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[ALOCHONA] Indo-Bangladesh Summit: A Security Agenda for Bangladesh



Indo-Bangladesh Summit: A Security Agenda for Bangladesh

Due to reasons of security and geography, the relationship with India is critically important for Bangladesh. The forthcoming Prime Ministerial meeting between Bangladesh and India is a significant one in this changing milieu of emerging perspectives in Bangladesh-India relations. Security is the most prominent item on India's agenda for this meeting.
 
A number of security issues exist between the two countries; among them the maritime demarcation, environment/water security, border issues & Indian Border Security Force's (BSF) killing of innocent civilians, human insecurity in unsettled enclaves, gross imbalance in trade, disparity in sharing information, transnational security threats and the issue of militancy and terrorism have become more prominent. In the context of contiguity of borders and evolving nature of threats from within and outside South Asia, the area of potential cooperation on security issues is much broader. While it is important to understand and appreciate India's security concerns, similar concerns by Bangladesh also need to be brought to the forefront.

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[ALOCHONA] Imposing Shackles on Bangladesh and Dozens of Bangladesh’s concerns



 

Hasina : Normalizing the Unthinkable: Imposing Shackles on Bangladesh and Dozens of Bangladesh's concerns

 

"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me."

 

Abid Bahar

 

"Normalizing the unthinkable," is the process whereby ugly, degrading, murderous, and unspeakable acts become routine and are accepted as "the way things are done.' There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationalizing the unthinkable.""Normalization of the unthinkable comes easily when money, status, power, and jobs are at stake."(1)

 

I was nauseated seeing the mutiliated bodies of our Bangladesh army officials and some of their families and even surprised seeing the mainstream dailies like the daily Star congratulating Hasina for her sucessful handling of the event.  There were more surprises we see everyday in the  increased number of extrajudicial killings, arrest torture or intimidation of the newsman and surprisingly there were no protest from the opposition party BNP leadership against these unthinkable acts by the Hasina government that came to power with a landslide victory in January 2007 alledgely with a helping hand from the military backed CTG government.

 

In addition, to the above more shocking of all is Hasina helping India imposing shackles on Bangadesh in many areas, building dams, getting transit in exchange of nothing. In this, she is swallowing one after another of the Indian bitter pills agenda with herself and her partymen's praise of the Indian government's so-called help and shamelessly celebrating her so-called success at home and abroad as if everything is normal while her countryman fuming in disgust.. AL's normalization of the unthinkable is demonstrated in giving India transit through Bangladesh without having a national referendum on this vital issue. Instead of showing concern of the effect of Thista, Farakka and now the Tipaimukh dan, the AL government ministers and  the carefully controlled newsmedia praise the AL government.continued sucess. This tells us of the new process of Al's nomalization of the unthinkable and its rationalization by the secretive AL advisory board through spending money, power, and jobs.

 

  While Hasina celebrates her successful one year term, in her tours to different national capitals with a large retenue, she does haj, prays for her countryman now without her former hijab, but demonstrating things as normal, however, big changes are taking place;  the nation is slowly losing its independence in several sensitive areas such as in the army, police and the BDR. We see a crop of new pro Indian recruits loyal to Hasina taking charge in the administration and Hasina at the helm, implementing India's longstanding policies of making Bangladesh a dependent country. This reminds us the past Mujib era government when India fooled us once now Hasina is fooling us again.

 

It is as if like the saying "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me." But when she is normalizing the unthinkable, this time, it is shame on the nation not to react to the process. In this radical transformation, one can see the difference between Mujib eras and now is that due to the lack of media help Mujib couldn't give the appearance of the normalization of the unthinkable and he failed. Whereas now with Indian expert help in media manipulation, and Hasina's AL's spending money, status and power is normalizing and rationalizing the unthinkable and imposing shackles on Bangladesh, but once implemented will be hard to remove.

 

 Not long ago, Hasina openly said she hates politics and she is in politics only to punish her father's killers. True, she showed her success in this in the efficient handling of the event by appointing judges in quick succession interfering in the judicial affaires. This is Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh in her second term in office.

