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RE: [ALOCHONA] FW: Blow to Religion-based Politics in Bangladesh









 
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From: qrahman@aim.com
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] FW: Blow to Religion-based Politics in Bangladesh
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:04:40 +0600
Dear Alochok Farida,
 Secularism in Indian sub continent was very different and complex than what you  are projecting in this forum. Removing "Bismillah" will not ensure safe environment  for minorities. Rather we have to turn ourselves into a group that uphold law of  the land. 
Remember "Golden age of Jewish civilization" came when Muslims use to  follow sharia law in Spain. It is plain wrong to assume all things "Islamic" are  bad (Or all things Islamic automatically makes everything perfect!). Thomas Freedman of NY times coined the term "Islamist" as negetive and we  have been debating among ourselves without looking into this "Flawed" context.  We should stand united against violence and lawlessness. We should  not stand  against Islam.  Bangabandhu was a man of wisdom. During 47 he was part of Muslim League because  situation null such stance. During 71, he took up the cause of protecting  Bengalis. He NEVER stood up against Islam.
even communists from India understand religion is a big part of our culture and history. So they kept the right balance for India while 
promoting socialist system in many parts of India. 
---Quazi
  -original message- Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] FW: Blow to Religion-based Politics in Bangladesh From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> Date: 21/02/2010 1:07 pm      This tiresome practice of first citing the West for a model to look UP to,  and then looking DOWN upon the West as Godless because they are SECULAR seems  pointless. Actually, it points to an "inferiority complex" of both the deshi  Islamists and the secularists who never understood the complex historical  development of Secularism in the West. European secularism is a relatively  recent phenonmenon, and American secularim is only Constitutional.      Secularism in the Constitution of Bangladesh is more appropriate, and naturally  more fitting to its cultural and civilizational heritage than it is to the  Constitution of the United States of America.              It is us, nurtured in the great Indian Civilization, who enjoyed  secularism for all those gloriously prosperous centuries while Europe was mired  in religious strife and bigotry.              Finally, please stop citing Christian Democratic Party of Germany as an  IDEAL of religion-based political party.  In the European political party the  name indicates 'democrats' who happen to be Christians as opposed to being  communists or something else. But BD-Jamaat claims to be the SOLE purveyor of  Allah'r Ain and resorts to killing other Muslims if they don't agree with their  political agenda.              Farida Majid  =========================   To: alochona@yahoogroups.com From: azizhuq@hotmail.com Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:08:30 +0000 Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] FW: Blow to Religion-based Politics in Bangladesh        Most European countries have religion based political parties (Christan  Democratic) yet Europe is most secular. While America has no major religion  based political parties (at least by name) still religion plays a great role in  America.    There are three Jamaths (Islamic groups) in Bangladesh (JMB, JIB and the TJ).  One is, most probably, banned. So, when one goes down the other will come up.    It will be interesting to see the direction Bangladesh takes.       farida_majid@hotmail.com Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:30:03 -0500 Subject: [ALOCHONA] FW: Blow to Religion-based Politics in Bangladesh                A very good summing-up without any frills.            I would clarify only one thing.  The notorious Fifth Amendment did not  include the placement of "Bismillah" in the Preamble of the Consitution.   Therefore the repeal of the Amendment does not by itself remove "Bismillah".   There has to be another Parliamentary gesture to clean up the Constitution of  any sign of preference for a particular religion.                Farida Majid                         Blow to Religion-Based Politics in Bangladesh Friday 05 February 2010  by: J. Sri Raman, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed       Here is some disconcerting news for all disciples of neocon gurus, who had  discovered Islam as the enemy of democracy and the successor to the "evil  empire" of the cold war era. An Islamic country of 160 million people, under an  elected government, is witnessing important but ill-noticed moves to abolish  religion-based politics.   On February 2, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh struck down a nearly 11-year-old  constitutional amendment that had allowed religion-based political parities to  function and flourish in the country. The ruling had the effect of restoring the  statutory secularism, which Bangladesh adopted in 1972 after liberation from  Pakistan and lost five years later following a series of military coups.   It may also have the effect of inspiring at least a debate on the issues in  Pakistan, the other Islamic country of South Asia. It may also have a ripple  effect, helping to raise the issues subsequently in sections of the rest of the  Islamic world.   This only carries forward an old battle. The logic of Bangladesh's liberation  war itself led the nation's founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, to place its  linguistic identity above the religious. The reverse of the same logic drove  religion-based groups in the the pre-liberation East Pakistan to side with  Islamabad in the war.   The first constitution of Bangladesh, under Article 38, placed a bar on  religion-based parties and politics. Mujib, as he was popularly known, and most  of his family were assassinated in a coup on August 25, 1975. A series of coups  since then culminated in the country's takeover by Maj.-Gen. Ziaur Rahman in  1977. In April 1979, the Zia regime enacted the infamous Fifth Amendment to the  constitution, paving the way for the return of religion-based parties and  politics.   Article 38 of the original constitution proclaimed: "Every citizen shall have  the right to form associations or unions, subject to any reasonable restrictions  imposed by law in the interests of morality or public order." But it clearly  added: "Provided that no person shall have the right to form, or be a member or  otherwise take part in the activities of, any communal or other association or  union which in the name or on the basis of any religion has for its object, or  pursues, a political purpose."   