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Friday, April 15, 2011

[ALOCHONA] Danish navy rescues 16 Pakistanis



Supreme Council of Islamic Scholars?
You must be kidding. Are not Islamic Scholars, who have gotten us in this deep dark cave of Ancient Savagery, Tribal Brain Thinking, Hate Mongering, Ignorance and Illiteracy?
Had Allah not damned us because we had started worshiping them instead of Him and using our own Brains in 9th Century, when He had made the huge Arab Tribe that still lives from Persian Gulf to southern Iraq renounce Islam sack Baghdad (898 A.D.) and demolish His own Kaabaa (923 A.D.)?


From: Arif Khan <arif12@verizon.net>

 

Turkman its Poor Governance, Totally illiteracy and a Religion taken completely out of Context.. I agree with Haveing a Supreme council of Islamic Scholars and see where we have gone wrong??? as there is something wrong in Most Muslim Countries and it needs correction before a Full Blown war between East and West comes to premenition!!!     Arif
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From: S Turkman

 

Why not just nuke them and then build a nice monument for them ones, who were not bad because almost all of them used to Animals before this sojourn on Earth and may be next time re-incarnated, they may turn out to be more civilized?


From: Arif Khan <arif12@verizon.net>


 

Somalia is a Lost cause since Mohammad Farah Aidid Passed on ... I think the UNO should take it over and Run it till a semblence of Law and order returns....  Make Zardari the honorary President for life of Somalia with Rahman Malik as the VP????   Arif
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From: S Turkman



I guess, even after decade the Crusade against Islam and Moslims started by the West, this Danish Navy still does not know about it. Its wasting its time and money in rescuing Moslims from their own great JehaaDi Brothers. This is a clear example of interference in Brotherly Affairs of Moslims by the Satanic Danish Government that had gotten those Cartoons published in a Newspaper insulting our Prophet. This should be protested worldwide, streets should be vandalized, Danish Flags should be burned and some Agents of the West killed. Allaho Akbar ...!
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Danish navy rescues 16 Pakistanis, 2 Iranians from Somali pirates

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN : Eighteen kidnapped crew members - 16 Pakistanis and 2 Iranians - were rescued from Somali pirates by Danish navy forces on Wednesday, after one year being held hostage, officials said.


The Danish Navy conducted an anti-piracy operation, rescuing the men and taking them to their original vessels before returning to their native countries. During the operation, fifteen Somali pirates were arrested and are currently being held in custody the Danish vessel Esbern Snare.

Danish Navy spokesperson Kenneth Nielson told Pakistan's Express Tribune that navy forces, which form part of Nato's counter-piracy force, also seized weapons and arms from the pirates.

The operation was a result of a Danish Navy counter-attack off the Somali coast, as Somali pirates first attacked a rescue team on April 2. During the operation, navy forces successfully conquered the Iranian fishing boat, which was being used by the pirates as a mother-ship. Further legal prosecution is being considered as the case is being turned in to an attorney at international court.

A series of vessels resulted in the capture of the crew members last year, and as companies negotiated with Somali pirates without success, last month, pirates had demanded a USD 20 million ransom, threatening to kill four Pakistani hostages.

In recent years, Somali pirates have hijacked hundreds of ships, taking in hundreds of millions of dollars in ransom, but hostages are usually treated well and released in healthy conditions after a ransom is paid. Ships are patrolling the shipping lanes near Somalia in an effort to reduce hijackings, but the anti-piracy force has warned that attacks are likely to continue.

According to a recent study, maritime piracy cost the global economy up to USD 12 billion last year, with Somalia-based pirates responsible for 95 percent of the costs.





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[ALOCHONA] AWAMI CORRUPTION COMMISSION - Rename the "ACC"

The ACC (Anti-corruption Commission) which was made effective during 1/11 CTG, has now been turned into an Awami-controlled tool for PROMOTING corruption. Instead of ANTI-corruption, it is now a PRO-corruption govt body.

I propose that ACC should be renamed
BongoBondhu AWAMI CORRUPTION COMMISSION - B.A.C.C.

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'Make corruption prevention a social movement'
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=181740

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Re: [WideMinds] Re: [ALOCHONA] Minority in West Bengal - (from unheard voice)



Patting ourselves on the back? I propose we award "milk of human kindness and all sugar and spice & everything nice" medals to ourselves. Maybe we can get an GARO, Hazong, Chakma, Hindu, Buddhist person or female from Bangladesh to give the valedictory comments. Strangely none of those groups happen to be on ALOCHONA. Why is that?

 

A very big SHALOM to you my friend.

 

 


-----Original Message-----
From: qar
Sent: Apr 14, 2011 9:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [WideMinds] Re: [ALOCHONA] Minority in West Bengal - (from unheard voice)

 


Good points.