 

But what concerns us is that she is dealing with the fate of the nation. "National strategy is total in concept and has potential, diplomatic, economic, commercial, cultural and military facets. Among the many anti Bangladesh issues she is following, at least a dozen could be identified as grave violation rights and about issues of national interest, some of them are as the following:

 

1. Repression by the Hasina government against the opposition increased substantially to the point of breaking the past record. Hasina's government continued killing and intimidating the newsman and the opposition has exceeded the BKSAL regime as if the nation's return to the Mujib's BKSAL days. It is reported, "Police and Rapid Action Battalion made 500,787 arrests around the country over the last 10 months, a report of police headquarters said Sunday."(2) Dhaka, Nov 8 (bdnews24.com) http://ca.mg2.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=1&.rand=43guc3lppi5dv

 

2. Similar to Mujib's, Hasina is also keeping her Indian Rakkhi Bahini with the new uniform.  In Mujib's days Rakhi Bahini was employed to secure Mujib's rule. In Hasina's more sophisticated information Indian personnel in the Shere Bangla Nagar who are now in charge of information monitoring connected to Bangladesh defence give sector. Indian National in the BRTC now working as if Hasina's Rakkhi Bahini Faisal Rahim(Weekly Holiday) reports:


"The BTRC is also having access to the Army's signal corps and other communication system, experts here say pointing to some sensitive areas and apprehend that the foreign experts sitting at the country's nerve center of Dhaka's communication system may sabotage the whole nation at the time of a crisis.


 True, "  The Prime Minister may have put them in such sensitive places as safety valves to her Government but they would remain the biggest threat to the nation. Pointing to the new developments, analysts here say that the country is in the crossroads, we are having sensitive information every time but do not know exactly where the journey will stop." (3)

 

3. Defying Bangladeshi's mass opposition to the transit issue, and without any election mandate for it or without a national referendum immediately after the election winning, Hasina began the process of giving the transit to India without anything in exchange from India. It is as if like Bangladesh is for sale. But the AL machinery's handling of the event shows it as if a normal thing.

 

4. She even dared to bring the four principles of the 1972 constitution back despite 71.44 % Prothom Alo, 72.47% Shamokal and 1957 Jugantar readers do not support reinstating 72 Constitution removing the Fifth amendment by Ziaur Rahman's government that brought multiparty democracy. She is also taking measures to remove Ziaur Rahman's name from museums, and the Zia International airport.(4)

 

This shows Hasina's AL is still "encrusted by Mujib time Stalinist organizational precepts and extreme hatred to the opposition."

 

Her new moves include the re-establishing of the BKSAL secularism, an idea Mujib government borrowed from Indra's West Bengali Congress syndicate, which in the past was proven to be one of the reasons for Mujib government's downfall. She even dared to have an education policy changed in line with Indian anti Islamic stance of Dhormohinotha approach in Bangladesh. But in the name of secularism Dharmo nirophekota, (neutrality) she is establishing anti-Islamic foundation in Bangladesh (Dhormohinota). Such policy is surely motivated to eventually make Bangladesh intellectually a pro-Indian puppet nation.

 

5. Hasina lately took away the neutrality of the judiciary by hiring pro AL and firing neutral judges in dramatic reshuffling of the judiciary. She has also fired Golam Azam's son from the army for no reason other than his father's sins. Bangladesh observers ask if she deserve the same treatment by the nation to be condemned as a Prime Minister for her father's BKSAL dictatorship and turning the Bangladesh nation into a bottomless basket case.

 

6.Hasina is responsible for the Pilkhana massacre to take place even knowing well that the carnage was in progress. She seemed to be more interested in the 39-year-old 1975 massacre that was a spontaneous act against the BKSAL dictatorial government. To the observers, Pilkhans massacre was aimed at deliberately allowing the destruction of the independent –minded army.

 

 It is unthinkable to see the heart attack death of the BDR personnel in custody, those who are apparently saying the truth behind the massacre. Questions are repeatedly asked about those mysterious BDR deaths. It appears that these deaths must be to build a strong pro-Indian army and BDR.

 

7. Hasina seems more interested to arrest Indian rebels who took shelter on Bangladesh soil while Chakma rebels and Bangabhumi anti Bangladesh rebels still keep their head quarters in Calcutta and New Delhi.(5)

 

8.Immediately after her election winning, Hasina's AL has the return of the tender grabbing gold rush or SL killing/ beating of the rival student/ professors in the university campuses. And her appointed Home Minister through nepotism getting forgiveness of crimes and presidential forgiveness to criminals. In Mujib's time while such practices led the fall of the Mujib government, in Hasina's it is seen as something normal. The emerging question to the nation is with Hasina as the Prime Minister where again Bangladesh is heading for? 

