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[ALOCHONA] Tareq becoming Senior Vice-President of BNP



Congratulation to BNP for making it happen, though it took sixteen years to have their national council. Still it is better to have it late then never.

 

Rather then, thanking Khaleda Zia, I think BNP workers should thank Caretaker Government and Election Commission for their national council 2009. If new PRO was not implemented and BNP did not have to pass its amanded constitution to comply with the new rules, probably another 16 years would be gone by without another council.

 

However, it is unfortunate BNP the main opposition does not have any secretary general at present but the council is over! A political onlooker may wonder, the natural constitutional position of secretary general is not in the horizon but newly adopted position of Vice Chairman is already awarded to Khaleda Zias son controversial political figure Tareq Zia.

 

One can wonder whether Khaleda Zia called the BNP national council only to crown his son Tareq Zia other then amending party constitution. It sounded like she is more concerned to crown her son rather then electing the secretary general and other office bearers of her party.

 

The entire show was about she and her son, everyone and everything else was less important to her, not a single position was chosen but mother and the son.

 

I think this is what BNP leader SAKA Chowdhury was talking about when he publicly disagreed bringing Tareq Zia into lime light again, probably because of his terrible image among common people of Bangladesh. SAKA talked about Tareq Zia and Hawa Bhavhon

 

Please follow the video link below to know what BNP leader SAKA Chowdhury had to say about Tareq Zia.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5zVMrt_rQA

 

Thanks

Shamim Chowdhury

Maryland, USA

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pls follow the link

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[mukto-mona] Tareq becoming Senior Vice-President of BNP



Congratulation to BNP for making it happen, though it took sixteen years to have their national council. Still it is better to have it late then never.

 

Rather then, thanking Khaleda Zia, I think BNP workers should thank Caretaker Government and Election Commission for their national council 2009. If new PRO was not implemented and BNP did not have to pass its amanded constitution to comply with the new rules, probably another 16 years would be gone by without another council.

 

However, it is unfortunate BNP the main opposition does not have any secretary general at present but the council is over! A political onlooker may wonder, the natural constitutional position of secretary general is not in the horizon but newly adopted position of Vice Chairman is already awarded to Khaleda Zias son controversial political figure Tareq Zia.

 

One can wonder whether Khaleda Zia called the BNP national council only to crown his son Tareq Zia other then amending party constitution. It sounded like she is more concerned to crown her son rather then electing the secretary general and other office bearers of her party.

 

The entire show was about she and her son, everyone and everything else was less important to her, not a single position was chosen but mother and the son.

 

I think this is what BNP leader SAKA Chowdhury was talking about when he publicly disagreed bringing Tareq Zia into lime light again, probably because of his terrible image among common people of Bangladesh. SAKA talked about Tareq Zia and Hawa Bhavhon

 

Please follow the video link below to know what BNP leader SAKA Chowdhury had to say about Tareq Zia.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5zVMrt_rQA

 

Thanks

Shamim Chowdhury

Maryland, USA

--- On Thu, 12/10/09, ShamimC <veirsmill@yahoo.com> wrote:


From: ShamimC <veirsmill@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [khabor.com] BREAKING NEWS>>> Tareq Got Senior Vice-President Post
To: veirsmill@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 11:16 PM


--- In khabor@yahoogroups.com, Badrul Islam <badrul_islam2001@...>
wrote:



--- On Tue, 12/8/09, Shamim Bhuiyan bhuiyan.shamim@... wrote:

From: Shamim Bhuiyan bhuiyan.shamim@...
Subject: [khabor.com] BREAKING NEWS>>> Tareq Got Senior Vice-President
Post
To: bhuiyan.shamim@...
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 9:38 AM







 










pls follow the link

http://www.rtnn. net/details. php?id=20237&p=1&s=1

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Policy Research Group: Haruspex, Hegemony: Ops Enterprise P' in Bangladesh

 

Haruspex, Hegemony: Ops Enterprise P' in Bangladesh

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. on 16 November, 2009 12:29:00

 

Isha Khan and Shireen Mazari are separated by long distance, nay Indian landmass since they live in Bangladesh and Pakistan respectively. The distance doesn't matter to the commonality they have – a pen dipped in anti-India venom.  Both are prolific in their output.