However we have to forgive our previous generations for past mistakes. We should not be prisoners of history. The only reason I forwarded this mail is to make everyone aware of what is happening next door and how effective 'Secular" government is when it counts. For all practical purpose there is a good debate going on among Bangladeshis about secularism. There are good support to make us more "Secular" than we are ( We are not Islamic republic!).

First of all we have to ensure we do NOT oppress our Hindu brothers and sisters like "Secular" hypocrites of west Bengal. It would be a direct violation of Allah's order in the Qur'an and violation of sunnah of prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Oppression of Muslims of west Bengal should NOT be used to oppress Bangladeshi non-Muslim citizens. Allah will ask us about it!!

Whatever I said is common sense but we have genuine problem among many "Islamic" leaders who are very vocal about our rights but not so focused about our responsibilities. It is equally critical that we honor our duties towards non-Muslims of Bangladesh and we do NOT imitate losers who oppress weak people. Secularism is a hypocritical idea and like communism it failed to deliver in almost all societies all over the world.

Again my request to all Muslims not to use this information to oppress. Rather to educate yourself, so we can chart a peaceful future for our beloved Bangladesh. 

Just telling everyone that Islam is a religion of peace is not enough. We have to live by example and be good ambassadors of  Islam by promoting peace between all people.



The Hypocrites, men and women, (have an understanding) with each other: They enjoin evil, and forbid what is just, and are close with their hands. They have forgotten Allah; so He hath forgotten them. Verily the Hypocrites are rebellious and perverse. 

[ Source: The noble Qur'an
The noble Qur'an 009.067


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Subject: Re: [WideMinds] Re: [ALOCHONA] Minority in West Bengal - (from unheard voice)

 
Watch Out the Harmful Hindu Communalism among the "Progressive West Bengali dadas!"
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There is a tradition of communalism among the so-called West Bengali dadas.
 
*Don't forget, during the Sepoy Mutiny Calcutta babus overwhelmingly supported the British..
*In the infamous Gujrat riot we see many of the Hindu fanatics that killed Muslims were from West Bengal.
*The left front of Buddhoda always found the West Bengali terrorists infiltrated from Bangladesh!
*That is the face of progressive babu tradition first began by Ram Mohon Roy who once said
"Muslims are the invaders of India," triggering communal distrast among Bengalis."Unknown
to most Bangladeshis Ram Mohan was a Hindu reformer but was a Muslim hater' the founder of Brahmo Samaj.
 Contrary to Ram Mohan's notions, in reality most Indian Muslims were Indians and were
 converts from Buddhism and Hinduism.
*When Felenis die in Bengali soil or dams were built on Bengali soil by India to punish Bangladesh, no dada says a word.
*Bangladesh's Awami League's cultural and political godfathers like Pronobda and others pretends
like they are great well-wisher of Bangladesh who even helped secure 1 billion dollar Indian loan to help Indian crocodiles
to invade Bangladesh portes.
*If these communal communist ("progressive"d)adas could be Bangladesh's great friends, why not Bangladeshis prepared to swim with crocodiles and shirks!
Ofcourse we are not talking about all the dadas.
 
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com> wrote:
 
Friends

Should there no comment from the die hard Secular HINDU  STAAANI lover Sitangsho Guho/rue bean n several hidu staaani paid agents about the status of the secular Muslims in the fanatic blood monger HIDU staaan ???????????

joy bharat mata zindabad/murdabad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:10 AM, qar <qrahman@netscape.net> wrote:
 
With a "Secular" government like this who needs religious zealots?




 

Spotlight on West Bengal — the minority report




How much do we know about our closest neighbor?
I definitely was surprised to learn that Muslims might have better economic opportunity in Narendra Modiâ's Gujarat than the red secular West Bengal. All are Anti-Muslims
Full Times of India article over the fold. Hat tip: Comrades from Kafila. 

The Times of India

Bengal worse than Gujarat for Muslims?

Abantika Ghosh, TNN, Mar 23, 2011, 03.39am IST
NEW DELHI: These are figures the Left Front should be wary of as it prepares to defend its citadel of 34 years in West Bengal.
 
An analysis of data on the Muslim community released by the chief economist of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, Abu Saleh Sheriff, reveals that the state's minority has benefited little from development measures. In terms of human development indices, the Muslims have fared very poorly.
Of the 25.2% Muslim population, only 2.1% have government jobs and 50% children are out of school at the primary level. Only 12% go on to complete matriculation. These numbers are all the more astonishing given the fact that Left swears by its secular credentials and positions itself as a protector of minority rights.
 
Alarm bells have already started ringing, especially after a postmortem of the Left's poor showing in the civic elections last year. An important factor which could have resulted in the dismal performance was Muslim disenchantment. In what may be viewed as the party's efforts to make amends, there is a steep 33% hike in the number of Muslim candidates fielded by Left Front. It has gone up from 42 in 2006 to 56 this time in the 292-member Assembly.
Throughout his lecture, Sheriff â€" who has also been the member secretary of the Sachar panel â€" spoke of Gujarat and West Bengal in the same breath. In fact, he used the data to project the Left-ruled state in a far worse light than the state ruled by Narendra Modi, not regarded by many as a benefactor of the minorities. And this comparison appeared all the more relevant because the West Bengal government had gone out of its way to provide shelter to Qutubuddin Ansari, the man who became the face of the post-Godhra riots with his folded hands and tearful eyes.
 
