Dear all salam The following results shows that peoples denied the present education policy. with best regards Kazi Mohammad Ismail Pavel
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what happened in Bdesh during 1972 to 1975, that prompted change of a corrupt govt
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Bangladesh disaster Preparedness Centre (BDPC) going global Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Centre (BDPC) is going to transcend its origin to further cater to the cause of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) by training 12 high level government officials of six African countries-Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, and Sudan-on Disaster Risk Management (DRM). This will be a Training of the Trainers (TOT) programme to be held in Uganda from 5 to 10 October 2009, it's an initiative of EEFORM, a European Union funded programme for IGAD (Inter-Governmental Agency for Development) `region, a BDPC press release said here today. BDPC was selected through an international competitive bid for the job for it's long experience in CBDRR.The BDPC's role in the 2nd Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) in June this year, especially that of it's director Muhammad Saidur Rahman as the moderator of the 'High Level Panel for Enabling Community-led Resilience Through Preventive Action', drew the global attention to BDPC. GPDRR was participated by over 1800 people from 170 countries. Bangladesh is a world leader in DRR. The African countries recognize the need for focussing more on disaster risk reduction/disaster risk management to harness the capacity and resilience of their people. This is an opportunity of BDPC to train and thus influence the DRM policies and practices through the 12 top level government officials of IGAD region and contribute in consolidation of the global demand for CBDRR. |
Smoking al Qaida and the Taliban Out of Pakistans Tribal RegionPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh and Carl Ciovacco | January 05, 2009
Increasingly, the focus on the War on Terrorism is turning to Pakistan's troubled tribal region. Both the current Bush administration and the incoming Obama transition team have singled out the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region as a high priority. This insightful article by Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's newly elected prime minister who previously served in that office from 1996 to 2001, and Carl Ciovacco provides policy makers struggling with this issue a template for successful action. – EDITOR, Armchair General magazine
As counterterrorism experts and statesmen around the world ponder the best strategy to defeat al Qaida and the Taliban, a nuanced approach at solving the ills of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) could provide the answer. By transforming the region from a lawless, drug supplying, smuggling epicenter bent on fighting the federal government and instigating international violence, to a rehabilitated province flourishing with schools, hospitals, and a legitimate agrarian source of income, al Qaida and the Taliban would find themselves without a home. This rehabilitation would usher in conditions inhospitable to drug and arms smugglers and terrorists. What bunker-busters and guns have failed to do to al Qaida and the Taliban hiding in the remote mountainous lattice, tribal area rehabilitation could accomplish. The success story of the Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) tribal area of Bangladesh could serve as a template to heal Pakistan's tribal region and effectively smoke the terrorists out of their safe-haven.
The similarities between the CHT tribal region in Bangladesh and the FATA in Pakistan are striking. Both tribal areas are remote, autonomy-seeking, mountainous enclaves on the borders of their respective countries, and marginalized by the ruling majority party. They are extremely poor and only account for a small portion of their country's total land mass and population. Opium, weapons and drug smuggling, and armed conflict between the tribes and their government thrived in the CHT as it does today in the FATA. How then has the Chittagong become a law-abiding area that now produces corn for its country instead of opium while the FATA remains a thorn in the side of Pakistan, its neighbors, and the rest of the world? The answer to this question may supply a remedy to al Qaida and the Taliban's increased control and influence over the region and its opium trade. If Pakistan can make the FATA look more like the Chittagong, al Qaida and the Taliban will lose not only their base of operations but also the drug money that is helping fund their global terrorist network.
