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Sunday, July 4, 2010

[ALOCHONA] Indian drug factories along Bangladesh border



Indian drug factories along Bangladesh border

http://www.sangbad.com.bd/?view=details&type=single&pub_no=410&menu_id=13&news_type_id=1&val=38164


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[ALOCHONA] Re: Law and order



Role of 2 AL MPs
 
আ ক ম মোজাম্মেল হক, জাহিদ আহসান রাসেল

http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2010-07-05/news/76138



 
On 7/4/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Gazipur locals run riot on rumour
 
Block highways, damage 200 vehicles
 
Agitators put barricade on Dhaka-Mymensingh road yesterday protesting against the Rajuk's satellite town project in Gazipur. The mob brought out procession and set fire to a factory. The project was later cancelled at the intervention of the prime minister.
 
 
Thousands of locals in Gazipur yesterday vandalised over 200 vehicles, torched a garment factory and barricaded roads for hours--all on rumours that Rajuk was acquiring land to build a satellite town.

Hundreds of vehicles bound for northern districts and greater Mymensingh were stranded for around four hours on Dhaka bypass and Dhaka-Mymensingh highway.

The situation began improving at around 5:30pm when local Awami League lawmaker AKM Mozammel Haque announced the government has cancelled Rajuk's "satellite town project comprising three unions in Gazipur and parts of Tongi". Addressing a rally at Bhogra, he said, "The prime minister has assured that her government will do nothing against public interest."

After the announcement, the demonstrators left the rally venue in victory processions. Contacted, a Rajuk official said they do not even have any project named Gazipur Satellite Town.

Kamal Uddin Talukder, Gazipur deputy commissioner, expressed frustration at the movement over the so-called project. He said the way people behaved over a rumour was unacceptable.

Traffic movement on Dhaka-Mymensingh and Dhaka-Tangail highways got back to normal at 7:00pm. The Bhogra rally was organised by "all-party action committee", demanding cancellation of "satellite town project".

Gachha, Bason and Pubail union parishad chairmen and local AL and BNP leaders spoke at the rally. Leaders of the committee said the "project", if implemented, would have affected houses of around 10,000 families and many mills and factories.

The local administration deployed four magistrates and a huge contingent of police to avert untoward incidents during the rally that began at 4:30pm.The law enforcers however could not do much as rumours flew around inciting people to violence.

Things spiralled out of control at around 3:30pm as thousands of locals wielding bamboo sticks and bricks went on the rampage along a seven-kilometre stretch on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway.They damaged vehicles and blockaded the road with burning tires.

Few of the stranded buses and cars had their glasses intact. Panicked, passengers got off their vehicles and ran for safety.To make matters worse, workers of garment and other factories in the area joined the demonstrators.

As workers of Rose Knitting at Dhaka Bypass Road crossing did not participate in the agitation, locals got locked into a clash with them. They ransacked the factory building and set fire to it, said eyewitnesses.

Police said at least 50 people including 12 cops were injured in the clashes.Gazipur Fire Service units doused the flames at the garment factory.Rafiqul Islam, deputy assistant director of fire service, said two tin-shed houses were gutted.

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=145279
 



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[ALOCHONA] Indians fire and injure ten Bangladeshis



Indians fire and injure ten Bangladeshis
 

The atrocities of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) are continuing unabated along the Bangladesh border causing deaths and injures to Bangladeshi citizens despite repeated protests.According to UNB News Agency, At least 10 Bangladeshi nationals were injured by bullet when Indians backed by BSF opened indiscriminate fire across the Jaintapur border on Sunday afternoon.

Of the injured, Kayes Ahmed, 16, Abdul Mannan, 30, and Kamal Ahmed, 24, were admitted to Osmani Medical College Hospital while others were undergoing treatment in Jaintapur Upazila Health Complex.

Following the incident, the angry villagers put up barricade in front of Shreepur BDR outpost on Sylhet-Tamabil road from 2 pm to 4 pm and tried to ransack the BDR camp accusing to protect the villagers.

According to the BDR source, at about 11 am Indian Khashias entered into Minatila and Kathalbari and started tilling the land. The villagers raised objection leading to chase and counter-chase, Finally, the Khasias retreated.

But again at about 2 pm about 25 Khashias, armed with guns and backed by BSF, entered the Bangladesh territory and began tilling the land. When Bangaldeshis tried to resist, the Khashias opened fires leaving 10 villagers wounded.

Clashes took place frequently over the disputed land in the area.

It may be recalled, there had been exchange of heavy gunfire between BDR and BSF on Sylhet border on June 15. On the last occasion BDR-BSF gunfire exchange took place on February 28 last.

According to UNB reports from Sylhet, BSF and BDR exchanged heavy gunfire in Jaintapur and Goainghat border in Sylhet on that day. The firing started at 12:45 pm when Indian farmers backed by BSF trespassed 200 yards into Bangladesh and started the cultivation at Noljhuri border. Firing extended to Tamabil and Protappur borders of Goainghat and Dibir Haor of Jaintapur border. The heavy exchange of firing continued till 2pm. No casualty was reported. Export and import through the Tamabil land port was closed because of gun firing. According to the villagers, both sides exchanged more than 1,000 fire bullets.

It was the fourth time in a month that the border skirmishes took place as Khasia tribe on the other side of the border in Meghalaya State deliberately crossed the border for fishing in Dibir Haor. BSF on February 4 intruded in the area and kidnapped a Nayek of BDR. He was however set free at a flag meeting, BSF regretting their action of illegal crossing of the border.

BDR said Indian nationals backed by BSF crossed the border for fishing in Dibir Haor. On resistance by the fishermen BSF opened fire. BDR returned the fire and the gunrunning continued for about three hours until 6pm. Earlier on February 22, a group of Indian intruders with direct support of the BSF trespassed into Bangla-desh territory on Bibirhaor border near Jayantapur in Sylhet, but went back in the face of strong protest by local people.

The trespassers entered two hundred years into Bangladesh territory in between Pillar No. 1284 and 1285 and caught fishes from a pond. The Indian citizens numbering about 100 were backed by heavily armed BSF troops and their presence made the local people panicky. However t he locals protested the intrusion strongly and ultimately all of the intruders returned to India.