"If a substantial fraction of the state's 25% Muslim population have traditionally voted for the alliance it could be because of the projected gains of the land reforms even though if you look at the figures, it shows that these reforms do not seem to have made any significant difference to the living standards of the community. With the elections coming, it is time this reality is brought to the knowledge of the public," Sheriff said. He was addressing a seminar on "Relative development of West Bengal and Socio-Religious Differentials" organized by the Institute of Objective Studies at the India Islamic Cultural Cultural Centre.
 
Shariff's figures on education, sourced, according to him from the census database and the Planning Commission, show 50% Muslim children attend school at the primary level, 26% remain in middle school and only 12% complete matriculation against 54%, 30% and 13% respectively for SC/STs and 80%, 58% and 38% for others.
 
Of the 90 minority-concentrated districts in the country, West Bengal has 12. "The worst are the state government employment figures where even Gujarat with its 9.1% Muslim population and with a 5.4% share in jobs is way ahead of West Bengal which is by far the worst in the country. We had to try very hard to get these figures out from the state government because, for obvious reasons, they are very secretive about this," Shariff said.
 
A look at OBC statistics in Bengal shows only 2.4% of its Muslims belong to that category. This, Sheriff says, is not the real picture and simply exposes the state government's reluctance to undertake the enumeration exercise.
 
 Muslim demograhy, India
 
West Bengal Facts and Figures


Date of formation

State Capital

Area

Latitude (capital)

Longitude (capital)

Population (2001)

Population Density

Male population

Female population

Sex Ratio

Literacy rate

Per Capita Income

No. of Districts

No. of towns

Largest City

No. of Villages

No. of Lok Sabha seats

No. of Rajya Sabha seats

No. of assembly seats

Religion

Official Language

Time zone

Temperature

Average Rainfal
01-05-1960

Kolkata

88,752 km²

22.82° N

88.2° E

80,176,197

903 per sq. km

41,465,985

38,710,212

934 females per 1000 males

69.22 %


19

375

Kolkata

51,043

42

16

294

Hindu, Muslims, Christians and others

Bengali

IST (UTC+5:30)

Min. 12-150C; Max. 38-420C

4170 mm
 
 
Gujarat Facts and Figures


Date of Formation 1st May 1960
Area 196,024 sq km
Capital Gandhinagar
Latitude 20-6' N to 24-42' North
Longitude 68-10'E to 74-28' East
Population (2001) 50,596,992
Male population 26,344,053
Female population 24,252,939
Population Density 258 persons per sq. km
Sex Ratio 921
Literacy rate 69.97%
Per Capita Income (04-05) Rs.28, 355
No. of villages 18,539
No. of towns 242
No. of Districts 25
No. of assembly seats 182
No. of Lok Sabha seats 26
No. of Rajya Sabha seats 11
Biggest city Ahmedabad
Major Religions Hinduism, Islam
Chief Language Gujarati
Other languages spoken Hindi, English and Marathi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
Variation of Temperature 23°C-43°C (summer),
15°C-36°C (winter)
Annual average rainfall 1685 mm
Railway Length 5310 Km
Highways Total Length 74031 Km

  
 
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Left's worries in Bengal include disenchanted Muslims

Kolkata: As the Left in West Bengal heads into what’s being described as its toughest election in the state, it must contend with its growing gap from the Muslims, who once were on its side.
 
The minority community makes up 25% of the state’s population. In 2006, the report of the Sachar Committee said West Bengal was among the worst states for Muslims to live in. Headed by retired judge Rajinder Sachar, the committee was appointed by Dr Manmohan Singh to assess the social, economic and educational status of Muslims in India.
 
Days ago, a member of that committee, Abu Selah Shariff, who is an eminent economist, dealt a heavy blow by declaring that Muslims are better off in Gujarat than in Bengal. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee dismissed that allegation. “In our state, minorities live in peace and harmony but in Gujarat they live with fear and mistrust. You should not compare Gujarat with West Bengal,†he said.
 
As part of his argument, Mr Shariff pointed out that in Bengal, Muslims hold 2.1% of government jobs. In Gujarat, that figure is 5.4 per cent. Mr Shariff also said that half of Bengal’s Muslim children don’t go to primary school. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has said that there is 99% enrollment in Bengal’s primary schools. Mr Shariff says that while Muslim parents may sign their children up for school, they’re not attending class.
 
The Left has long argued that the Sachar report â€" is based on incomplete statistics. Even if that is the case, the general elections of 2009 showed that there was a 9 per cent swing in Muslim votes away from the Left.
 