 

Khan's outpouring in Dhaka is quickly picked up by web sites and internet forums from Lahore/ Islamabad to London/ Washington. Mazari's too gets an international audience though she keeps hopping between Karachi and Lahore for a platform to publish her writings these days.

 

Often the two scholars marshal the same facts the same way and come up with the very same conclusions.  As if they are remote controlled and commandeered!

 

Take Khan's work titled `An Instrument of Indian Imperialism, and Mazari's piece on India's unconventional war strategy.

 

Research and Analysis Wing (R& AW) is the subject matter of study for the two

write-ups.  Mazari's was a bit more broad based since she covers a large canvas.

 

Both dissect RAW, as RA&W is often called, in a brutally forthright manner and leave the reader in no doubt that what a great sinister monster it has become with `the establishment of a huge network inside the target countries'.

 

Khan dilates on the Indian agency in Bangladesh and says `It has unleashed a well-organised plan of psychological warfare' in the country.

 

Quoting approvingly from `RAW and Bangladesh' by Mohammad Zainal Abedin,

 

Isha Khan asserts that RAW has been propping up `a host of disputes in order to keep Bangladesh under a constant political and socio-economic pressure', and is creating `polarization among the armed forces', `dissension among political parties and religious sects', and `propaganda by false allegations

of use of Bangladesh territory by ISI'.

 

Mazari turns to the Jain Commission Report (on who killed Rajiv Gandhi, why and how) for a peg and ends up with the very same conclusions. Who wrote first  heir opinion piece is not material since time and distance matter very little in the Internet age and the picture they end up painting is what interests a reader. Khan – Mazari are not alone in thinking alike and bashing the Indians alike. Their tribe is increasing. In Pakistan! In Bangladesh! To counter a lobby which generates support to India in Pakistani society and Bangladesh society, according to a Pakistani scholar.

 

Majid Nizami, the Chief Editor of `Nawa-i-Waqt', a leading Urdu daily of Pakistan, has an interesting take on the Indian lobby in the Pakistan society.

 

GOOD WORD- GOOD DREAM

 

`This lobby helps Pakistani writers, poets and journalists and when they go to India through the Wagah border, they receive Indian alcohol', he told a `Teachers Workshop', a report in his daily said on Aug 24.  He told teachers, while sharing stage with many prominent speakers, `Hindus and Muslims are two different communities. Teachers should expose students to the fundamental differences between Hindus and Muslims'.

 

Majid Nizami, who also heads the `Nazarya-e-Pakistan Trust, made another remark a few days earlier. It was not a remark per se because it is more in the nature of a forecast.

 

`Bangladesh will rejoin Pakistan', he said.  `India has split Pakistan to give birth to Bangladesh but India has failed to have good relations with Bangladesh. In the near future, Bangladesh will re-merge into Pakistan as it has good brotherly relations with the people of Pakistan', Nizami reportedly said (Nawa-i-Waqt, July 1, 2009).

 

The report quoted the Pakistani editor as saying `the Quran has directed to have horses of war ready to fight your enemy and our nuclear weapons are our horses which can wipe out India within few minutes'.

 

Nizami's nuclear speak doesn't come as a surprise. For Pakistan, N-bomb has a limited purpose- take on the Indian kafir and use it as a deterrent against India. If the Pak weapon ends up as an Islamic bomb, as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who presided over the bifurcation of the country, desired, that is a bonus.

 

US worry about Islamists holed up in FATA laying their hands on the bomb is not germane to the discussion of Nizamis and his ilk. Also of this article!

 

UNIFICAION OF PAK, BANGLA..?

 

Does Isha Khan or Shireen Mazari support the Nizami thesis on unification of Pakistan and Bangladesh?

 

Frankly, it is difficult to get a categorical yes or no for an answer. Their writings are multi-layered. Focus is microscoping and telescoping what all India stands for in their view. It serves a purpose in the short to medium term. Long term may collimate with Nizamis.

