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Monday, December 7, 2009

[ALOCHONA] Re: [ H.I ] Swiss ban on Minerates



Your posting is worth reading.
How much we wish for our people or for the world community is one thing but how much that can be really worked out is the heart of the matter.
While Swiss has created a society with a kind of a values at least as it appears as to be, deep inside the whole scenerio, to me, is quite different. Of course Muslims are fanatic and spoiler of the world peace and even piller or a post can resemble and pose as threat but consider this - all the loot by the all dictators of the world past and present, all ill gotten money by any around the world, all stollen wealth by few corrupts around the globe find safe heaven in Swiss  banking system. This is being done for decades and still continuing, but I wonder what drives this ethics and norms of Swiss values and even state open policies to protect the criminal's wealth!
Do you have any other ethics or values behind this?

--- On Mon, 7/12/09, Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com>
Subject: [ H.I ] Swiss ban on Minerates
To: history_islam@yahoogroups.com, "Hannan shah" <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com>, "MBI Munshi" <mbimunshi@gmail.com>, "Isha Khan" <bd_mailer@yahoo.com>, "Anis Ahmed" <anis.ahmed@netzero.net>, "Md. Aminul Islam" <aminul_islam_raj@yahoo.com>, notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com, "alochona" <alochona@yahoogroups.com>, "bangla vision" <bangla-vision@yahoogroups.com>, ayubi_s786@yahoo.com, "Dr. Abid Bahar" <abidbahar@yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, 7 December, 2009, 9:13 PM

 
                  HISTORICAL  SWISS NEUTRALITY TURNED RACIST, THE DEATH OF MYTH OF NEUTRALITY.

Friends
 
 
There are worng people with wrong head n vision n misinterpret the religious philosophy n aim n these evil crooks will be found in every major religions.
As the fanatic Mullahs hands are full of blood of innocents peoples so as the BJP/SHIB SENA/RSS and the IRA/fanatic Jews  are. These senseless people do not posses any sanity n all they know  to kill n kill to establish their prophetic part of religion which is way far from the original one.
Demolition of Mosque/Churches/ Mandirs/Synegoug e are as reprehensible as the case of not allowing building church n not allowing Minerates the architectural design  of a mosque.
 
I am flabbergasted at the attitude of populace of a nation(no matter the failure of the anti-ban people) who had been pioneer in establishing international movement of PEACE n took the lead in making treaties(Geneva Conventions etc) safeguarding the life, property n rights of the suffering humanity either by Natural disaster or war, or socio-political injustics of the evil power.
 
 
I was wondering what would have been the reaction of the stalwarts who  championed the Swiss cause for Neutrality n Peace for centuries. They must be sad in the grave observing at the insular act of their decendents ???????
 
One of my friend from USA wrote me that the Swiss people are used hear the bell of cow's n do not wish to be disturbed by the sound of Azaan.About Azaan through loud Microphone, I am surprised hearing that in Europe the mosques are allowed !!!!!!!!!  I had been to Europe many many times n sometimes lived near mosque but never heard the sound of Azaan over loud speaker????? ??  The timing is followed by internet. 
But on the otherhand Churches/Mandir etc do have the freedom of ringing the Church Bell/ n Dolok in Mandir without any restriction in Bangladesh though we are termed as fanatic/fundemental ist etc etc etc by the interested quarters.
 
So, the Swiss people( atleast majority of them) has shown their black teeth to their ancestors vission n mission of tolerance n respect to others belief either religion or pollitics and by thus they may be losing the respect of people elsewhere.
 
I beleive that the racists politicians are using the burning issue of religious fanaticism to execute their evil agenda  to sideline ISLAM from the mainstream of world politics where they are reigning supreme. It is because of the failure that other than ISLAM (for n except distorted n deviated people from original teachings) no other belief could could offer a just,fair family,society n nation if it is practised in real meaning,teaching n objectives. History of ISLAM is understanding, love,solidarity n peace n it has serious instruction to the followers to safe guard,assests, rights of  religious freedom of the non believers.
 
I personally feel that we have had enough of hatred mongering agendas in the centuries behind us amongst nations n had lot of so-called Crusades / Jihads etc etc resulting in spilling of blood of millions. We need to bring to an end of any new form of actions breeding hatred n conflicts.
 