According to Odhikar, BSF killed 35 Bangladeshis in last six months on the border.

http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=325260


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[ALOCHONA] Re: Uptrend in rice price worries people



Samakal: http://www.samakal.com.bd/details.php?news=13&action=main&option=single&news_id=76853&pub_no=387

On 6/29/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Uptrend in rice price worries people


Even after satisfactory harvest of Boro this year and stable supply chain, the prices of different varieties of rice remained high in the city's kitchen markets yesterday, said traders. The present stock of rice is satisfactory compared with the previous years, they said. But, the uptrend in rice price has caused concern to the commoners, as they strongly expected that the price of rice would have been decreased to a tolerable level.

The prices of different categories of rice shot up between Tk 2 and Tk 4 per kg for the last one-month in the city's markets, according to traders.

In the city's retail markets, per kg of coarse rice was sold between Tk 27 and Tk 28 in the previous months. But, it was now selling between Tk 30 and Tk 32 per kg.

Minicate was sold between Tk 42 and Tk 44. Nazirshail depending on quality was sold between Tk 42 and Tk 46. Paizam was sold between Tk 35 and Tk 36 yesterday.

During the first quarter part of the current year, the coarse variety of rice was sold between Tk 20 and Tk 24 per kg in the city's kitchen markets.The limited income people especially labourer class were benefited by the price. They are now hard hit by the coarse rice price.Earlier, the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management had introduced Open Market Sale (OMS) of rice to bring stability in the retail level price.

The shut down of OMS might have added price hike of rice especially coarse variety, according to market experts. They suggested Government to reintroduce OMS before the upcoming month of Ramzan.

Trades at Badamtali rice markets told The New Nation that a section of rice mill owners in the northern districts have stocked huge quantity of rice by taking bank loans. They alleged that the unscrupulous mill owners drastically reduced per day quantity of their rice sale to the retailers in recent days, trying to create an artificial price hike.

In the 2008-09 fiscal, the total demand of food in the country was 2 crore 67 lakh metric tonnes against the total production of 2 crore 83 metric tonnes.

The target food production during the current fiscal was earmarked 2 crore 90 lakh metric tonnes against the production of 3 crore 44 lakh metric tonnes, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

Presently, there are about 7 lakh metric tonnes of food stock in the government silo, said a source in the Directorate of Food yesterday. The government will take measures to ensure 'price stability' in the rice market by curbing 'machination of profit monger traders', said a highly placed source of the Ministry of Food.
 



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[ALOCHONA] 26 rare artifacts stolen, museum mum



26 rare artifacts stolen, museum mum
 
Dhaka, July 4 (bdnews24.com)-- At least 26 medals and coins of History and Classical Fine Arts Department under Gallery 21 of National Museum have been stolen.

The museum's deputy keeper Nure Nasrin, assistant keeper AKM Saifuzzaman and three security personnel have been temporarily suspended over the incident.

Museum secretary Alam Ara filed a case with Shahbagh Police Station on June 26 though the case did not specify when the theft took place.

On June 2, the museum filed a general diary with Shahbagh police citing that 26 artifacts have been stolen but then the GD also bore no date of occurrence.

Allegations are there that the museum is trying to maintain strict secrecy to hush it up.

When asked about the matter, security chief Sultan Mahmud and head of History and Classical Fine Arts Department Swapan Kumar Biswas pleaded their ignorance saying that they have been asked not to talk about the matter.

Museum's director general Prakash Chandra Das was not available at his office despite having an appointment with this correspondent.

Investigation officer of the case and Shahbagh police sub-inspector Abdur Rahim told bdnews24.com that investigation would end soon. He declined to elaborate in the interest of the investigation.

Rahim said no one has been arrested.

bdnews24.com understands that the museum has formed a three-member probe committee, which had been asked to report within seven working days.

In the report, the committee after watching an obscure and incomplete video footage of 2005 mentioned that the number of stolen medals and coins were about 26.

But they could not say the 'exact number'.

The History and Classical Fine Arts Department did not provide any relevant authentic information to the probe committee. On top of that, the report stated that the information was not available with the records of the security branch.

Sufi Mostafizur Rahman, professor of Department of Anthropology at Jahangirnagar University, told bdnews24.com, "The account of the museum's collection is usually kept at several places. There is no scope to say that it is missing. And in the case of the National Museum, it is unimaginable."

The probe report blamed deputy keeper Nure Nasrin, assistant keeper AKM Saifuzzaman for their negligence.

The bdnews24.com correspondent found that the Gallery 21 on the first floor had collection of coins dating back to 1985-1942 in its 3462 showcase but some niches were found empty.

There was evidence of coins having been deliberately removed from the niches.

Professor Rahman said, "All collections of museum are priceless. They cannot be purchased in exchange for money."

"Considering their importance, the museum's collections have to be properly preserved as the valuable treasures once lost cannot be regained," Rahman said.



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[ALOCHONA] Mr. Jinnah was not a Philanthropist or smart?



My comments are inserted below.


From: Syed Sadruddin Hussain <sydsadr@hotmail.com>

 
CREATION OF PAKISTAN AND QUAIDE AZAM;
 