 

They are not alone in the enterprise as a recent study shows. The findings should bring smile to Nizami, in fact.

 

The finding is that Pakistan lobby of journalists, writers, poets, political scientists and historians is growing in Bangladesh.

 

To spread the `good word'!

 

The way, the lobby is adopting, should be the envy of any media planner any where from the First World to the Third World.

 

One name that repeatedly comes up front in the study is of Barrister MBI Munshi. A first rate scholar –journalist he is undoubtedly. To say he is on the Pakistan take will be patently unfair. Also, he will deny the allegation with all the contempt it deserves.

 

But the finding is that the `India Doctrine' (edited by him, and published by Bangladesh Research Forum; Price Tk 300) has a Pakistan connection – ISI made the payment for his intellectual labours. Friends in Pakistan have already given him `an advance' to come up with a sequel- Second Volume. Help coming from the American establishment is also being talked about, though in whispers, proving thereby the adage- anything can happen in the shadowy world of sleuths-could be true after all.

 

Isha Khan did an excellent review (rupeenews.com) of the first volume.  The chapters written by Munshi attempt `not only a historical and geo-strategic appraisal of relations between India and Pakistan/Bangladesh but also offer a more wide ranging analysis involving the Indian external intelligence operations in Bangladesh and outside', he said.

 

`The central idea of these chapters when taken as a whole', Khan opined, `appears to be that the India Doctrine as implemented by successive administrations in India is not limited to simply harming the economic interests of [its neighbours] but also has a historical and intellectual underpinning that comes from the thoughts and writings of Jawaharlal Nehru and Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar amongst others. The idea of a United India (or `Akhand Bharat'), according to the author, is still a goal of Indian policy making in South Asia'.

 

Do these views echo Pakistani intellectual and foreign policy establishment? If so, what, the author appears to say.

 

FAMILIAR NAMES – CLEAN WICKET

 

Ayesha Kabir and Abdur Rahman Khan, two familiar names to news paper readers in Dhaka, are also into the `Enterprise P'.

 

Ayesha's appears to be a `clean' wicket. Her proposal is for setting up a Media Forum `to enhance media cooperation between Bangladesh and Pakistan' - a perfectly legitimate enterprise. It is, indeed, difficult to find fault with her in these days when there is a SAARC level media association and a SAARC level women journalists group.

 

Yet, it is perfectly legitimate to look at her Forum's objectives. That is because she is not directly tapping into any established Pakistani media forum. She has routed her proposal through the Pakistan defence establishment. Abdur Rahman Khan knows the Pakistani biggies like the back of his palm. As a leader of the Press Club, he made Pakistan foot the bill for a new conference hall.  Nothing wrong. Most Press Clubs turn to the VVIP circuit to furnish the watering hole as the press clubs are known. Abdur Rahman never had a soft corner for India. Well, that alone cannot be the sole reason for his initiatives to facilitate visit of a number of local journalists to Pakistan.

 

Abdur Rahman, Nantu Roy (editor, Bharat Bichitra), and Kamal Uddin Sabuj  ake an interesting threesome. Abdur and Kamal have some thing in common – dislike of India. But Nantu has different tastes. It appears not only politics but also journalism has room for strange bed fellows, at least in Bangladesh. That is beside the point.

 

When this report hits the front pages, most Bangladesh journalists may have a second thought on a conducted tour of `Resurgent Pakistan?  It is possible that such invitations may not get the cold shoulder the invitations from Taiwan used to get not too long ago.

 

Syed Rukshana Zaman Shanu of Daily Jugantor is always on a `talent' hunt – writers for a cause. The cause is anti-India write ups.

 

Going by her daily stock taking, she is doing a fairly good job of her commitment to old friends.

 

On July 15, for instance, she spoke of four direct hits. Not on the same day but between July 10 and July 13. Not only in her paper- the Daily Jugantor (13/7) but also in Amardesh (12/7), New Age (10/7) and Diganta TV (13/7). The subjects covered ranged from controversial Tipaimukh (Indian) dam to women and children trafficking to India through 16 border posts and a `news package' on Ashulia garments issue.

