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RE: [ALOCHONA] Muslim women should be thankful to France.



Mr. Akbar Hussain
 
Long writing no time to read.
 
Mulla is follower of Islam. Islam is the only way of life piece for the human being in all respects.
 
French Ban Veil, they will , because they decayed, one island in Frence for nudity, man and women run in the jungle in nude state so how they will allow veil ?
 
Know thyself
 
Mohamed Ramjan
 
Kuwait
 

 


To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: akbarh1950@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:15:26 -0400
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Muslim women should be thankful to France.

 

The French ban on Islamic veil is in effect from 11 Apr. By law it has been prohibited and any violation will face penalties. The mullahs are cursing France by asking Allah's wrath in the country. As per the statistics the handful of Muslim women who wear niqab or veil are numbering around 2000 only. But the western world, especially France has taken such a stern measure against this primitive practice? The rise of extremist Islam since 9/11 has taken a vow to establish a brand of Islam rooted in the 7th century Arabian culture and according to them veil is an essential part of it. The social and cultural history of the Arabs does not essentially mention this practice.

Veiling did not exist in early Arabia, but Mohammed admonished women to cover them modestly, and his own wives were veiled in public. Mohammed's wives set the example, and gradually the veil became a sign of prestige.

 

Adherence to traditional dress varies across Arab societies. Saudi Arabia is more traditional, while Egypt is less so. Women are required to wear abayas in only Saudi Arabia; this is enforced by the religious police. This restricts their economic participation and other activities and also demeans them as equal citizens. In most countries, like Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Jordan, Syria and Egypt, the veil is not mandatory. In Tunisia, the secular government has banned the use of the veil in its opposition to religious extremism. Former Tunisian President called the veil sectarian and foreign and has stressed the importance of traditional Tunisian dress as a symbol of national identity. Islamic feminism counters both sorts of externally imposed dress codes.

 

Outside the Arab world veil was never a dress for the women. When Islam was shipped to those lands the preachers made the Arab culture an essential part of it.In the contemporary world where the importance of an individual has become an important issue this veil negates the very foundation of the principles of individualism. In the western world the practice wearing veil in public simply voids the existence of a person.

 

The enlightened and open minded Muslims denounce veil as oppressive and shameful. The important reason to denounce it because any dogmatic Islamic practice gives encouragement to the Islamic extremists. Despite full throated claims Islam does not really believe in the equality of men and women. A pre medieval practice to subjugate women is not a matter of faith; it's a tribal culture which does not exist any more.


Akbar Hussain




 

 

 

    

 




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RE: [ALOCHONA] Re: Free transit



We afraid that HIV will spread rapidly in Bangladesh. India is uncontrolled and one of the highest numbered HIV infected nation. Its HIV spread mainly with moving drivers.
 
Muslim Bengal due its moral high (Islamic value) still conserve itself and away from free mixing / extra marital relations / standing against law guarded prostitution, whilest the India is decayed, became a waste bin / dustbin of all moral degradation, Hasian-Hindustan hanimoon relation will diverse Bangladesh to that short of degradation. Thus uncontrolled Indian Driver will spread HIV in Bangladesh.
 
Therefore, it must be stopped with immediat effect the transit route through Bangladesh
 


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From: bdmailer@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:41:48 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Free transit

 
Abdul Quader



Freedom of transit through the territory of one country to another country is a standard trade facility under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. Article V of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) updated in 1994 stipulates the scope and application of these rules.

One of the provisions of the Article V states that "traffic in transit shall be exempt from customs duties and from all transit duties or other charges imposed in respect of transit, except charges for transportation or those commensurate with administrative expense entailed by transit or with the cost of services rendered." Thus, Bangladesh cannot impose any customs duties or transit duties for goods entering its territory from one part of India for destination to other parts (such as the Eastern part).

So far, so good. I think what is not being pursued in earnest by the Bangladesh government is collecting administrative fees and other charges for services provided to India in its transportation of goods through Bangladesh, whether using Bangladesh's roads, railways or rivers. There is no bar to collecting such fees and charges under the WTO rules.

A recent article in a newspaper in Bangladesh quoted Dr. Mashiur Rahman, adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on economic affairs, as saying that Bangladesh will be called "uncivilised" if it charges any fees for providing transit facilities to India. I consider that the view expressed by Dr. Rahman does not make sense as the WTO rules provide for such legitimate fees and charges except customs duties or transit duties for transport of goods through another country.