As revised under the Fifth Amendment, the Article said: "Every citizen shall  have the right to form associations or unions, subject to any reasonable  restrictions imposed by law in the interests of public order or public health."  The amendment scrapped the original Article 12, which enshrined "secularism" and  "freedom of religion" in the supreme law of the land.   Earlier, by a proclamation, the martial law regime made other major changes in  the constitution as well. The Preamble to the constitution was preceded by the  religious invocation, "Bismillah-ar-Rahman-ar-Rahim" (in the name of Allah, the  Beneficent, the Merciful). In the text of the Preamble, the words "a historic  struggle for national liberation" were replaced with "a historic war for  national independence." The phrase mentioning "nationalism, socialism, democracy  and secularism" as the "high ideals" in the second paragraph was replaced with  "absolute trust and faith in Almighty Allah, nationalism, democracy and  socialism meaning economic and social justice."   Article 8 of the original constitution - laying down nationalism, socialism,  democracy and secularism as the four fundamental principles of state policy -  was amended to omit "secularism" and replace it with "absolute trust and faith  in Almighty Allah." In repeated pronouncements, Zia also substituted  "Bangladeshi nationalism" for the "Bengali nationalism" of the Mujib days that  stressed a non-religious identity.   Lt.-Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who staged yet another coup and ruled  Bangladesh during 1982-86, carried Zia's initiative forward by making Islam the  "state religion" through the Eighth Amendment.   The battle between the secular and anti-secular camps continued through all  this, and became more open after the country's return to democracy in 1991. The  Awami League (AL), headed by Mujib's daughter Sheikh Hasina Wajed, has always  fought for abrogation of the Fifth Amendment. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party  (BNP), founded by Zia and now led by his widow Begum Khaleda Zia, and its allies  pursuing religion-based politics have remained uncompromising supporters of the  amendment.   The AL and its allies scored a legal victory in August 2005, when the country's  High Court held the amendment unconstitutional. The court said: "These changes  (made by the Fifth Amendment) were fundamental in nature and changed the very  basis of our war for liberation and also defaced the constitution altogether."  It added that the amendment transformed secular Bangladesh into a "theocratic  state" and "betrayed one of the dominant causes for the war of liberation."   The government in Dhaka, then a coalition of the BNP and the religion-based  Jamaat-i-Islami (JeI), moved a petition in the Supreme Court against the ruling.  The order was stayed and the issue of the amendment was put on the back burner,  where it stayed for four years.   Then came a major political change. A year ago, on January 6, 2009, Hasina  returned as prime minister after a landslide electoral victory. In early May  2009, the AL government withdrew the old, official petition for staying the 2005  court ruling. The BNP-JeI alliance was quick to react. BNP Secretary General  Khondker Delwar Hossain and three lawyers from the JeI rushed to the Supreme  Court with petitions seeking to protect the amendment. Their petitions have been  thrown out.   The JeI and other religion-based groups did not endear themselves to the  country, as the results of the last general election showed, with their violent  activities. The serial bombing they carried out across Bangladesh in 2005,  taking a heavy toll of human lives, did not help the BNP return to power through  the ballot box. The period 2001-06, when the BNP-led alliance wielded power,  witnessed "unprecedented" atrocities against religious and ethnic minorities,  according to Bangladeshi rights activist Shahriar Kabir. The victims included  Hindus, Ahmediyas and other communities and the atrocities ranged from killings  and rapes to destruction and desecration of places of worship.   After the Supreme Court's verdict, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed has said that all  religion-based parties should "drop the name of Islam from their name and stop  using religion during campaigning." He has also announced that religion-based  parties are going to be "banned." The government, however, has disavowed any  intention to remove the Islamic invocation from the Preamble of the  constitution.   All this has already drawn attention in Pakistan, which has continued to suffer  from religion-based politics despite its popular rejection in successive  elections. Veteran Pakistani columnist Babar Ayaz, in an article captioned  "Amendments for a secular constitution" in the Lahore-based Daily Times, talks  of the clauses in Pakistan's constitution, introduced by former dictator Zia  ul-Haq "who considered himself a kind of religious guardian of the country."   Noting the moves in Bangladesh, Ayaz adds: "Pakistan may not be able to ban  religion-based political parties in the near future, but it should move towards  expunging the ridiculous constitutional clauses mentioned above ... It would be  a long and hard struggle, but it is doable."   Bangladesh is in for a long and hard struggle, too. The BNP has threatened an  agitation against the changes. It is likely to combine this with a campaign  against India (under whose pressure Hasina is alleged to be acting), and New  Delhi can be counted upon to keep providing grist to Khaleda's political mill  with Big Brother-like actions widely resented in Bangladesh.   There are also limits to which a constitution alone can counter religion-based  politics. The far right's activities in India, proud of its staunchly secular  constitution, furnishes just one example.   The significance of what is happening in Bangladesh, however, cannot be  belittled either. It demonstrates the far greater role popular will can play in  combating religion-based politics than cluster bombs and drones.            Your Mail works best with the New Yahoo Optimized IE8. Get it NOW!.      Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.      Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.                            _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/ 