 

Rukshana has made her name as a hardworking journalist. True to that reputation, she is working overtime to get her `campaign' pieces into Daily Prathom Alo, Jugantor, Samoy, Diganta, Sangram, Shaka Post, Doshdik, Tritio Matra and the weekly Economic Times.  For some she is the ghost writer. For how many is unclear though. For some articles, she turned to/ commissioned Putul Hossain (freelance journalist), Yakub Ali (working with Goyenda report), Pavel Rahman (Daily Bartoman Bangla) - all three Dhaka based.

 

CUMBERSOME ROUTE - NEW ADVICE

 

Two journalists who have been roped into Enterprise P feel Rukshana route to India bashing and Pakistan eulogizing is too cumbersome. One of them Zainal Abedin is turning to the Internet `on advice' and the second one, who prefers not to be quoted, is toying with the idea of  upgrading his small time annual into a quarterly and launch an English daily and a Bengali newsletter.

 

Given an option, Abedin likes to work on his contacts in the political circles. But the `received wisdom' considers working on political contacts as a `waste of time and money' and that is how the idea of an on-line daily emerged. His friend's plans – more copies for the annual/ quarterly/ daily/Bengali newsletter – don't appear to be capital intensive. These are not mass products and aim at a niche audience. The tab therefore will be anywhere from Tk two lacs to Tk eight lac depending on the format.  Should the newsletter (50-pages) be in colour or black/white? Well, that is a dilemma.

 

PREDICAMENT AND PROPAGANDA

 

Sonia Taleb finds herself in a predicament, which is not her making. As a research associate at BIPSS, the respected think-tank for peace and security studies, she is involved in a group on Pakistan propaganda. It is a cohesive group like all such clandestine groups but her problem is that she is unable to pull along with others.

 

On August 4, the situation turned ugly and she wanted to quit. It is not that easy not because of BIPSS rules but because of other factors. Sonia invoked her soft corner for Pakistan and family credentials for permission to take a `short break'. Her friends said she toyed with the idea of going to Shillong in Northeast India where she could have even taken a shot at the Indian Civil Services Examination but the holiday plans were quarantined when visa did not materialise.

 

Sonia's tryst throws up an interesting question. Are Bangladeshis also appearing at the Indian Civil Services Examination which is the first stepping stone to become a part of the Indian administrative system? Good subject for an enterprising investigative journalist.

 

The foregoing, however so ever interesting, doesn't look like a special overdrive under Operation Lobby Pakistan.  That is because most countries are into such enterprise in a friendly/ enemy territory -looking for a friendly scribe who will embed a good word here and a bad word there in his regular dispatches, new analysis or edit page articles. Rather mundane exercise it is, one may even say so.

 

PLUGGING –EXTRA MILE

 

If Operation Lobby Pakistan has to have an edge or meaning, it must be much more than `plugging' as `the plants' are known in the media world. Our study shows `Operation Lobby Pakistan' has covered that extra mile in Bangladesh.

 

Two names are being mentioned in this connection – one the principal and the

other his associate.

 

But they have run into rough weather!

 

Sajjad Hussain has plunged into the enterprise with enthusiasm. As Secretary General of the Bangladesh Centre for International Studies (BCIS), he has a vast network of friends, admirers and acolytes. He tapped them to work a project code named `Pak psy-war' under a MOU singed in Islamabad on May 7, 2008. It was a mission to educate the nation about the Indian hegemony through daily seminars, dialogues, books and paper publishing. Four books – two each in English and Bengali were commissioned. Advance of Tk one and a half lacs paid.

 

Initially, the project made little headway. In fact, it may be fair and proper to say, Sajjad could not `deliver' much on his promises because of the Caretaker Government' of the day. Not that it was all a case of failure. The high profile National Dialogue on Transit (to India through B'desh) and National Security (on August 26, 2008) helped to scuttle plans to grant transit/corridor to India. No mean achievement.

 

Yet, his Pakistan friends weren't impressed. Quickly followed up the displeasure with decision to go for task-by-task basis.