“This is correct. This is a factor. The Sachar and Ranganath Mishra reports showed a terrible picture. That’s why Muslims are depending on us. The people of Bengal want us in politics,†said Siddiquallah Chowdhury, a leader of the People’s Democratic Alliance of India that is contesting 40 seats this election.
 
It could be the results of the general election that have nudged both the Left and its political rival â€" Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress â€" to field a record number of Muslim candidates this time around â€" 56 for the Left, 42 for Ms Banerjee’s party.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 





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Re: [ALOCHONA] FM Dipu Moni was denied for US visa!



Does colouring the author change the basic facts? And do you really think Hasina is capable of seeing the light? And even if she did, does it take away the damage she has done? The entire episode is being reported globally and correctly as driven by Hasina's personal animosity and jealousy.

It doesn't matter what she does now - the damage is done. We are a nation that even tore down our Nobel laureate. I suppose its just our national character scaled up - after all, don't we just get the leaders we deserve?

Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com


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Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] FM Dipu Moni was denied for US visa!

Writer of this Article (Abu Zafar Mahmood) is a blind supporter of BNP and anti-AL. We need to learn from neutral minded writer/Journalist. But it is true that Hasina did improper act on Dr.MohammadYunus. She has still scope to correct it regardless of the verdict of the court.


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Sent: Wed, April 13, 2011 8:43:39 AM
Subject: [ALOCHONA] FM Dipu Moni was denied for US visa!

 

FM Dipu Moni was denied for US visa!