Is Egypt an "uncivilised" country because it charges "transit tolls" for foreign ships passing through the Suez Canal? Like Bangladesh, Egypt is a WTO member. Egypt collects transit tolls for ships and vessels passing through the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal Authority of Egypt collects these tolls based on net tonnage of goods transported in transit. The transit toll also depends on the type of vessels passing through the canal -- for example tankers of crude oil or petroleum products, LPG or LNG carriers, container ships and general cargo ships.

I think it is against the national interest of Bangladesh to give India a free ride on traffic in transit. While Bangladesh cannot charge transit duties, it should charge administrative fees and other expenses associated with the use of its infrastructure, including the use of roads, railways and rivers based on the actual costs involved. The charging of any fees should not be treated as a customs revenue raising exercise, rather it could be based on the user-pays principle.

This will be in line with the view of Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith, who announced last year that Bangladesh will take "something" from India for using infrastructure facilities for transport of goods. To be consistent with his announcement, it is now incumbent on him to show real political will and leadership and take credible action to get that "something" from India.

Insincere political statements and subservient foreign policy will not bring any benefit to the country. Creation of confusion by those in power on issues of great national significance creates further problems, with potential adverse impact on public trust in the government and its machineries of administration.

If the Hasina government continues to be surrounded by the so-called "civilised" advisers, it will not receive right, objective and robust advice on the governance of the country. Sycophants and self-seeking advisers or ministers love clinging to power and authority without doing any real service to the prime minister in terms of good governance that benefits the nation and the party in power as well.

Sycophants do harm to the nation through their public behaviour and actions. They understand what is right or wrong but pursue the wrong with the intent of either appeasing their political masters or securing personal benefit. These people are quite clever. Sometimes they pretend to be loyal to an ideology but are actually self-serving in the ultimate analysis.

To conclude, Bangladesh will not be an "uncivilised" nation if it charges "something" from India for the traffic in transit.

The writer is an Economist.

  http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=181364

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
User fee for transit facilities, not transit fee suggested

It suggested that the government should not impose any transit fee for only geographical advantages unless the country (Bangladesh) provides any services involving cost or expenses for the routes,


The core committee in its report on transit has recommended for imposition of a 'user fee' on use of transit facilities by the neighbouring countries of India, Nepal and Bhutan.It suggested that the government should not impose any transit fee for only geographical advantages unless the country (Bangladesh) provides any services involving cost or expenses for the routes, the report said.

"….transit trade cannot be subject to any customs duties or fees/ charges that are purely transit-related unless the transit entails some costs for the host country," the report of sub-committee-3 titled, 'economic of transit access to India, Nepal and Bhutan through Bangladesh,' said.The committee recently submitted its study report to the commerce ministry suggesting imposition of user fee on cost involvement-related transit. It has also calculated an estimated cost for the required investment and identified potential routes for transit.

Dr. Sadiq Ahmed, vice chairman of Policy Research Institute (PRI) and head of the subcommittee, said: "It is against international convention on charging any fees for transit, based on geographical advantage alone."A country can impose user charges to other country in case of any cost or expenditure involved for offering the facility, Ahmed said, who is a leading economist of the country.It will be justified to slap user charges if any country takes services on use of transit, he said.

The core committee report said, it will be misleading if any host country charges any transit fee as a percentage of cost saving for the landlocked country. The committee proposed imposition of user fee on transportation services, administrative expenses (e.g costs of inspection etc) and use of any services."..if any guest countries use their own transport facility (ships, trucks or trains), transit may involve the use of port services, road services, or rail network services from the host countries," the report said.It defined those as 'economic services' which need investment, operation and maintenance cost.

The report said the guest countries are obliged to pay user fee for these services in the transportation process.For road transit, the committee identified four elements on which user charges can be imposed. Those are, road damage cost, accident externalities, congestion costs and environmental costs.

The report suggested transit fees for each truck at the rate of US$11.2 per 100 kilometre or $55.6 per trip. The fees include capital charge, routine and periodic maintenance, rehabilitation, traffic control and enforcement.

The core committee estimated US$ 7.13 billion or Tk 499.261 billion investments for infrastructure development on its identified routes for providing transit facilities for India, Nepal and Bhutan.The committee estimated the investment for the next ten years to develop the rail, water and road routes. It has also expressed concern over effective implementation of the transit agreements with the existing capacity and quality of road and rail infrastructure of Bangladesh.

Development of the road networks will require highest investment worth Tk 119.41 billion, followed by rail network at Tk 320.234 billion and inland water transport at Tk 11.715 billion, the report said.

