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Thursday, October 1, 2009

[mukto-mona] Pakistan backstabbing USA?



Why the hell are you lying so much?
Is Lying permissible in Islam or in Fort of Islam now?
Farhat Taj does not exist and you are claiming to know so much about him?
It is just a fake I.D. of a former Pakistani that was helping a Norwegian write this article in English. He has used his real name to avoid retaliation of Pakistan's Gustapo, ISI, that you work for.

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Khurram Hussain <khurramhussein@hotmail.com> wrote:
Another email of black propaganda campaign by anti Pakistan pric who are bound to fail and their lies will die before them.
 
Farhat Taj is know for the links with Indian high comission and was present in the party in Islamabad arranged by American Ambassador to help RAW recruit agents in Pakistan.


 
Khurram Hussain

 

 

 




 
From: turkman@sbcglobal.net


 
--- Mohammad Ayub Khan Yousafzai <afghan41@...> wrote:
>
> The Taliban and Salarzais
>
> Sunday, September 27, 2009
> by Farhat Taj
>
> I was in Pakistan in August and had the opportunity to meet the leaders of the anti-Taliban lashkar (volunteer army) of Bajaur's 'Salarzai' tribe. I am honoured that upon my request they travelled from Bajaur to meet me in 'Nowshehra' and shared with me information about their anti-Taliban struggle. I am not mentioning their names for reasons of their security.
>
> The area of the Salarzai tribe is on the border with Afghanistan. The tribe have collectively decided that there won't be any Taliban on their soil (left). The Taliban have been driven-out of the Salarzai area. The Salarzai Lashkar, mostly made up of labourers and peasants has successfully kept the Salazai area free of the Taliban.
>
> Tens of Salarzail lashkar leaders have been 'target-killed' (secretly). The Salarzai leaders informed me they hold the ISI (the Pakistan Army's Intelligence Agency) responsible for the Targeted Killings (of their Leaders). "The Taliban are just a Fade. The real force is the ISI punishing us for our anti-Taliban struggle, ...", said one of the leaders.
>
> The leaders said that 'Mamond' Taliban headquarters used to be in 'Damadola', which is a few kilometres from the FC Fort in Bajaur. The Mamond Taliban used to bomb Salarzai villages. The Salarzai tribal elders requested the Political Agent, the authorities of the FC and the Pakistani army to stop the Mamond Taliban. None of these offered any help (against Taliban). Finally the Salarzai lashkar took positions on the mountains and for two hours heavily bombarded the surrounding villages of the Mamond Taliban. At that point the Political Agent (the Pakistan Government imposed Ruler of the region) and a Colonel of the (Pakistan) army asked the Salarzai lashkar to stop the bombing. They gave the same old logic: "Who will fight the NATO forces from across the Afghan border if you eliminate the Taliban?"
>
> Following such encounters with the state authorities, the Salarzais decided to fire at any forces entering their area: be it the Taliban, Al Qaida, the army or the US or NATO. The Salarzais have taken-up positions all over the area and are always on guard. The tribesmen take turns to defend those positions. Unlike the bombed-out schools in the Taliban-controlled areas, all schools in the Salarzai region are functioning. The Tribesmen are performing Security Duties in both Girls' and Boys' schools in the area.
>
> The leaders informed me, "There is a set pattern of Target-killing of anti-Taliban Salarzai leader. Before each Targeted Killing all Telephone Links with the far-flung Salarzai area are cut off (by the Government of Pakistan on the orders of Pakistan Army). The Targeted Killing takes place 24 to 48 hours later. The Telephone Links are restored a couple of days after the Assassinated Leader has been buried. A day or so later a News Item of a few lines appears in the Newspapers about that Killing. No one in Pakistan seems to be bothered about the State-sponsored Targeted Killings of anti-Taliban Salarzai leaders. Our area is too far from the rest of Pakistan and our agony means nothing to fellow-Pakistanis. The Pakistani Media never ever tries to probe into the targeted killings, ..." said one of the Salarzai leaders.
>
> All Telephone Lines to the Salarzia area were dead the day I was meeting with the leaders. They said they were deeply worried, whose turn it might be to be targeted for killing. Two days later the Telephone Links were restored. The same day they informed me on Telephone that Malik Munasib Khan, the spokesman of the Salarzai lashkar had been killed. They held the ISI responsible for his killing (also).
>
> The Salarzai leaders also informed me that last year the Army deliberately fired at those villages in Bajaur that were known to be staunchly anti-Taliban. They said one of their colleagues called Maj Gen Alam Khattak to ask him to stop the bombing of his village. "Major General Sahib ...! I will start a vendetta with you if you did not halt the bombing of my village immediately. I will make sure to kill you and your family at the first available opportunity" , they quoted one of their colleagues as saying. "The Major General asked him to meet Col. Sajjad, who was bombing the anti-Taliban villages from his base in 'Timergara'. That colleague saw a big Bajaur map affixed on the wall in the office of Col Sajjad. The map had several encircled villages. Col Sajjad informed him that the map had been handed over to him by his commanders with the order to bomb all the encircled villages. Our colleague's blood boiled with anger: (because) none of the villages had Taliban in them", said the Salarzai leaders. The Villages included 'Butmali', 'Danqul', 'Attkay', 'Matasha', 'Baro', 'Raghjan' and 'Nazkai'.
>
> On the other hand, those Salarzai villages that had Taliban were not marked on the map or bombed by the Army, such villages are 'Pashat', 'Banda', 'Malasyed', 'Darra' and 'Gundai'. Now the Salarzai lashkar has cleared these villages from Taliban control, without any state support.
>
> The leaders also made the accusation that the Salarzais are discriminated against by the state in allocation of Developmental Funds due to their hostility to(wards) the Taliban. The FATA Rural Development Project (FRDP) is working in Bajaur Agency but entire Salarzai area of the agency has been deliberately excluded by from the project. "A wilful under-development has been imposed on us as punishment for our anti-Taliban stance. The Salazai area would be included in FRDP if we allowed the Taliban to take control of our area. Without this, we Salarzais can beg as much as we can for development but the state will never budge", said the Salarzai tribal leaders.
>
> The reason, I write this piece is not to defame the institution of the Pakistani Army, which I hold in high esteem. I just wish to request the President of Pakistan, the Chief of Army Staff and the DG of the ISI to pay attention to the complaints of the Salarzais and resolve their problems to the satisfaction of the tribe. The Salarzai leaders categorically told me they are loyal Pakistanis but they are not ready to let the peace of their area be destroyed for the Power Games of the Intelligence Agencies. All they want from the state is peaceful and development.
>
> I would request fellow-Pakistanis all over the country to support the Salarzais. I wonder, why the civil society of Pakistan is so silent over the heroic anti-Taliban struggle of the Salarzais. Salarzais are the natural allies of all those, who are against the Taliban and Civil Society should forcefully support them. I would request the Pakistani Media to keep a close watch on the Salarzai area to discourage Targeted Killings there.
>
> The Taliban are Anti-civilisation. The Salarzais are the embodiment of civilisation because they are so oppose to the Taliban. I would request all Civilised People in the world to morally support the Salarzais in the name of Human Civilisation.
------------ --------- ------
> The writer is a Research Fellow at the 'Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research', 'University of Oslo' and a member of 'Aryana Institute for Regional Research and Advocacy'.
>
> Email: bergen34@...