Mr. Turkman: Let me remove some of your misunderstanding. Quaide Azam married the Parsi Lady, Ruti after converting her to Islam and she lies buried in a Muslim graveyard in Bombay.
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TURKMAN: Not really. He had either abducted her or she a, 16 years old girl had ran-away to him. Kidnapping Case was filed against about 20 years older Jinnah in a Bombay but it was thrown out because she had claimed she was not kidnapped. He had a Civil Marriage to avoid charges of having sex with a Minor. Years later, he had thrown a party to make Mollaas happy by announcing she had converted to Islam. SHRIYAH LAW does not permit a marriage first and conversion later, sorry.
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 His only daughter later became a Parsi and stayed back in Bombay in the ancestral house of grand parents besides Quaide Azam 's own house. Quade Azam and his sister were allotted the Flaq Staff House and Mohatta Palace in lieu of their left over big houses in Bombay and Delhi seized by the Indian government as evacuee property.
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TURKMAN: His wife had never converted in reality so after her death, her daughter had remained Parsi and she was raised by her mother's family. No Properties of Mr. Jinnah were ever seized by India. He had exchanged his Delhi Property with Mohatta Palace in Karachi but not his bigger Property, a huge Mansion in Bombay because he had wanted to live in it after he retired. That Mansion was given to Pakistan and Pak High Commission used to be in it. When, Pak India diplomatic relations had ended it was empty and when it was about to be nationalized, Mr. Jinnah's daughter had claimed it. I do not know, if she won that case or not.
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You are wrong to say that Quaide Azam ordered invasion of Kalat State. Actually this was done by Ayub Khan and Khan of Kalat was arrested due to his move for independence.
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TURKMAN:  ... Oh, I had no idea, Mr. Jinnah was already dead in 1948 and General Ayub was running Pakistan already. Please correct the history books, which say Ayub came in power on 27th October, 1958 ...! ... I think, you are confusing Qalat with Pakistan's invasion of Gwadur area, which used be a part of Oman and Ayub had ordered its take over. Was not Qalat independent even before Pakistan's formation? What authority Pakistan had to arrest owner of a neighboring Independent State that Pakistan had never gotten from British?
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The Quade Azam allowed the British set up of Baluchistan States Union to function consisting of princely states of Kalat, Lasbela, Kharan, Mekran and areas of Sirdars in Baluchistan till such time they are absorbed later. This system was abolished when one unit was formed in 1956.
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TURKMAN: How come India could not do the same with Pakistan and 'absorb' it? Were not similar 'British Arrangements' in Afghanistan, Eastern Iran, Oman and Yemen also? How come Pakistan did not 'absorb' them too?
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 FATA is actually a big tribal belt of Pushtoon people adjoining Afghanistan and formerly belonged to Afghanistan but later divided by the Durand Line and the Britishers had given them internal autonomy to manage their own affairs with a British Agent to overlook them.
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TURKMAN: But when had British given them to Pakistan? As British were leaving, all the Treaties they had made with their Puppet Afghan King had no legal status so actually not only FATA but also NWFP was a part of Afghanistan. Why had Pakistan usurped Afghanistan, where more than half of Afghans lived? Why Pakistan became an Occupier like the British were?
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 They are Good practicing Muslims and not Ismailis as misunderstood by Mr. Turk.
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TURKMAN: I had not said, all of them were Ismailis and you can not change that by your false propaganda here.
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 Quaide Azam also allowed them to enjoy their internal autonmomy. Hence there is no question of any invasion orders by Quaide Azam as misunderstood by Mr. Turk.
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TURKMAN: Oh sure, sure arresting of all heads of States of FATA, their Army and making Pak Army to run those states was 'giving them autonomy'. Who the hell are you trying to fool here? If this is what you call autonomy can I tell USA to arrest whole Pak Army and the President and let US Army rule Pakistan like Pakistan has been ruling FATA since 1948?
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The only Ismaili state in Pakistan is HUNZA in the the north which continues to function under Mir Of Hunza and has not been invaded or merged.
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TURKMAN: Then, why the original Mir of Haunza died in custody of Pakistan? If you think, its all appropriate, can I tell USA to appoint some grandson of Mr. Jinnah after making US Army start ruling Pakistan?
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 Bhawalpur state merged into Pakistan of its free will. The Partition formula itself allowed the princely states in the respective countries to merge themselves taking into consideration the population beliefs.
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TURKMAN: There was not such clause in Partition Formula so, you are lying. India and Pakistan both usurped states right and left. Son of owner of Bahawalpur state Brigadier Abbasi was told it was better to join Pakistan before its invaded and a lot of his Subjects are slaughtered. This is how, the most well run, the richest state of Bahawalpur was looted. Bahawalpur was the only state of India that had Free Education and Social Welfare system like in U.K.
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 After partition of India and creation of two states, the post of Viceroy was abolished and two Governor General posts were created and hence the question of Quaide Azam working under the Viceroy does not arise as misunderstood by Turkman.
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TURKMAN: Not really. Otherwise, Viceroy would have no authority to order Mr. Jinnah to stop invasion of Kashmir. Pakistan and India were declared a Protectorate of Great Britain, not Independent Republics. Great Britain gave permission to India to become a Republic in 1951 and Pakistan on 23rd, March, 1953 and this is why you are still celebrating Republic Day on every 23rd of March. On that date, for the first time Pak Governor General could call himself, President. Stop spreading your dis-information of Pak History, now ...! You wrote there were 2 Governor Generals created and this is a lie. Could you tell us name of India's Governor General if that was the case? How come no Governor General ever existed in India?
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 Quade Azam wanted to promote Urdu language with sincerety as it is a highly developed language and was an official language in Hyderabad Deccan.
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TURKMAN: English and Persian are also 'highly developed languages'. How come he did not want to 'promote' those? Oh, they were Foreign Languages but then was not Urdu a Foreign Language to 95% of Population of Pakistan that Mr. Jinnah had gotten from the British because it was not their Mother Tongue? Was not language of 70% of Pakistani of 14th August, 1947 Pakistan that Mr. Jinnah had legally gotten from the British was Bengali?
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 The Bengali did not like Urdu as they had their own language.
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TURKMAN: So, you mean Sindhis and Punjabis did not have 'their own language' or their language was Urdu. Who are you fooling here?
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So the protest was justified. It is correct to say that with the creation of Pakistan the left over Muslims of India who had participated in the freedom struggle for Pakistan, were left at the mercy of the Hindus. The doors of Pakistan are closed for them. Muslim visitors from India are always under police surveilance and harrasment to get bribes. The Muslim League had no concrete plan for the future of the left over large Indian Muslim population and their discrimination in India. That is why a large number of Muslim leaders and Ulemas also opposed the division of India. As for the domination of Punjab this is a fact. The Bengalis were not allowed big posts in the army, Navy and Airforce and as such there was never any C.in C. of Army, Air Marshal or Admiral what to speak of even the GOC of then East Pakistan was never a Bengali. The Baluchis are also indulging in secessionist tendencies because they think they are being colonised in the name of Islam. Moreover there can not be any ethnic Baluchi Admiral, Air Marshal or CinC of Army. The bureucracy, police, political set up etc. are also dominated by Punjab. Hence the anti Pakistani feelings continue among the ethnic Baluchis and also to a great extent among ethnic Sindhis. The solution lies in creation of more provinces on linguistic and cultural lines with full internal autonomy and fixation of quota in all federal services including armed forces to promote unity and brotherhood and end discrimination of all sort which is anti Islamic.       
 
Syed Sadruddin Hussain,
sydsadr@hotmail.com
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TURKMAN: I agree but why should crazy my Punjabi brother Wolves listen to you, when they have already developed Atomic Bomb to deter India from freeing 56% of Non Punjabi Pakistanis even if they revolt like East Pakistanis? Why should not they be slaughtered every time any of them rises against mighty Punjab? The Only Purpose of building the Bomb was just that otherwise, if India had wanted to usurp Pakistan, she would have made East Pakistan a part of India after 1971 surrender of Pak Army there and or would have ended the Rogue State of Pakistan right after she had built its Atom Bomb in 1974. Pakistanis have been kept united under threat of becoming 'Slaves of India' but Non Punjabi Pakistanis can clearly see, former East Pakistan is not a Slave of India. She is an independent country and has a lot less Law and Order problems than Pakistan. Tens of thousands of them are not being killed in bombings like they are being killed in Pakistan.