WE ARE BADLY IN NEED OF PEACE TO HELP OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO LIVE PEACE WITHOUT FEAR.
 
   Faruque Alamgir
 


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RE: [ALOCHONA] Maudud on Mujib!!!



Dear Alochoks
 
It never ceases to amaze me what sycophants and idol worshippers us Bangladeshis are.
 
Mujib was a great wartime leader. He inspired and led Bangladeshis to secure independence from the Pakistani yoke. He is the Father of the Nation and Bangabandhu.
 
Mujib was an incompetent administrator, a poor father to his children, pompous and obsessed with self-egrandisement. His legacy is the politicization of every organ of government - a legacy that millions of Bangladeshis have paid for with their lives every year since Independence, they are paying today and will continue to do so.
 
I celebrate Independence and Mujib's role in it.
 
I mourn independent Bangladesh and Mujib's role in it.
 
Period.
 
Emanur Rahman
London
 
 


From: alochona@yahoogroups.com [mailto:alochona@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of SAIF Davdas
Sent: 25 November 2009 14:21
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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Maudud on Mujib!!!


The
unmitigated gall, the audacity, the chutzpah, the tawdriness--is truly lamentable indeed. How else one can respond to this invective, vituperative and blatantly partisan diatribe by anti-Mujib forces in Bangladesh. Let the forum members judge Bongobondoo after reading a excerpt from Barrister Maudud Ahmed's
book--writes Maudud, "Greatest Bengali of All Time…Mujib is the greatest phenomena of our history. His death was not his end. He will continue to remain as a legend in the political life of Bangladesh. No body gave so much to the Bengalis political independence and national identity. He was the symbol of Bengalee Nationalism. The fact that there is a country called Bangladesh is a sufficient testimony to Mujib’s status as a legend of our age.  Despite Mujib’s many failures, the fact that Mujib was sincere and his intentions were genuine and that he loved his people should not be questioned. As a Nationalist he tried his best to bring Bangladesh out of the Indian subjugation. He was able to send out the Indian army from the soil of Bangladesh within 2 months after his arrival. He flew over Indian Territory to their utter disgust to attend the Islamic summit in Lahore. He established the Aid to Bangladesh Consortium in 1974. He removed Tajuddin to reduce the weight of Indo-Soviet influence. Mujib’s return to Bangladesh in itself saved the new country from further and perpetual subjugation. Had Mujib been killed by the Pakistani Junta he would have been immortal and would have become the greatest martyr of our history. If he had been killed by the Pakistanis---there would have been a civil war and the country would still be under Indian Army’s control. Mujib’s arrival from Pakistan brought a deep sense of relief to all the people of Bangladesh who were living in the midst of most dangerous uncertainties.  It seems that Mujib came back from the pedestal of an immortal betting only to die for saving the independence for which he struggled. It is true that Mujib faced a tragic death but he left Bangladesh free and independent. Maudud Ahmed P 313-318 ‘Era of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman”. ‘Mujib’s arrival from Pakistan brought a deep sense of relief to all the people of Bangladesh, who were living in the midst of most dangerous uncertainties’.
 
SaifDevdas
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From: enayet_2000@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:50:23 -0800
Subject: [khabor.com] General Zia was in the thick of 1975 killings in Dhaka: Zia is the savior!

 

Zia saved the country from the anarchy, Zia is the true savior. Zia is the most post-liberation progressive leader of bangladesh. While Seikh Mujib has a premitive thinking of Hitlar to be a dictator, and destroy democracy to instill his kingdom in Bangladesh, Zia thrives the country in the right direction.

Truth has to be told, history need to be said properly.

--- On Sat, 11/21/09, S A Hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com> wrote:

From: S A Hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com>
Subject: RE: [khabor.com] FW: [Mukto-Mona] Re: General Zia was in the thick of 1975 killings in Dhaka
To: khabor@yahoogroups.com
Cc: dahuk@yahoogroups.com, "mukto-mona@yahoogroups" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>, witness-pioneer@yahoogroups.com, "progressive-muslim@yahoogroups" <progressive-muslim@yahoogroups.com>, political_analysts@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 11:46 AM

 


Dear sirs,

 

Assalamu Alaikum.General Zia did nothing on 15th Auguast. There is no proof.Even the case in which Bangladesh Supreme Court has given judgment , there is no mention of Zia,.As Maudud Ahmad has said the judgment shows that Zia had no role.