Currently in the FATA, al Qaida and the Taliban have teamed with the tribal leaders against the federal government. The tribes have vehemently rejected the federal government's plan to eradicate opium. Al Qaida and the Taliban have offered their services to fight alongside the tribes against government troops, namely the paramilitary Frontier Corps, in return for a portion of the opium proceeds. Drug sales and local support, coupled with the safety of the mountains, have aided al Qaida and the Taliban's recent resurgence. Furthermore, the tribal leaders' latest accord with the Pakistani government for more autonomy in exchange for the pledged safety of federal troops, has led to a flawed solution that fails to address opium, al Qaida, and the Taliban. Effectively signing away the federal government's ability to reign in the terrorists, this agreement has thwarted Pakistan's capacity to prevent future terrorist attacks. For Pakistan to address the lawlessness, drugs, and growing terrorist safe-haven status of the FATA, it must become serious about effecting change. Once it decides this, the path that it could follow is that which Bangladesh tread in 1997 with the CHT. Template for success After winning the 1996 Bangladeshi general elections, we executed a carefully orchestrated rehabilitation strategy in our troubled tribal region. Understanding that the root problem had to be solved politically, not militarily, and that it could not be mediated by outside forces was central to the rehabilitation. The implementation of this strategy had three basic tenets: 1) a peace summit for the tribal, central government, and neighboring countries' leaders focused on highlighting competing concerns and identifying a common ground, 2) a comprehensive weapons turn-in program, and 3) replacement of opium fields with corn fields to make the tribes' livelihood more legitimate and provide severely needed food. In the end, the peace accord returned the more than one million Chittagong inhabitants back into the fold of Bangladesh, precipitated the return of 64,000 Chittagong refugees from India, produced a greatly needed food source in corn, and secured peace in the region that previously had seen over 20,000 deaths between 1976 and 1997. The peace summit consisted of public negotiations in Parliament and secret, high-level meetings with the leaders of tribes and neighboring countries. While the Parliamentary Special Committee led by Abul Hasnat Abdullah made some in-roads, the benefits of bilateral meetings with the tribal leader Shantu Larma, the leaders of the Indian West Bengal State, and the Indian Prime Minister were much more fruitful. The crux of the summit was based on tribal acknowledgment of central government sovereignty in exchange for rehabilitation of the CHT. The accord outlined rehabilitation of the tribal inhabitants by building schools, hospitals, and roads. Incredibly important was having the federal troops work on these projects so that their image would change in the eyes of the tribes. Unconditional surrender of the tribes' weapons ensured that elevated tensions in the CHT could not be sparked by a few divisive hot-heads. Although emotionally difficult for the tribes to turn in their weapons as they had fought with them for many years, once this roadblock was lifted, the rest of the process fell into place. At the turn-in points, we had journalists, diplomats, leaders from all political parties, and civil society to provide for the widest distribution of news about this momentous occasion. The last tenet of the plan involved the destruction of all poppy fields in the region. Unlike the recent unsuccessful eradication attempts in Pakistan by government troops that have led to more harm than good, we implemented a comprehensive rehabilitation plan for the opium farmers. All opium farmers received grants from the government for their lost opium crop and an agricultural loan to make the transition to a different crop. Under a program called Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF), they received food ration cards for six months until they could harvest their new corn crop. Each month they received 30 kilos of food – 15 kilos of rice and 15 kilos of wheat. This type of humane treatment allowed our Border Rifles Regiment to clear the poppy fields without fear of attack. Pakistan's next steps Pakistan should attempt to operationalize portions of our tribal rehabilitation strategy in its FATA. It must begin by organizing a peace summit that assembles tribal members, provincial leaders, and the federal government. As a new government has assumed the reins in Pakistan, this would be an opportune time for such a summit. Furthermore, after the recent attacks in Mumbai by the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, now is the time for Pakistan to move forward on a counterterrorism plan nestled in the rehabilitation of its tribal region. Behind-the-scenes meetings must occur between the federal government, tribal leaders, provincial leaders of the Northwest Frontier Province, and its neighboring countries of Afghanistan, India, and China. The FATA should be demilitarized once the federal government provides an earnest assurance that rehabilitation and infrastructure development will occur. Lastly, a plan to burn the poppy fields must be complemented by payments and food to local farmers and training for an alternative crop. In the short run, and acknowledging that the scale of opium production is much larger in the FATA than it was in the CHT, it is conceivable that a small portion of the poppy fields could be legitimized by selling the opium for medical purposes. This route should only be a temporary fix designed to provide a soft-landing as the FATA moves away from illicit drug sales. By legitimizing agriculture in Pakistan, al Qaeda and the Taliban will be cut out of the process by nullifying the need for the tribal leaders to ally with them for protection. A rehabilitated region with a sound local-federal working relationship would also prevent the terrorists from exploiting this divide. Critics could argue that this rehabilitation process would take years to accomplish. However, as