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[mukto-mona] An article in the New Nation about Bangla as official UN language



An article in New Nation about Bangla as official UN language
 
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Ripan K Biswas
New York
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Internet Edition. October 2, 2009, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
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Bangla as UN official language

Ripan Kumar Biswas



It was obvious to see raised eyebrow of the other customers as we had a loud conversation at a busy Starbucks coffee shop in Midtown Manhattan, New York in the last Saturday night. We felt chagrined exceedingly while we noticed two girls were approaching toward us. But they altered our assumption and asked in which language we were taking. We felt proud while they commented on our language: "It sounds so sweet guys, carry on."

Every language matters as it is important to bridge differences. Languages are indeed essential to the identity of groups and individuals, and to their peaceful coexistence. They constitute a strategic factor of progress towards sustainable development, and a harmonious relationship between the global and the local context. Languages are the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing the tangible and intangible heritage. Every language has the right to be regarded as actual, existing organism.

Considering the rich heritage of Bangla (Bengali) language, its historical background as it is the identity of a nation, its importance in the global arena, its singular place as a symbol of people's faith in the power of languages to sustain cultures, or the number of people who speak in this language, prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina called for the United Nations to adopt Bangla as one of its official languages, which is spoken by 250 million people worldwide. "I seek support of the UN member-states to get recognition of Bangla as an official language of the United Nations," she said in an address before the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Saturday, September 26, 2009.

In theory, every country who is a member of the UN has the right to request that their language be allowed for official usage.

An international organization must have effective ways to overcome language barriers to avoid becoming a Tower of Babel. Since almost every country in the world is represented at the United Nations, it is not an exaggeration to say that the United Nation is a microcosm of the world. The Organization uses six official languages in its intergovernmental meetings and documents, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. The languages were decided by the General Assembly where all countries took part and it could also add or subtract languages in the future. And to add or subtract any language is relatevely associated with budgetary reasons, humanitarian reasons, practical issues, and of course with historical background.

Budgetary reasons because it is very expensive to publish, translate, and interpret into multiple languages, keeping in mind that the additional cost for each new language is exponential because for each language we add, we must translate into it and from it for all of the other languages. Humanitarian reasons because the UN has a very restricted budget even much smaller than that of New York City and the money that it would need to spend in order to use more languages is money that it and its member States would not be able to spend on development and humanitarian work. Adding a new language is also a practical issue to facilite the work of the UN rather than to increase the beauty of the charter of UNO. And finally, historical background of a language if it represnts the oldest and most influential civilizations of the World.

Bengalees are an ancient people, tracing history back to 1600 BC. In historical times, Bangladesh was ruled some times by dynasties from northern South Asia, and some times by independent rulers. During the Medieval Period (1200-1757), Persian, the language of the new Muslim rulers in India (including Bangladesh) became official language, as also the medium of instructions. The Muslim rulers also encouraged vernacular education in various regions relevant to the mother languages. As a matter of fact, Bangla as a language got a fillip from the patrons of the Hossian Shahi Dynasty.

Bangla is the mother language of the dominant majority of the population of Bangladesh, and is also the state. It evolved from Prakrit language which again was an off-shoot of Sanskrit language. Bangla is also the dominant language of West Bengal, Tripura, Meghalaya, and Assam states and Andaman Islands of India. Poet Rabindra Nath Tagore won Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 for his Bangla poetic work, Gitanjali.

