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Saturday, March 13, 2010

[ALOCHONA] It is not wise to blindly oppose India: Dipu Moni



It is not wise to blindly oppose India: Dipu Moni
 


Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni Saturday said it would not be wise for Bangladesh to shut in through blind opposition to India as Indian cooperation is needed for Bangladesh's own economic interests, reports UNB.
 
"It would be futile to keep ourselves shut in a closed door by blindly opposing India. For our own interest we need India," she said while speaking at a seminar on 'South Asia Regional Cooperation: Problems and Prospects' at the National Press Club.

The Foreign Minister deplored that out of security phobia Bangladesh was not linked with the information superhighway in the past, which has pushed the country 50 years back.She said if the opposition cooperates, Bangladesh's doors for bilateral and regional cooperation would open wider. She opposed the 'double standard' of pleasing India while in power and opposing while out of power. "On national issues, we will have to come out of petty party interest and work for the benefit of the people," the FM said, indicating a standoff on part of the main opposition party, BNP.

Organised by the Bazlur Rahman Foundation, the seminar was also addressed, among others, by former ambassadors CM Shafi Sami, Mostafa Faruq Mohammad and Mohammad Zamir, JSD president Hasanul Huq Inu MP, BNP leader Inam Ahmed Chowdhury, Editors Reaz Uddin Ahmed and Nurul Kabir, Mustafizur Rahman of CPD and BKMEA president Fazlul Huq.

Foundation chairman Khandaker Ibrahim Khaled chaired the seminar where journalist Jaglul A Chowdhury read out the keynote. Foundation's secretary-general, Kashem Humayun, made introductory remarks.

Agriculture Minister Motia Chowdhury was present. Dipu Moni said the Prime Minister's recent visit to India created an enabling atmosphere where bilateral ties would be strengthened. The visit would also help joint management of the waters of the common rivers.

She said though SAARC has not achieved substantial gains, but it has made certain progress. She mentioned the formation of SAARC Development Fund and South Asian Women University.The Foreign Minister said all SAARC windows of prosperity will have to be exploited. Not only with India, Bangladesh wants to work closely with all South Asian countries.

Most of the speakers mentioned a lack of confidence, and distrust, among the SAARC member-states that led to slow progress of the regional cooperation block.Former Foreign Secretary CM Shafi Sami said South Asia has common problems of hunger, poverty, natural calamity and it needs regional cooperation and consolidation of the inter-state relations to tackle the daunting problems.

He pointed out that inter-state trade has increased only to 4.7 per cent from 3.6 per cent in the last 10 years and implementation of SAFTA is being delayed. He suggested formulation of strategy so all member-countries could be economically benefited in a "win-win situation".

Shafi Sami stressed bilateral and regional cooperation in harnessing water resources and production of electricity. He thought if a big project in energy or water sector could be taken up under the umbrella of STARC, it would help remove distrust to a large extent.

JSD president Hasanul Huq Inu MP said the Prime Minister could take an initiative for joint security framework and management of water resources.

Reazuddin Ahmed noted that SAARC was born in suspicion from where the forum has not yet been able to come out. He strongly advocated for free movement of people, including media personnel, by easing visa regime among the SAARC countries. http://thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=94989


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[ALOCHONA] About a Minister, Bank MD and gunman



About a Minister, Bank MD and gunman
 
 
 
 
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Chatra League



 
At least 20 leaders and workers of Bangladesh Chhatra League were injured in a clash between rival factions during the organisation's district council last night.The council proceedings were suspended as the fighting began at around 8:00pm.

Around 20 bombs were exploded and numerous shots fired during the clash that lasted for an hour and a half, said witnesses.
Besides the BCL activists, Sharif Abdur Rakib, 50, former general secretary of district Awami League, was injured.Earlier, the voting began at around 7:30pm at Daratana AL office.

The gun battle broke out soon after the group backed by the upazila chairman brought out a procession claiming victory over the one backed by the local lawmaker, said the witnesses.The situation came under control with additional police and Rapid Action Battalion personnel being posted in and around the council venue.
 