 

Zia saved the country from falling back to Awami League’s BAKSHAL rule, one party dictatorship and also re-asserted the Islamic identity of the nation.

 

No other nation or group other than Bangladesh Army was involved. All other things are just Awami propaganda.

 

Shah Abdul Hannan

 

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Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 1:02 AM
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Subject: [khabor.com] FW: [Mukto-Mona] Re: General Zia was in the thick of 1975 killings in Dhaka

 

 


WRT: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mukto- mona/message/ 52503

> The agents of Pakistan had already infiltrated into the army and
> started conspiring to kill the nascent democratic process brought
> on under the civilian political rule. The killers got support from
> the conspirator of all times named Gen. Ziaur Rahman.

  Pakistani agents infiltrated Baksali supported army in 1975 ??
  What a
  ridiculous claim. No scholarly article/book has ever made such a
  funny claim. The BD army in 1975 was very much a pro-Bangladeshi
  force who had played the leading role in the war of liberation
  against the Paki army. The officers who killed Mujib and toppled
  Baksali regime were all active freedom fighters with missionary
  zeal, unlike many AL leaders who were enjoying the sensuous
  pleasures in Kolkata the entire time during the liberation
  struggle). These army officers were all against Pakistani Gov. and
  supportive of liberation war. They staked their life for it. Why
  would they suddenly become Paki lovers in 1975? Doe it make sense?
  It makes sense for them to become anti Mujib/Baksal. They were not
  anti-AL even. They installed an AL gov. headed by Balist Moshtaque
  comprising majority of then then AL parliament members

  The reason they turned against Mujib and Baksal is manyfold. But
  none of those manyfold reasons had anything to do with
  infiltration by Pakistani elements. The manyfold reasons have all
  been well documented by many scholarly writings by professional
  journalists and intellectuals/ historians. In a nutshell the reason
  were the rampant corruption by AL/Baksal, the undemocratic
  measures widely adopted by Mujib to silence/torture opposition and
  keep his power through using Rakkhi Bahini and other private
  armies (like Lal Bahini, Awami Shechchha Shebok Bahini etc). There
  was widespread public resentment against the Mujib regime from
  1974 onwards. So much so that ASM Rob could declare "Mujib, we
  will peel your skin and make shoes out of it" to the thunderous
  applause of hundreds of thousands attending his rally in Paltan.
  Adding fuel to fire was the insulting of some army officers by
  some AL hooligans and Mujib's siding with the hooligans. None of
  these had anything to do with Pakistani elements. As I said the
  army  majors who fought against Pakistan in 1971 had no reason to
  suddenly become Pakistan lovers in 1975. In fact majors Farook and
  Rashid were very much nationalists then as they were during 1971
  and totally opposed to the idea of reverting to one Pakistan. On
  page 87 of Anthony Mascarenhas' "Bangladesh: A legacy of Blood"
  Mascarenhas mentions that if Moshtaq had dared to unite BD with
  Pakistan (There were rumours to that effect at that time) then "he
  would have been immediately killed by Majors Farook and Rashid,
  both staunch nationalists"

  Zia was no Paki lover either, nor had any reason to be either. Zia
  mentioned to Mascarenhas that he had been 'extremely suspicious
  about Moshtaq hobnobbing with Pakistanis' (mentioned on page 88 of
  Legacy of Blood).

  The fact is they had every reason to become anti Mujib in 1975,
  not pro pakistan. Anti Mujib does not mean Pro-Pak, a simple logic
  that does not get through the skull of Awamists, just like
  criticising Islam does not mean being pro-Christian/ pro-American/
  Pro-India, a logic that does not get through the thick skull of
  Islamists. In fact by diverting the blame to fictitious Pro-paki
  elements the Awamist try to deflect the attention away from their
  own misdeeds that led to the revolution and subsequent killing
  in 1975.

>"conspiring to kill the nascent democratic process brought on
> under the civilian political rule"
>

 ??? What a joke. It is pathetic how unabashedly one can make such a
  remark. It was Baksal who killed democracy. Does democracy mean
  installing a one party rule? Does democracy mean banning all
  newspapers except four that toes the official line? Does democracy
  mean raising private militia to suppress political opposition.
  Maybe thats what Awamists define as democracy. Just like the
  Islamists declare an Islamic state as the true form of democracy
  to them, the Awamists/Balists equate AL/Baksal rule as democracy.
  Any other option is undemocratic to Awamists just as it is to
  Islamists.