Though UNO is yet to accept Bangla as it is official language, but its pertinent to mention here that the UNESCO has paid tribute to the sacrifice of martyrs for Bangla language movement of 1952, by way of proclaiming 21 February the Mother Language Martyrs Day, as "International Mother Language Day" to be observed every year in all the UN member states and at UNESCO Head Quarters. On May 16, 2007, to encourage all of its partners to increase and reinforce their activities in favor of the promotion and protection of all languages, particularly endangered ones, in all individual and collective contexts, the UNGA proclaimed 2008 to be the International Year of Languages and formally recognized the observance of the International Mother Language Day. In last year's UNGA session, a resolution seeking to recognize Bangla was cosponsored by 124 nations but it was yet to get the acknowledgement.

According to Ethnologue (a web and print publication of languages of the World" that contains statistics for 7,358 languages in the 16th edition, released in 2009), Bangla is the sixth most spoken language in the world while two other UN official languages Russian and French stand eight and fifteen position respectively.

Emphasizing the urgency of rebuilding a world order with equitable opportunities for all in the global village, Bangladesh always upholds the charter of UN charter since its joining in UNO on September 17, 1974. It urges member nations to adopt common global strategies for tackling the grim challenges stemming from climate change, economic turmoil, and terrorism at this turning-point in the human history. On the score of ensuring peace throughout the world, Bangladesh is proud of its outstanding role as a major troop-contributing country, serving the United Nations in maintaining peace and security worldwide. Sierra Leone accorded Bangla the status of second state language out of gratitude to Bangladeshi blue helmet soldiers in UN peach keeping mission in the civil war torn African country.

To further strengthen her appeal, Sheikh Hasina referred to a recent parliamentary resolution adopted by Bangladesh Parliament to request the UN to acknowledge Bangla as an official language and in addition, she delivered her speech in Bangla and became the second Bangladeshi head of the government to speak in the language at the world body. Though different political parties and social organizations in Bangladesh have hailed Sheikh Hasina's attempt, but it needs active support and work beyond any political and personal interests. Apparently non-resident Bangladeshis across the world can double the initiative as they always play a pivotal role when country needs. Bangla Academy can do a lot consulting with the proper authority. The well-known Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus can be an ideal person to draw the attention of the member nations of UN to fulfill this dream as he himself is an institute across the globe.

People, who love the diversity of language, are more likely to be for the addition of more languages. In order to facilitate the mission of the UN, there should be more standardization because they can not allow themselves to be caught up on little details like language. The languages used by the UN should reflect the countries involvement with its mission. Today or tomorrow, UN is likely to add a 7th official language in the list.

To become a strong candidate, Bangladesh should start extensive and intensive consultations with the 192 member states and make immediate diplomatic moves to seek the status of official language for Bangla at the United Nations.

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[mukto-mona] Please Publish the Article: Minority groups on the Indian subcontinent By William Gomes



Minority groups on the Indian subcontinent

By William Gomes

 

For centuries, ethnic and religious minorities have been living lives of suffering on the South Asian subcontinent, in the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan. Minorities are not created by God, but are created by political systems. Before going any further, let us look at the reason why minorities were produced in the region. If you go to India or Pakistan or some other part of the South Asian subcontinent, you will see similar kinds of minorities. In a liberal democracy, we cannot deny minority rights, yet we have failed to protect the minorities from oppression and suppression.

In Europe, minorities were produced by lengthy religious and national wars. There was a need to protect minorities from oppression in Europe, and so there eventually came to be regional guarantees and a charter of human rights, which ensure minority rights.

During colonial rule by the British, the question of minority rights, which had been struggled with in Europe for more than 200 years, reemerged on the Indian subcontinent in a way unique to the Indian situation. The British reinforced the distinct identities of the various ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic groups in nearly all of the countries of the Subcontinent. The British clearly categorized the identities of these groups in their census and in the manuals for their administrators.

The Partition of India saw India come out from under British rule, which had been established in the mid-eighteenth century. The division of the country into India and Pakistan led the Indian people into one of the great tragedies in human history. Mohandas Gandhi opposed the division of India along the lines of religion, saying, "My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines. To assent to such a doctrine is, for me, a denial of God."

Law and order completely broke down; many died in riots, massacres, or just from the hardships of their flights to safety. What ensued was one of the largest migrations in recorded history. According to Richard Symonds, "At the lowest estimate, half a million people perished and twelve million became homeless."

A huge population exchange occurred between the two newly-formed states of Pakistan and India. In the aftermath of partition, about 14.5 million people crossed the borders; 7,226,000 Muslims went to Pakistan from India, while 7,249,000 Hindus and Sikhs moved to India from Pakistan. Part of the British scheme to "divide and rule" was ultimately successful; they successfully divided the people who had previously stood united against them.

The legacy of hatred can be seen wherever the British Union Flag flies, from hatred among Hindus, Muslims and Christians in the name of religion, to politics as a force that still divides us. Every day, we are defining a new type of minority. The division continued when, in 1971, an armed conflict pitting West Pakistan against East Pakistan gave birth to a new nation, the independent nation of Bangladesh.

The countries of the South Asian subcontinent, which formerly had colonial, patriarchal state structures and now have new models of governance, are failing to accommodate diversity. In the centralized state structures of most governments, they have failed to include minority groups effectively in the state machinery. Bangladesh and Pakistan are shining examples of this; in Pakistan, from Iskandar Mirza to Asif Ali Zardari or from Liaquat Ali Khan to Yousaf Raza Gillani, not a single religious minority person has been elected president or prime minister of Pakistan for more than five decades. On the other hand, in Bangladesh, the suppressed religious and ethnic minorities have never had one of their own as president or prime minister of Bangladesh; from Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to Zillur Rahman or Tajuddin Ahmad to Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the majority has always triumphed over the last four decades.