 

 
Chhatra League activists on Saturday attacked admission-seekers and vandalised furniture and vehicles in New Government Degree College in Rajshahi to have students of their choice admitted to the institution.
   The activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the ruling Awami League's associate body of students, clashed with the police in which at least 10 were injured.
   Campus sources said the admission to bachelor's (honours) course was scheduled to begin in the college at 11:00am.
   Soon after the interview of admission seekers had begun, Chhatra League activists entered the campus in a procession and started vandalising the furniture and window panes and attacked and chased out admission-seekers. The attack suspended the admission process.
   Chhatra League activists then tried to have students of their choice admitted to the college after other admission-seekers had left the place and clashed with the police as the police stopped them from doing so.
   Chhatra League activists also went out of the college campus and started vandalising vehicles on the road and pelted the police personnel with stones.
   Chhatra League also tried to attack journalists when the journalists went to cover the incident.
   Police deployment was reinforced to control the situation. The police at the time arrested three Chhatra League activists — Nasir Uddin, Jahangir alias Kanak and Kamruzzaman Sarkar.
   The college authorities later resumed admission process sin police guards.
   The college principal, Professor Farida Sultana, told reporters that some outsiders had created problems in admission process and he termed it no big incident. 'Some outsiders created problems in the admission process. We resumed the admission process later.'
   Special Branch assistant police commissioner Tariqul Islam said Chhatra League activists had vandalised furniture and vehicles and attacked admission-seekers as they failed to have students admitted to the college on quota. The Chhatra League also attacked the police when the police stopped them.
   The Rajpara police officer-in-charge, Afzal Hossain, said the situation was now under control.
   Admission to the college closes today and police deployment has been reinforced to stave off any untoward incidents. Chhatra League activists also foiled the admission process in the college on Thursday with vandalism and attack on admission-seekers.
 


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[ALOCHONA] Sylhet border tense as Indian BSF digs bunkers inside Bangladesh



Sylhet border tense as Indian BSF digs bunkers inside Bangladesh

Even after the consensus reached by the border guards of the two neighbours after a border conference in New Delhi on the day, the BSF trespassed into the Bangladesh

Border in Sylhet remains tense although India�s Border Security Forces on Saturday agreed to quit the bunkers they dug trespassing into the Bangladesh territory Thursday night, hours after a consensus between the chiefs of the two border forces to keep peace in the frontiers.

Even after the consensus reached by the border guards of the two neighbours after a border conference in New Delhi on the day, the BSF trespassed into the Bangladesh territory, prompting the Bangladesh Rifles to take position in the area on Friday.

In reply to a question after the border talks, the BSF chief said most of the killings took place during the night. He admitted that one of the BSF soldiers lost his job, after trial, for illegally crossing into the Bangladesh territory. �Another has been booked for the same offence and an inquiry was going on,� he said.Villagers of Pratappur at Goainghat in Sylhet, meanwhile on Saturday, remained panicked as most of them were yet to return to their homesteads.

The border guards of the two countries held a flag meeting Saturday afternoon and the Indian side agreed to leave the bunkers they dug on Thursday night some 100m inside the Bangladesh territory along the Pratappur border at Goainghat in Sylhet, Bangladesh Rifles officials said.

The Border Security Force tried to occupy some land 200m inside the Bangladesh territory along the Pratappur border, known as Padua border on the Indian side, according to Bangladesh Rifles officials.

The Indian guards dug a dozen bunkers inside the Bangladesh territory and about 50 of them, equipped with heavy firearms, took position in the bunkers ignoring repeated BDR requests for them to leave the Bangladesh territory.

BDR soldiers late Thursday night also took position about 50m off the bunkers in the border to stop the Indians from occupying land in Bangladesh.The Bangladesh Rifles requested the Border Security Force several times between Thursday night and Friday to set at a flag meeting to discuss the matter.

The Indian guards on Saturday morning agreed to sit at a flag meeting, which later was held in the Pratappur border in the afternoon.Lieutenant Colonel Khandaker Zahirul Alam, commandant officer of the 21 Rifles Battalion, led the Bangladesh side to the meeting.

�In the face of strong protest, the BSF officials agreed to dismantle the bunkers and go back into their territory. They started going back into their country along with firearms and ammunition,� Zahirul Alam told New Age over telephone.

Zahirul�s counterpart Shekhar Gupta, commanding officer of the BSF 1, represented the Indian side in the flag meeting that continued for an hour and a half from 1:30pm at Pratappur in Goainghat on Saturday.

Zahirul said a stretch of 700m along the Padua border had already been in the possession of the Border Security Force for long. But the BSF officials at a flag meeting on September 29, 2009 had also put forth a demand for the Bangladesh Rifles to give another 200 metres of land in the same border.The BDR soldiers were kept on alert as the Indian guards were withdrawing.

The incident took place hours after a conference the same day between the two forces in New Delhi. The BDR director general, Major General Mainul Islam, and his counterpart, Raman Srivastava, led respective sides to the conference.

Srivastava reportedly admitted there had been some cases where BSF soldiers had crossed the border into the Bangladesh territory and strict action had been taken against them.

He hoped that the outcome of the conference would have �very good influence on Indo-Bangla relations.�The two chiefs reached a consensus in keeping peace in the frontiers, according to meeting sources.