 

RAGE, HARUSPEX, HAGEMONY

 

Sajjad Hussain, naturally, went into a rage,  became a haruspex  for a while and held forth on what he had done, what he has planned, and what he has intended to do in the days ahead, to show that he had gone far beyond the MOU brief and scope.

 

It was not an empty boast by all means - the BCIS web site ( www.bcisbd.org)  is a perfect weapon to propagate Pakistani agenda, though a bit too expensive. The National dialogue organised in Dhaka in collaboration with journalist friend, Sadeq Khan, (Sept 09, 2009) was a good exercise.

 

So was Sadeq Khan's critique of Sheikh Hasina's new education policy which is in the works. `The new policy was being imposed on the people of Bangladesh in the name of secular education' he had thundered to a loud applause at a conference in Dhaka on September 15.

 

Sajjad Hussain has lined up several such conferences – four at the national level and two at the regional level. Across the borders in Nepal, a south Asia seminar is planned for January 2010 in Kathmandu. He spoke to a local scholar, Shasta Dutta Pant and he agreed to collaborate in organising the event. It will be followed by a similar effort in Colombo some time in Feb or March next. All this over and above sundry efforts like a `Long March' on Tipai dam and a rally in far off places like Sylhet.

 

`Changed circumstances', mumbled the Friends from Pakistan, taking in their stride Sajjad Hussain's harangue, and picking up their haversack. And patiently went into a monologue- on what is up their mind - cost saving, result oriented effort. `The Ops is on. The enterprise will go on'.

 

Market economics at play? Who can deny? Certainly not Shireen Mazari. Not even Isha Khan Their daily out put is tailored to suit market forces! The Nizami thesis on unification of Pakistan and Bangladesh is no exception to market dynamics!


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[ALOCHONA] RAW propaganda attack against Bangladeshi writers and media personalities



Policy Research Group: Haruspex, Hegemony: Ops Enterprise P' in Bangladesh

 

Haruspex, Hegemony: Ops Enterprise P' in Bangladesh

========================================================================

 

. on 16 November, 2009 12:29:00

 

Isha Khan and Shireen Mazari are separated by long distance, nay Indian landmass since they live in Bangladesh and Pakistan respectively. The distance doesn't matter to the commonality they have – a pen dipped in anti-India venom.  Both are prolific in their output.

 

Khan's outpouring in Dhaka is quickly picked up by web sites and internet forums from Lahore/ Islamabad to London/ Washington. Mazari's too gets an international audience though she keeps hopping between Karachi and Lahore for a platform to publish her writings these days.

 

Often the two scholars marshal the same facts the same way and come up with the very same conclusions.  As if they are remote controlled and commandeered!

 

Take Khan's work titled `An Instrument of Indian Imperialism, and Mazari's piece on India's unconventional war strategy.

 

Research and Analysis Wing (R& AW) is the subject matter of study for the two

write-ups.  Mazari's was a bit more broad based since she covers a large canvas.

 

Both dissect RAW, as RA&W is often called, in a brutally forthright manner and leave the reader in no doubt that what a great sinister monster it has become with `the establishment of a huge network inside the target countries'.

 

Khan dilates on the Indian agency in Bangladesh and says `It has unleashed a well-organised plan of psychological warfare' in the country.

 

Quoting approvingly from `RAW and Bangladesh' by Mohammad Zainal Abedin,

 

Isha Khan asserts that RAW has been propping up `a host of disputes in order to keep Bangladesh under a constant political and socio-economic pressure', and is creating `polarization among the armed forces', `dissension among political parties and religious sects', and `propaganda by false allegations

of use of Bangladesh territory by ISI'.

 

Mazari turns to the Jain Commission Report (on who killed Rajiv Gandhi, why and how) for a peg and ends up with the very same conclusions. Who wrote first  heir opinion piece is not material since time and distance matter very little in the Internet age and the picture they end up painting is what interests a reader. Khan – Mazari are not alone in thinking alike and bashing the Indians alike. Their tribe is increasing. In Pakistan! In Bangladesh! To counter a lobby which generates support to India in Pakistani society and Bangladesh society, according to a Pakistani scholar.