Posted on April 12, 2011 at 7:39 PM
By-Abu Zafar Mahmood, USA

Introduction: Foreign Minister Dipu Moni was denied for visa by US Embassy. She applied for 11(eleven) visas including her one. United Nation Security Council met on March 17th and passed resolution on fly-free zone in Libya. Bangladesh now doesn't carry importance to attend in such meeting as it was told.
The observers were waiting to see such incident since Secretary of State Hilary Clinton warned Bangladeshi Prime Minister after her improper act on Grameen Bank and Dr.MohammadYunus. Mr. Robert O Blake also signaled the Tsunami by his movement and comments to the press on March 22,2011 in Dhaka American Club. US Ambassador James F Moriarty also warned that Bangladesh is under security threat. Home Minister Sahara though found no threat and feel save as she stated in news media. US Asia-Pacific eyes are directly torched over Indo-Bangladesh region.
The NAGA-ULFA and other freedom fighters have been gaining international supports much more than ever. Sikkim Parliament already passed resolution supporting Independent Nagaland that conflicts the politics of West Bengal provincial government. Bangladeshi present government has been collaborating Indian occupied armies against the freedom fighters. VJP-NAGA front has strengthened their alliance against their competitors to acquire more important constituent seats that is hitting in the deep down of collaborator Hasina Government also. Political Vulnerabilities are taking strong move that might cover extended region including Bangladesh and North-Eastern side of India up to Chinese border. This is a new chapter of great game design of muscle competition of super powers.
Perspective & little details: The Freedom Fighters against Indian occupied Army in North-Eastern Zone have been gaining huge supports for their goal and able to take revenge on collaborator Hasina Government. Indian central government has lost almost all control over this non-Indian region with them. One hundred ten Muslim States maintain no friendship with this Indian dictated government too. China also doesn't continue friendly relation in supporting Bangladesh either.
Because of earth quake and tsunami in Japan the possibility of all financial supports for Bangladesh gone underneath the files from everywhere. Senior Congressmen of US Congress have raised accusation of violating human rights against Hasina Government. The US Senate and Congress already sent their messages on Hasina government. The global winds have turned strong flow of storm against present Government that is heading up.
Internal security threats: (1) Internally the government has been loosing control on law and order situation and there exists no security in the country as the corruptions play strong obstacles in major parts of the command structures in all levels of civil administration. (2) Arm forces and BDR were forced to loose the moral strength and still walking through that path. Real officers have been fighting for survible in both civil and military sides. (3) Student leaders are competing to maintain the top rank in demoralization. (4) Cultural field and media serve mainly Indian interests and diverting people from mainstream culture and tradition of the land. (5) Islamic Religious field is under panic by the government.(6) Leaders of Hindu and other minority groups are encouraged to be fanatic and involved in spreading harmful campaign against Muslims. (7) Mostly Fanatic non-Muslims are empowered in important positions. (8) Intelligence structures have totally damaged impotant positions are occupied by the sabotagers and dictated by strangers.(9) The powerful political and administrative persons are involved in currency laundering and human trafficking.(10) Government's attitude is completely fascist to the criticizers. The government has been implementing mainly Indian interests in the name of alliance with neighbor. This scenario is enough to keep destabilizing Bangladesh step by step.
Alternative battle continues on Bangladesh: The external and internal security system is diving in hazards rapidly and any one might assess these Indian pro-active steps to turn Bangladesh a battle field under the covert strategic preparation showing the friendship mandate which I define as "alternative battle".
Alternative battle does not look like the traditional battle but damages more fields than traditional one. This battle tactics provide far accurate results to damage in small states. It assures the free access to the enemy zone opens all doors to detect and hit the targets, recruit the agents to damage the strength of the target and build support-net to conceal the operatives in and around even enemy area within quickest possible time. This battle covers hundreds of area at a time. It is also less expensive and easier than the traditional battle costs in over populated hunger-torned Bangladesh that is bordered in 3 sides by India and mostly controlled by the Indian smugglers and Intelligence.
Bangladesh has been running without keeping any attention on this war as it is not similar to the traditional battle and Bangladeshi Arm forces is not groomed with such military format like others around the world. Not only that, Bangladeshi politics is never framed with such security target where as without applying the alternative addressing to this battle, Bangladesh has no way to survive ultimately and rather it will be erased from the Geographical Map gradually.
Indian Over Dimensional Cargos (ODC) with undisclosed items are trespassing the Bangladeshi territory challegelessly as if it is an Indian annexed or vassal state. Those cargo, trucks and trailers already have stucked in Kautolee area in Brahmanbaria District at the time of crossing the "Anderson canal" inside Bangladesh towards Ashuganj port to Indian Tripura state. Some analysts are in the opinion that these are mostly the war related items and the Indian Army will use these items during the war against Indian rebels. It will be used against Bangladeshi protesters also, if necessary, where as Bangladeshi experiences on BSF and Indian Army in bordering area focuses that danger clearly.
Modification of South Asian Map: A global lobby has been supporting such modification of South Asian Map for their future interests. They need united India under anti-Muslim power with fanatic militant Hindu forces as the British-Congress deal in 1947.It`s a big game. Though I don't mention the name here, the global political and security analysts are well-informed on such business. But Bangladesh hopefully will find the allies who need strong and developed Bangladesh near to Malacca strait to keep it a threat-free zone. India, China and USA`s independent presence is also another balancing site that might shape different scenario of competition also.
The Strait of Malacca is a narrow, 805 km (500 mile) stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula (Peninsular Malaysia) and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is named after the Malacca Sultanate that ruled over the archipelago between 1414 to 1511. From an economic and strategic perspective, the Strait of Malacca is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world.
The strait is the main shipping channel between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, linking major Asian economies such as India, China, Japan and South Korea. Over 50,000 (100,000?) vessels pass through the strait per year, carrying about one-quarter of the world's traded goods including oil, Chinese manufactures, and Indonesian coffee.
US visa denial: US Embassy in Dhaka denied the visa request as Bangladesh Foreign Minister was not needed to attend in such global forum that was advised by Dr.Susan Elizabeth Rice, the permanent representative in United Nations. United Nations had the meeting. The member countries were invited by Secretary General Ban ki- moon.
Susan Elizabeth Rice is an American diplomat, former think tank fellow, and civil servant. She is an American foreign policy advisor and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during President Bill Clinton's second term. Rice was confirmed as UN Ambassador by the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent on January 22, 2009.
The Foreign Minister was supposed to attend in United Nation's meeting and she applied for 11(eleven) person's visa in American Embassy. Her request was denied and created an embarrassing situation with such unexpected incident.Infact; the news moved faster then the winds in the diplomatic circle. It made jokes and cat jumped out from the basket. Few diplomats were expecting such step since she initiated to swim in cross-current of the winds with her troubled stomach.
Facts & analysis with short background: If we carefully follow the covert and uncovered activities of present government, it is easy to belief that they sincerely have been changing the Muslim image from the identity of Bangladesh. In their political views, as Bangladesh was liberated from Pakistan and Pakistan is a Muslim Republic and India became a Hindu dominating country that separated Bangladesh to keep a permanent ally or annex it with her in any shape.
Where as, on the other hand, Bangladesh (East Pakistan) created her own identity with the strong Indian support and Pakistan Army surrendered in 1971 under Indian Army command.So, Bangladesh must carry out Indian dictations and serve their interests as Awami league is grateful to Indian government for their backing in riding the state-power at first and again and again. They both are in common against Muslim culture and Muslim identity of Bangladesh for mere political reasons.
Isolation from 110 Muslim Countries: Bangladesh government already damaged the traditional Muslim brotherhood relation and created mistrusts accusing the Muslim countries as anti-Bangladesh allies. This government widely accuses Muslim Countries for sponsoring anti-Bangladeshis. This foreign policy has contributed and fulfilled their design and has turned Bangladesh an isolated small unsecured country, ruining the real friends for the vested interests of a small group of people.
Powerful Muslim States are no more treating Bangladesh government as Muslim representative. There are 111 Muslim Countries in the World. The serial of Bangladesh was in second position after the number one Saudi Arab in importance. It's position is already gone down and dropped in 21st position as of today and a strong opinion is found to exclude Bangladesh from the Muslim list. The diplomatic sources confirmed this clue of situation.
Not only that, to reach in the targeted goal, the main designers of the present government avoided the Foreign Service expertise of Bangladesh in receiving their experiences and capacities foreign relations and assigned the apprentice Foreign Minister and Foreign Secretary in the Ministry where failure in saving Bangladeshi interests is their function.
Queries after Dipu Moni: Different queries already have been raised about the mysterious plan of allowing the Foreign Minister to fly foreign countries most of the times and living in luxuriest hotels and even meet with suspected criminals. Where as Bangladesh has been loosing the remittance flow and man power market in Muslim countries.
So, what are the Minister's assignments that keep her busy in abroad and sourcing her courage to hostile America when they already have antagonized China, Europe and Muslim World?
Who are the groups behind her? Why Foreign Minister has been arranging so many peoples visa from the foreign embassies and most of those people don't return? Is she related with smuggling gangs, underworld syndicate? Does she serve the purposes of currency launders also? These all answers of the question will appear in light through turning attention on "alternative battle on Bangladesh".
Double face: "Our friends outside may or may not be happy but we will take action in accordance with our law. The rule of law in our country does not depend on others' happiness," she said to the reporters, when asked about the remarks of Robert O Blake, US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport before leaving for Egypt to oversee repatriation of the Bangladeshis fleeing strife-torn Libya. In an interview with the Financial Times on March 7, Robert Blake said the United States is troubled by the recent decision that saw Prof Yunus removed as managing director of Grameen Bank.
Interesting fact is that Foreign Minister and her government keeps asleep during the Bangladeshi killings by Indians and have been collaborating the occupied Indian soldiers against the Liberation fighters in the non-Indian region that forcefully occupied. They keep shut their mouth during Indian campaign against Bangladesh and it`s liberation struggle. They collaborate during the Indian intelligence operatives operate against Bangladesh. It is their part of assignment also to hit the noble laureate's image that is highly honored by the world leaders as because he is Bangladeshi. They are hypocrites with many faces.
Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-NY) who is also the Chair of Bangladesh caucus in US Congress recently raised the accusation of human rights violation against Bangladesh government. The senior Congressman Mr.Crowly is a leader of 26 congressmen, who did not like Bangladesh Government's behavior with the noble laureate, recepeint of both the American Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and a Congressional Gold Medal in 2010.President Obama might meet with Muslim statesmen and Head of the governments in May 2011.The analysts are concerned for harder slap on Bangladeshi small faces if the situation remain unchanged.
Conclusion: The documentary on Dr.Yunus is been released in cinema Halls in America. "To catch a dollar: Dr.Yunus bank on America" is a 2 hours 10 minutes film.
Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, "the kid in foreign relation" is denied for US visa. This move is a slap on Prime Minister's face and on their foreign policy. Mr. Blake said, "United States have been deeply troubled by the difficulties of noble laureate is currently facing".However, this issue is earning the global supports for US interference.
US Asia-Pacific eyes are torched toward the region that Bangladesh and India covers.
Sikkim parliament's support for Independent Nagaland is a clear signal of future turn in big game.Indian Army is preparing to open up many guerrilla camps to arm Hindu youths to escalate the civil war in Bangladesh. The international design of changing regional map is on going. Bangladesh is under security threat that is signaled with the US move. Nothing for so called radical Islamists, rather Hasina government's world becoming smaller very fast. The foreign diplomats showing no interest in joining in her meeting. The political and social forces should think twice.
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[ALOCHONA] A poor gesture to the Japanese



