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Al-Amin (Tritiomatra.Org), Minister Capt Tajul Islam, Filmmaker Kabir Anwar |
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Bangladesh Tritiomatra Org is a Virtual Organization for Bangladeshi around the world. In a PalTalk virtual room "Bangladesh Tritiomatra Org Mukto Moncho" meet recently hundreds of users to discuss with the Minister Captai Tajul Islam. Topic was "The present situation of Bangladesh". Minister Tajul Islam talked with virtual Bangladeshi community. This is a successful joint initiative of Tritiomatra.Org and Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee that has organized a digital-talk-show on 24th of August 2010. State Minister, Bangladesh Liberation War Affairs Ministry, Captain Tajul Islam talks with hundreds of online users, logged-in to "Bangladesh Tritiomatra.Org Mukto Moncho" from all over the world. It was a long four hours chat session with Captain Tajul Islam, in which he spoke about his experience during the liberation war, about the 15 August incident and the election promise of the government of Bangladesh on prosecuting the war criminals through a special tribunal. Bangladesh government has set up a special war crime tribunal according to the International Crimes Tribunals Act 1973. It is a long-standing national demand, the government had pledged in its election manifesto to take all necessary legal steps to conduct the trial. Click here to listen the virtual-talk with Liberation War Minister Capt. Tajul Islam |
Ershad rules out any trial against him
http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=110710&date=2010-08-31
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From: Shimul Chaudhury <honestdebater@yahoo.ca>
Date: Aug 30, 2010 6:46 AM
Subject: [Dahuk]: DU Pro-VC accused of patronizing irregular appointments
To:
The New Nation, Dhaka, August 30, 2010 http://www.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/08/30/news0999.htm DU Pro-VC accused of patronizing irregular appointments DU Correspondent Dhaka University (DU) Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Harun-or-Rashid himself was explicitly patronising an unprecedented irregularity in recruiting teachers in the university. The malpractice was done in the meeting of the Selection Committee for recruiting lecturers in the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology under the faculty of Engineering and Technology yesterday. Sources said applications were called for six vacant posts (three permanent and three temporary) of lecturer in the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology recently. According to the process, the Selection Committee, headed by the Pro-VC Harun-or-Rashid with four other members - Dean of the concerned faculty Prof Shahida Rafiq, chairperson of the department Syed M Shamsuddin, and two experts Prof Mahbubar Rahman and Prof Ahmed Ismail Mostafa of the same department - sat yesterday for selecting the more qualified candidates for the posts. The permanent three posts were filled up by the candidates who were in the top three positions considering their results in honours' and masters' level examinations and their publications at home and abroad. But the irregularity was done in the selection of three temporary posts where candidates who have 1st class 1st and 2nd positions in honours and masters' examinations have been rejected and those who have secured 6th or 7th positions in the same examinations have been selected denying the opposition of two members of the Selection Committee. The selected three candidates are Mithun Sarkar, Sumaiya Farhana and Taslima Ferdaus. Mithun's merit positions in honours and masters examinations were 3rd and 2nd respectively while Sumaiya's positions were 7th and 1st and Taslima's positions were 4th and 6th in honours and masters examinations respectively. On the other hand, Kazi Tanimul Haque Shuvra, Mohammad Shahruzzaman and Nashid Sharif have been rejected while their merit positions in the honours and masters examinations were 2nd & 2nd, 1st & 2nd and 2nd & 2nd respectively. Of them, Mohammad Shahruzzaman is the highest marks scorer in honours examination among the candidates applied for. He achieved 2208 marks in the examination. Nashid's total marks in honours exams were 2203 and Tanimul's were 2188. But the marks of the three selected candidates Mithun, Sumaiya and Taslima were 2064, 2087 and 2088 respectively. The rejected candidates were also clearly ahead by the number of publications at home and abroad than the selected candidates. Sources said the biased selection was made by the direct interference of the Pro-VC Prof Harun-or-Rashid though the two members of the committee, dean of the faculty Prof Shahida Rafiq and one of the two expert teachers Prof Mahbubar Rahman opposed it. At one stage, Prof Shahida Rafiq walked out from the meeting protesting the partial role of Pro-VC in the selection. She told reporters at a press conference at her office "The Pro-VC showed blind partiality to the less qualified candidates just considering their political views and he made injustice to the candidates who have much more qualifications than the selected," Prof Shahida Rafiq termed the biased selection as unprecedented in the history of Dhaka University. She further said that two of selected candidates could not answer the simple questions in the viva voce. Their only qualification is their political identity, she added. "Such kind of political fanaticism in higher educational institutions are destroying the future of the nation," she opined. |
Okay, okay, we will make sure this loans serves your pocket also.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> Loan from Delhi raisesbillion dollar questions
>
> *M. Shahidul Islam*
>
> The $1 billion loan agreement signed with India on August 7 begets some
> billion dollar questions: Whose interest will it serve and whether the fund
> was at all needed. Cynicism has exacerbated by the loan coming at a time
> when it is least needed; over $500 million of ADB, IMF and other
> source-loans lying idle in the government's coffer.