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[ALOCHONA] Convention on Biological Diversity 1992 [1 Attachment]

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Convention on Biological Diversity 1992

http://www.cbd.int/doc/legal/cbd-un-en.pdf

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[ALOCHONA] Politics of dynasty and controversies



Comment on: Politics of dynasty and controversies in Bangladesh(http://www.weeklyblitz.net/552/politics-of-dynasty-and-controversies-in)
 
Presumed ISI Connection
 
MBI Munshi

The article was put up on several other sites immediately after DeshCalling including NFB, War on You and dozens of Yahoo groups as well as on Pakistan Defence Forum. Therefore assuming an automatic ISI connection to the document is under the circumstances highly questionable and dubious.

I am also at the same time doubtful about the CIA / MOSSAD connection to the BDR Mutiny as claimed by the author of the document. The author nowhere in the article substantiates the CIA / MOSSAD connection. I would assume that the allegation was included merely for effect and is largely based on speculation. The RAW involvement, however, seems to be founded on stronger grounds.

http://www.weeklyblitz.net/comments/150



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[ALOCHONA] Madina Charter : First written constitution



Madina Charter : First written constitution
 
 
 
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Shimla pact no bar to trying war criminals: Shafique



Shimla pact no bar to trying war criminals: Shafique

Law Minister Shafique Ahmed speaks at a function

Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said Saturday the Bangladesh-India-Pakistan Shimla agreement signed in 1974 is no bar to trying the war criminals of Bangladesh. Responding to reporters' questions after attending a function of History Academy, he said under the Shimla treaty 195 prisoners of war of Pakistan had been released.

"It (agreement) has no relevance to the holding of trial of the Bangladeshi citizens who had committed offences against humanity like killing, looting, arson and repression of women in 1971," said the law minister.

Shafique observed the Pakistan high commissioner in Dhaka violated the diplomatic norms by interfering into Bangladesh's internal affairs.On Thursday, newly appointed Pakistan High Commissioner Ashraf Qureshi said the issue of war criminals between Dhaka and Islamabad had been resolved in the year 1974 through signing a tripartite agreement among Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.

After meeting with Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at her office, the Pakistani diplomat said Islamabad maintains its earlier stand on the issue of war criminals. However, he said the war crime trial issue is absolutely Bangladesh's internal matter and he didn't want to comment on it.