A poor gesture to the Japanese

Courtesy New Age 12 April 2011

After the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, our government announced that it would send a rescue team to assist the Japanese people. Days passed and then our government announced that it would send a medical team to assist the Japanese people. Days passed and still nothing happened. Finally, a few days ago the government announced that it was making a symbolic gesture and sending four people with 2,000 blankets, 1000 pairs of gloves and 500 pairs of boots. Certainly, given the vast difference between the resources of Bangladesh and Japan we perhaps cannot make a significant contribution to their recovery efforts. But even then this is a most unsatisfactory gesture on our part. The Japanese people have always been generous to us.

In this time of their greatest difficulty we should have done more than make such a paltry gesture. There are many thousands of citizens in Bangladesh who could have individually and effortlessly paid for such a package of items. It is quite shameful then that our government sends such a package on behalf of the entire country!

We could also have made a token gesture to the Japanese and asked them to temporarily reduce their assistance to us in light of the needs of their own people. It would have been appreciated as a great gesture of solidarity with the Japanese people. Instead we had the Japanese reassuring us that their aid to us would not be impacted! Soon after they had to announce they would not be able to give us $400 million to assist in the construction of the Padma Bridge!

The Japanese, as ever, are the very model of graciousness and politely smile at our beggarly conduct.

But how much longer can our nation's dignity absorb the failures of our shameless politicians?

