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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

RE: [ALOCHONA] Bangladesh stunned by Awami victory

What a shallow analysis of BNP's election debacle.
 
Keep it up and BNP will cease to exist - Inshallah.
 
NB: As an aside, as one who claims to be a human rights advocate your reference to Munni Saha was irreverent and absolutely unnecessary.
Likewise, if you expect to be taken seriously, you must stick to your analysis professionally without making crude remarks like Jalil being a drunkard.





To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: mufassili@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:05:21 +0000
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Bangladesh stunned by Awami victory

Dear Readers,
 
The equation is very simple. The factors that played into Awami League's victory:
 
1. Awami League and BNP are originally almost at par with their number of supporters. Awami league's regular supporters did vote for Awami League as usual and they had no reason to love BNP - so Awami League grabbed the regular devoted votes;
 
2. The Swing Voters wanted to teach BNP a lesson for their corruption and had no other alternative than Mohajot as voting for BNP would have justified Tarek's corrupt practice - so they voted for alternative - ie., Awami League - having no other alternative;
 
3. The BNP supporters or activists were divided as to pro-change and anti-change groups, the defelctors like Bodrudouza and Oli gave reasons to the exploiters and anti-BNP lobbies reason to ponder upon BNP's coordination and disciplined approach;
 
4. BNP stalwarts or the pivotal leaders were kept behind the bars until the last few days on very simple cases which were easily bailable when Awami League had almost all their pivotal figures out of jail all the time (well even drunkard Jalil was out of jail);
 
5. Awami League had always supported the caretaker Govt and had promised to legalise their unconstitutional (although I think constitution itself has become a laugh) works if voted to power;
 
6. Hasina had a few anti-Jamaati Islamic groups in her pocket which got the votes of anti-Jamaati pro-Islamic ppl on their side and Hasian promised not to enact any anti-Islamic laws;
 
7. Ershad commands a few BNP votes as well owing to his military past;
 
8. New generation of voters did not have the experience of seeing Awami League's rule as adults rather they saw the corrupt rule of Tarek which made them anti-BNP and they read Awami League made ppl drink 'Vaater Fan' in drains from adults like us and they were too young to understand that Awami League always failed to control crime;
 
9. Awami League is better in price control when BNP is not good at that and owing to present price hike - ppl could not afford to take chances with any more price hike as that would have meant playing with starvation;
 
10. women voters were successfully convinced that BNP meant oppression on women;
 
11. The media which is ruled by Foortibaaj and Aamodi pro-Bollywood dedicated Amitabh loving reporters like Munni Shaha (who always talks for Hindu greats) ruled non-political channel news rooms like that of ATN and the so called cultural ppl are dying to have a amorous relationship with Indian medias to extend their workfield where Pakistan is a total failure;
 
12. Bangladesh is surrounded by Maoists and communists and Islam has been pocketed by idiots like JMBs and without true Islamic wise leaders - communism in the camouflage of secularism has taken root in newspapers;
 
13. Awami League banked on the issue of bringing the Jamaat leaders to war-tribunals when BNP owing to failure of its leaders (only Salauddin Qader recently accused Awami League of letting thousands of Pakistani soldiers leave the country without war compensations) could not successfully defend the issue with a counter challenge;
 
14. Hasina lobbied abroad (with kaaney betha issue) to win international support for Awami League when BNP concentrated on domestic support only.
 
Hence, I and many like me are not shocked or surprised at all at Awami League's win and I am sure the readers do recall I DID forecast this scenario even in this ALOCHONA online many months ago.
 
I NOW forecast that Awami League will become a good ruler as they may not act like BNP idiots but they will soon find out that Bangladeshi ppl are pro-Islamic when they will start enacting anti-Islamic India loving enactments and this will give rise to a wise and revolutionary Islamic power in Bangladesh with BNP at the helm.
 
Sincerely,
 
 
Mufassil Islam
Human Rights Advocate


To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: mkra12@aol.com
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 09:20:44 -0500
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Bangladesh stunned by Awami victory