More than half a century after independence, the countries of the Indian subcontinent are still struggling to resolve majority-minority issues, which are feeding long-running conflicts around the borders and are affecting regional and global security. Whether the Gujarat riot in India in 2002 or the post-election violence in Bangladesh in 1996 and 2001 or any recent attack on Christians in Pakistan, minority issues cause undesirable suffering and extend hatred and extremism all across the world, across all borders and boundaries.

 

William Nicholas Gomes is a renowned Human Rights worker, film

Director and freelance Journalist of Bangladesh. He can be reached by

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[ALOCHONA] 5 Indian advisers in BTRC



5 Indian advisers in BTRC
 
 
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[ALOCHONA] Jalil puts AL govt's legitimacy nto question



Jalil puts AL govt's legitimacy nto question
 
The Awami League-led grand coalition Government is heading towards a big credibility crisis this time bringing forth the question of its legitimacy of coming to power.
   The situation has developed with the disclosure of former party general secretary Abdul Jalil that this government has come to power under a frame-up election facilitated by the Army Intelligence (DGFI) denying the nation a free and fair election.

   Jalil made the disclosure to newsmen in London recently drawing stormy reaction from Awami League (AL) leadership at home and abroad and also wayside assault on him in Birmingham city the next day when he went there to open a money exchange house.
   
   Bunch of inept loyalists
   The incident also indicates a growing crisis within the party as Jalil severely criticised the present AL leadership and the cabinet as a bunch of inefficient and inexperienced loyalists to party chief Sheikh Hasina. He said these people would not only fail to run the party but would also fail to give proper leadership to the nation, particularly when most of them were agents, not political leaders.

   People wonder how and why Abdul Jalil is speaking openly against the party and the government. If he is just speaking his mind and pains or otherwise, he is acting as the mouthpiece of other leaders of the party, whom Sheikh Hasina has thrown out from the party presidium and national working committee.
   
   AL leaders: Govt's weakness
   Observers are keeping watch on the movement of Tofail Ahmed, Abdur Razzak, Amir Hossain Amu and Suranjit Sen Gupta, who lost their presidium posts in the recent reshuffle. How are they reacting to the changing time?
   Tofail in a recent statement said party advisory council as the exit point from national politics is not his place to sit; he would better be content with the party primary membership which costs Taka 10 only.

   Hasina has also dropped all the seven party organizing secretaries in the recent reshuffle and put people -- who are having direct relation with her family -- in all-important sensitive posts. She justified her action saying that on the basis of the party councilors' opinions, she had purged the reformists, who wanted to oust her from the party leadership. She said such decision was necessary to remove the credibility gap in the party's top leadership.
   But the question, which is now increasingly agitating the public mind is whether the Government is heading towards a big crisis from within the party as Jalil's latest expos�s suggest.

   If it is true, then the government may slowly become weak to perform its important work like holding trial of BDR mutiny, war crimes trial and handling of such other issues. It may also face snags in dealing with India, especially regarding big concessions it wants to provide its close neighbour.
   
   Delwar questions AL's legitimacy
   On Jalil's comment, BNP secretary general Khondker Delwar Hossain and some other senior party leaders said they have been talking of such massive frauds since the very beginning and Jalil's disclosure has only reconfirmed it. The development may thus have serious impact on Awami League and also on the government's moral justification and legitimacy to stay in power. An election, which does not reflect the people's verdict, cannot bring legitimacy to its beneficiaries, many observers here say.
   In this situation if the major opposition BNP, which lost the last elections beyond any foreseeable calculation, demands holding of a fresh election. Such demand may not be turned down at least unjustified.
   
   Covert negotiations
   Jalil further said 90 per cent of the ministers in the present grand coalition government, including the newly elected party general secretary and LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam are DGFI agents.

   He said, when Sheikh Hasina went on a visit to the USA during the tenure of the military-backed Caretaker Government, it was part of a deal with the army intelligence. Syed Ashraf fled the country to London fearing reprisal but within a few days he came back having struck a deal with the army intelligence to work towards its goal in domestic politics, Jalil said.

   Ashraf was then instrumental in all covert negotiations with the forces' intelligence and the subsequent deals with Awami League paving the way for bringing the party to power in exchange for indemnity to extra-constitutional action of the Army high command and the Caretaker Government it had installed in power. The media said the DGFI even allowed political emissaries from home and abroad during that time under the cover of darkness of night to visit Hasina in custody to strike the deal.
   
   'Nonsense'
   Awami League leadership is, however, trying to give a damn to such allegations in public reaction terming Jalil's allegation a total lie. Many of them told newsmen last week that he was speaking 'nonsense' on being dropped from party presidium and also from the new cabinet of Sheikh Hasina.
   Partly supporting Jalil's allegation Syed Ashraf last week said they (DGFI) had even offered Hasina to become Prime Minister without contesting election but she declined the offer, he said trying to make clear she did not enter into any deal. In fact, the offer was to accept Gen Moyeen as the country's new president with Sheikh Hasina as prime minister in exchange of throwing Awami League's support behind him.