Ezajur Rahman

Kuwait

 



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[ALOCHONA] The Yunus case



The Yunus case

Courtesy Daily Star 14/04/11

Bangladesh Bank removes Professor Muhammad Yunus as managing director of Grameen Bank. The aggrieved Nobel laureate goes to the High Court for redress and loses. He goes to a higher court which upholds the decision of Bangladesh Bank.

This is of course far more than another "case" in an increasingly litigious society. Here, underneath the legal briefs, is a saga of an idea taking shape and touching the lives of millions living in poverty. But this is not all a story of self-effacing altruism. This is also a story of hyperboles, egos and, in retrospect, a bit of absent-mindedness and lack of foresight.

Professor Yunus and his Grameen Bank have travelled far from the noble simplicity of the start. It was the year 1979. Professor Yunus had come to the United Nations where I was an economist. He was there as a member of the Bangladesh delegation to the United Nations General Assembly.

Bright and bubbling with ideas and energy, he caught the attention of some of the bureaucrats at the UN. Was he interested in a UN job? Most people would have jumped at the opportunity. Professor Yunus did not. He had other ideas. He had just made a humble beginning with microcredit back home in Chittagong and he wanted little else than to go on with it.

The delegation included a former colleague of mine at the Bangladesh Planning Commission who had introduced me to the bright young man from Bangladesh. I invited both to dinner at my Manhattan apartment. A cold December evening was spent in warm conversation that had little to do with microcredit. Dr. Yunus, all smiles, and steeped in humility, was polite to a fault to his elder host. In a few more days he was to return to Chittagong and his dream of making a difference for the poor with microfinance. I never met him again, but the brief encounter remained etched in my mind.

In the next few years Professor Yunus' idea of providing credit to the poor spread rapidly. Perhaps inevitably, its childhood innocence was lost almost as fast. By itself, of course, innocence achieves little in this complex world. Yet don't we humans keep wistfully looking on it?

In this case innocence started to unravel when the Bank became, in 1983, an official entity, with the Bangladesh government now owning a good part of it, and laying rules of business, not the least of which concern the appointment of its managing director, in this case Professor Yunus.

Government support for the Bank was necessary, but it came at a price. While Grameen Bank was to have autonomy in its functioning as a financial institution, its bureaucracy was to be governed by rules that apply to any other government agency. A Faustian bargain turned a visionary into a functionary of the government, at least in some eyes. Years later the rules governing the tenure of the managing director would come to haunt him.

For his part, Professor Yunus seemed to be blissfully oblivious of the bureaucracy and went on to spread the gospel of microfinance. At the same time, and rather oddly, he felt the need to excoriate textbook economics. He called it an "exclusive playground for blood-thirsty profit seekers." He believed that the "seeds of poverty are planted firmly in the pages of economic text-books." To him it was not far-fetched to suggest that traditional economics treated labour "like draught animals rather than human beings." To him a paradigm shift in thinking was needed if poverty was to be banished to the museum where, according to him, it belonged. And the way to do it was microfinance.

All of this was of course misleading overstatements and hyperboles. We are after all a nation given to overstatements and Professor Yunus' tirade against mainstream economics did not in the end amount to much.

None of it belittles Professor Yunus' achievements. Microfinance has spread rapidly in Bangladesh and around the world. It has made a difference to the lives of millions of poor people, though it is still not clear by how much. It has helped enhance the role of women in rural society. The pioneering achievements have earned Professor Yunus many accolades, topped by the award of the Nobel Prize for peace. The people of Bangladesh rejoiced over the award, Professor Yunus having been the first Bangladeshi and only the third Bengali to receive the prestigious prize.

Then, curiously, he stepped beyond the bounds of microfinance and into politics, quite unaware of its hidden landmines. His intentions were noble, just as they were in his original incarnation: he wanted to clean the country's corrupt political landscape. What he achieved in small loans, he thought, he could attain in big politics.

He even floated a political party for the purpose. He also chose a great name for it: Nagorik Shakti -- "citizen's force" would probably be an adequate translation. The Bengali initials of the words offered up an acronym of Naash, which bore an uncomfortably jinxed meaning of destruction. Nagorik Shakti in did fact self-destruct no sooner than it had been launched, ending its inventor's political ambition. Professor Yunus quietly returned to his turf.

In an otherwise amnesiac nation, his intrusion into politics was not, however, to be wiped from political memory so easily. Politicians, especially some in the highest echelons of politics, we are told, were stung by the Nobel laureate's low opinion of them. Perhaps no less important was the perceived threat to them from someone already larger than life. This after all is a land where, so the story goes, a famous pir put his own son to sleep when the hapless young fellow showed signs of spiritual prowess greater than his father's.

The removal of Dr. Yunus as managing director of the Grameen Bank and the subsequent developments are a curious mélange of the correct and the absurd. In removing him from his position of authority at Grameen, Bangladesh Bank was working within the law defining the age beyond which he could not function in that capacity. But then Dr.Yunus had been over the legal age limit for ten years now. Why was not he removed sooner and why did Dr. Yunus continue in his position? Was this a pure case of supine absent-mindedness all round?