 

9. Despite the national outcry of India's dam building projects, Hasina completely ignoring the imminent danger from the effects of the Tipaimukh dam. We must question where she is obliged to the welfare of her country and the constituency or she is accountable to others.

 

10. Hasina opening the border wide to Indian business and helping to weaken the local enterprises, a practice also was in force during Mujib's pro-Indian government.

 

11. Hasina is increasing the trade deficit with India by buying more from India.

 

12. For some unexplained reason she dismissed her experienced ministers and employed as if baby ministers for responsible portfolios as the ministry of foreign affaires, home affaires, industry and trade, flood control and water development that normally require experience. In these we saw AL ministers with their defence of Indian interest during Tipaimukh dam protest even seemed as if the Indian Congress syndicate chose the entire AL cabinet. 

 

13. Hasina's government is borrowing money from ADB, IMF for big projects and making profit from local and international contracts and observers claim that Joy Wazed working as her paid advisor making millions from supposedly the grand father's Bangladesh zamindari


Why Hasina is so dared to do it while Mujib showed reluctance? Many believe that now clan is relocated in countries abroad and in Bangladesh those Sheiks that are in some kind of deputation receive royal protection to change their fate from rags to riches. This is a strange phenomenon similar to the improvised Ethiopia the respect given to Hailisalasi but the king was finally removed from power with disgrace. But unfortunate though in Bangladesh with external help' particularly from India, Mujib was re-enacted as the father of the nation.

 

Despite Hasina, anti-Bangladesh policies, many wonder why there was a civil war in Mujib's time and none in Hassian's. Clearly, the pro Indian media was not present in Mujib's time, now presents the unthinkable as normal. Secondly, India and its spy agency RAW is now more experienced from its past mistakes and is now firmly behind Hasina with its super connection with the super powers. With things in place like in Mujib's time, the RAW and now Hasina's DGFI monitor every movement of the Bangladesh opposition. It appears that until Bangladesh becomes a heavily India indebted country (when it will have direct repression and attack) India will keep Hasina's puppet regime with a show of democracy. Under the circumstances, Bangladesh watchers find Hasina's continued success to stay in power despite her unpopular moves for the reasons that:

 

Both Mujib's BKSAL and Hasina's AL based its success on propaganda and controlling the street and defying the opposition through creating terror. On the contrary the present opposition is intimidated and demoralized and even unable to face the newly released AL muscleman like Joinal Hazari and the others. Under the circumstances what the nation demands is that Hasina should be resisted for imposing shakles on Bangladesh.

 

Hasina Over the Precipice

Hasina using powerful media is normalizing the unthinkable and depriving the Bangladeshis of the much-sought Bangladesh dream, the theme of the liberation war. While Mujib was condemned for being a Pro-Indian and being the killer of democracy in Bangladesh, Hasina came to power by asking for forgiveness of her father's mistakes but now she is repeating the same BKSAL mistakes -betraying with the nation. It appears that much to the chagrin of Bangladeshis,Hasina remained a committed BKSALite with her commitment to the four principles of the 70's. Under the circumstances, people question about who is to blame for attacks on the Sheikh families: the rebels or the Sheikhs themselves? To help the nation survive as an independent entity, it is the informed people who will be the judge and the jury to judge the Sheikhs in the days to come. 

 

Endnotes:

(1) Lisa Peattie "Normalizing the unthinkable,"  Bulletin of Atomic Scientists of March 1984.

(2) Dhaka, Nov 8 (bdnews24.com) http://ca.mg2.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=1&.rand=43guc3lppi5dv

(3) Faisal Rahim(Weekly Holiday) Yes, Indian Nationals in the BRTC seem Hasina's BKSAL Rakhi Bahini.
http://www.weeklyholiday.net/front.html#01

(4) 71.44 % Prothom Alo, 72.47% Shamokal and 1957 Jugantar readers do not support reinstating 72 Constitution. Link: http://www.prothom- alo.com/onlinepo ll/

http://www.orangebd group.com/ samakal/detai. ..o=153&rl=20

http://jugantor. info/enews/ poll/poll_ result.php? day_id=594

(5). One Prajnalankar Bhikkhu, instead of doing devotional work in the kiangs, he provides anti Bangladesh propaganda materials from India from the following address:

Peace Campaign Group (PCG)
RZ-I-91/211, West Sagarpur, New Delhi-110046, India
Tel: + 91-11-2 539 8383
Telefax: + 91-11-2 539 4277

(6) Sadeq Khan in his, "A softly softly approach at last?" (Holiday, January 1, 2010) says

The present attorney-general of Sheikh Hasina's grand alliance government earned a dark reputation already for his habit of brow-beating the judges with veiled "people-power" threats when he is short of convincing legal arguments. Of late he chose to intervene in a most unlikely legal procedure for the state to step in. 


   A number of frivolous defamation suits were filed in mofussil magistrate courts in different districts against Mahmudur Rahman, the editor of Amar Desh and a former state minister of the last BNP government. The cases of defamation are all based on a report published in the Bengali daily about administrative indecision relating to a directive from the Prime Minister's Office to investigate an allegation of irregularity and corruption in the procurement of a compressor unit by Petrobangla without tender. The procurement order was issued by adjusting the negotiated costs of installing the compressor unit at Muchai (ADB was financing two other units at Ashuganj and Angela) against exploration costs of one of the concessions held by the OIC Chevron under a production-sharing contract with Petrobangla. Such costs are recoverable by the concessionaire from gas produced and sold back to Bangladesh at international price as prevailing in the Singapore market at the time of repayment.

 

(7)No Maritime strategy yet.

Maritime strategy: Bangladesh perspective by Vice Admiral Sarwar Jahan Nizam

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=113000




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[mukto-mona] Mafia like Islamists.



The following editorial appeared in today's Globe and Mail, Toronto, comparing the Islamists to Mafia.

Mafia-like Islamists

While people in North America obsess over what they can take on an airplane (books, thankfully, will be permitted), nearly one million hungry people in Somalia are losing their major source of food aid because of terrorist extortion. The United Nations World Food Program is suspending its deliveries indefinitely, and who can blame it?

The militants in southern Somalia demanded a supposed security fee of $20,000 every six months. They ordered that women be barred from working on food aid, that their approval be sought for all projects, that any celebrations to mark Christmas, or International Women's Day, or World AIDS Day, be banned. The UN agency would have been turned into a social-service branch of al-Shabab, a group linked to al-Qaeda, if it had said yes to these conditions. To say no would have been to risk deadly reprisals. Instead it is closing six of its offices, and will try to supply more food across the border in Kenya, expecting that hungry people will leave the country.

Although clothed in religious garb, the Islamic terrorist evil is as remorseless as any Mafia organization, and much more deadly. That evil seeks to dominate and destroy, for its own purposes, any society where it is able to gain a foothold. It is as likely to kill Muslims as non-Muslims. Not for that reason alone, it needs to be as opposed and resisted as much by Muslims as by non-Muslims.

In northwest Pakistan, people did try to resist, forming militias to drive out the radicals. But a suicide bomber drove a truck filled with 250 kilograms of explosives into a volleyball tournament and killed 88 people, including eight children, on Jan. 1. A day later in Denmark, Kurt Westergaard, a 75-year-old cartoonist whose depiction of a bearded man with a bomb in his turban sparked riots four years ago, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.

The philosophy of al-Qaeda and its adherents supports perpetual, worldwide war. It lends itself as easily to a clash within civilizations as one between civilizations. It is as likely to drive one million hungry Somalis from their country in search of food as it is to incite an attack on Western jet travellers.

Most alarming of all, it continues to lure the young to take up its cause.







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[ALOCHONA] Chatra League of BAL



Chatra League of BAL
 
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[ALOCHONA] Future of India-Bangladesh relations



Future of India-Bangladesh relations
 
Haroon Habib


INDO-BANGLA RELATIONS: An economically strong, secular and democratic Bangladesh is crucial for New Delhi and the rest of the region.
 