  "The killers got support from the conspirator of all times named
  Gen. Ziaur Rahman."??

  Another unsubstantiated claim by the Awamists. If by supporting
  means "not preventing the killing of Mujib" then not just Gen Zia,
  then the entire nation, including the majority of the then AL
  parliament members who joined the "killers" supported Mushtaq
  government can be said to have supported the killers. None did
  anything to protest/prevent the killing of Mujib. The ONLY person
  who laid down his life to protect Mujib was an army officer who
  was not even a freedom fighter, made no attempt to escape Pakistan
  in 1971 and was repatriated after independence. He was Colonel
  Jamil. He was just doing his duty as professional army offcier
  assigned to protect the presdient.

  Gen Zia did not do anything pro-active to support the killers nor
  did he do anything to stop them. But in no way did he offer
  support to the killers. In fact in Mascarenhas' Legacy of Blood on
  page 51 Mascarenhas mentions that Gen Zia was one among major
  Farook's hit list of army officers potentially offering resistance
  to their missions thus may have to be eliminated. Mascarenhas
  mentions on page 91 that Farook and Rashid had even considered
  arresting Zia along with Khaled Mosharraf.

  The responsibilty for stopping the majors from their mission lied
  not on Zia, but on Army Chief Gen Shafiullah, a veteran freedom
  fighter and AL's pick at that time. Even he must have felt so
  disgusted with AL/Baksal not to have risked going against the tide
  of Baksal Hotao operation. The entire events of 1975 had nothing
  to do with Pro-Pak or pro- anything. Most people who welcomed the
  elimination of Mujib were not pro-Pak, they were anti Mujib (Mujib
  as known b/w 1972-75). Many of them were Mujib lovers up until
  1973. There was no need or reason for Mujib killers to be Pro-Pak.
  Mujib had already offered Bhutto a red carpet reception, got
  Pakistan's recognition of BD, and wooed the Islamic countires for
  joining OIC, which he did. And Pakistan then was ruled by Bhutto's
  PPP party, Bhutto was an atheist and PPP was clearly soft towards
  socialist ideas. So what's there for the killers to be pro Pak
  unless they wer also very much an admirer of Bhutto, they
  obviously were not. The unpleasant bitter pill of truth that
  Awamists would not rather have people know is that there was
  exchanging of sweets after the news of Mujib's death. Majority
  were heaving a sigh of relief. A general sense of relief was felt
  among the mass. The only feeling of fear and uncertaintly that the
  Awamist is referring to was in fact a fear of reverting to status
  quo through some counter coup, or of a civil war between the
  supporters of AL and the new regime, which did not happen at all.
  The BAL/Baksal supporters simply had no moral courage to fight
  back knowing full well what kind of misdeeds they had committed
  between 1972-75 and the level of public resentment/disencha ntment
  against them. There is no need to have been alive and witnessed it
  first hand to see that. If the valiant freedom fighters and the
  people fought against the Pak military and laid down 3 million (an
  exaggeration but touted by Awamists, even if it was hundreds of
  thousands still a huge sacrifice) then if the killing of Mujib was
  unpopular with the people and was actually committed by Pro-paki
  elements, then there would surely would have been a similar mass
  movement against it. If popular uprising could defeat a formidable
  and unified Pak army with all their military machine and numbers,
  such a mass movement surely could have defeated a handful of
  junior officers with six antiquated tanks (The bulk of the army
  navy air force were not even under the command of those four
  majors). That in itself proves the lack of popular outcry against
  the killing of Mujib and against the end of Baksal. It is the
  condoning and tacit support by the masses for which the 1975
  revolt and killing met with no resistance. Anyone with a
  common sense can put two and two together and come to that
  conclusion.