The "case" appeared to split the nation. Those who thought that no good would come out of microfinance reiterated their position, and squarely found fault with Professor Yunus overstaying at the helm of Grameen. Much more vocal were his supporters. A recent gathering of prominent economists in Dhaka seemed to suggest that the government should heed the calls of the millions of shareholders of Grameen (and leave Professor Yunus alone) rather than apply the law blindly (and have him removed).

On the other hand, the law may be, in the famous words of a Dickens character a ass, a idiot, but it is meant to be upheld, and if a "democratic process" clashes with the law, the latter must still be upheld, till the law itself is changed, democratically. Not incidentally, it is Professor Yunus who sought redress in law.

The international reaction to the removal of Professor Yunus was amazing, though, given his prestige abroad, not unexpected. A large number of western nations openly expressed their misgivings about his treatment in his own country. What is truly amazing, however, is the general tone of the message from abroad, entreating the country to value one of its very own as much as the rest of the world values him.

This is a story that leaves you pondering: perhaps, a little less ego, a little more humility and a bit more foresight would have led to a very different outcome. But then we would be talking of traits of Bengali ethos.

The writer is a former United Nations economist and an occasional contributor to The Daily Star


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[ALOCHONA] How To Lose The Election



Strategically Speaking

How to lose the election

Courtesy Daily Star 14/04/11

Political parties in Bangladesh do not win elections, it is the incumbent that loses. But nowhere does one witness a ridiculous attempt to do everything to lose the next election having been put in power "by default."

Interestingly, in spite of the differences between the two major political parties with practically no consensus on any issue, national or international, there is perhaps an understanding on one matter, an accord of view if you like, which is to get the other party to power in the subsequent election. In fact both the major parties share a common recipe in this regard. And this is evident in the actions and comments of the government of the day.

We have been seeing this happening since 1991, and no one needs to waste much time in trying to find out why no political party has ever "won" two consecutive elections since 1991, a benchmark year of our political history. The present government is no exception, which seems to be fulfilling the requirements of the "unwritten accord" and paving the way for its opponents to prevail in the next election.

The first ingredient in the recipe for losing the next election is to throw the election pledges out of the window, and try to look as if you never uttered those words. Therefore, when the government is confronted with price rise, and it was one of the major electoral issues, the only getaway for it is in depicting what the price of things would have been had the "other party" been in power.

When party appendages try to command the public works by controlling all the bids for construction projects, and when the student wing of the party exercises controls by brazen force on the halls of residence in the public universities, the best that the party can do is for the party chief to de-link herself as their patron.

Look at the short shrift given to the institution of local government where instead of strengthening it, as promised in the election manifesto, everything is being done to tie it to the apron strings of the MPs. The UZ parishad chairmen and vice-chairmen have had little to do since they were elected to their posts more than a year ago. So much for the commitment to strengthen local government!

The best recipe resides in poor governance, of which law and order is perhaps the most important, having to do with the physical aspect of human security. The situation in this regard is always flaunted a being the best ever in the country, yet rise in instances of political killings, murder and abuse of women and the weaker section of the society suffer the ratchet effect, as we are experiencing presently.

The unsuccessful attempt to justify extrajudicial deaths makes the commitment of the government to provide good governance look inane. What is even worse is the fallacious argument that the matter of cross-fire deaths has been ingrained in the psyche of some law enforcing agencies as to have become a culture which will need time to discard; the effort to shift the blame on the predecessor is very palpable in these argument.

No agency in a civilised society can arrogate to itself the role of judge, jury and executioner. And thus one is deeply pained when other countries confer all kinds of uncomplimentary appellation to the special forces of the country, who otherwise have done a tremendous job in other areas like successfully countering terrorism in the country.

There seems to be a predisposition for circumventing the process of the law by the party in power. Therefore, while it had shocked us to see a murder convict become the beneficiary of the presidential pardon during the 4-Party alliance rule, having remained a fugitive for a long time, we were not surprised to see similar acts of benevolence by the present government in the case of several death row prisoners belonging to its cadre; it even went one step ahead than its predecessor by granting pardon while the case was still under review of the apex court. And of course there is the matter of withdrawing "false cases" which has brought the probity of the government in question.

The Yunus case has pitted the government against itself, it being at a loss to justify the action against Dr. Yunus as being anything but motivated by principles and rule of law. Without going into the legality of the actions of the parties concerned, what is shocking is the well orchestrated vilification campaign against the Nobel laureate, its appalling manifestation we witnessed both in the parliament and outside that belie the argument of the government that the matter has to do with rule of law.

And the most recent example of providing the opponent with grounds to excoriate the government and notch up political mileage is the comments of the finance minister on the share market scam probe report. One cannot engender public confidence by exposing through actions and words that the government has something to hide.

The government is only in the mid-term of its tenure and there is always scope to make a mid-course correction.

The writer is Editor, Defence & Strategic Affairs, The Daily Star.


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