Sheikh Hasina, who started her second term as Prime Minister of Bangladesh on January 6, 2009, is due to visit India from Sunday. This is her first visit to New Delhi during this term, and it is expected to be a significant one.
When Ms Hasina became Prime Minister in 1996 (she held office till 2001), her Awami League had a thin majority in Parliament, and her government had many limitations. She came to power after two decades that followed the bloody changeover of 1975. Despite those limitations, her government took some remarkable steps vis-À-vis India. Overall, it tried to reverse certain post-1975 political trends and to rejuvenate the pro-liberation spirit that was needed badly for a secular polity in a country that had seen the planned rehabilitation of the so-called 1947 spirit by a set of military and pseudo-democratic rulers.
During that tenure, the Awami League-led government signed the historic Ganga Water Treaty. It also paved the way for the return to India of thousands of Chakma refugees from Tripura with the signing of a landmark accord that ended decades of tribal insurgency in the border region. Then, it sent a firm signal to insurgents operating all across northeastern India, many of whom, as claimed by India, enjoyed sanctuary in Bangladesh. These steps were not easy to take, and indeed constituted a test of courage and conviction for the government.
This time, too, the government of the grand alliance led by the daughter of the slain founding father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is not without its limitations. But its leadership is now more experienced. It won a landslide in the December 2008 elections, and secured a two-thirds-plus majority in Parliament. This enabled Ms Hasina's government to amend the Constitution and bring about certain changes that it felt were needed to initiate a new journey that Bangladesh needs to undertake in order to get back on the right track.
Having achieved independence from Pakistan in the aftermath and as a consequence of the devastating war of 1971, Bangladesh did not get adequate time to consolidate itself and put itself on a firm democratic footing. India helped the Bengali freedom fighters to a great extent, and finally formed a joint military command after Pakistan attacked its soil. But that remarkable and historic achievement failed to deliver the expected outcome fully, probably due to a certain lack of alertness, a premature sense of euphoria or a misreading of the feelings of the forces that were defeated.
At the high-level meetings between Bangladesh and India over the next few days, particularly of the heads of governments, important bilateral aspects that will have a historical resonance are bound to come up. But the domestic context of the visit is unlikely to remain unnoticed.
Bangladesh is now ruled by secular democratic forces, known as the 'pro-liberation' forces. But the forces which opposed independence from Pakistan and which developed a solid economic foundation and organisational base over the past few decades, have now become quite alert and aggressive. They have been quickly joined by some elements — who were direct beneficiaries of the 1975 changeover and who ruled the country for 30 out of the 39 years of its political existence — and have unleashed a propaganda war.
The fundamentalists and the local versions of the Taliban do not want Bangladesh to remain friendly with India; to them India is "the enemy state." But why is the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which is but a mixture of soft Islamists, fundamentalists and former communists, singing a similar tune?
When the national media projected the Prime Minister's visit to India optimistically — as an opportunity to begin a new era and resolve certain outstanding issues — Begum Khaleda Zia, BNP chairperson and chief of the four-party rightist alliance in which the Jamaat-e-Islami plays a pivotal role, posed an open challenge to the government. She stated publicly that should Ms. Hasina conclude an honourable deal with India, she would be welcomed with garlands on her return. If, on the other hand, she failed to protect the 'national interest,' her path would be strewn with thorns.
This is an open challenge posed before the one-year-old government, which has ensured that the war criminals found guilty for their role during the liberation war against Pakistan face trial. The Supreme Court recently upheld the death sentence to the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
There are several issues on the table in the context of Ms Hasina's visit. It is all right to analyse them ahead of the summit, but it will be wrong to give the impression that any lack of progress in solving them in a single visit will constitute failure. To imply that even a meeting with the Indian leader could somehow lead to an eventual surrender of national interests is equally fallacious.
Post-1975, the definition of patriotism changed in Bangladesh. Originally, it was the Bengali freedom fighters and their local collaborators on the warfront who were called "patriots" along with the vast majority of people who helped to fight the war against the Pakistan Army. But the history of the independence struggle was re-written, rather distorted, by a set of military and pseudo-democratic rulers. Fortunately, Bangladesh now looks forward to removing the distortions as a younger generation of Bangladeshis seeks to know what really happened.
The Khaleda Zia-led combine, which will soon be under the command of her controversial son Tareq Rahman — he is now in London and faces multiple corruption charges — did not perhaps notice the changed national mood. As Ms Hasina prepared to go to New Delhi, the Leader of the Opposition chose to question the patriotism of even the people who belong to the ruling party, forgetting that patriotism is not the monopoly of any single group or party.
Whenever such a top-level meeting takes place, the mainstream media delve into history and recall India's support to the cause of Bangladesh's nationhood. It is yet another irritant Begum Zia and her alliance have been destined to suffer. It is a matter of history that India sheltered 100 million refugees from the former East Pakistan when the Pakistan Army began a genocidal war against unarmed civilians, and also extended significant support to Bangladesh's war that finally culminated in the creation of a new country.
However, the historic relationship did not develop as it was meant to. Bangladesh faced its first shock in August 1975 with the assassination of Mujibur Rahman. With state power vested in the military and pseudo-democratic rulers for two decades, Bangladesh found a new ethos that practically negated the secular spirit of 1971. India, too, underwent transformation on multiple fronts. Therefore, while history provides a vital thrust, India and Bangladesh must practically resolve the issues that have confronted them, and seek to put their relations on a solid foundation.
Since India is a big neighbour, some psychological impact on both sides of the border is inevitable. When the post-1975 situation influenced a section of Bangladeshis to look back at the "spirit of 1947," which actually ran counter to the spirit of the war of liberation, Dhaka-New Delhi relations faced many obstacles. While this was against the will of many Bangladeshis, the protagonists of the "spirit of 1947" did succeed in influencing a section that would strongly argue that the stumbling blocks were mainly India's "intransigence, chauvinism and obduracy."
Bangladesh covers a relatively small territory. But it has enormous potential and considerable strategic significance. Close relations with India to resolve all major irritants should be a key requirement for it to make a new beginning. Despite having been in office only for a year and despite the fact that the adversaries of the pro-liberation spirit are more powerful than ever before, the Sheikh Hasina government has shown considerable courage and conviction to free its soil from anti-India activity. Many would, therefore, hope for suitable reciprocal gestures to strengthen the polity.
An economically strong, secular and democratic Bangladesh is crucial for New Delhi and the rest of the region. A democratic and secular India, and Bangladesh, that has started its renewed march towards a stable democratic polity despite the muscle flexing by some extremists, should work together for a stable South Asia.
(The writer, who was involved in Bangladesh's freedom struggle, can be reached at: hh1971@gmail.com)
 