 

Majid Nizami, the Chief Editor of `Nawa-i-Waqt', a leading Urdu daily of Pakistan, has an interesting take on the Indian lobby in the Pakistan society.

 

GOOD WORD- GOOD DREAM

 

`This lobby helps Pakistani writers, poets and journalists and when they go to India through the Wagah border, they receive Indian alcohol', he told a `Teachers Workshop', a report in his daily said on Aug 24.  He told teachers, while sharing stage with many prominent speakers, `Hindus and Muslims are two different communities. Teachers should expose students to the fundamental differences between Hindus and Muslims'.

 

Majid Nizami, who also heads the `Nazarya-e-Pakistan Trust, made another remark a few days earlier. It was not a remark per se because it is more in the nature of a forecast.

 

`Bangladesh will rejoin Pakistan', he said.  `India has split Pakistan to give birth to Bangladesh but India has failed to have good relations with Bangladesh. In the near future, Bangladesh will re-merge into Pakistan as it has good brotherly relations with the people of Pakistan', Nizami reportedly said (Nawa-i-Waqt, July 1, 2009).

 

The report quoted the Pakistani editor as saying `the Quran has directed to have horses of war ready to fight your enemy and our nuclear weapons are our horses which can wipe out India within few minutes'.

 

Nizami's nuclear speak doesn't come as a surprise. For Pakistan, N-bomb has a limited purpose- take on the Indian kafir and use it as a deterrent against India. If the Pak weapon ends up as an Islamic bomb, as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who presided over the bifurcation of the country, desired, that is a bonus.

 

US worry about Islamists holed up in FATA laying their hands on the bomb is not germane to the discussion of Nizamis and his ilk. Also of this article!

 

UNIFICAION OF PAK, BANGLA..?

 

Does Isha Khan or Shireen Mazari support the Nizami thesis on unification of Pakistan and Bangladesh?

 

Frankly, it is difficult to get a categorical yes or no for an answer. Their writings are multi-layered. Focus is microscoping and telescoping what all India stands for in their view. It serves a purpose in the short to medium term. Long term may collimate with Nizamis.

 

They are not alone in the enterprise as a recent study shows. The findings should bring smile to Nizami, in fact.

 

The finding is that Pakistan lobby of journalists, writers, poets, political scientists and historians is growing in Bangladesh.

 

To spread the `good word'!

 

The way, the lobby is adopting, should be the envy of any media planner any where from the First World to the Third World.

 

One name that repeatedly comes up front in the study is of Barrister MBI Munshi. A first rate scholar –journalist he is undoubtedly. To say he is on the Pakistan take will be patently unfair. Also, he will deny the allegation with all the contempt it deserves.

 

But the finding is that the `India Doctrine' (edited by him, and published by Bangladesh Research Forum; Price Tk 300) has a Pakistan connection – ISI made the payment for his intellectual labours. Friends in Pakistan have already given him `an advance' to come up with a sequel- Second Volume. Help coming from the American establishment is also being talked about, though in whispers, proving thereby the adage- anything can happen in the shadowy world of sleuths-could be true after all.

 

Isha Khan did an excellent review (rupeenews.com) of the first volume.  The chapters written by Munshi attempt `not only a historical and geo-strategic appraisal of relations between India and Pakistan/Bangladesh but also offer a more wide ranging analysis involving the Indian external intelligence operations in Bangladesh and outside', he said.

 

`The central idea of these chapters when taken as a whole', Khan opined, `appears to be that the India Doctrine as implemented by successive administrations in India is not limited to simply harming the economic interests of [its neighbours] but also has a historical and intellectual underpinning that comes from the thoughts and writings of Jawaharlal Nehru and Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar amongst others. The idea of a United India (or `Akhand Bharat'), according to the author, is still a goal of Indian policy making in South Asia'.

 

Do these views echo Pakistani intellectual and foreign policy establishment? If so, what, the author appears to say.