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[ALOCHONA] FACES FOR THE FUTURE



FACES FOR THE FUTURE
 

Shayan

Shayan emerged in the music scene of the country with her debut album 'Shayaner Gaan' in 2008, standing out as one who sings to uphold a cause, not merely to entertain. With an educational background in psychology and law, she knew she would not live by bread alone. 'I exist because I sing,' she says. 'I want to sustain the strain of centuries-old Bangla music in my songs and add something new to it.' Keeping herself aloof from the media, she combined the politically enthused songs with a few romantic numbers in her second album 'Abar Takiye Dekh' in 2009. 'I give expression to my thoughts and emotions. Political consciousness is a very integral part of that.' She refuses to be labelled as a political or romantic singer or anything as such and is determined to take Bangla music to new heights.


Kazi Jesin

Among a host of television talk-show hosts, Kazi Jesin stands out for her unique style of confronting her guests, often politically powerful, with biting questions on sensitive issues of public importance. Her supplementary questions during a conversation speak of her strong command over the topics that she deals with - a quality not quite common among talk-show hosts in Bangladesh. 

Before she became a talk-show host, she had a career as a journalist, first as a news presenter and then as an investigative reporter for Ekushey TV. Soon she turned to hosting political talk-shows for TV channels in a bid to engage political leaders, and others, in dialogue to democratic accountability of the governors. 'Turning to talk-shows emanated from my commitment to journalism, from my urge to thwart the underlying ill-practices in certain fields,' she says.    

After 'Kalkatha' on Channel One and 'Tini' on Ekushey TV, Jesin is now hosting a popular talk-show - Point of Order - on Banglavision. 'The most significant feature of the programme lies in the transparency and accountability secured through direct interaction with viewers by phone calls, SMS and email,' Jesin says of the show.

Asking the right questions and thus trying to make the politically powerful quarters accountable to the people is not an easy task in an otherwise non-transparent society like ours. Jesin has received death threats, followed by packets of shroud, from undemocratic quarters more than once. Moreover, certain security agencies of the state are never tired of advising her on the do's and don'ts of electronic journalism! But nothing has so far been able to deter her from digging deeper into the burning issues - social, political and economic. And that is exactly what makes the young woman different from many others in the trade. 

Apart from her television career, she is also a poet with two poetry collections to her credit.

http://www.newagebd.com/2010/feb/18/heroes09/ff.html



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[ALOCHONA] Land officer assaulted



Land officer assaulted

BCL men are furious about refusal to build house on govt land

AC (Land) Mostafizur Rahman; he received serious head injuries in a Chhatra League attack at Kachua in Chandpur

Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League yesterday seriously injured the assistant commissioner (land) of Kachua upazila in Chandpur hitting him on the head with an iron rod as he obstructed them to build a brick house on government land.AC (Land) Md Mostafizur Rahman is now undergoing treatment at Kachua Hospital.

The BCL workers also ransacked files and papers including a computer during the attack yesterday evening at his room in the office of the Kachua upazila nirbahi officer. Mostafizur said he obstructed building a shop illegally on a piece of government land near Sonali Bank at Kachua Municipal Market yesterday evening.

After the incident, about 20 to 25 people led by Emran, Mamun and Awlad entered his room and attacked him. They also threatened to kill his wife and children.On information, Kachua UNO Nure Alam Siddiqui visited Mostafizur at the hospital.

BCL Kachua unit president Ahsan Habib Pranjal said he heard about the incident. He added Emran is the joint secretary of upazila unit BCL, but Mamun is an outsider.He however said Mamun has been seen with the Jubo League leaders and is the son of Idu, former member of Kadla Union Parishad.

Pranjal also said they informed the matter to local lawmaker Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir and district BCL president Zahidul Islam Roman. He said if anyone of BCL is found involved in the incident, they will be expelled from the organization.

Officer-in-Charge of Kachua police station confirmed the incident. He said the officials at the UNO office are preparing to file a complaint.Action will be taken against the attackers after the complaint is filed, he added.

 


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[ALOCHONA] Joy is not a Bangladeshi?




I am not if Joy is a Muslim or not? He married Christina, not sure she embraced his faith?

Joy is an American citizen and he pledge allegiance to US. and he pays tax to US govt. Recently he is accused to steal money from petro-bangla. Can we see his IRS tax paper?