> Decoding the mindset of policy makers in Dhaka and Delhi has become a
> futile exercise since the coming to power of the AL-led regime in early
> 2009. While any definitive answers to such questions will remain unanswered
> for obvious reasons, a glance at the targeted projects where the borrowed
> money will be spent may provide some valuable clues to unearthing the real
> motive behind this unprecedented economic collaboration between the two
> South Asian neighbours.
>
> *Whose interest?*
> Of the 14 projects for which the predominance of the borrowed $1 billion
> is slated for spending, over 76 per cent of the fund is earmarked for the
> (1) construction of Ashugonj port and dredging of navigation route leading
> to Tripura border, (2) upgrading of railway tracks and purchase of railway
> locomotives and oil tankers to transport Indian goods across the border, (3)
> construction of bridges astride Indo-Bangladesh border, including over the
> Bhairab and the Feni river connection Tripura, (4) construction of
> Ramgar-Subrom land port and the connecting roads, and, (5) construction of
> Bheramara-Bahrampur 400 KV inter- connected lines at a cost of $150 million,
> to name but a few.
> The agreement stipulates that the pipeline projects must incur 85 per
> cent of the costs by procuring goods and services from India only, and, the
> consultants hired for advising must be from India too. That alone will
> divert back 90 per cent of the fund to India. Add to this .50 per cent
> penalty for non-completion of any project, 1.75 per cent annual interest and
> .5 percent commitment fee per annum. The entire venture has little or no
> value added dividend for Bangladesh, excepting an estimated $25 million or
> so that is expected to come annually from custom fee and the allied levies
> that are yet to be decided.
>
> Simply put: Delhi will plan, fund and complete all these strategically
> important projects inside Bangladesh with materials from India, to serve
> India's interest, while the cost incurred is a loan to Bangladesh which the
> country may not be able to pay off within the stipulated 20 years time
> frame. Besides, the loan's conditionality is so stringent that the negation
> of any future government to comply with the projects' completion will not
> absolve the nation from paying the interests and the penalties during the 20
> years amortization period.
>
> As well, the 1.75 per cent interest is too high, compared with the loan
> transactions occurring at public and private levels anywhere in the world;
> due to the recession-battered prime landing rate being either zero, or at
> best one per cent in the leading economies of the world. More disturbing is
> the 20 years payment deadline, which covers only half of the payment
> time-line usually offered by major international financial institutions
> while the stipulated interest rate is seven times of what the IMF loan
> charges, .25 per cent at best.
>
> *Why policy- shift?*
> Despite that, our finance minister is on record for accusing the
> opposition BNP of lying, as the latter insisted on not to sign the loan
> accord in consideration of upholding national interest. The gala and the
> glittering of the signing ceremony had also dwarfed the potential of an
> economic and geopolitical disaster this particular loan is sure to bring
> upon our nation.
>
> The finance minister is not alone in touting the issue as an epoch -
> making economic bonanza. Prior to Dhaka consenting to inking the agreement,
> few in the nation took pain to study the economic and the arithmetical
> rationale for doing so, especially at a time when the decision to borrow
> from external sources marked a radical shift from existing policies which
> proved successful over the decades by reducing debt-dependency on external
> sources, often phenomenally.
>
> We also feel numb as none among the policy makers even bothered to ask,
> why Dhaka needed $1 billion credit from India when its debt-GDP ratio stood
> at all time high, over 32 per cent of the GDP, or well over $50 billion, of
> which public debt alone rose by over $2 billion since the coming to office
> of the AL-led regime in late 2008 (Source: CIA fact sheet). Bangladesh bank
> data also reveals, total government borrowing was Tk. 597.9 billion in FY
> 2007, out of which Tk. 522.0 billion (87 percent) came from domestic sources
> while the net flow of public borrowing from external sources remained nearly
> stagnant in FY06-07, and declined further subsequently.