The extraordinary support for AWL is definitely a mandate for change in the affairs of the country.
That change is not some quantitative change here & there  but fundamental change in the system of governance in the country. After all, they have the two third majority.
Can Sheikh Hasina & Awami League deliver that change?Can she liberate the country's folk from the yokes of colonial bureaucratic system of governance?
After everything settles down and the elected government begins functioning. The country will go back to the age old colonial system of governance,despite the overwhelming participation of the nation in the election.
From the Secreteriate to the Mahakuma offices, it's the non elected, non answerable bureaucrats who will be the supreme rulers of the day to day affairs of the country. The Minister is not the executive head of the Ministry but the Secretery. Ministers orders cannot be issued as Government orders unless approved by the Secretary. The scenario at the districts, Upozilla's, Cities & Mahakuma's are more bleak. There is zero representation of the public in the governance of those levels.
The notorious system that was devised by the colonial rulers to keep us under subjugation by our own people continues to this day, despite two independences.
   Hope her Government will  hand over the total administration of the Upozillas to the elected chairman & council members.She will face a lot of resistance from the bureaucracy by way of government rules & regulations but she has the backing of the vast majority as well as the two third majority to do and undo anything in the greater interest of the nation. All administrative powers which are excercised by the bureaucrats at those levels should be vested in the elected chairman & council of representatives.This will empower the Upozilla people to be their own rulers.They will truly be independent.
   Until & unless we establish Democracy,self rule at the grassroot levels Democracy will not have its foundation.Opinions of the majority  of citizens, their hopes & aspirations,likings ,dislikings will not be expressed in the affairs of the country, nor their support be of any strength to the elected government.
The handful of elected ministers at the center will be cut off from the people by way of the clandestine bureaucracy. Its imperative that we have elected local government.at the varios administrative levels;bureaucrats at these levels should be answerable to the elected local body.
The vast majority of Bangladeshi's has shown the keen judgement of right & wrong by routing out the parties of anti liberation past & fundamentalist in nature.They also opted for the less corrupt of the two parties.
Is it too much to ask that these good majority will be allowed to be their own rulers?
 
Mizad








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[mukto-mona] Fw: CNN: Israel Broke Gaza Cease-Fire

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[mukto-mona] Pakistan fires official who confirmed Mumbai gunman's identity

Pakistan fires official who confirmed Mumbai gunman's identity
Pakistan's national security advisor Mehmood Ali Durrani ...
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Pakistan's national security advisor Mehmood Ali Durrani attends a meeting in Islamabad in this picture taken December 2, 2008. Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani dismissed his national security adviser Durrani on January 7, 2009, following weeks of tension with India in the aftermath of an attack by militants on Mumbai. Picture taken December 2, 2008.

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By Saeed Shah and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers Saeed Shah And Jonathan S. Landay, Mcclatchy Newspapers2 hrs 2 mins ago
 
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani government on Wednesday abruptly fired its national security adviser after he confirmed that the surviving gunman captured in the Mumbai attacks is a Pakistani, a key piece of evidence contained in a dossier amassed by India on alleged Pakistani complicity in the three-day assault.
A McClatchy investigation established four weeks ago that the only assailant captured alive, Amir Ajmal Kasab , comes from Faridkot, an impoverished hamlet in Pakistan's Punjab Province .
Retired Army Gen. Mehmood Ali Durrani's confirmation of the surviving assailant's nationality, the first by a senior Pakistani official, followed weeks of denials by Islamabad that any of the terrorists were Pakistani.
Durrani's ouster suggests that a struggle is raging in the Pakistan government over responding to the Indian dossier and material gathered by the U.S. that blames the November attacks on a Pakistan -based Islamic militant group with ties to a Pakistani intelligence agency.
The attacks on two major tourist hotels, a Jewish center and other sites in India's financial capital left 163 people dead and stoked serious tensions between India and Pakistan , the nuclear-armed rivals that have fought three wars since winning independence from Britain in 1947.
Intent on pressing a diplomatic offensive against Pakistan , India was expected to send Home Minister P. Chidambaram to Washington this week in part to seek additional intelligence that the U.S. may have on Pakistani links to the attacks, a State Department official said.
"The Indians want to use this visit to basically fill out their dossier," said the State Department official, who asked to remain anonymous because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly. "They think we've got the goods."
A U.S. government consultant, who asked not to be further identified to speak more frankly, said that India , which for years has been battling fighters from Lashkar-e- Taiba and other Pakistan -backed militants on its side of the disputed Kashmir region, has warned the White House that it won't tolerate another strike by extremists linked to Pakistan .
"The Indians have said that if there is one more attack — it doesn't have to be a Mumbai — all hell will break loose. This is what they've told the White House ," he said.
The Bush administration is pressing Pakistan to bring to justice those who were responsible for the attacks. It fears that retaliatory steps by India could ignite a conflict that would end Pakistan's crackdown on al Qaida and Taliban fighters along the border with Afghanistan .
The U.S. government consultant said the Bush administration already has shared large amounts of intelligence with India and Pakistan linking the Mumbai assailants to senior figures of the Pakistan -based Lashkar-e- Taiba extremist group, including at least one in Pakistani custody.
Durrani, a former ambassador to the U.S., confirmed that Kasab was Pakistani in an interview with a television channel, Dawn News , while an Indian station, CNN-IBN, also claimed to have gotten a similar story from him.
A statement from Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's office said that Durrani was sacked "for his irresponsible behavior" and a "lack of coordination on matters of national security."
Durrani was dismissed even though other Pakistani officials, including Information Minister Sherry Rehman , acknowledged the accuracy of his disclosure on Kasab.
His disclosure came after New Delhi leaked the entirety of its dossier to news outlets.
The document contained some chilling transcripts of intercepted phone calls between the attackers and their handlers, who seemingly were directing the operation from Pakistan .
The document, however, contained nothing to establish a link between the terrorists and the Pakistani government, the army or the powerful Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence , a claim made loudly by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other senior officials.
Much of the "proof" contained in the file also appeared to be circumstantial at best.
According to the dossier, at one point during the assault, a handler named Kafa told a gunman named Fahadullah by satellite phone that he should "Kill all hostages, except the two Muslims" being held at the Oberoi Hotel .
Later, the recording has the voices of Fahadullah and another assailant directing the hostages to stand in a line, and for the two Muslims to step aside. The intercept then records the "sound of gunfire. Cheering voices in the background."
The document says that a satellite phone recovered from the attackers showed a telephone number "that links the terrorists to top functionaries" of Lashkar-e- Taiba .
A recovered GPS set was set to guide a boat from close to the Pakistani port of Karachi to Mumbai .
A logbook from a boat the terrorists hijacked has their names listed for watch duties.
The document also makes much of a series of items recovered from the boat, which had "unmistakable signs of having been manufactured in Pakistan ." These include pistols, a packet of pickled, soap powder and "Touchme" shaving cream.