--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Drunken driving, unlicensed gun and Joy
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com, "wideminds" <WideMinds@yahoogroups.com>, "dahuk" <dahuk@yahoogroups.com>, "delwar" <delwar98@hotmail.com>, "Md. Aminul Islam" <aminul_islam_raj@yahoo.com>, "Mo Assghar" <moassghar@yahoo.com>, "MBI Munshi" <mbimunshi@gmail.com>, "Md. Mostafa Kamal" <mmk3k@yahoo.com>, "Sonar Bangladesh" <sonarbangladesh@yahoogroups.com>, "Dr. Abid Bahar" <abidbahar@yahoo.com>, "Bangla Zindabad" <Bangladesh-Zindabad@yahoogroups.com>, "Isha Khan" <bd_mailer@yahoo.com>, "Badrul Islam" <badrul_islam2001@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 11:15 AM

HI PENIS  BOY KHUKER

HEIL  FASCIST  MOJIB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Robin Khundkar <rkhundkar@earthlink.net> wrote:
 

Dear Mr/Janab/Sri. "Hakka Hua" Alamgir

I am surprised you have not been nominated for Ekushey Padak yet. I am going have to call your Hasi Apu and your Khaleda Khala Amma and really chew them out for failing in their duties and ignoring such a personality like you. Probably too busy nurturing their progenies your borro bhaiyas Joy and Taru (Tareq) respectivey. chi chi chi! 

 

I think your services to extend the boundaries of the Bangla Language are selfless and beyond the call of duty. I mean look at the innovations you have done for modern Bongo Communications - Hakka Hua, Hasi Apu, Gaal Bhora Political Buli and so many others too numerous to name. Such innovation ekdom shanghatik!!!!

 

You are indeed a talented fellow! I sincerely believe you will become a Kobi guru offsetting that dead hindu fellow who embarrasingly occupies the current position in our literary scene

 

Robin Khundkar

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Faruque Alamgir
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Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Drunken driving, unlicensed gun and Joy

 

Friends

Hasi apu should award die hard BAL lovers the national Awards like " Shadhinata Padak" /"Ekushey Padak"/Mojib Padak/ BB Padak/ Bongo Mata Padak  bla  bla bla bla bla .

People considers "Chores as Chores" whosoever it is. It is the stupids who supports the chores either for blind support or must be a sharer of the booty.

Both Tareq n Joy are thieves to highest degree n betrayer to the cause of the teeming miilion for whom their mothers/uncles/dadas shed crocodiles tears.

Mr. Ejajur was correct by saying that JOY  n TAREQ are incomaprable in the "CHURI  CHAMARI"  business n amassing billions elsewhere keeping the populace starving(only eating Gaal Bhora Political Buli).

Unless we make honest judgement about the political criminals n throw them from our esteem we will remain the dark days as we are.

Faruque Alamgir

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:32 PM, ezajur <Ezajur@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Even if this was all true it is not necessarily that bad. Being drunk is not the end of the world - nor is carrying an unlicenced firearm. Bad enough to cost you plenty of votes in Bangladesh but its not enough ammo upon which to base an entire character assasination.

Anis, I think both Tareq and Joy are corrupt. But I think Tareq and Joy are incomparable - Tareq is infinitely worse thn Joy.