>
> *Deadly geopolitics*
> Such compelling economic rationales aside, India's generosity remains
> questionable; the loan coming to Dhaka at a time when India itself is
> bleeding under a slew of catastrophic afflictions spurred by a lingering
> recession, accelerated centrifugal drives spearheaded by insurgents from
> Kashmir to Mizoram to Assam, and the widespread public discontent created by
> a combustive mix of mass unemployment and hyper inflation which Delhi seems
> totally unable to tackle.
> Some observers say, this is hardly a micro-managed regional bonhomie to
> bolster fraternity with a smaller neighbour in crisis. Faced with
> unprecedented domestic crisis, Delhi had to display some geopolitical
> acrobatics to deflect attention outward and the scheme fitted neatly with a
> Machiavellian design to turn Bangladesh into an economic and military
> hinterland that has been in the making since Delhi decided to join the
> US-led anti terror bandwagon in 2001.
> They say, ever since, Delhi has been on the driving seat in Dhaka while
> irritating silence and procrastination remained our national hallmark amidst
> the gradual but systematic enfeebling of the nation by (1) rendering the
> armed forces impotent, and, (2) bludgeoning the economy through orchestrated
> destruction of the main export sector, the RMG.
>
> This line of analysis jibes well with the desperation Delhi felt lately
> as it witnessed, helplessly, Nepal turning into a Maoist state, Sri Lanka
> drifting away toward China and the Pakistani success in checkmating Delhi in
> Afghanistan amidst successive Taliban victory in the battles against the
> India-allied NATO forces. They say as most of the earmarked projects involve
> land and marine connectivity between India's north east with the mainland
> via Bangladesh, our nation is being turned into a virtual India corridor.
> This constitutes serious compromises of our territorial integrity and
> sovereignty.
>
> http://www.weeklyholiday.net/front.html#02
>
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Many people think that secularism is a grey (as opposed to the 'black' of the burqa) burlap sack that you can whack over a person's head.
A black burqa is a very good thing for Muslims, they say.
It can put a ink-blot over the person's existence and obliterate the person's humanity. That is supposedly a very Islamic thing to do,
though there is no Qur'anic injunction or dress-code for the purpose of blotting out the humanity of a person.
This grey burlap sack called secularism, they say, is an evil thing that can be 'imposed' and can make you look like
the devil incarnate otherwise known as Hindu. This sack is rumored to be outfitted with a devilish mechanism
that can make the whole religion of Islam disappear from the realm in a twinkle of an eye!
They also say that this devil incarnate Hindu should be eliminated from the land by any means. The means
may take the form of mass murder but if that is what it takes to do the job there should not be any hesitation .
Anybody showing tendencies like a Hindu should be eliminated. This Hindu Hasina should take heed. Her father was wiped out.
"Did not hindu hasina learned anything from her Father"?
Did not hindu hasina learned anything from her Father?
However, the people who speak in the above language have not been able to provide a sample of the grey burlap sack
called secularism that can be 'imposed' over people's head and that can make Islam disappear in a twinkle of an eye.
Until they do, we have the Holy Qur'an to turn to for guidance, solace and fortitude. In this holy month of Ramadan,
time for penance and self-purification, we should recognize that the above talk is itself a kind of 'covering' or clothing
or 'lebas'. And the Qur'an warns us to be wary of these attempts at falsehoods:
"Wa la talbisu al Huqqa bi-l batili wa taktumoo ul Huqqa wa antum taAlamuna" 2:42.
(And cover not Truth with falsehood, nor coceal the Truth when ye know whar it is)
For those who want be sure that there is no Qur'anic mandate for women to wear the burqa or the hijab,
please read the following article which was published in the Daily Star, and then archived by the Islamic
Reasearch Foundation Information.
But Secularism can be forced? Give me a break!! Did not hindu hasina learned anything from her Father? --- On Mon, 8/23/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
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Mo Assghar wrote,
'Did not Hindu Hasina learn anything from her Father?'
What a solidly stupid comment. Not surprised, we can't expect reason from an ignorant and dogmatic person. He must know that when religion is governed by thugs, civilised nation should regulate and stop them. A 7th century pagan Arab culture can't be a part of any faith.
Akbar Hussain
But Secularism can be forced? Give me a break!! Did not hindu hasina learned anything from her Father? --- On Mon, 8/23/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
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