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Subject: RE: Mr. Jinnah was not a Philanthropist or smart?
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 14:07:34 -0400

 
   Asif  Ali Zardari  the  President  of  the  Islamic  Republic  Of  Pakistan  founded  by  Qaid e Azam  Muhammad  Ali  Jinnah  has   said  that  Jinnah  was  also  not  a   Graduate,  so  why  Jamshed  Dasti  cannot  be  elected?  Dasti  will  be  elected  by  the  people  of  his  costituency.
 
   If  known  to  any  one,  what  were  the  educational  qualifications  of  Mr. M.A.Jinnah?  Those  days  Birtishers  has  allowed  to  indians  that  after  Matric  they  may  go  to  UK  and obtain  a smaller  status  Law  Certificate   and  will  be  called  as  Barrister.
 
    Also  we  should  dig  out  personal  charectors   and  educational   back ground   of  Liaqat  Ali  Khan,  Abdul  Rab  Nishter, Ghaffar  Khan,  Khaja  Nazim  Uddin  etc   from  independent  sources   to  understand  their  respective  merit....Tariq Khan.



Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:38:52 -0700
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To the best of my knowledge the Bungalow at Clifton, Karachi, Mohatta Palace was not allotted to Mr. Jinnah. He had exchanged his property in Delhi for that. Flag Staff House was allotted to either him or Ms. Fatimah Jinnah.
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I think, Mr. Jinnah betrayed half of his followers, his own Ethnic People and an old Client besides other wrongs. Learn by reading the following:
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1. Married a Non Moslim in violation of Islamic Shriya Law.
2. Back-stabbed his former client Khan of Qalat (the ruler of Baluchistan) by ordering invasion of his independent state.
3. He betrayed his own Ethnic Ismaili Moslims by ending freedom of Ismaili independent states of what is now called (occupied) territory of FATA and those of his own people are still virtual Slaves of almost all Punjabi Pakistan Army there.
4. He ordered invasion of what is now called FATA.
5. He had ordered usurpation of tiny little independent states in Punjab.
6. He had abandoned more than half of his Urdu Speaking followers in what is now India (by letting their majority areas become a part of India), who had made Moslim League win Elections in a 100 to 300 mile belt spreading from East Punjab to Bengal.
7. As a Governor General under Viceroy of India, he had refused to give any friendly gestures to USSR, who's Charity of Aid was the 1st to arrive in Pakistan, though his was a Socialist, who had implemented certain reform that was prevalent only in Communist Countries.
8. He had foolishly declared Urdu as national language of Pakistan, when 70% of 'August 14, 1947 population of Pakistan' spoke Bengali. ... The Pakistan he had agreed to get from the Viceroy consisted of only Sindh, Moslim majority West Punjab (minus state of Bahawalpur, the region southeast of Multan, bordering India, now called 'Saraikistan' by the locals) and what is now Bangladesh, where 97% of people spoke Bengali.
9. By dividing Moslims of the Sub Continent in to Pakistanis and Indians, he had ended 900 year old Moslim Rule of the Sub Continent by dividing Moslims, when they were already accepted as Coalition Partners of Congress Government of India in 1945 because they were 1/3rd of the population of undivided India. ... May be God had wanted to free Hindus completely from 900 year long Moslim Rule of India.
10. Moslim League would have been part of every Coalition 'Government of India' even if her legal status of 'Coalition Partner' was later revoked because none of Hindu-dominated Political Parties were going to have a majority later because of Moslim League's strong presence in un-divided India but Mr. Jinnah was not far-sighted enough to think that far ahead. 
11. He had refused to listen to Moslim Thinkers, who had told him that having a Pakistan with most of her land (Punjab) located in a lot less educated part of 'Cantonment India' of British Indian Empire would not be a good idea.
 
Apart from # 9 above, Mr. Jinnah was told that there are 2 parts of British Indian Empire. Below 30 degrees parallel was 'Civilized India' that was a lot more educated and easy to rule. North of that was 'Cantonment India', where people were not that educated and civilized. Those people were always ruled by British 'dunDaa' or heavy-handed rule because nothing else worked there. He was told, that area was used by the British to recruit almost whole Indian British Army that had loyally fought war against our revolt in 1857 and then later WW I and WW II for the British. He was informed that Military could take over that kind of Pakistan and Pakistan would not remain, what he wishes but he had refused to listen to those Moslim Theoreticians. Look at Pakistan of today ...!
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Those Theoreticians have proven right and he has been proven wrong because Pakistan is a failed state now. 70% of her Birth Population had revolted against Pakistan 24 years later and calls itself Bangaladeshis now. 56% of present Pakistan's Non Punjabi population of Pakistan is tired of being run by Punjabis (44% population of present Pakistan according to Pak Census Bureau), who were never in favor of formation of Pakistan to start with. (In 1944, Punjab Assembly had passed Resolution against Pakistan Movement and had told the Viceroy Mr. Jinnah is not their Representative).
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Mr. Jinnah's 2nd wife was a Parsi (Zoroastrian), Khan of Qalat that he betrayed was his old client from the days, when was a Lawyer in Bombay and rulers of independent states in what is FATA now, used to be his Fans but all of them had to die in jails or House Arrest in Pakistan later. Descendants of his best Followers or his Pakistan Movement Soldiers ended up getting slaughtered by Mr. Jinnah's Pakistan in huge numbers. Present Pakistan is an upside-down country or shall we call her a "Comedy or Errors"? 
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S U Turkman


From: Ashfaq ahmed <ashfaq_37@hotmail.com>

Quaid-e-Azam was a great leader of this Sub- Continent.you should be careful while passing such negative remarks.One should not be miser in acknowledging his great services for the Muslims.He was honest to such extent that he used to exercise utmost care for expenditure on his personal life.Was this act of transfer of property to Aligarh University not sufficient to negate your remarks about his greatness? Please have a heart to acknowledge his love for Muslims that too for Indian muslims.
Regards
ASHFAQ AHMED   

From: tariqkhanteekay@hotmail.com

 
  Barrister  M.A.Jinnah  was  not  a  Philanthropist.    Immediately    after  assuming  power in  Pakistan  he  got  allotted  the  prime  properties  of  Karachi  known  as  Mohatta  Palace [Clifton]  and  Flag  Staff  House  [opposite  Hotel  Metropole]  plus  hundreds  of  acres  of  land  in  Mali.
 