Would you agree with me?
Regards

Ezajur




--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Anis Ahmed" <anis.ahmed@...> wrote:
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> Thanks to Isha Khan for disseminating following article to us. Every Bangladeshi should read this. Anis Ahmed
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: Isha Khan
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> Drunken driving, unlicensed gun and Joy
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> Joy, son of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, has been arrested for drunken driving on several occasions, was in possession on an unlicensed gun and guilty of a host of other misdeeds
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> When Sajib Wazed Joy, son of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, returned to Bangladesh after many years abroad, the massive reception organized for him at the airport reflected his mother?s wish that he be her successor in politics. But was he cut out for the tough task of a political career? It doesn?t seem so. He seems quite happy with his cushy life in the United States, notwithstanding his several scrapes with the law and other shady tales.
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> Going back
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> Joy has hardly much childhood association with Bangladesh. His mother lived a life in exile since August 1975, spending a long asylum in India under the patronage of the Indian government. She would live at Basant Bahar, the safe house run by the agencies there.
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> As a result, Joy had his early education in India where he spent much of his formative years. They may have returned to Bangladesh in 1981, but there was a sense of isolation from normal family life for Joy. This was only to be expected, given his boarding school years, the intense political activities of his mother, all compounded with the estrangement of his parents.
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> Persons who knew him then say he was a rather reckless youth. Even later, he reportedly met with an accident in Gulshan in the mid-nineties, totaling the Pajero jeep of a businessman of Narayanganj. Rather than keeping him in Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina sent her son to the US for further studies. She perhaps felt that would give him some stability, a sense of responsibility.
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> Reckless driving
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> Life in the USA didn?t seem to change Joy much. That reckless trait in his character showed itself time and again. Records show several cases were filed against him. He has been charged on various occasions with drunken driving, speeding, reckless driving, unlawful use of radar detection device, and even carrying an unlicensed gun. He even had to spend time in jail for his misdemeanours, not to mention all the fines he had to pay too. If Hasina had political aspirations for him, she couldn?t have chosen a more unsuitable candidate.
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> As it is, he had a basically apolitical character. He disliked the gathering of poor people at home and expressed a distinct disinterest in politics. He often snubbed persons who, out of affection or simple curiousity, came to meet Sheikh Mujib?s grandson.
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> He continued his fast life in the US as he had no sense of belonging with Bangladesh, no affinity to his mother?s party and had no intention of living with his dysfunctional family at home. In was no secret that there was no love lost between Sheikh Hasina and husband Wazed Miah.
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> Clouds over love and marriage
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> During his mother's tenure as Bangladesh?s Prime Minister (1996-2001), Joy reportedly got engaged with an old girlfriend from his school days. She was an Indian girl of Sikh religion. Hasina, taking cover of an official visit, went to London to formalize the marriage. Along with the barat of close friends and relations, she even took along cooks of Dhaka?s famous Fakhruddin bawarchi. Her one condition was that the girl convert to Islam. The girl refused. Hasina was more than upset. She reportedly cancelled all programmes on that day. She shut herself up in her hotel room the whole day, refusing to talk to any one. She immediately returned to Dhaka. The marriage reception never took place, and her entourage, cooks and all, returned home without the taste of biriyani in their mouths.
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> Joy is presently married to American citizen Kristine Ann Overmire a.k.a. Kristine Wazed. They were married in the US on October 26, 2002. Kristine may have been previously married to a certain Richard D Loomis. There were rumours that Joy and Kristine were on the verge of a divorce, but if there had been a separation, things have apparently been patched up, perhaps with the birth of their child.
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> Informal entry into politics
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> Joy's arrival in Dhaka and grand reception by young cadres of the party at the airport, and the several subsequent meetings at Sudha Sadan, heralded his informal entry into politics. It is not clear how serious he actually was about politics. He may have just been out to impress his newly-wed American bride. Or he may have just been pacifying his mother who had big plans for her prodigal son.
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> It was clear that Sheikh Hasina wanted him to be her successor, but Sheikh Rehana had her reservations in this regard. This fact was brought home further by an article in the magazine Bichitra, owned by Hasina?s sister Sheikh Rehana. The article was vehemently opposed to the idea of Joy?s entrance into politics.
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> The matter of Joy?s political induction was made clear again by the visiting card he had printed. His designation was shown as Advisor to the Prime Minister. He would use the card in his meetings and dealings in the US.
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> Interestingly, after the grenade attack on August 21, 2004, Joy?s statement was published in the official Awami League website with special prominence. The website normally only carried news, analyses and statements of Sheikh Hasina. At times it would have statements of senior party leaders like Abdul Jalil or Zillur Rahman at the most. But then suddenly it began posting Joy?s statements prominently.