According to the inland water protocol of 1972, India is enjoying transit and transshipment facilities on the river routes without any fees, excepting an annual maintenance charge.

Recently India has started using country's Ashuganj port to transship heavy equipments of Palatana power project in its state of Tripura. The core committee on transit identified seven routes for road transit followed by six routes for rail transit and three new routes for inland water transport.

Currently, only inland water transit is active which India is using for transshipment. Other routes, rail and road, require a large amount of investment to offer transit and transshipment facilities to India, Nepal and Bhutan.

The core committee also identified three potential new rail routes and two for inland water transport.It has identified the routes on the basis of distance, travel time and financial cost advantage.

The study has estimated 17.64 million tonnes of annual transit traffic after diversion of 41 per cent traffic to Chittagong port.'…the expected volume of transit will likely be substantial and in excess of 17 million tonnes per year," the study report said.The study report suggests improvement of port terminal facilities including docking, loading and unloading, storage and other facilities to meet international standards.

It also laid emphasis on investment in river dredging, road and rail networks through mutual agreements with India.Five sub-committees have finalized their reports on routes, the required infrastructure, transit traffic, economic analysis and legal issues, he said.

Talking to the FE Saturday, Bangladesh Tariff Commission (BTC) Chairman Dr Mojibur Rahman, who is the convener of the core committee, said: "We have submitted the report to the commerce ministry within the given time-frame, by March 31." He declined to comment on the issue as it is under review of the commerce ministry.

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=132208&date=2011-04-11




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[ALOCHONA] Bangladesh can have the inspiration from Germany about not to use or how to shutt-down nuclear power plant



Bangladesh can have the inspiration from Germany about not to use or how to shutt-down nuclear power plant:
Bangladesh Feeds
The German government, headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel, is set to introduce legislation by mid-June which will ultimately seal the demise of the country's 17 nuclear power stations. Shutting down nuclear power plants will be costly Now the focus of the country's energy debate has shifted to the question of how to pay for shutting down Germany's nuclear power plants without disrupting the economy.
The governing coalition of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and their junior coalition partner, the Free Democrats (FDP), have stated flatly that they are opposed to raising taxes to finance the switch.
"I'm opposed to an energy tax," said the designated FDP chairman, Phillip Rösler. "I can assure you: With us there will be no tax hike to finance a changeover to renewable energies," he said.
CDU budget expert Norbert Barthle said "no new austerity packages are needed and I rule out tax increases."
But Barthle injected a caveat when asked by journalists about a possible rise in the cost of electricity.
"I cannot rule out that possible extra costs due to a quicker switch to renewable energies may have to be borne by consumers," he said.
A question of pace
The opposition Social Democrat parliamentary leader, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, warned against a hasty retreat from nuclear energy. Germany is aiming for a renewable energy mix
"Germany is not just any old country, but rather an important industrial center," he told the Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper, emphasizing that energy had to remain affordable for all consumers.
"When we shut down eight nuclear power plants, we produce one third less electricity all at once, and depending on the time of year, this cannot be automatically substituted with renewable energies," Steinmeier said.
He added that Germany's aim has always been to cover its own energy needs itself.
"Buying in nuclear power from abroad is not a solution," he said.
Facts or fear-mongering
The environmentalist Green party, meanwhile, has warned against "fear-mongering" and "hysterical debates" about rising energy costs. Nuclear energy is on its way out, but who will foot the bill? Bärbel Höhn, the deputy parliamentary leader of the Greens, said the debate urgently needed solid facts and figures.
Höhn pointed to a government study in 2010, which forecast price increases of just half a cent per kilowatt hour over ten years during a gradual changeover to renewable energies.
Energy experts from the governing coalition, however, issued their own warning on Saturday, saying a quick withdrawal from nuclear power, starting now, would cost about 16 billion euros ($23 billion) over the next four years alone.
This figure, they said, comes from the costs for subsidizing the construction of alternative energy sources, the massive expansion of Germany's electricity grid which would be required to deliver energy from new locations and lost revenues of several billion euros from the nuclear fuel-rod tax introduced just last year.

In addition, they stressed, it was still absolutely unclear, who is going to foot the bill for such an ambitious project.

 


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[ALOCHONA] Interview with Karamat Ali, Pakistani labour and peace activist - Bangladesh Massacre - The Legacy for Pakistan



To watch the complete interview

 

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Bangladesh Massacre - The Legacy for Pakistan
Newsclick Productions, April 16, 2011

Newsclick interview with Karamat Ali, Pakistani labour and peace activist.
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