  Details  are  required  of  the  Will,  you  have  mentioned.  He was  a  miser  man   and  use  to  check  the  grocery  prices  every day   himself.  There  are  many   printed   stories  of  his  miser   nature.  One  story   says  while  he  was  in  the sick  bed  in  Ziarat  his  Doctor  purchased  a  pair of  woollen   socks.  He  asked  the  price.  Answer  was  Rs. Two.  He  got  angry  and  said it  is  too  expensive  and  ordered   that  the  socks  be  returned.    More  money  was  spent  to  return  the  socks  purchased  in  Quetta....tariq khan.
 

From: sydsadr@hotmail.com

 
The aims and objects of Aghaz Foundation deserve consideration by our philonthrophists. The Quaide Azam left a will for transfer of crores of rupees to Aligarh University out of his estate. But some vested interest prevented it from going to Aligarh University and they illegally obtained some court confirmation to start a Quaide Azam Scholarship Fund for Pakistani students. This fund continues to be misused and the Aligarh university should consider to file a case in an international court or make a representation to our government to honour the Quaide's will. This huge funds can also be utilised for Aghaz Foundatiobns and other deserving organisation for the benefit and uplift of Indian Muslims.
 Syed Sadruddin Hussain

From: tariqkhanteekay@hotmail.com

   Glad  to  learn  about  Aaghaz  Foundation.  Request   please  contact  Ahamed  Saeed  Malihabadi,  Member  Lok Sabha, Dhali,  Tel. 98 681 816 89  and  Professor   Dr. Khan  Atif  of  Lucknow  University, Cell 933 595 3133.  You  may  give  my  reference.  I  would  appreciate   a  kind  of  feed  back.
 
    I  would  like  to  have  further  details  and  references  about  the  Foundation.  Awaiting  the  details. Regards....Tariq  Kha/ Toronto.
 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:42:51 +0400
Subject: Invite for June 27 meeting
From: aaghaz.foundation@gmail.com


We take this opportunity to invite you to an important meeting in Lucknow on Sunday, June 27, to discuss a very important educational project. If you happen to be in Lucknow, please do come over. Your participation is of critical importance to us.
 
WHERE: Hotel Ellora, Opposite Bhopal House, Hazratganj Lucknow
WHEN:   Sunday, June 27, 4pm onwards
If you have any queries, don't hesitate to mail back or call us at any of the following numbers
Tel: 98391 91045, 94150 16831, 9415016152, 94157 87009, 93359 84936 and 97150 2428107 in the UAE
 
AGENDA: In association with the Aligarh Forum, Aaghaz is all set to launch a state-of-the-art Guidance-Counselling Coaching Centre in Lucknow for minority students who want to compete in professional exams.
Our partner in this endeavor is IMEFNA* (Indian Muslim Education Foundation of North America), which has financed 50 per cent of the cost of the project. The other half has been raised through contributions made by individuals.
 
We are shortlisting people who could be part of this huge initiative in various capacities. If you want to be a part of it, please join us. Your involvement/ feedback/suggestion is critical for the success of this programme
 
 
ROUGH SKETCH OF THE CENTRE:
1.LOCATION: Centrally-located place in Lucknow on rent, not exceeding Rs 10,000 per month:
2. EQUIPMENT: The centre will have 10 computers, photo-copier, fax machine and an air conditioner
3. BOOKS: It will stack 1,000 text books/ competitions/ guides/manuals/news/magazines/journals/current issues etc.
4. STAFF: We need at least 5 experienced teachers (Salary Rs 15,000-Rs 20,000 pm) to coach at least 50-60 highly-competent students, who will be selected through a test. A Governing/Supervisory Body comprising of educators/ administrators, civil servants, doctors, engineers etc will supervise the functioning of the Centre along with Aaghaz.
If you want to be part of this Governing Body (unpaid) please let us know. Suggestions are also invited for qualified, sincere and experienced teachers. They may not necessarily be Muslims.
 
5. DIRECTOR/ADMINISTRATOR
We are also looking for a salaried administrator/director, to run the Centre. It goes without saying that the person has to have a managerial/academic background. He may not necessarily be a Muslim. Those interested could mail their resume to aaghaz.foundation@gmail.com
 
 
A WORD ABOUT AAGHAZ: A registered non-profit organisation, Aaghaz Foundation uses education as a tool to bring about socio-economic reforms among underprivileged Muslims. Over the past six years,  Aaghaz has  helped thousands of poor, but  academically-talented students. Unable to afford their school  fees, many of these students would have otherwise been forced to drop out. Alongside its immensely succesful scholarship programme, Aaghaz, in association with the Aligarh Forum, also runs two other successful projects in Lucknow -- Feeder Programme at the Grassroots and a Free Coaching Centre for poor Muslim students in grades IX-XII.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to mail as at aaghaz.foundation@gmail.com or get in touch with our members at the numbers given below
 
for aaghaz foundation: Established 2004
Literacy initiative for Indian Muslims
Visit www.aaghazfoundation.org to learn more about us and forward this mail to all like-minded people.
Email: aaghaz.foundation@gmail.com
If you have any queries, don't hesitate to mail back or call us at any of the following numbers
Tel: 98391 91045, 94150 16831, 9415016152, 94157 87009, 93359 84936 and 97150 2428107 in the UAE



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[ALOCHONA] Interlinking Rivers -The Millennial Folly



Interlinking Rivers -The Millennial Folly
 
By Shailendra Nath Ghosh
 
The Vajpayee government's resolve to link up all major rivers of the country, if acted upon, will go down in history as the millennial folly. This is because it defies all ecological, politico-economic and human cost considerations and its dimensions are unprecedentedly massive. Nowhere in the world has there ever been a project of this magnitude and complexity.
 
The prime minister and the parliamentarians who greeted his announcement with eclat probably think that if there can be a network of roadways, why not a network of rivers as well. This reflects lack of thinking about the characteristics of the country's basic resources – soils, rivers, estuaries, mountains and forests and the peculiarities of the climatic conditions as also their interactions.
 
No doubt, Sir Arthur Cotton, who had originally conceived the idea of networking the rivers for inland navigation and K.L. Rao, who revived the idea in the eighties for purposes of irrigation and power, were both world-class engineers. But engineers often fail to perceive the wider issues involved.
 