  It is ironic that this Awamist and many others shed crocodile
  tears for Col Taher for being hanged by Zia's military court. Do
  they shed tears for Siraj Sikdar when he was killed by simply
  shooting on his back at Mujib's behest, which later Mujib bragged
  about saying "Kothay aaj Siraj Sikdar?". Taher did the most
  unprofessional thing in the army and he received army punishment
  for that. It was not Zia who used Taher but the other way around.
  It was Taher and the red brigade of Jashod who used Zia's
  popularity in the army to accomplish their red revolution using
  Zia as the front man knowing full well that he (Taher) or the
  Jashod brigade would not command that level of respect or
  acceptibility because of their bloody agenda of mass slaughter of
  entire army officer corps and elite of the society eventually if
  successfull. Zia tactfully managed Taher in turn to save the army
  from such a massacre and anarchy, or stop the massacre from
  further spreading. It is more ironic that Awamists praise Taher
  when in fact Taher and Jashod symbolized anti Mujibism. They would
  also have killed Mujib had thay gotten the opportuine moment.
  (Remenember Rob's declaration of peeling Mujib's skin to make
  shoes out of?) In fact they did not condemn or protest killing of
  Mujib but considered it as the first dirty step done by others so
  they could proceed with their own bloody red scheme, exploiting
  Zia's popularity.

  The rest of the ramblings about Zia's role in August killing is
  the Awamists personal spin on the events in 1971. It shows lack of
  professionalism and objectivity. One can only hope to get the best
  picture of what happened in 1975 and beyond by reading
  professional articles and books, not spin stories by Awami
  bigots,leftist Jashod fanatics or the Islamists. History is
  merciless, it does not necessarily favour one side or the other or
  all.

  - Jamil Asgor






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[mukto-mona] [ReachIndia] Interim Report on Organic Farming Initiatives in AILA Affected Areas



Cyclone Aila hit the coasts of Bengal on May 25th displacing millions from their homes and livelihoods in the Sundarbans. AID responded immediately working with Baikanthapur Tarun Sangh (BTS), Mukti and Rights & Equity for All (REFA). Relief & Rehab efforts reached out to 150,000 people in 7 blocks of 2 districts in West Bengal.

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Large swathes of agricultural land was submerged in saline water raising fears that cultivation could not be resumed for several years. AID Saathi Revathi, an organic farmer, who had experience in land reclamation after Tsunami worked with BTS and Mukti to train farmers in inexpensive organic methods to reclaim land for cultivation. Not only was land reclaimed, the yield of rice was better than conventional farming by the end of November.

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Since food supply became uncertain, expensive and non-varied, AID partnered with Development Research Communication & Service Centre (DRCSC), that works on food and livelihood securities of the rural poor, to train families in raising organic kitchen gardens quickly to supplement and enrich their nutritional intake. Even landless families could raise gardens in broken pots, jute bags and bamboo baskets. The simple yet effective techniques have started spreading on their own.

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[mukto-mona] Bin Laden's track gone cold, America now says. Is he alive though?



Bin Laden's track gone cold, America now says.  Is he alive though?

 

A.H. Jaffor Ullah

 

The defense secretary of America, Robert Gates, told American TV media on December 5, 2009 that American intelligence has no idea where Osama bin Laden is residing these days.  This is quite a revelation!

 

America routinely sends rocket ships to Mars, spends billions of dollars to gather intelligence on other nations, and the great nation is now actively fighting in Afghanistan to rid Talibans from that beleaguered nation so that a warlord named Hamid Karzai could govern the nation and make his family filthy rich by patronizing corruption.  Nonetheless, the Obama Administration is openly admitting that America's intelligence is clueless about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. And that is not all!  For quite some time American authorities have no idea where bin Laden had been hiding.

 

The defense secretary, Mr. Gates, is a carryover from President George W. Bush's cabinet.  Therefore, when Gates says that American authorities have no clues on bin Laden's whereabouts for many years, we simply can deduce that Bush-Cheney Administration was also in the dark in respect to bin Laden's denizen in Afghanistan or Pakistan.  I mentioned the two Islamic countries intentionally because Obama Administration thinks that bin Laden is hiding in one of these two nations. 

 

President Obama's national security adviser James Jones said that as per intelligence reports the Al-Qaeda chief "is somewhere inside North Waziristan, sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the Afghan side of the border."