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RE: [mukto-mona] articles about a new bangladesh



My dear Masud,
If Humayun Ahamed is your Sir and if he calls me Belal Bhai, I can surely address you as my dear. Your article has deeply touched me. Your love of our people and the country is only comparable to a Mother's love for her children having nothing up her sleeves.
I found your language simple and direct bereft of ego-aura. This is a lover's language. You deserve to feel pride even for your language.
Happy New Year.
Belal Beg


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[mukto-mona] Congressman to Reintroduce Legislation Barring Travel From Iran



Congressman to Reintroduce Legislation Barring Travel From Iran | PAAIA: Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans

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PAAIA's Top Ten Achievements in 2009

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January 7, 2010, Washington, D.C. – Having grown to over 2,200 members and six active local chapters, PAAIA is viewed favorably by more than 70% of Iranian Americans who know the organization.  In 2009, PAAIA helped launch the Iranian American 2010 Census Project and led the formation of a coalition of more than fifteen organizations working collaboratively towards an accurate count of Iranian Americans.  During the past year, PAAIA was instrumental in introducing the Nowruz Resolution in Congress, and has ensured that the views of Iranian Americans concerning recent developments in Iran are heard by U.S. policy makers.

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Congressman to Reintroduce Legislation Baring Travel From Iran

Ask your member of Congress to oppose the STEP Act

January 8, 2010, Washington, D.C. - Congressman J. Gresham Barrett (R-SC/3rd) announced his plans to reintroduce the Stop Terrorists Entry Program Act (STEP) into the House of Representatives, a bill he originally introduced in 2003. According to a press release from Congressman Barrett’s office, the STEP Act would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar the entry of individuals to the United States from countries that are State Sponsors of Terrorism, including Iran, as well as Yemen. 

If enacted, the proposed legislation could effectively forbid all Iranians from immigrating, visiting, or studying in the United States. Individuals seeking political or religious asylum as well as those requiring emergency medical treatment may be exempt from the provisions. 

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Space Tourists: A documentary following Anousheh Ansari and her journey through space


January 8, 20a0, Washington, DC - Anousheh Ansari dreamt of going into outer space since she was a child. A number of years and $20 million later, with the help of the Russian space program, her dream is realized—Ansari becomes the first female space tourist. Space Tourists, from director Christian Frei, documents Ansari’s remarkable journey through space.