Before coming to a decision, the government ought to have addressed itself to a few crucial questions: Which are the water-surplus areas of the country? Except for the Brahmaputra basin in North East India, is there any area which is really water surplus? Do not the Ganga water-fed states, which get flooded during the rainy season, suffer from water scarcity during the dry season? What are the basic reasons for the alternating phenomena of flooding and scarcity?
 
How correct is the prevailing concept of irrigation? Except paddy and sugarcane, is any other crop high in water demand? Do not the other crops require just moisture, as distinct from flow irrigation? Is not irrigation, beyond the very frugal, ruinous to soil? Is the practice of cultivating rice after rice in the same year not an invitation to long term salinity and barrenness?
 
Neither Karnataka, nor Tamil Nadu, nor Andhra Pradesh are so deficient in rainfall as Rajasthan or Gujarat. Nevertheless, why is the demand for importing water from another region more vociferous there? Is it not due to the cropping patterns of their large landholders whose only concern is money profits at the cost of the health of their soils? Since the drought affected state of Rajasthan will not be a beneficiary of the link-up, will it have to be treated as a hopeless case? Have we cared to assess the impact of flow irrigation from the Indira Gandhi Canal on the soils of Rajasthan? Although we take pride in the green it has produced, are we not simultaneously experiencing an increase in salinity in this arid region's soils which will hurt us for centuries to come?
 
While we talk of linking up all major rivers, how will we link up the Brahmaputra with the Ganga in the face of Bangladesh's refusal to allow the digging of a link canal through its territory? If we want to achieve the link-up of these two mighty rivers only through India's territorial space, what are the formidable technological challenges involved and their cost implications? Have not East Bihar and West Bengal been complaining about insufficient water supply from the Ganga? Will not this project aggravate their sense of grievance and accentuate inter-state conflicts? Will not Bangladesh, a riparian state, take the issue of attenuated supply to the international fora? Can we unilaterally abrogate the India-Bangladesh Treaty of December 1996 on the sharing of Ganga waters, under which India had undertaken to protect the flows at Farakka, which is the sharing point?
 
Will not the networking mean a flow of pollutants from higher gradients to cause distress to lower levels?
Have there been such spells of successive four or five years of drought in peninsular India that the problem cannot be faced without importing the glacial waters of the Himalaya? And, if this is indeed the case, how will they and the rest of India face the situation in future, in the context of the now receding snowlines of the Himalaya?
 
The government has for long been talking about basin-wise development programmes. Does not this scheme conflict with that approach? While the country is now tending to accept the concept of local jal swaraj – the concept that decentralised methods of water harvesting can meet all legitimate water demands – does not this grandiose scheme directly militate against the new awareness?
 
There are yet deeper questions. Sadly, neither the Union government nor any state government provides any indication of having addressed even the above obvious questions. And our populist politicos in the different states have developed a peculiar mindset. They think their job is to get more and more water from wherever they can to enable its use by the locals for immediate gain whatever the longterm consequences. That over-irrigation condemned Mesopotamia in West Asia, once the cradle of civilization, to barrenness for the last three thousand years, does not deter them. Few care to remember that the districts of Layalpur, Montgomery and Sargoda (now in Pakistan), which were, half a century back, the showpieces of irrigation-induced prosperity, are now suffering from low productivity and having to fight the scourge of salinity.
 
In our own country, the water-logging and soil salinity that we have been experiencing in the Bhakra canal command area in Punjab and in the Sardar Sahayak canal command area in U.P. tell the same story. (These are the sad facts which Justice B.N. Kirpal missed in the judgment in the Sardar Sarovar Dam height case, where he waxed eloquent on Punjab's irrigation induced prosperity.) Some years back, the FAO estimated that nearly 50 per cent of the world's irrigated areas had become saline. But the internationally recognised authority and highly respected soil scientist, Professor Kovda, who passed away a decade back, had placed the estimate at 80 per cent. The estimates varied because of the nature of irrigation under observation (flow irrigation, or tubewell or borewell irrigation) and the duration of the observation.
 
Deeper questions of ecology always get bypassed in our country. We rarely try to fathom the various functions of a river – that its functions are (i) to carry the salts and toxins from the basin to the sea; (ii) to supply sweet water to the estuaries so that the intermingling of sweet and salt water may cause a welling up to celebrate the emergence of new lives by invigorating the reproduction spree of aquatic animals – fish, sea fowls, crabs, oysters etc; (iii) to maintain the hydrologic cycle; (iv) to carry detritus to the oceanic phytoplanktons to enable them to release the major portion of the globe's oxygen to support aerobic life. We can impede these functions only at our peril.
 
Also the fact needs to be grasped that each river's water properties are different from those of every other river, depending on the characteristics of its source, its catchment area and the basin as a whole. The difference of water properties lies not only in their hardness or softness but also mineral content, extent of aeration, transparency, electro-chemical properties, and healing power. On these distinctive properties depend the kind of aquatic species they nurture, the varieties of insects and birds that hover over their water surface and nestle on their banks.
 
The hilsa fish that the Ganga water helps spawn is peculiarly its own. Dolphins are seen in only a few rivers – that too, of differing varieties. The differences in varieties of birds and insects river-wise are also considerable. This biodiversity is important. What value which underwater or abovewater species has for maintaining the web of life or for mankind's own welfare, nobody knows. Limited study has been done on these aspects, river-segment-wise. In the USA, when the large Tellico Dam was nearing completion, despite colossal expenditure, the courts ordered the abandonment of the project simply because the river was home to the small dart fish not present anywhere else. If our major rivers are interconnected, many species of life will disappear and many varieties within each species of fish, molluscs, insects, birds and other animals will become extinct. The loss will be irretrievable.
 
Let us now take a look at some already revealed aspects. R.K. Murthy, a retired engineer of the Neyvelli Lignite Corporation, has revealed that during Indira Gandhi's time the project was seriously discussed and given up because of formidable geographic-technological hurdles and mind-boggling costs.
'At Patna, which is the only point along the course with a divertible surplus, the Ganga flows 200 ft. above the mean sea level (MSL). If it has to be linked with any river in the peninsula, the water has to be raised over the Vindhyan chain – i.e. to 2860 ft. above MSL. Pumping 20,000 cusecs of water to that height would have required the entire day's power generated in the country at that time.' The requirement was estimated at 90,000 MW of electric power.
 