 

The following facts however portray a very different scenario vis-à-vis Osama bin Laden.  The last video from Osama bin Laden surfaced on October 29, 2004 hardly 5 days before the U.S. presidential election in which Bush ran against Senator John Kerry and the former eked out a victory against the Democratic challenger.  In that election, the Bush-Cheney duo made al-Qaeda as number one enemy of America.  Thus, many analysts at the time had opined that bin Laden's video tape could have not come at a better time than less than a week before the election.  It seems as if bin Laden and Bush needed each other for their political survival.  They both demonized each other; thereby, they gained popularity in their respective constituency. Five years have gone by since the surfacing of bin Laden's last ever video tape but no progress was made to track down the Saudi renegade who made a career out of demonizing the West and by portraying global Muslims as victims of western neocolonialism.

 

President Obama also used tough words against al-Qaeda and its supreme leader Osama bin Laden before the November 4, 2008 presidential election.  He categorically said that Iraq was a bad war but the right war was in Afghanistan.  Sure enough after becoming the president he concentrated on Afghanistan and now more troops are being flown to that nation to combat the growing influence of Talibans.  President Obama also said during his stump speeches allover America that the U.S. will hunt down bin Laden no matter where he is hiding.  Pakistan's name was mentioned by the candidate Obama to be the nation where bin Laden may have taken the temporary refuge.

 

America wanted to hunt down not only Osama bin Laden but also Mullah Omar and his lieutenants as the American soldiers are actively engaged in combat against Talibans in many of the southern provinces of Afghanistan.  The name of Pakistan's remote tribal region South Waziristan was mentioned by American intelligence as the possible place where bin Laden may have taken a temporary refuge.  Lately, I read in the western newspaper that American intelligence thinks that bin Laden may have slipped into area inside southeastern Afghanistan that is located next to South Waziristan. The mountainous area in North Waziristan and adjoining the city of Jalalabad are strongholds of Taliban; therefore, it makes sense that Osama bin Laden and the rest of Taliban leadership may find the region as a safe haven. These are all speculations at best because there was no news of the sighting of bin Laden by any person with credibility.  The American intelligence is relying on Talibans those who are taken as prisoner of war in recent time. The British Broadcasting Corp reported earlier this week that a detainee in Pakistan claimed to have information that bin Laden was in Ghazni in eastern Afghanistan in January or February 2009. 

 

While it was convenient for Bush-Cheney to keep bin Laden alive because it serves a purpose to get mileage out of global terrorism perpetrated by al-Qaeda but the ground reality could be very different.  The French intelligence had a very different view about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts for quite some time.  They think that bin Laden is no longer alive.  I tend to think in the same line.

 

Let us take into consideration the following facts.  No videotape of bin Laden had surfaced since October 2004.  There were a few audiotape purported to have come from bin Laden.  However, it is difficult to know whether these contain bin Laden's voice.  It is rather easy to imitate someone's voice.  Coincidentally, after October 2004 when bin Laden had his last videotaped message to the world, the subsequent video from al-Qaeda came from none other than Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian Jihadist who is the number two man in that organization.  One must wonder why al-Zawahiri does the talking on behalf of al-Qaeda when Osama bin Laden had the penchant for demonizing the West.   

 

In 2001 December when American Air Force was blasting the caves in Tora Bora Mountain with daisy Cutter bombs, news report came out about bin Laden escaping from his denizen and then heading for Pakistan.  At that time the intelligence knew that the al-Qaeda chief was suffering from kidney ailment.  In subsequent videotape bin Laden looked sick and haggard.  Therefore, it is plausible that he may have died in Pakistan.  However, al-Qaeda leadership is not acknowledging this for a fact.  It works in favor of al-Qaeda to keep bin Laden alive for the cause they are fighting against the West.

 

In summary, while various high officials from Obama Administration are trumpeting that al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is probably hiding either in North Waziristan (Afghanistan) or in South Waziristan (Pakistan).  However, no real time intelligence had surfaced against the Saudi renegade leader.  Is it possible that Osama bin Laden is no longer alive?  How curious it is that the second man in command in al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had been making all the videotapes for worldwide consumption.  It is a fact that Osama bin Laden was not in his best health.  Unless al-Qaeda comes out with a recent videotaped message from bin Laden many people won't buy the American view that the al-Qaeda leader is straddling between North and South Waziristan.