   The debate is still building on Jalil's comment as Awami League is preparing to decide the fate of the renegade former party secretary general in its forthcoming national working committee meeting on October 3.
   Sheikh Hasina during her visit to New York last week laughed out Jalil's allegations at a press conference after attending the UN General Assembly seesion. She said Jalil is cutting his own roots. If his allegations were true, he should immediately resign from Parliament to free him from the stigma of a frame-up election.

   She, moreover, avoided a direct answer to a question as to why she was not initiating action against former army chief Gen Moyeen, chief adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed and such other persons, who derailed the country from the course of a scheduled national election to put it under two years of extra-constitutional rule when not only Hasina and Khaleda but many other senior party leaders from both parties were jailed.
   She told the questioner, 'If a dog bites you, you are not expected to bite back.'
   Critics wonder how she can treat those persons with such slanderous comment at a time when she had welcomed the takeover of Gen Moyeen as the fruits of her movement. So the reality speaks out that there was a long nexus between Sheikh Hasina and Gen Moyeen and Jalil's allegation had just made it clear once again.

   Senior BNP leader Dr Khondker Mosharraf Hossain reacted on Jalil disclosure saying that the officially reported 87 percent voter turnout during the last election was itself a concocted figure.
   How was it possible, observers questioned, although the caretaker government and the Election Commission held the view that the 'huge voter turnout showed spontaneous participation of people in a free and fair' election the country has never seen before. They also look with suspicions now at the so-called 'election roadmap' as a roadmap to election betrayal when the EC and the caretaker government had attempted time and again to destroy BNP by organising a rival group as party reformists.

   Most observers now believe Gen Moyeen was an Indian prot�g�e, who appeared as an Awami League activist throughout the transition period to bring it to power as per Indian desire. DGFI just implemented the scheme.
   In 1996, the party won election creating an unusual situation starting a movement to set up a caretaker government, thereby breaking the normal constitutional process. Earlier in 1986, Hasina joined hands with autocrat Gen. Ershad to put into failure anti-Ershad democracy movement and knock BNP out of election race.

   More surprisingly, when Hasina returned home in 1981, the then president Ziaur Rahman was killed within a month. People here believe Ershad was the mastermind behind it and when he snatched power from late President Justice Abdus Sattar of BNP, Hasina said she was not unhappy either.

   The party wanted to deny victory to BNP in1991 when Justice Shahabuddin was planning to hand over power to Begum Khaleda Zia. In 2001 when BNP won the polls, Awami League sought to deny it by encouraging a coup from behind the scene, although it failed. Then it opened a floodgate of conspiracy to bring down BNP government under the so-called April 'trump card' conspiracy, which sought to encourage many party lawmakers to revolt. Awami League reportedly mobilised Taka 100 crore for the purpose as per estimation.
   Abdul Jalil, then the party general secretary, was publicly talking of imminent fall of the BNP government that time. Sheikh Hasina had authorised the scheme, he said.

   The October 2006 mayhem at Paltan was also the fruit of Hasina's call to party workers to gather on the spot with 'logi boitha' to destroy the country's democratic process. It ended in the killing of half a dozen Jamaat workers in the fight and subsequent 1/11 takeover of the military.
   Many people here believe Awami League may have more tough time to handle party dissidents and on the other hand, implement major election agenda. Moreover, its target to amend the Constitution to go back to 1972 Constitution may face credibility challenge at a time, when the government appears to have been sitting on a fraudulent election outcome.
 



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[ALOCHONA] India mobilises force along China border



DHAKA FIGHTING A PROXY WAR FOR INDIA?
 
India mobilises force along China border
 
M. Shahidul Islam
 
Faced with what could become a chilled political winter amidst a series of insider-exposures of pre-election deals with the country's military establishment, and, of 'criminal connivance' of some ruling party leaders in the BDR massacre of February 25-26, the AL-led regime has another mammoth task that could define its political future for ever.

   That undertaking involves re-shaping of the regional geopolitical landscape and the role Bangladesh must play as a sovereign nation, at a time when tension along China-India border attains a war pitch.
   The government must also answer why the country's security forces are routinely massacring the so called Marxist-Leninists across the length and breadth of the nation, something the rights watchers claim to constitute naked violation of human rights and urges not to go unchallenged for too long. Some of those groups even accuse Bangladesh of fighting a proxy war for India.
   
   Chinese linkage
   While the nation remains in the dark with respect to what exactly has sparked this killing spree of Marxists-Leninists by security forces, a deeper look into the policy dynamics indicates the move being inextricably linked with an emerging creed of an 'Anti- Red - Terror' drive in Delhi which seems to have supplanted India's previously held priority against the so called 'Anti- Green- Terror' drive against forces of political Islam, or runs in parallel.
   Hence, all indications reveal the decision by our security forces to recklessly kill so many Marxist-Leninist stemming from a regional power game in which India is desperately trying to reshape the geopolitical landscape of the region with unfettered Western blessing.

   The boon for India comes from endorsements from the gullible NATO allies who view China as an emerging 'Red Threat' while the Indian intelligence believes China is trying desperately to severe India's North Eastern regions from the mainland by helping various radical left groups and other secessionist forces.
   Some recently leaked Indian intelligence reports, rumoured to have been leaked deliberately, claim Beijing is training and financing the People Liberation Army (PLA) of Manipur, the ULFA separatists of Assam, Kachin rebels of Myanmar, and a host of other Naga and Mizo separatist outfits. All these groups operate along our own borders.