demonstrated by Chittagong's six month peace process, change takes only as long as desired. It would be careless naïveté to think that this process would be free of growing pains, but without change, the current trajectory of the FATA points to increased tension with the Federal Government and increased entrenchment of the strengthening al Qaida-Taliban terror network in Pakistan. With the command post of the global jihadist movement enjoying a safe-haven within its sovereign borders, it is incumbent upon Pakistan to fix the FATA. As civilians flee the region in droves and NATO forces begin to exit neighboring Afghanistan, the status quo cannot remain. For the sake of the country and the rest of the world, Pakistan must look seriously at what we in Bangladesh accomplished in the CHT. If Pakistan does not act, al Qaida and the Taliban will continue to prosper in this netherworld that currently lies politically and militarily out of reach. Sheikh Hasina, newly elected Prime Minister of Bangladesh, also served from 1996 to 2001. She has been the President of the Awami League, a major political party in Bangladesh, since 1981. She is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the secular leader and founding father of Bangladesh. Carl Ciovacco graduated from West Point and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government with a Masters in Public Policy. He has specialized in International Security Policy and his graduate thesis was on al Qaida's media strategy. Mr. Ciovacco served as an Army officer in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. His article, "Al Qaida's Media Strategy" was published in the January 2009 issue of Armchair General magazine. |
Dear Mr. Kareem, I have already stated repeatedly that I am NOT Sohail Taj the ex-State Minister and son of Tajuddin Ahmed. I am a simply student concerned at for the future of Bangladesh. Originally I had believed without question that India was our friend and benefactor and that the pro-Liberation forces were accurate in everything they asserted. After I tried to take on Barrister Munshi and his book but failed to obtain any support from the pro-Liberation forces I became despondent and doubtful. I then visited Bangladesh again and inquired further about Barrister Munshi and even purchased the second edition of The India Doctrine and my whole mind was forced to change. There is no question that we as a people have been hoodwinked by the Indians and the pro-liberation forces paid for by New Delhi. Bangladesh has been living a lie for the last 40 years. While Pakistan was certainly not our friend the Indians are much worse in every respect. The third secret report on the BDR mutiny reveals clear Indian inspiration behind the killings of our officers. In any other country this would be a declaration of war but because Bangladesh is controlled by a powerful clique of cowards, corrupts and fifth columnists we endure such humiliation at the hands of India. WHAT A SHAME! WE HAVE LOST ALL OUR HONOUR. Regards Taj --- On Wed, 9/30/09, muhammed kareem <kareem871@hotmail.com> wrote:
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The following article might clear up some confusion:
The Intellectual Blueprint of the Neo-Razakars
Over the last few months I have been observing the increasingly monotonous promotion of the book `The India Doctrine' by the infamous Barrister MBI Munshi. His supporters and the books promoters are easily identified and include Isha Khan, Zoglul Hossain Zainal Abedin and Moin Ansari (a Pakistani national residing in New York). These are all well-known and renowned anti-Indians who at every opportunity spout venom at our big neighbour and try to create a hostile and militant attitude to New Delhi. If the opinions of these few individuals were kept within this small coterie there would not be much concern but the ideas and perspectives found in The India Doctrine appear to be spreading. If one reads the recent write-ups and speeches of such public intellectuals like Farhad Mazar, Mahmudur Rahman, Sadeq Khan, Prof. Mahbubullah, Prof. Ataur Rahman, Prof. Razia Banu, Shah Abdul Hannan and the anti-Indian stance of the BNP-Jamaat neo-Razakars you will see the adoption of the ideas contained in The India Doctrine. Similarly, several newspapers, magazines and journals such as the Naya Diganta, Sangram, Dinkal, New Age, Bangladesh Defence Journal, The Financial Express, PROBE, The Bangladesh Today and The New Nation have also been sponsoring or highlighting this new anti-Indian agenda initiated by The India Doctrine.
After much irritating and incessant publicity surrounding this book I decided to purchase a copy from The Bookworm near Jahangir Gate. This is the only bookstore in Dhaka that actually sells the book. For those who support the ideals of the Liberation War and the sacrifices made by the people of Bangladesh one can only be repulsed by its contents. The book does not even leave Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman untouched by its scurrilous and repulsive innuendoes and second rate theorizing about a supposed and fantastic Akhand Bharat being allegedly pursued by Indian policy-makers since partition in 1947. What Barrister MBI Munshi does not discuss is the sacrifices that were made by India for the independence of Bangladesh. Barrister Munshi manages to disingenuously twist history to make India appear as the villain and not the murderous Pakistan army that raped and killed unarmed civilians in the erstwhile East Pakistan.
What is particularly aggravating is that none of the so-called defenders of our freedoms and secular ideals has come forward to contradict the objectives and ideas of the book. This is extremely dangerous as the anti-Indian tilt now appearing in Bangladesh could have very unfortunate consequences for the country. If New Delhi views its small neighbour as becoming hostile to its friendly overtures it could turn the screws and make things difficult for Bangladesh. Already many in India view Bangladesh as ungrateful. The secular intellectuals of Bangladesh must come forward and warn of the dangers of following the ideas contained in The India Doctrine.