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[ALOCHONA] Prime minister’s overseas visits



Prime minister's overseas visits

Courtesy New Age 4/12/09

After letting her foreign minister do the jet setting, the prime minister herself has decided to do some of it herself. In the last few months, she has been to a number of countries, almost all for multilateral meetings. While the foreign ministry has heralded all these as successful visits, it would be worth the while if some bright journalists covering the foreign ministry would do some research to find out whether the foreign ministry was playing its usual role, playing up to the prime minister or has there been something at least that the prime minister has earned for the country from these visits that have been taken place at significant costs to taxpayers' money.
   Those with some knowledge of diplomacy and how foreign affairs are conducted would know that the multilateral forums are places where someone of the rank of a prime minister does not need an invitation to attend. Therefore, the prime minister did not need any invitation to undertake the visits she has so far made to address these multilateral forums. No real purpose has also been served by these visits. However, as it has now become a practice, in such visits, the prime minister is accompanied by members of her family who take precedence over all other members of her delegation that includes ministers, senior officials, etc. For example, when the prime minister met President Obama and Mrs Obama during a reception, it was her daughter who was with her when she was photographed with the US President and the First Lady. At her UN address, it was her sister who preceded the foreign minister in the seating arrangements. It is now known on authoritative sources that the prime minister's son has in his name card written that he is an adviser to the prime minister.
   For a party that came to office publicising the alleged interference of Tarique Zia in the activities of the government, the indulgences given to the incumbent prime minister's sister, son and daughter in affairs of the state is indeed unacceptable. In case of the sons of the former prime minister, notwithstanding the accusations that have been brought against them, it must be said that they were seldom seen in the affairs of the state in the manner we see the family members of the present prime minister.
   Referring back to the prime minister's foreign trips, it is not just the members of the prime minister's family are making merry at the expense of the taxpayers; a lot of the government officials and hangers-on of the party in power are also enjoying free travel at the taxpayers' expense without having anything substantive to do in these trips. Take Ambassador Ziauddin for example. After hanging on to the prime minister for a year, he has recently been given the title of Ambassador-at-Large with the rank of a minister without anyone explaining what this job entails where the prime minister has a foreign ministers and people with ministerial ranks galore to advise her on foreign affairs. The way the prime minister's overseas trips are arranged must be the best examples of squandering of public money without considering legality or ethics. Besides her family members, at least 40 people accompany her on these innocuous trips with almost all of them having nothing to do at all to be of assistance to her except being present at her press conferences and other engagements where they fill up the seats in the absence of foreign invites who see no point in coming to such meetings/engagements.
   It is true that the BNP did a lot of things that were not proper and the AL criticised the party rightly with the media in support. The AL is now doing everything for which it criticised the BNP and more openly. The strange thing is that a large part of the media that had put the BNP on the grill is letting the AL go free.
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[mukto-mona] Fwd: Promotional Materials to Celebrate International Human Rights Day 2009 [3 Attachments]

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Enclosed please find herewith the Promotional Materials to Celebrate
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Advocate

Programme Manager-Legal & Human Rights
Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR)
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Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR)
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[ALOCHONA] Unemployment soars over investment dearth



Unemployment soars over investment dearth
Courtesy New Age 4/12/09 Shakhawat Hossain

Unemployment is soaring because of continuous fall in private investment and sluggish trend of public investment, hindering the entry of new industries in the country's productive sectors that could absorb eligible job seekers.
   The inflow of foreign direct investment dropped by 37 per cent in the first two months of the current fiscal over the same period of the last fiscal.
   Public investment also went below target and the commercial banks are sitting on a pile of idle money worth about Tk 25,000 crore because of little demand for funds by the private investors.
   Experts and chamber bodies termed the situation grave and contrary to the employment generation scopes when some 2.7 million young people are becoming eligible for jobs every passing year although only 0.7 million of them can be absorbed.
   The labour and employment minister, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, told New Age such observation did not reflect the actual picture of the country's employment situation.
   He pointed out that the present government had focused on the agriculture sector, which still employed a half of the country's workforce.
   Mosharraf, however, said private sector investors were less interested in setting up industries because of uncertainty caused by the global financial crisis.
   Experts suggested for quick and short term measures to address the problematic issue as the county's unemployment rate doubled to 3.7 per cent in recent years compared to 1.9 per cent in the 1900s.
   International Labour Organisation (ILO) in a study last year pointed out that Bangladesh was at the twelfth position among the top twenty countries in the world where unemployment was rising.
   It apprehended that the number of unemployed would hit 60 million in 2015 unless new investments were made to absorb additional manpower.
   The issue is turning out to be a major cause of concern for the present government which failed to arrest the dwindling trend of investment in the industrial and infrastructure sectors in the last one year.
   Unless quick and immediate short term measures are taken, the already high unemployment rate would go up further and would destabilise macroeconomic indicators and create social problems, experts pointed out.
   The country's oldest chamber body—the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry—in its quarterly review on Thursday said unemployment has surged with no increase in real sector production because of investment dearth.
   The problem is serious enough to threaten the short and medium term growth of the economy, it noted.
   Because of lower than expected growth in export and low contribution from the manufacturing sector, the country's gross domestic product grew 5.8 per cent in the last fiscal year, lowest in last several years.
   Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies executive director, MK Mujeri, told New Age that many plans including the much-vaunted public-private-partnership and improvement of public investment scenario of the present government still stumbled at the planning stage.
   He suggested for removing of the existing bottlenecks to give impetus to the public investment which is key for encouraging the private investment.
   Finance minister AMA Muhith observed in his budget speech that the country needed $28 billion investment by 2014. He pointed out that the investment was needed to develop infrastructure like power and energy, and ports and transportation to help attain 8 per cent growth.