Assuming that the scheme has now been so modified that instead of lifting the water over the Vindhyan heights the waterway is lengthened to circumnavigate the mountain ranges, even then the costs will be unbearably high. Reportedly, the rough figure that was mentioned before the Supreme Court is a mind-boggling Rs 5,60,000 crore. No agency anywhere in the world would even look at this project for funding.
The modified plan which seeks to get Brahmaputra water for the Ganga from Manas in Arunachal Pradesh and to redirect the flow of the Ganga-Mahanadi link from the West/North East to South East (by gravity) and South of the mountains, and the flow of the Mahanadi-Godavari link from the East to South-West/South (by gravity) may look nice on paper. One has to exclaim in Shakespearean language, 'There are many things in heaven and earth, Mr River-Diversion Engineer, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'
 
These engineers would be advised to remember the fate of the erstwhile Soviet Union's plan to divert the snowmelts of Siberian rivers to feed the rivers of Central Asian republics. The experiment failed miserably as salt water incursion and other forms of ecological disaster occurred wherever the canal came up and the scheme had to be abandoned in the 1980s. The experience in California (USA) of interlinking two rivers, too, proved deleterious. It caused huge salt build-up. Besides, by preventing the water from reaching the ocean, it seriously affected coastal ecology.
 
Let us suppose for a moment that despite the enormous risks, the country decides to take up the interlinking project. The cost in terms of human displacement will, in that case, be terrible. In the words of C. Rammanohar Reddy: 'The construction of barrages and excavation of thousands of kilometres of canals will make villages disappear, flood towns, and cut through millions of hectares of agricultural lands. It will uproot millions, the number exceeding the population shifts of Partition.'
 
There is yet another kind of cost. Many rivers have already become open sewers. In the new set-up, pollution control will be even more difficult. Hence larger segments of many more rivers will turn into drains.
Evidently, the inter-state conflict over Cauvery water has revived interest in the interlinking project. But the conflict was caused by the twin evils of unsound cropping practices and the disuse of traditional and highly efficacious rain water harvesting systems. The large landholders of the Thanjavur delta in Tamil Nadu keep insisting on three crops of water intensive paddy for short term commercial gains. In Karnataka, the farmers of Mandya have been cultivating sugarcane, a water intensive cash crop, in the name of protecting their agricultural right.
 
These practices are comparable to the other distortion – namely, the cultivation of paddy, the highest water-demanding crop, in the scanty rainfall area of Punjab, and the cultivation of sugarcane on a large scale in Maharashtra. Before our very eyes, India's fertile soils are marching towards salination. The Union and the state governments are presiding over this march towards ruination. Now, they are going further ahead into succumbing to the myopic large farmers' demand for connecting the rivers so that the latter can grow more cash crops unsuited to their soils. Somebody will have to write a new Mahabharata of our blind kings acquiescing in the conversion of this once fertile country into a vast wasteland.
 
I.C. Mahapatra, a noted agronomist, has suggested an alternative crop pattern for Karnataka and Tamil Nadu requiring minimal water. It will save their soil and possibly yield them higher income as well as create a better nutritional status for the people.
 
'In non-irrigated (rainfed) areas, Karnataka can go in for ragi, jowar, bajra, horsegram, redgram, groundnut, castor and coconut. In irrigated conditions, it can choose from sugarcane, maize, brinjal, chillies, mulberry, tomato, potato, turmeric, ginger, grapes, banana and betel. In Tamil Nadu, 62 per cent of the river basin grows rice thrice – kuruvai, thaladi, and samba. Our study shows that a single crop of samba variety will give far higher yield than thaladi or kuruvai crops. Apart from rice, the state should opt for ragi, groundnut, sesame, castor, blackgram, greengram, sugarcane and cotton.' (Down to Earth, 15 November 2002).
 
There is no point in engaging in grandiose projects inviting bankruptcy while continuing to kill the preexisting rainwater harvesting structures whose efficacy was acknowledged the highest in the world. Today, in Karnataka, 'at least 11,000 traditional water harvesting structures such as tanks and ponds have silted up and dried, as the local farming communities, which maintained and used them, have stopped doing so.' In Tamil Nadu, there had been wonderful 'Eries' in large numbers whose efficiency were the marvels of the world's experts. These are now suffering neglect. Besides, Tamil Nadu has been destroying the potential of some of its rivers by sand quarrying. The sorry spectacle of the Qoom river running as an open sewer in the city of Chennai itself shows how it has been taking care of its own water resources.
 
Whether in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka or Kutch, there is no need for a big project for water. According to India's eminent meteorologist, P.R. Pisharoty, who passed away three months back, 'If the rainfall over the area is merely 50 cm per year, then all the water requirements can be met by local rainwater harvesting techniques.'
A number of recent experiments in the arid zones of Rajasthan and several other states have conclusively proved that local water harvesting techniques can meet all legitimate needs. But big project oriented engineers tend to play down their potential. They seem to have succeeded in brainwashing the present rulers. The 'Link the Rivers' project is virtual repudiation of the decentralised water harvesting technologies. It is also the denial of the potential of percolation tanks which, if resurrected, can help cope with successive years of drought by preserving water in the underground, in evaporation-free condition. It is also a disavowal of the government's own advocacy hitherto for conjunctive storage of water. Plainly, this is surrender to the clamour of large landholders who seek to cultivate a series of high water demanding crops to the detriment of their soils, in their short term interest of money profits.
 
The fundamental problem of India's water resource is the Himalayan snow fed rivers' rate of siltation, which is highest in the world. Because of this the raised beds of the rivers are unable to hold enough water. This maximises the wasteful runoff to the sea, causes floods during the rains and water shortage during the dry season. The primary task, therefore, is to desilt and deepen the rivers, re-excavate the canals, reforest the Himalaya and all other mountain ranges and hills, and reforest both sides of the banks from their source to the deltas. These basic tasks will get sidetracked by the grandiose project of linking up the rivers.
 
The government must first study (i) which crops are suitable – or otherwise – for specific climatic conditions; (ii) which combination of crops, including coarse cereals, pulses and oilseeds, is most suitable for nutritional needs; and (iii) which kind of irrigation and/or drainage is suitable thereof.
 
While noise is being made about great navigation opportunities to be provided by the inland water grid, not even the first step has been taken for encouraging large-scale boat movement in the existing inland waterways to carry cargo. The water-driven crafts are known to be the cheapest mode of transportation. Sane thinking will also suggest that oil slick spreading vessels ought not to be permitted in the inland waterways in the interest of maintaining purity of water and preserving aquatic life.
 