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[ALOCHONA] INSURGENCY MOVEMENT IN THE CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS :INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS

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[ALOCHONA] New govt. must not settle political scores

New govt. must not settle political scores
 
Moinuddin Naser in New York
 
US conservative think tank Heritage Foundation (HF) has recommended that Washington should work with India, European Union Countries, Australia and Japan to encourage the Awami League-led government to build bridges with the political opposition and to avoid monopolising state political and economic power.
   The recommendations said the new government in Bangladesh must use this opportunity not to settle political scores, but to solidify gains in the democratic process and improve governance in order to support the Bangladeshi people, revive the country's economy, and limit opportunities for radical Islamists.
   It added that successful polls are only the first step in achieving a functional democratic process. Unless the new government demonstrates a commitment to rooting out corruption, improving governance and bolstering the economy, it risks creating an environment of instability, which would render itself ineffective and provide an opening for new military intervention. With 40 per cent of the Bangladeshi population still living on less than $1 a day and amid new economic uncertainties created by the global economic downturn, the new government cannot afford to waste any time in implementing measures to revitalise the economy and in continuing the business and economic reforms begun under the interim government.
   The HF recommendations were submitted on Monday Last (January 5, 2009) the day when Obama came to Washington DC from Chicago. The foundation pointed out that these countries played a key role in ensuring the elections.
   The HF stated: "It is unclear whether the military will completely relinquish power now that elections have been held."
   One crucial indicator will be whether the current and retired military officers -- placed in key political positions over the last two years -- will retain their government jobs after the Awami League government takes over. There are signs that some military leaders believe the army should continue to have a direct role in governing the country, it added.
   
   ]New govt's responsibility
   The HF recommendations further said that while supporting the newly elected democratic government the US should make it clear that it is the new government's responsibility to prove that it is capable of improving governance and rooting out corruption within its own ranks.
   Washington must also encourage the new government to take a strong stand against Islamist extremists that have sought to exploit weak institutions, corruption, and lack of good governance to make political inroads and have used violence to intimidate opponents.
   Finally, Washington should encourage the BNP to honour the election results and play an appropriate role in Parliament in order to effectively address the nation's pressing challenges.
   The recommendations were forwarded by Research Fellow on South Asia
   Lisa Curtis and Resaerach Assistant Nicholas Hamisevicz of the Asian Division of the Heritage Foundation. Lisa Curtis once served in India and Pakistan embassies of the USA and Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and also in the South Asian Division of the State Department.
   The recommendations mentioned that Jamaat-e-Islami had ties with Bangla Bhai and predicted that Sheikh Hasina is likely to take a tougher position toward Islamist extremists than Khaleda Zia did during her tenure. The recommendations added: Hasina survived an assassination attempt by Islamic extremists in August 2004 when grenades were thrown at one of her political rallies, killing 20 of her supporters. The BNP had ruled from 2001 to 2006 in coalition with Islamist parties. BNP coalition partner Jamaat-e-Islami apparently had ties to extremist leader Bangla Bhai, who promoted Islamic revolution in Bangladesh and was executed by the interim government in March 2007. In August 2005, widespread bombings conducted by the Jamaat-ul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB)-whose stated goal is to impose strict Islamic rule-alarmed both domestic and international observers about the threat posed by local extremist groups. Just last week, Bangladeshi police arrested seven JMB-linked militants armed with grenades and explosives.
   The report mentioned that Indian leaders, increasingly concerned about Dhaka's response to Islamist extremists that also allegedly target India-especially its northeastern states that border Bangladesh-have welcomed Sheikh Hasina's victory. Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), a terrorist organisation founded by Pakistan-based leader Fazlur Rehman with ties to al-Qaeda, apparently remains active in Bangladesh. India's new Home Minister P. Chidambaram recently told the Indian parliament that Bangladesh had a responsibility to control the HuJI.

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