 




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[mukto-mona] Arundhati Roy/ A True Muslim!



  Every Muslim knows that the real Qurbani (Sacrifice) is a practice of Detachment. Allah asked him to sacrifice his most precious thing.  What is the most dearest thing to a man on this earth? It is his money—isn't it? Doesn't he love money more than anything else on the face of the earth? For Abraham it was his Gold, Silver and interest income. Here is what happened when it came to sacrifice. For a start, God wanted to remind Abraham that he should not love his Money more than loving Him. So, He asked Abraham to sacrifice his most beloved thing in the world. He was tested and this Abraham fella failed the test miserably. He cheated God.  His love for God was a hoax. He could not detach from what he loved the most—his money, his Gold, and of course, his harem full of beautiful blondes. O' what a tangled web we weave when we intend to deceive! He managed to convince his equally greedy and lustful followers that this Cow is our most precious possession. We must slaughter these animals. Abraham knew full well that Allah wanted him to sacrifice his inner animal not that poor cattle! Every Muslim knows that slaying the animal  inside is the true meaning of sacrifice—yet his irrational nature always does the opposite. In my opinion, Arundhoti Roy is a true Muslim and here is why; She gave her Booker T Prize money—Million Dollar—to Normoda Bachaao Andolan. She gave her Sydney Prize money—all of it—to  Aborigine groups. She gave her Lennon Prize Money to fifty organizations across India. As a matter of fact, she gave away all her money to the charities of her choice across the world. Folks this is called 'Qurbani'.
 
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[mukto-mona] Pak-India Relationship



Bangladesh Bahrat Pakistan People's Forum

(Pakistan Chapter)

                                                                                                          Dated: 02/12/09

Press Release 

 

"Pakistan and India urged to keep peaceful environment"

"Threats of war produce hatred and uncertainty among people"

 

National convener of Bangladesh Bharat Pakistan Peoples Forum (BBPPF) Pakistan chapter Shakil WahidUllah Khan; General Secretary Nawaz Arien Sindh and Saeeda Diep from Punjab, in a joint statement, regretted the present statements of war and increased tension between India and Pakistan; stating that when the relationship between the two neighboring countries start to improve, certain elements give irrational statements that injure the cause of peace between the two countries. They stated that people of both the countries long for peace and stability. Both Islamabad and New Delhi should take practical steps to reduce tension between the countries. Instead of spending resources on piling weapons they should spend them on improvement of education, health and on other developmental programs.

BBPPF is working for the cause of peace in the region and wants brotherly relationships among the people of these countries. They demanded that visa process should be made easy, trade should be increased, and these countries should learn from each others experiences. These steps would lead to peace and prosperity in the region. History has proved that threats of war produce hatred and uncertainty, while peace brings prosperity. Pakistan and India have spent the last 63 years in tension; the time has come to end this hostility and develop cordial relationship. Instead on relying on others, both countries should solve the problems on table. It is therefore pertinent to end this environment of hostility and let the people of these countries to live in peace and harmony.

 

 

Shakil Wahidullah Khan,

National Convener BBPPF (Pk)

Peshawar NWFP, Pakistan

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