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Passing the Torch of Success 2010

January 17th Event in Orange County




In a remarkable gathering, some of the most accomplished Iranian Americans share their experiences with the next generation of leaders. Held at the Orange County Performing Arts Center on January 17, former CNN anchor Rudi Bakhtiar and the popular comedian K-Von will co-host an event that will feature:

  • Reza Badiyi, Legendary Film and Television Director
  • Asieh Namdar, CNN Anchor and Senior Writer
  • Judge Ashley Tabaddor, Immigration Judge (In Personal Capacity)
  • Judge Rodin Rooyani, Immigration Judge (In Personal Capacity)
  • Banafsheh Akhlaghi, Former Western Regional Director of Amnesty International
  • Leila Vaziri, World Record  Breaking Swimmer
  • Shardad Rohani, Composer, Conductor and Performer


Sunday January17
Renee & Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
Orange County Performing Arts Center

2:00 – 5:30 pm (pre-event program starts at 1:00)

Tickets have now been made available for purchase through Orange County Performing Arts Center
www.ocpac.org
Students $15, General public starting at $35
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Re: [mukto-mona] Dr. Zafar Iqbal dancing with girls at night party



Dear Nayan Khan,
 
The video has been removed from the site.
Please send me any other site where this
idiot intellectual is shown dancing .
Thanks.
Golam

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Nayan Khan <udarakash08@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

The ugly face of our intellectual:
 
 
 
 


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RE: [mukto-mona] KanuBasu



 
আমন ধানের গন্ধ
 
শিতের উশ্ন আবেশ
 
ঘরে ঘরে হল চাল কোটা
 
শিউলি তলার পাশে
 
নতুন উণোন লেপা পোছা
 
পীঠের ঘ্রান
 
খেজুর গুড়ের বাস
 
মুখে টোল হাশি
 
নবান্নের দেশে তুমি
 
বধু নব যৌউবনে ভরা   
 
আহারে বাংলা
 
মোর জননি বাংলা
 
সোনার বাংলা।
 
 
(This is the first time I typed in Bengali.May be spell mistake there. Beg your pardon.
-Sentu Tikadar)
 
 
 
--- On Fri, 12/25/09, Belal Beg <begbelal@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Belal Beg <begbelal@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [mukto-mona] KanuBasu
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com, alokedasgupta60@yahoo.com, alphamkt@msn.com, railway_stations@yahoo.com, kiak2805@yahoo.com, hellinmbaye@yahoo.com, indranidaya@yahoo.es, rkintlbd@gmail.com, invitation@whereareyounow.net, nonstopgun@yahoo.co.in, kumi.k@d8.dion.ne.jp, mitchellgoldshield@yahoo.com, basu@atems.com, ghutghuti@yahoo.com, priyask2001@yahoo.co.in, san_das_jay@yahoo.co.in, sleekhas@yahoo.com, subimalghosh@vsnl.net, suparna.chaterjee@yahoo.com, surendralalsoren@yahoo.co.in, adgifts@rediffmail.com, adgifts@redifmail.com, swapanseal@yahoo.com, kings_jenny@yahoo.com, abhijitbahakta@gmail.com, gsubhankar@rediffmail.com, kanubasu@gmail.com, lalkitab@yahoogroups.com, mumbaihangout-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com, parrikshitbiswas@yahoo.com, sachinkr_gupta@yahoo.co.in, trctcs@uohyd.ernet.in, ubhihardinder.singh@wipro.com
Date: Friday, December 25, 2009, 2:23 AM

 
Darun hoy jodi pohela Boishaker mota nabanno jatio utshobe porinato hoy.
bishoyti tule dhorar jonne apnake dhonnobaad.


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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:17:55 +0530
Subject: [mukto-mona] KanuBasu

 

Best wishes for nabanna utsav ~KanuBasu

নবান্নের শুভেচ্ছা ~ কানু বসু


 Aaj natun chaler guro,natun gur,narkel kora,narkel fopra aksathe mekhe sabai bari bari niye jaoa hoy aar sabai kichhuta kheye nay. Eke bole notun khaoa. Eta Banglar akta darun Utsab.
 Naba=New Anna=food ~KanuKaku                                         
KanuBasu


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