So far as the lure of electricity is concerned, the first thing that needs to be laid down is that electricity supply for the burgeoning industries or landed estates is counterproductive unless foolproof measures are first taken to see that no untreated or half-treated effluents/sludge is unloaded in the rivers. For these are the agencies which have been converting the rivers into open sewers.
 
In view of the ecological, economic and human costs and the likely negative consequences of the project, as narrated above, the government would be well advised to retreat from this Tughlaqian project. And the Supreme Court, in its wisdom, may possibly review its own order, suo motu, in the country's interest.
 


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RE: [ALOCHONA] BONDE MATAROM GROUP Staged "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" drama in Dhaka



Muslims are obligated to follow the teaching of the Quran and the Sunnah. No one is obligated to wear Arab dress. People do that for the love of the Prophet (SWS). The Prophet (SWS) never asked his followers to wear what he wore. Islam is a universal way of life (Deen) for all people for all times.
 
Kissing the black sone is desired by the Muslims because the Prophet (SWS) did that. Umar (RA), the second Khalifa of Islam, explained this vey clearly when he looked at the blackstone and said that it was a stone he would not bother to kiss this if he did not see the Prophet do this. No one is obligated to kiss or touch the black stone. Actually it is almost impossible to touch the blackstone these days becuase of the crowds. 
 
This is not the same as worshipping some thing else. Worshipping any entity other than the Almighy Allah is outside the scope of Islam. Thinking of bringing the two on the same platform of discussion says a lot about the author.
 
Aziz Huq

 


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From: akbar_50@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:58:37 +0000
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] BONDE MATAROM GROUP Staged "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" drama in Dhaka

 

Very well said Mr. Islam,

 

To understand Farida Majid you have to travel a long way from the 7th century Arabia to India, the land where our forefathers were born and raised. Your culture, food, language and your features are all Indian but you love to think to be an Arab. Your motherland's praise makes you hateful but you love to kiss the hand of a Saudi mullah. Joy Bangla is a Hindu word to you but Zindabad makes you happy. Your mother tongue smells infidel to you but an Arabic word takes you to the heavens. What a miserable ignorance, what a mean interpretation? What a narrow understanding?

 

 A few weeks before I met an Indian Muslim man in full Saudi dress. I asked him if he was an Arab. He said no' but this is my Islamic dress. I reminded him that Muhammad's sworn enemies such as Abu Zahel also wore the same dress as Muhammad but to you why this dress has become so holly? He declined to answer because a fool can't understand logic. Once I told a Muslim friend of mine that worshipping the Shiva Linga and kissing the Black stone in the house of Kaba is nothing different. He could not gather any logic to answer me. I will advise people like you to be generous in your perceptions and view thing in a wider perspective.

 

If you have the courage to respond to my comments come on but do not ignore me by taking me as an enemy of Islam. Ignorance and dogmatism are the most powerful and potent enemies of Islam, it's not me or Farida Majid.

 

Akbar Hussain

 




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From: aminul_islam_raj@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:05:26 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] BONDE MATAROM GROUP Staged "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" drama in Dhaka

 

Dear All,
I am familiar with the name of one farida majid. I went through many of her postings.She said that "Bonde Matarom is not a comunal Slogan.But it is clear that she is hard core anti muslim.
This Farida majid and his like minded people staged a  "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism"  drama in Dhaka
 
Attorney William Sloan, a foreign delegate, addresses the International Conference on Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism at the Osmani Memorial Hall in the capital yesterday. Speakers at the conference urged international community for extending support to the process that Bangladesh government has initiated to try the war criminals. Photo: Shawkat JamilStaff Correspondent
The MSSK Trust, Forum for Secular Bangladesh and Trial of War Criminals of 1971 and South Asian People's Union against Fundamentalism and Communalism jointly organised the conference titled "The International Conference on Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" at Osmani Memorial Auditorium.
In the resolution titled "Dhaka Declaration", the conference also called on international community for extending support to the process that Bangladesh government has initiated to try the war criminals.
The resolution was adopted at concluding session of the conference following daylong discussions attended by delegates including human rights activists, lawyers and experts from 11 countries.
The resolution said the trial of war criminals in Bangladesh would discourage the culture of impunity and urged international community "to unite against the culture of impunity to prevent genocides and war crimes from recurring."
Countries affected by terrorism and regional extremism were also urged to support the proposed regional taskforce, a taskforce proposed by Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, to combat religious extremism and terrorism.
The resolution also emphasized strict measures to check money laundering for what they said, "fundamentalist organisations across the world are using different NGOs, Banks and various financial institutions to finance militancy and terrorism through money laundering."
Building a domestic and regional secular humanist network by civil societies and governments across the world was also urged upon.
The conference also called upon Pakistan to take effective measures to curb and eliminate religious militancy, repeal anti-Ahmadiyya laws and blasphemy laws.
Earlier, during its inauguration, speakers from home and abroad urged all countries to form an inter-continental network based on secularism.
"Religious fundamentalism in many forms and faces has become a great problem. There is no time to lose. With cooperation from all we must cut it out globally before it is too late. Otherwise humanism will be in jeopardy," said Prof Kabir Chowdhury, president of the advisory committee of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee.
"If there are Muslim fundamentalists in Pakistan, there must be Hindu fundamentalists in India. If there is Hindu fundamentalists in India, there is no way to resist Muslim fundamentalists in Bangladesh," said former speaker of India PA Sangma.
Former speaker of Nepal Daman Dhungana said that democracy couldn't be achieved without overcoming religious extremism.
"Individually it is tough to overcome this, but globally it can be done," he added.
Prof Shafaraj Khan from Pakistan, Prof Maxim Dubayev from Russia, terrorism expert Chris Blackburn from UK, Cecilia Wikstrom, member of MEP, Sweden, Parvin Najfgholi Ardalan, human right activist from Iran and Attorney William Sloan also spoke in the inaugural session. Journalist Shahriar Kabir conducted the programme.
Speakers also discussed Jamaat-e-Islami's link with international terrorist organizations.
"Trial of war criminal is necessary for strengthening the foundation of democracy. It is a matter of great shame that collaborators were reinstated in Bangladesh politics," said Dr Peter Custers from The Netherlands in his speech during inaugural session.
He also mentioned that European countries politically support this effort of war crimes trial and suggested taking assistance from international lawyers.
"It's never too late for justice. Time is always now. It is always the right time to punish crime against humanity," said William Sloan.




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