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> Power breeds money
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> When Awami League came to power and his mother became ruler of the country, Joy got involved in business. There was the Texas-based Infolink International (from November 1998 to March 2001) and Nova BD International, LLC (May 1998 to August 2000). He had links with the SEAMEWE-4 undersea cable project through Nova BD International. He was also involved with Tyco Communications (USA) along with a certain Mahboob Rahman.
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> He also founded two other companies, Wazed Consulting and Sim Global Services in March 2005. This was after Awami League was out of power. Interestingly, the annual sales of these two companies were only 61,000 dollars and 35,000 dollars respectively. Yet Joy, in his own name, bought a brand new house at 3817 Bell Manor Court, Falls Church, Virginia, on May 12, 2006, worth about one million dollars. His wife is not a co-owner of the house. He used a fixed-rate mortgage and paid only about 200 thousand dollars (20 percent of the value) in cash. This was a clever move as it hid the real value of the property in terms of cash.
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> Earlier, together with his wife, he brought another property at 4823 Martin Street, Alexandria, VA 22312. The property is worth 749,000 dollars.
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> Business, not as usual
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> Like Joy, his brother-in-law Khandkar M Hossain, husband of sister Saima Wazed Hossain (Putul), started a few businesses in the US when his mother-in-law Sheikh Hasina came to power, but dissolved them after a couple of years. These businesses included Bangladesh Metals and Pipes Trading Corporation; Shonali Inc; Doug?s Wholesale Inc; Afsana Inc; and Jampy Corporation.
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> Apparently business was not quite the cup of tea for either of them. However, despite none of the businesses seeming to make any money and most of them being shut down before long, no one has ever heard of them suffering from financial difficulties. Perhaps mother?s affection helped them in this regard.
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> A reluctant successor
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> It was more than apparent to senior and mid-level leaders of Awami League in the mid-nineties that Sheikh Hasina to all intentions and purposes was intent on grooming Joy as he successor. Sheikh Rehana, Sheikh Selim and other in the family were no comfortable with this.
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> The Awami League leaders were noting with alarm that the post-2001 scene witnesses a gradual infiltration of newcomers into the membership of Hasina?s kitchen cabinet. Kazi Zafrullah, Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Abul Hossain, Salman F Rahman and a number of former bureaucrats were gradually entering the hallowed circle of Hasina?s favoured ones, pushing the old-timer ?uncles? out of the way. Only Abdul Jalil and Zillur Rahman, together with half-baked politicians like Obaidul Kader, were allowed to come into prominence. Thanks to the pro-Awami League media who were friendly with the ?uncles?, the seniors managed to maintain some semblance of political visibility.
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> Sheikh Hasina is going through critical times. In all likelihood she will have to relinquish her leadership of Awami League. At this juncture, given South Asian political trends, it would have only been natural for Joy to step into his mother?s shoes. Now, however, that does not seem likely. His background and records hardly present him as leadership material, particularly when reforms are the call of the day. The party leaders will not accept him. After all, his propensity for joy rides seems to outweigh his penchant for politics.
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> Arrests and criminal charges
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> Criminal court clerk records identify the following criminal charges and arrests of Sajib Wazed Joy:
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> On June 14 1998, Joy was arrested in Tarrant County, Texas. He was charged on two counts of carrying an unlicensed handgun and one count of driving while intoxicated. He was convicted for drunken driving and was imprisoned for 120 days, sentenced to 24 months of probation and fined $500.
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> On February 6, 2000, Joy was charged with reckless driving and having a radar detector in Hanover County, Virginia. He was fined and incarcerated for one day.
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> On March 19, 2000, he was arrested and charged with reckless driving in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was found guilty and given a suspended 30-day jail sentence and 12 months probation along with a $400 fine.
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> On April 29, 2001, Joy was charged with speeding in Rappahannock County, Virginia.
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> On May 20, 2004, Joy was charged with speeding in Arlington County, Virginia.
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> Putul's property
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> Saima Wazed Hossain (Putul), Sheikh Hasina?s daughter and Joy?s younger sister, along with husband Khandakar Mahbub Hossain, own considerable property in the US. The houses they purchased there include:
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> 456 North Bay Point Way, Jacksonville, Florida. This is a single family residence purchased by Saima and husband Hossain on November 1, 2005 for $245,000 from Merrill and Priscilla King.
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> 845 York Way, Maitland, Florida. This is also a single family residence purchased by Saima and Hossain on October 16, 2004, for $311,000 from David and Elizabeth Cocchiarella. The property has an assessed value of $208,844.
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> 2065 W 119th Avenue, Miramar, Florida. This single family residence was purchased by Saima and Hossain on October 28, 1998 for $154,300 from Pulte Home Corporation. On March 15, 2005, a non-purchase money loan of $197,000, was obtained from SunTrust Bank secured with this property. The property has an assessed value of $265,440.
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