   That is part of the danger we face. More ominously, the leaked reports implicate Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar of aiding and abetting those terrorist outfits in their territories and depict an emerging danger of 'Red Terror' from the combined military prowess being displayed by Marxist-Leninists in neighbouring countries, allegedly in concert with other North-Eastern separatists of India, with Chinese blessing and patronage.
   
   Covert missions
   That has made the sea change in Delhi's policy stances too conspicuous to ignore. Despite having financed and patronized the Tamil separatists for decades, Delhi began to view, in some of those leaked reports, the LTTE too from an inimical perspective due to emerging China fear: One of the outcome of some of those reports being a radical decision to decimate the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka in March this year, only days prior to Indian general election.
   The spark to that decisive moment came from another report that claimed that China has sold six battle tanks to the Tamil guerrillas which Indian intelligence had spotted while landing along the Sri Lankan coast. The incident ended up with a devastating consequence for the Tamil guerrillas who had tenaciously withstood Sri Lankan armed forces for over 25 years.

   According to reliable sources, a brigade strong special force of India has made physical intervention in Sri Lanka in March to dismantle the Tamil separatists. Following that, another brigade of Indian special force allegedly conducted a special operation in the Swat valley of Pakistan's North East in May, Prior to those two revealing events, allegedly a small segment of 21 special force fighters of India had neutralized the border forces of Bangladesh (BDR) by instigating a barbaric carnage in February while a brigade strong Indian special force stood ready along the border to intervene, if needed.
   Sources say Pakistani authorities have discovered dead bodies of Indian special force members in the Swat valley following the May encounters in which leading Taliban commanders died. Dead bodies of Indian special force members were also discovered after the Sri Lankan offensive in March. Meanwhile, some irrefutable evidence has unearthed lately of participation of Indian special force in the BDR mutiny of February 2009.

   Experts believe, through such covert operations, Delhi wanted to send some dire messages to India's smaller neighbours in order to be able to focus singularly on China, resulting, over the last three months, generation of intense war hysteria within various Indian establishments while the Indian military went onto beefing up its force capability along the Chinese frontiers by reinforcing two squadrons of Su-MKI advanced fighter jets, each consisting of 18 aircraft, to its air base at Tezpur, 150 km south of the Chinese border.

   At the same time, construction works to upgrade at least five airfields in the Arunachal Pradesh for simultaneous uses by air force fighters and transport aircrafts have been finalized while two new army divisions, with some 30,000 soldiers, have been raised for deployment in the 90,000-sq-km Arunachal Pradesh, which has a 4,000-km border with the Chinese-occupied Tibet.

   Earlier in June, the provincial governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Joginder Jaswant Singh, who is also a former chief of the Indian army, announced that the two army divisions of about 30,000 men will be deployed along the Chinese border, joining the 90,000 already there. Reports say, that planned deployment has completed recently while many other aggressive postures of India had made bilateral relations further worse.

   For instance, On September 10, China accused India of diplomatic protocol breaching and spying due to Delhi's decision to inspect the cargo of a China-bound UAE flight. Amidst such military build ups, the situation is getting tenser by the day, and, unlike in the past, the gravity of the situation is being acknowledged by responsible quarters in Delhi and Beijing.
   India's chairman of the chiefs of staff committee, Admiral Suresh Mehta, acknowledged recently the brewing trouble at the Chinese frontiers and said, 'It is quite evident coping with China will certainly be one of our primary challenges in years ahead. Our deficit trust with China can never be liquidated unless our boundary problems are resolved.'
   
   Global blue print
   Some experts claim that the Indian moves are linked with a global blue print devised in early 2000 by ultra-conservative hawks from Washington, Delhi and Tel Aviv in concert with the neo-con advisers of former Bush administration to re-shape the global geopolitical landscape. Unfortunately, no other region has paid more heavily as a result of that global scheme's implementation, as did the Mid-East and South Asia.

   In South Asia, Pakistan is undergoing a fratricidal warfare while another Muslim predominant nation, Bangladesh, has witnessed a naked conspiracy to bring certain political forces to power at any cost. Meanwhile, in order to circumvent the major Chinese ally in the region, Pakistan, New Delhi has facilitated the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 by aiding militarily the so called Northern forces and has been one of the trusted allies of Afghan President Hamid Karzai ever since.

   Further a field, India has leased and built an air force and an army base at Farkhor in Tajikistan to watch over Chinese activities in that region as the US influence began to wane in the follow up to the Afghan invasion in 2001.
   Sources say when India undertook a mission to build another military outpost in Mongolia, in the northern tip of China, Beijing took it as a grand move to encircle the Chinese Republic from all fronts and increased its military patrols along the China- India border.

   However, the fundamental problem with that global blue print was in identifying the real ideological enemy. Although political Islam has been branded as the main nemesis of US, Israel and India since September 2001, Delhi faced a graver danger from the Marxists who made governance dysfunctional in more than half of the Indian states by late 2006. That is what has made it urgent to revive the historic enmity with Beijing into a war-ready pitch.

   In recent months, India claimed that China is in occupation of approximately 38,000 sq. km of Indian territory in Jammu and Kashmir, and, under the so-called China-Pakistan Boundary Agreement of 1963, Pakistan had ceded 5,180 sq. km. of Indian territory in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir to China. Delhi claims, in totality, approximately 90,000 sq. km. of Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh and about 2000 sq. km. in the mid- sector of the India-China boundary is under Chinese occupation.