The BDR soldiers took possession of 528 acres of Bangladesh land along the Padua border after a heavy fight with the Indian border guards in 2001, more than two decades after the land had been occupied by the Border Security Force.The Bangladesh Rifles, however, retreated from its position, leaving the land to the Border Security Force several hours after the land had been reclaimed.

The BSF soldiers abducted a Bangladeshi young man named Jalil Miah, a resident of Uttar Pratappur at Goainghat on Wednesday afternoon from the Pratappur border in Goainghat.

He returned on Thursday more than 18 hours inside his abduction after a camp commander-level flag meeting in the Pratappur border, BDR sources said.The BDR troops killed a 12-year-old Bangladeshi girl in the Roumari border in Kurigram in January.At least 17 Bangladeshis have so far been killed by the Indian border guards in 2009.

According to rights organisation Odhikar, which regularly monitors the human rights violation across the country and in border areas, at least 904 unarmed Bangladeshis have been killed in BSF firing in the borders since January 1, 2000.Of them, 789 were killed between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2008, 98 in 2009 and 17 between January 1, 2010 and March 3, 2010.

Besides, 869 were injured, 266 detained and 909 abducted; 184 went missing; and 14 women and girls were raped by the Indian guards between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2009. At least 70 incidents of looting by the Border Security Force also took place during the period.

On February 4, the Indian border guards abducted nayek Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh Rifles after injuring him with bullets from Bibir Haor at Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet. Nayek Mujibur Rahman was handed over to the Bangladesh Rifles after a flag meeting in the Tamabil frontier 10 hours after he had been kidnapped.

Three Bangladeshis were injured in BSF firing in the same place on February 14 and the Indian guards fired into Bangladeshi in the place on February 26 and 28.The killing and abduction of Bangladeshis and other offences committed by the BSF inside the Bangladesh territory along the borders go unabated despite repeated Indian assurance for ending such incidents.

The BSF chief on July 14, 2009 pledged to take action to stop �unnatural death along the porous Indo-Bangla borderThe BSF director general made the pledge at the end of a three-day conference in Dhaka where he also gave an assurance for action against Indian border guards for violation of human rights by killing Bangladeshis.

The issue was last discussed between the two neighbouring governments when the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, visited India in January.A joint communique, signed during the visit, said border forces of the two countries must �exercise restraint to prevent loss of lives in border areas.A Bangladeshi farmer was, however, tortured to death by the BSF the very day the communiqu� was signed, on January 12.
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[ALOCHONA] Indian Sub Continent Population since 1947

by S U Turkman
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POPULATION:  BRITISH INDIA 1947
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Directly ruled by British Empire = 198 million
Indirectly ruled Princely States    = 90 million
Indirectly ruled Moslim states     = 57 million
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Total                                              345 million
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 PAKISTAN on August 14, 1947
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32 million. 70% of them Bengalis but since Pakistan is a Mentally Re4tarded country by Birth according to her Astrological Natal Chart, Urdu was declared the National Language.
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PAKISTAN 1949
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Since Pakistan usurped 14 Independent States and NWF Province its population increased to 38 million from 32 million in 1947.  NWF Province, what is now called FATA and Baluchistan used to be a part of Afghanistan until early 1800's. NWF Province and FATA were  a part of Afghanistan, when Rajit Sindh had conquered them in 1834. Gwadur Area in Baluchistan, owned by Oman was usurped by Pakistan in 1958.
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PAKISTAN'S PRESENT POPULATION GROWTH RATE
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2.88% a year Growth Rate. Pakistan has 92 Females in her population compared to 100 Males despite that Females live longer than Males and 21 Females are born worldwide after every 20 Males. Pakistan's population was 20% Hindu but now they are 1.2%, Christians 2.5% Others including a Ahmadi Sect of Islam declared Non Moslims are 0.2% because of intolerance of Pakistanis and their Government against other religions.
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BANGLADESH
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East Pakistan's population was 22.4 million in 1947. Because of Pakistan's usurped 14 free States and other Territories, Bengalis were no more 70% of population of Pakistan in 1970. They were 56% of Pakistan's Population in East Pakistan. Population Growth Rate of East Pakistan or Bangladesh has been lower than formerly called West Pakistan or now Pakistan. Population Growth Rate  2.62% yearly. 95 Females to 100 Males ratio. Hindus used to 20% of population but now they are 10.5%, Christians 0.3%, Buddhists 0.6% and Others 0.3%. 95 Females in her population compared to 100 Males despite that Females live longer than Males and 21 Females are born worldwide after every 20 Males.
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INDIA
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India usurped more than 200 free Independent states and increased her population from 136 million to 310 million by 1949.  2009 Estimated population of 1.24 billion. China 1.33 billion. India would become the number one in population soon because in China, nobody is allowed to have more than one Child, when in India population Growth Rate remains 2.36% a year and China's is in Minus.
There are 47 million more Males in India than Females. The Biggest contributors to help this ratio are Sikhs, who have 40 Females to 100 Male Ratio, the next are Moslims. Moslims 13.4% of the population (the 3rd largest in the world), Zoroastrians and Bahais (Iranians) 8.1%, Christians 2.3%, Sikhs 1.9%, Buddhists 0.8% and Jain (a Sect of Buddhism, more Pacifist than normal Buddhists that started in what is now Pakistan) 0.4%. There are no Jains left in Lahore, even their Headquarter or their main Temple in Lahore, Pakistan has been demolished.
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POPULATION GROWTH COMPARISONS:

* When India's Population was 307 million, China's was 500 million but India's Population Growth has been a lot higher, when China actually has a Population Decline Rate, its reaching near China's. China's Policy of one Child per couple, would make India's the most populous country in 2012 or 2013.
* If US Population Growth Rate had been same as India's since 1776, US Population would be 4.17 billion in 2010 and if from 1950, it would have been 550 million.
* European Population Growth Rate is lower than USA. If European Population Growth Rate had been same as India's since 1776 it would be 10 billion now and if would not be self-sufficient in Food. It would have to depend on Asian part of Russia for Food.  If it had maintained India-like Growth Rate since 1950, Europe's population would be 2 billion instead of what it is now, 830 million. With that kind of population, Europe may not remain Food Exporting Country.
* If Agricultural Genetic Engineering had not created high yield Rice Plants in 1970's, Eastern Asia would have faced a lot of Starvation because Rice is its main Staple.
* There can not be a Food Shortage in the World  within next century because there are still a lot of un-utilized Agricultural Land left in the world to increase Food Production such as in Russia, Canada, , Australia, Brazil, Kazakhstan and many under-developed countries. 
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[ALOCHONA] Bangla concession on border fence



Bangla concession on border fence

 NEW DELHI, March 11 – In a major concession, Bangladesh may allow India to construct fences within 150 yards of the international border, an impasse that had stalled the fencing project in several critical points.

This was the indication that emerged at the end of the Director General level Border Coordination meeting that concluded here this morning. The 19-member Bangladesh delegation was led by Director General (BDR) Major General Mainul Islam, while the Indian delegation is headed by DG BSF, Raman Srivastava.

According to officials who took part in the meeting the two countries have arrived on an understanding that in some cases the BDR may even allow construction of fences at the Zero Point.

Officials said that the question of 'Zero line' is still pending, and it has been discussed during the Home Secretary level talks also. "On the Indian side there are some parts along the border left unfenced, we are taking action and it will be fence soon. And we have also decided to put flood light along the border for better observation and to prevent criminals from taking advantage of darkness," sources added.

Construction of fences within 150 yards of the border was a major sore point in relations between the two countries that has been pending resolution since long. In the face of stiff opposition, the Union Government had last week declared that it start construction beyond the 150 yards within its territory to check illegal migration.

Meanwhile, the two sides refrained from commenting on the detention of the ULFA leaders in Bangladesh. "There is no reason that Government of Bangladesh would go back on its policy of handing over anti-India insurgents," assured the DG of BDR. "Our Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, has declared that Bangladesh land will not be allowed to use for terrorist activities. We are implementing these words on ground," he said.

"We do have neither time nor resources, to harbour terrorists," Major General Islam added, replying to questions. "There are certain grey areas where the presence of the BDR is very low. We are in the process of modernizing the force and will increase our presence in the grey areas to ensure no terror group can operate from our land," he added. The BDR chief also reiterated that its soil would not be used for terrorist activities against any country.

The two chiefs were addressing a joint press conference, at the end of four-day-long BSF-BDR conference said they have agreed to prevent criminal elements from misusing dark patches of borders. "We have come across incidents of cattle smuggling, movement of people along the border especially during darkness. We have discussed the matter in detail in this meeting and action will be initiated," Srivastava said.

Commenting on cross border firing, Major General Mainul Islam said: "the countries should not be worried about such incidents. It's a matter of concern to both sides. We have discussed the matter and will ensure that no innocent people will be killed." "We have a history of movement of people and cattle trafficking during darkness, will ensure to limit such activities along border," he added.

Srivastava said the BSF would also ensure that no innocent is killed by firing. "We have no right to shoot and kill innocent people. We will ensure that such incidents do not to occur in the future," Srivastava said.

The two sides expressed concern at the incidents of killings of innocent civilians. Both sides agreed to ensure that no innocent civilians are killed and only criminals are targeted before their apprehension.

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