  Why oh why can't have something more manly and not associated with any political party?  Asking too much isn't it?  I know. I know.  I think we should have a butterfly in the logo and a police anthem that starts "Projapothee! Projapothee!"  Bloody nonsense!  --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@...> wrote: > > > > > > Police to restore old monogram, change uniform > > > Bangladesh Police will restore its old monogram before the 'Police Week' to be observed in first week of January and change the colour as well as design of its uniform later. > > Assistant Inspector General of Police (supply) Shoaib Ahmed at Police Headquarters told The Daily Star that they would finish restoring the monogram by altering the present one for around 1.30 lakh police before the police week. > > They have started the task following a gazette notification published on December 2, he said, adding: “We are not changing the monogram, but are just restoring the old one which was changed by the BNP-led alliance government in 2004.†> > Police HQ sources said the monogram introduced in 1861 had reflected the nature of the country accurately as it was inscribed with a boat with sail on it surrounded by a wheat and a paddy sheaves and a blooming water lily on the top. > > But the BNP-led four-party alliance government excluded the boat from the monogram presenting the country partially on the logo. > > In the monogram, there will be a boat with a sail surrounded by wheat and paddy sheaves and a water lily will be placed on the centre top of the sail while the word 'Police' in Bangla be written below the boat. > > The sources said the monogram would be changed from the badges, belts, formation signs on hands, flags of the cops and other necessary articles. > > Considering humidity, dust in the air and seasonal change, the authorities concerned have decided to change the pattern and colour of the uniform, they added. > > The existing colour of the uniform gets faded in the sun and rain, causing shabby look of the police in uniform. > > In any law enforcement agencies, including Bangladesh Police, smartness in uniform is considered an ingredient of spirit of work. So, if police personnel do not look smart in their dresses, they will not be able to discharge their duties in full swing. > > The police HQ sources said they are yet to fix the colour and pattern of the proposed uniform. > > However, people from different quarters opined that if such practice of altering police monogram and pattern as well as colour of the uniform is getting changed with the change of the government, the country will have to waste a large amount of money. > > All the changes should be made after considering the opinions of the users and experts, they added. >



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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

[ALOCHONA] Re: [Dahuk]: Muslims Take Hindu Names to Work



This is nothing new. If you see in early 40's to 60's many Bollywood actors took hindu name to enroll.This is only only possible in world only n the only n the only  SECULAR HINDU( close friend of our Kutta jibis)   country  called HINDU STAAAAN.

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Muslims Take Hindu Names to Work


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Indian Muslims, estimated at 140 million, complain of social and economic neglect and oppression. (Google)

CAIRO – With access to jobs in the lucrative diamond industry closed to them, many Muslims in Hindu-majority India change their names and assuming Hindu ones just to get a chance.

"We would not get a job if we are known to be Muslims," Allarakha Khan, a Muslim worker who uses a Hindu name, told the Indian Express on Tuesday, December 29.

"We have been doing this for a long time, and we take great care not to reveal our real names or addresses at work."

There are some 140 million Muslims in Hindu-majority India, the world's third-largest Muslim population after those of Indonesia and Pakistan.

Indian Muslims have suffered decades of social and economic neglect and oppression.

They have been decrying for years that they comprise only a tiny percentage of police, army officers, public servants and public university students.

They register lower educational levels and, as a consequence, higher unemployment rates than the majority Hindus and other minorities like Christians and Sikhs.

Costly Price

Mehboob Pathan changed his name and those of his son and daughter to Hindu names to find a job in the diamond industry.  

"Like me, my father too was hiding his religion only so that we could have a job," asserted his son Mushtaq, who goes by the Hindu name Mukesh.

But the family paid a tragic price for hiding their Muslim identity.

The father, who went by the Hindu name Jayenti Bhatti, disappeared recently and the family reported his absence.

To their shock, they discovered he was killed over monetary dispute and was cremated as a Hindu.

"How could the police dispose of his body the Hindu way?" fumed Mushtaq.

"An examination would have shown he was a Muslim."

But police insist the family was too late.

"We disposed it of according to Hindu rites not knowing he was a Muslim," said police sub-Inspector V R Malhotra.

"The family turned up too late and we are now helpless."

In Islam, cremation is prohibited as it is disrespectful to the dead body and Islam calls for respecting human beings whether alive or dead.

It is an obligation on Muslims as a community to ensure that every Muslim who dies is properly washed, shrouded, and buried according to the teachings of Islam.

"We are too poor to do anything," said a helpless Mushtaq. 


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