 

FAMILIAR NAMES – CLEAN WICKET

 

Ayesha Kabir and Abdur Rahman Khan, two familiar names to news paper readers in Dhaka, are also into the `Enterprise P'.

 

Ayesha's appears to be a `clean' wicket. Her proposal is for setting up a Media Forum `to enhance media cooperation between Bangladesh and Pakistan' - a perfectly legitimate enterprise. It is, indeed, difficult to find fault with her in these days when there is a SAARC level media association and a SAARC level women journalists group.

 

Yet, it is perfectly legitimate to look at her Forum's objectives. That is because she is not directly tapping into any established Pakistani media forum. She has routed her proposal through the Pakistan defence establishment. Abdur Rahman Khan knows the Pakistani biggies like the back of his palm. As a leader of the Press Club, he made Pakistan foot the bill for a new conference hall.  Nothing wrong. Most Press Clubs turn to the VVIP circuit to furnish the watering hole as the press clubs are known. Abdur Rahman never had a soft corner for India. Well, that alone cannot be the sole reason for his initiatives to facilitate visit of a number of local journalists to Pakistan.

 

Abdur Rahman, Nantu Roy (editor, Bharat Bichitra), and Kamal Uddin Sabuj  ake an interesting threesome. Abdur and Kamal have some thing in common – dislike of India. But Nantu has different tastes. It appears not only politics but also journalism has room for strange bed fellows, at least in Bangladesh. That is beside the point.

 

When this report hits the front pages, most Bangladesh journalists may have a second thought on a conducted tour of `Resurgent Pakistan?  It is possible that such invitations may not get the cold shoulder the invitations from Taiwan used to get not too long ago.

 

Syed Rukshana Zaman Shanu of Daily Jugantor is always on a `talent' hunt – writers for a cause. The cause is anti-India write ups.

 

Going by her daily stock taking, she is doing a fairly good job of her commitment to old friends.

 

On July 15, for instance, she spoke of four direct hits. Not on the same day but between July 10 and July 13. Not only in her paper- the Daily Jugantor (13/7) but also in Amardesh (12/7), New Age (10/7) and Diganta TV (13/7). The subjects covered ranged from controversial Tipaimukh (Indian) dam to women and children trafficking to India through 16 border posts and a `news package' on Ashulia garments issue.

 

Rukshana has made her name as a hardworking journalist. True to that reputation, she is working overtime to get her `campaign' pieces into Daily Prathom Alo, Jugantor, Samoy, Diganta, Sangram, Shaka Post, Doshdik, Tritio Matra and the weekly Economic Times.  For some she is the ghost writer. For how many is unclear though. For some articles, she turned to/ commissioned Putul Hossain (freelance journalist), Yakub Ali (working with Goyenda report), Pavel Rahman (Daily Bartoman Bangla) - all three Dhaka based.

 

CUMBERSOME ROUTE - NEW ADVICE

 

Two journalists who have been roped into Enterprise P feel Rukshana route to India bashing and Pakistan eulogizing is too cumbersome. One of them Zainal Abedin is turning to the Internet `on advice' and the second one, who prefers not to be quoted, is toying with the idea of  upgrading his small time annual into a quarterly and launch an English daily and a Bengali newsletter.

 

Given an option, Abedin likes to work on his contacts in the political circles. But the `received wisdom' considers working on political contacts as a `waste of time and money' and that is how the idea of an on-line daily emerged. His friend's plans – more copies for the annual/ quarterly/ daily/Bengali newsletter – don't appear to be capital intensive. These are not mass products and aim at a niche audience. The tab therefore will be anywhere from Tk two lacs to Tk eight lac depending on the format.  Should the newsletter (50-pages) be in colour or black/white? Well, that is a dilemma.

 

PREDICAMENT AND PROPAGANDA

 

Sonia Taleb finds herself in a predicament, which is not her making. As a research associate at BIPSS, the respected think-tank for peace and security studies, she is involved in a group on Pakistan propaganda. It is a cohesive group like all such clandestine groups but her problem is that she is unable to pull along with others.