The book essentially promotes an intellectual blueprint for instability and reversal of the secular gains made in 1971 which ultimately trashed the concept of the Two Nation Theory but which is still oddly propounded in Pakistan. After 1971, Pakistanis should have come to realize that the misguided ideals of the Two Nation Theory are no longer relevant the creation of Bangladesh proves that point. Unfortunately the neo-Razakars in Bangladesh still passionately hold to this concept of the Two Nation Theory. The India Doctrine superficially provides them with an argument but it is indeed a weak foundation. The dream of India's disintegration (an implication made in the book) is just that a dream. Instead we are seeing Pakistan on the verge of political collapse and Bangladesh with an uncertain future. It is without doubt India that will emerge as the regional superpower and elites in Pakistan and Bangladesh better come to recognize that reality or both countries will suffer the consequences. Both Pakistan and Bangladesh are too weak and internally divided to pose a threat to India's rise so why foster dreams based on an ill-conceived religious division which has done more harm than good. The meaning of Islam is submission so both countries should gracefully submit!
Sohail Tajul Islam
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Imperial College London
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View: Equinox and paradox
William B Milam
Daily Times
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C09%5C30%5Cstory_30-9-2009_pg3_5
William B Milam is a senior policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington and a former
It is important to recognise that the
Fall seems to have come again this year in
This year the equinox brought us cooler and cloudy weather, more of a harbinger of the coming season than usual. President Obama's mood appears to have cooled and clouded also, although that was probably not caused by the equinox, but one has to wonder if his mood shift also signals stormier political weather. He began his counteroffensive on healthcare with a big speech to Congress even before the equinox, and has continued it with a media blitz that began last Sunday when he appeared on five morning talk shows. This would be a physically impossible feat for us ordinary mortals (assuming any of us would ever get invited on these shows anyway), but for a President who stays in one place and lets the shows come to him, it is doable.
Last month, I described the pervasive mood of distrust, uncertainty, fear, and frustration that I had sensed when my brother and I drove across the
This mood has created stiff resistance to the President's agenda for change, especially because the opposition seemed to have removed all barriers to hyperbolic discourse in their effort to inflict political defeat upon him. Despite his strong counteroffensive and appeals to reason and fact, which may be beginning to turn the tide on some issues, the general mood of the public on the macro level, i.e. the ability of government to play a positive role in their lives, remains ugly and resistant.
This mood is fed by changes that the public generally fears. First, the US economy has been changing fast — too fast perhaps for people to understand the reasons or direction — and this has, of course, been exacerbated greatly by the double whammy recession that has hammered the US in the past 18 months. In addition, two wars that the public disapproves of (Iraq for sure, and a growing unease about Afghanistan), generally inept performances in disaster situations such as Hurricane Katrina's inundation of New Orleans, and the huge pile of debt accumulated in the effort to overcome the recession as well as fight those wars, frighten the public and promote intense and shrill anger.
Hostility is mainly directed at the federal government, which is blamed for all these problems, and primarily at Congress, which is thought to be hopelessly corrupted by corporate money and unable because of "politics" to resolve any of the important issues that affect people's lives. (Obama, thus, retains a much greater popularity than Congress, but this does not appear to help him achieve his political objectives.)
This hostility builds on the reservoir of anger and distrust of
There is among the pundits a certain nostalgia for the "good old days" when things worked better and Congress could put aside its partisanship when it came to major political issues. The liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently looked back fondly to the days of Richard Nixon's Presidency (at the time, Nixon was considered a villain by the liberals) as a time when, at least, things got done through the system of political compromise and corporate money was less influential in policy decisions.
Krugman also noted a paradox, however, "
By micro level, I mean non-government, mainly local, efforts to improve the daily life of the American people, meet the daily challenges that confront them, take care of those who can't take care of themselves, and importantly promote better understanding and empathy among individuals and groups in our country.
In
Yet other friends and acquaintances work for environmental causes, from cleaning up toxic spills to preserving our wetlands, grasslands, forests, and wilderness. The list of micro activities performed voluntarily by American citizens in this country is probably longer than the drive I made across it.
I have seen films of interfaith gatherings promoted to bring those of different faiths together and increase their mutual understanding. Recently I watched the video that, I believe, was carried on GEO TV of an Iftar in
The point here is not to paper over the serious macro faults that have brought sclerosis to a once-effective political process. But it is also important to recognise that the
IN MEMORIUM: I cannot end this piece without mention of the sad news of the death of the three-time former Finance Minister of