   Beijing, on the other hand, has always insisted that it does not recognize the Arunachal Pradesh, resulting in a protracted stalemate in which neither side reconciled with the claims of the other. The border between the two nations has never been officially delimited due to such intransigence from both sides.
   
   McMahon Line
   Besides, since the creation of the Peoples' Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, not a single Chinese government recognized the British imposed McMahon Line that divides the two nuclear-armed Asian giants, which Beijing terms as a symbol of imperialist aggression.
   However, in recent months, the Arunachal Pradesh dispute has become China's most intractable border issue with India, prompting many experts to fear that it could trigger an armed conflict sooner.

   That fear is not unplaced. In 1962, the two Asian powers went to war over disputed 3,500 km border, which ended in China occupying much of the Himalayan high ground which Delhi traditionally considered as strategic buffer against invasion from the north. Delhi is now determined to turn the tide in its favour, with NATO backing.

   Besides, Delhi is playing hard ball with Beijing using the Tibetan exiled leader Dalai Lama as a potent political card. That is why, in the midst of such an explosive situation, Dalai Lama is being sent in early November to the Tawang Buddhist temple located in the disputed territory of Indian- occupied
   Arunachal Pradesh.

   As anticipated, the Chinese reaction to that planned visit was very terse. When asked about the visit, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, said, 'China expresses strong concern about this information. The visit further reveals the Dalai clique's anti-China and separatist essence.'
   Observers say the Chinese anger is palpable. Exiled in India since 1959, Dalai Lama said in 2008, "I believe Arunachal Pradesh is Indian territory."
   Although India had stopped the Dalai Lama from visiting Tawang a number of times in the past, the official patronage from Delhi to the upcoming visit is viewed by experts as a deliberate move to antagonize Beijing further.
   
   Economic fall out
   Economically, the latest building of tension has put in jeopardy the booming economic interactions between the two Asian giants and poses a grave threat to the economic growth of the entire region. Since the mid-1990s, China became India's biggest trading partner, the value of bilateral deals reaching $60 billion by now, a 30-time-fold increase since 2000.

   Yet, as Delhi seems poised to sacrifice its economic dividends for anticipated geopolitical boon by upping the ante, the consequences for other small nations of the region of this dangerous game is anybody's guess. For Bangladesh in particular, the Marxist card needs to be played with caution and any reckless action in this context should be put on hold.
 



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[ALOCHONA] Why Hasina refuses to prosecute Gen. Moeen, Fakhruddin?



Why Hasina refuses to prosecute Gen. Moeen, Fakhruddin?
 
Bangladesh is now faced with a potentially serious problem where the legality of the government's past and present will be questioned. The big question will be: "Did the elections that bring the incumbent Government into office reflect the people's will or were they stage-managed to bring a particular party into power?" If it could prove beyond reasonable doubt that the results of the past general elections were manipulated, a question may be asked if the Government that was elected is legal?

   Then there is the question of international recognition. Our elections are deemed valid if they are validated by the US, the EU and their cohorts. Our December 2008 elections were also validated by this group and our Prime Minister has reaffirmed that our last elections were accepted by the "international community".

   The same community has also validated the elections held in Egypt, Iraq and Afghanistan. Lest we forget that the same "international community" did not validate the election results of Algeria decades ago when the anti-West parties had swept the polls there. This "international community" has also validated all despotic governments of South and Central America, Africa, Middle East and Asia. It is therefore hardly reassuring that this same "international community" has validated our present government, as proudly claimed by the Prime Minister.

   For a long time the West had ganged up on the rest of the world but the winds of change is now beginning to blow, albeit softly. The Group of 7 (later 8) has now transformed itself into the Group of 20 as the former colonial powers and the neo-colonial powers are giving way to the emerging nations. Unfortunately this Group of 20 still reflects those countries which are in the good books of the Group of 7. So much for the certification by the so-called "international community", what, however, is needed is the acceptance by the people of the country that the December elections were fair. Lack of democratic practice within our two major political parties is the main culprit responsible for the lack of democracy in the country. This is coupled with the use of the services of the military intelligence agencies in reining in the recalcitrant politicians, a practice dating back from the days of Field Marshal Ayub Khan. Some politicians do rebel and speak out as Z A Bhutto did, precipitating the fall of the Ayub regime and more recently M A Jalil, pulling the plug on the elections that brought the Awami League to power for the second time.

   Jalil has only confirmed what most non partisan elements have been suspecting all along, that the December elections did not reflect the will of the people in so far as the size of the "Maha Jote" victory was concerned. It is unlikely that Jalil will be able to substantiate his claims that the Interim Government and the military intelligence manipulated the results, just as no corruption charge have ever been proved against politicians, but the stigma has largely been established.

   Jalil has since retracted his statement but the cat is out of the bag. Furthermore, in his attempt to disprove Jalil and to destroy his credibility, the Awami League General Secretary and senior Minister of the Government, Sayed Ashraful Islam confirmed that the powers that be at the time had offered Sheikh Hasina to become the Prime Minister of the country without any elections and when this is read in conjunction with the Prime Minister's own statement, "I know how to make deals" and her strong refusal to take action against Moeen U Ahmed and Fakhruddin Ahmed for their extra-constitutional activities only adds to the credibility of Jalil's statement.
 