 

On August 4, the situation turned ugly and she wanted to quit. It is not that easy not because of BIPSS rules but because of other factors. Sonia invoked her soft corner for Pakistan and family credentials for permission to take a `short break'. Her friends said she toyed with the idea of going to Shillong in Northeast India where she could have even taken a shot at the Indian Civil Services Examination but the holiday plans were quarantined when visa did not materialise.

 

Sonia's tryst throws up an interesting question. Are Bangladeshis also appearing at the Indian Civil Services Examination which is the first stepping stone to become a part of the Indian administrative system? Good subject for an enterprising investigative journalist.

 

The foregoing, however so ever interesting, doesn't look like a special overdrive under Operation Lobby Pakistan.  That is because most countries are into such enterprise in a friendly/ enemy territory -looking for a friendly scribe who will embed a good word here and a bad word there in his regular dispatches, new analysis or edit page articles. Rather mundane exercise it is, one may even say so.

 

PLUGGING –EXTRA MILE

 

If Operation Lobby Pakistan has to have an edge or meaning, it must be much more than `plugging' as `the plants' are known in the media world. Our study shows `Operation Lobby Pakistan' has covered that extra mile in Bangladesh.

 

Two names are being mentioned in this connection – one the principal and the

other his associate.

 

But they have run into rough weather!

 

Sajjad Hussain has plunged into the enterprise with enthusiasm. As Secretary General of the Bangladesh Centre for International Studies (BCIS), he has a vast network of friends, admirers and acolytes. He tapped them to work a project code named `Pak psy-war' under a MOU singed in Islamabad on May 7, 2008. It was a mission to educate the nation about the Indian hegemony through daily seminars, dialogues, books and paper publishing. Four books – two each in English and Bengali were commissioned. Advance of Tk one and a half lacs paid.

 

Initially, the project made little headway. In fact, it may be fair and proper to say, Sajjad could not `deliver' much on his promises because of the Caretaker Government' of the day. Not that it was all a case of failure. The high profile National Dialogue on Transit (to India through B'desh) and National Security (on August 26, 2008) helped to scuttle plans to grant transit/corridor to India. No mean achievement.

 

Yet, his Pakistan friends weren't impressed. Quickly followed up the displeasure with decision to go for task-by-task basis.

 

RAGE, HARUSPEX, HAGEMONY

 

Sajjad Hussain, naturally, went into a rage,  became a haruspex  for a while and held forth on what he had done, what he has planned, and what he has intended to do in the days ahead, to show that he had gone far beyond the MOU brief and scope.

 

It was not an empty boast by all means - the BCIS web site ( www.bcisbd.org)  is a perfect weapon to propagate Pakistani agenda, though a bit too expensive. The National dialogue organised in Dhaka in collaboration with journalist friend, Sadeq Khan, (Sept 09, 2009) was a good exercise.

 

So was Sadeq Khan's critique of Sheikh Hasina's new education policy which is in the works. `The new policy was being imposed on the people of Bangladesh in the name of secular education' he had thundered to a loud applause at a conference in Dhaka on September 15.

 

Sajjad Hussain has lined up several such conferences – four at the national level and two at the regional level. Across the borders in Nepal, a south Asia seminar is planned for January 2010 in Kathmandu. He spoke to a local scholar, Shasta Dutta Pant and he agreed to collaborate in organising the event. It will be followed by a similar effort in Colombo some time in Feb or March next. All this over and above sundry efforts like a `Long March' on Tipai dam and a rally in far off places like Sylhet.

 

`Changed circumstances', mumbled the Friends from Pakistan, taking in their stride Sajjad Hussain's harangue, and picking up their haversack. And patiently went into a monologue- on what is up their mind - cost saving, result oriented effort. `The Ops is on. The enterprise will go on'.

 

Market economics at play? Who can deny? Certainly not Shireen Mazari. Not even Isha Khan Their daily out put is tailored to suit market forces! The Nizami thesis on unification of Pakistan and Bangladesh is no exception to market dynamics!


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Who are these gut-less morons, from BNP, who support such type of degenarating policy?
don't we have more clean, more qualified, more polished people to lead a party?











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