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[ALOCHONA] Neighbours differ with Dhaka over sea blocks



Neighbours differ with Dhaka over sea blocks
 
Dhaka, Oct 1 (bdnews24.com)—Disagreement has surfaced with India and Myanmar over maritime boundary of the three blocks earmarked for oil and gas exploration in the deep Bay, the foreign secretary conceded on Thursday.

"India has claimed that two blocks, 5 and 10, have overlapped their maritime boundary while Myanmar made the same claim about block 11," Mohamed Mijarul Quayes told reporters on Thursday afternoon.

"We have also replied to their claims," he said

But he did not think it to be a 'dispute' between the two countries. "Bangladesh ratified maritime boundary law in 2001."

"But we need to negotiate with India as we have 'equity distance' over maritime boundary with the neighbouring country," he said.

Bangladesh would seek equitable right in the sea in future through negotiations, the foreign secretary added

Recently, the government endorsed a proposal on leasing out blocks 5, 10 and 11 to ConocoPhilips and Tullow Oil plc for offshore oil and gas exploration.

ConocoPhillips, the third largest energy company in the US, will get deep-sea blocks 10 and 11. Shallow-sea block 5 will be awarded to Irish company Tullow that already operates in Bangladesh's Bhangura gas field.

"India and Myanmar have traced oil and gas in the sea but they raised 'objection' when we moved to seal exploration deals with foreign companies in the three blocks," Kayes said.

The problem would be addressed within a few years though the two countries made claim on maritime overlapping, he hoped.

Answering to a query, additional secretary to foreign ministry Khorshed Alam said 1982 maritime boundary law was replaced by 2001 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLS).

The neighbouring countries still stick to the previous law, he said

Only 12 miles sea boundary go under previous law while 200-300 miles under UNCLS, Alam added.

State-owned exploration authority Petrobangla chairman Moktadir Ali said ConcoPhilips is expected to sign deal in the first week and Tullow in the second week of the current month.

Conoco won bids for eight deep-sea blocks in all (DS-08-10, DS-08-11, DS-08-12, DS-08-17, DS-08-15, DS-08-16, DS-08-20 and DS-08-21). It proposed to invest about $450 million for exploration of all eight blocks.

Tullow submitted the winning bid for shallow-water block SS-08-05 offering to spend $50 million.

A left-leaning National Committee on Protection of Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources, Power and Ports has been demanding cancellation of Model PSC 2008 formulated during the immediate past caretaker government.

They hold that the government has leased out the blocks on terms of 80 percent gas which will facilitate to lease out 100 percent gas.

Prime minister's adviser for energy affairs Dr Toufiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury said, "Everyone will have to play a courageous role in uprooting prevailing problems of the country."

"The country cannot make stride only through debate," he said

"The government will work with a mission to go ahead despite different opinions in the country," he said

On 'secret deal' with the multinational companies, he said details of the deals were posted on the website and nothing could be more transparent.

Bangladesh, with about 15 trillion cubic feet (425 billion cubic metres) of proven and recoverable gas reserves, is currently facing around 100 million cubic feet of gas shortages a day.

State minister for energy Enamul Haque, energy secretary Md Mohsin and power secretary Abul Kalam Azad took questions at the news conference.




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[ALOCHONA] The fragile bondage.



In the material sense it's hard to determine how much right a departed soul may have on a living person. A news report from Detroit, Michigan has painted a very gloomy picture of that relationship. The city morgue is full of unclaimed dead bodies waiting to be buried but people are so cash strapped that they are not claiming the human remains of their near and dear ones. The poignant story of our mutual relationship is warm and lively as long as we are alive and emotional. The moment the cold hands of death snatches the warmth from our bodies we do not belong to anything. Our lifelong struggles to leave a mark on the ever trembling pages of time instantly come to an end which makes us a matter of the past. This news of the dead waiting to be buried in the Detroit morgue is heart breaking because this is happening in the richest nation of the world. The stark reality of the peoples economic plight in the United States cant be under estimated but the emotional stress of the families whose dead are languishing in the morgue is overwhelming. The distance between life and death may be a breath away only but the emotional bondage is not that short. A friend of mine whose aunt died in the Canadian arctic region had to wait for 7 months to bury her because the ground there is so frozen that no grave can be dug during the arctic winter. She was ravaged by her emotional stress during this period and needed medical attention.

 

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[mukto-mona] The warmth and the cold.



In the material sense it's hard to determine how much right a departed soul may have on a living person. A news report from Detroit, Michigan has painted a very gloomy picture of that relationship. The city morgue is full of unclaimed dead bodies waiting to be buried but people are so cash strapped that they are not claiming the human remains of their near and dear ones. The poignant story of our mutual relationship is warm and lively as long as we are alive and emotional. The moment the cold hands of death snatches the warmth from our bodies we do not belong to anything. Our lifelong struggles to leave a mark on the ever trembling pages of time instantly come to an end which makes us a matter of the past. This news of the dead waiting to be buried in the Detroit morgue is heart breaking because this is happening in the richest nation of the world. The stark reality of the peoples economic plight in the United States cant be under estimated but the emotional stress of the families whose dead are languishing in the morgue is overwhelming. The distance between life and death may be a breath away only but the emotional bondage is not that short. A friend of mine whose aunt died in the Canadian arctic region had to wait for 7 months to bury her because the ground there is so frozen that no grave can be dug during the arctic winter. She was ravaged by her emotional stress during this period and needed medical attention.

 

Akbar Hussain

Canada

 



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