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Saturday, March 3, 2012

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Load-shedding ahead!

This summer the country's daily electricity demand will stand at an estimated 7000MW. On the other hand, production is likely to be only 5500MW. That means a daily deficit of 1500MW. And that spells heavy load-shedding throughout the hot summer days, much to the suffering of the people. The concerned ministries and departments are anxious.

Summer isn't here year and already load-shedding has begun all over the country, including the capital city of Dhaka. In some places it is as bad as seven to eight hours of load-shedding. And the irrigation season is around the corner when the farmers will need electricity to run their pumps, requiring about 1500MW daily.

The present daily demand for electricity is about 5200MW, while the generation is 4000MW on average daily. Experts say that it is possible to reduce the load-shedding with proper management. If that is done, then there is a possibility that load-shedding will be less than last year.

Gas is the main requirement for power production. Other sources are fuel oil, coal and renewable energy. The country is undergoing a gas crisis at present, as a result of which load-shedding has stepped up. And because of load-shedding, the Power Development Board (PDB) is not being able to provide new electricity connections to houses, mills and factories. Students' studies are being hampered, the people are suffering. Production is falling in factories. And concerned quarters foresee load-shedding worsening in the coming days.

The areas most affected by load-shedding in the capital are Mirpur, Gandarai, Narinda, Rampura, Dayaganj and Shonir Akhra. There is no electricity for stretches of 10 to 12 hours in these areas. Regular load-shedding is also carried out in Purana Paltan, Motijheel, Mugda, Bashabo, Agargaon and Uttara. Industrialists are the most concerned about this load-shedding. They say that for most of the working hours in the day, there is no electricity, and production slumps alarmingly.

Informed sources say, nine power plants have a production deficit of 1122MW due to the gas crisis. Some plants have shut down totally. Units 3, 4 and 5 of the Ghorasal Power Plant have a production capacity of 550MW, but produce only 460MW due to the gas crisis. The private power plant in Ghorasal, which has a capacity of 105MW, has shut down. The Tongi power plant with a production capacity of 105MW, produces only 50MW. The peaking power plant in Siddhirganj, with a capacity of 210MW, generates only 44MW. The capacity of the Meghnaghat Power Plant is 450MW, but it generates only 420MW. Haripur Power Limited produces only 230MW in place of 260MW. Meanwhile, the power plant at Raozan, with a capacity of 380MW, has long been shut down due to the gas crisis. There are also two other power plants, the 40MW and 150MW Shikalbaha plants. And one of the two units of the Barapukuria coal-fired power plant are closed due to technical reasons,

Some of the rental power plants are shut down for maintenance. The rental power plants consume excessive fuel due to old machinery.

Load-shedding is bound to worsen further in March-April when irrigation is in full swing.

According to sources in PDB, the present government has added 2894MW to the national grid in the past three years. In this period, deals were signed to set up 49 plants for  production. This may be correct on paper, but on the ground things are different. The rental and quick rental plants generate much less than the stated capacity.

Last Thursday the countrywide demand for power was 5109MW, but production was only 3960MW. There was a load-shedding of 1149MW.

http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=7843



On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
 http://www.jjdin.com/?view=details&type=single&pub_no=53&cat_id=1&menu_id=13&news_type_id=1&index=0
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Weekly BUDHBAR report:



http://budhbar.com/?p=6571

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:


http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/10/03/109403


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=203295


http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/09/21/106729
http://jugantor.us/enews/issue/2011/09/21/news0658.htm

Inflation to soar on fuel price hike

Analysts term the decision untimely


Local economists and analysts say that the government's untimely decision to increase fuel prices would accelerate the already high inflation and hurt the poor even more.

Their comments came days after the government increased prices of imported fuel and CNG, and reset the transport fares to shed some subsidy burden.

Former caretaker government adviser Akbar Ali Khan said the inflation would go up substantially due to the fuel price hike as transport costs affect all parts of the economy.

"Firstly, the prices of goods will go up due to rise in transport costs. Secondly, it will affect farmers if the government does not increase their subsidies. Thirdly, the lives of the rural people, who do not have access to electricity, will be more difficult due to rise in kerosene price.

"It will harm the poor and push the inflation rate up. This will create a bad situation as the price rise came at a time when inflation is at 11 percent," he said.

Akbar said three things are contributing to high inflation but the government is doing nothing about them. "Prices of goods and commodities are high in the international market. The taka is depreciating against the dollar. Besides, the government has increased its spending."

Under these circumstances, if another reason is added to inflation, it will accelerate. So, there is a question of timing too, he said, adding, "We have increased the fuel prices during the worst time. We are just adding more fuel to the fire."

Mirza AB Azizul Islam, another caretaker government adviser, said the inflation would obviously increase due to the rise in fuel prices.

"I fear a vicious cycle. If prices of goods and products increase, the garment workers may demand that their living cost has gone up, so their wages should go up. As a result, the production cost at factories will go up if wages are increased.

"The government has to try to avoid this vicious cycle," he said.

He said the government had no other alternative but to increase the prices of fuel. However, he thinks the timing has been very poor.

Mahabub Hossain, executive director of Brac, said the fare of diesel-run buses should not have been increased more than 3 percent and fares of CNG-run buses not more than 2 percent.

"The problem is that the fares could go up more, as some businessmen will exploit the opportunity to increase the fares and make more profit. Here, the government needs to monitor the implementation."

The agro-economist said the cost of irrigation in the boro season would also go up due to rise in fuel prices. Irrigation accounts for 20 percent of the total production cost. Of the amount, diesel cost is 10 percent. As a result, the profit of farmers will shrink.

He said increasing the prices of fuel was a political decision this time.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=203361
http://www.bd-pratidin.com/?view=details&type=gold&data=Hotel&pub_no=503&cat_id=1&menu_id=1&news_type_id=1&index=12


On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Weekly Budhbar report:

http://budhbar.com/?p=6027


On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Ittefaq report:

http://www.bangladeshnews24.com/ittefaq/newspaper/2011/08/07/news0183.php











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মুক্তিযুদ্ধ বাঙালি জাতির ইতিহাসের সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ ঘোষণা। ১৯৭১ সালের ১৬ ডিসেম্বরের বিজয় সর্বশ্রেষ্ঠ অর্জন। মহান মুক্তিযুদ্ধে দেশের সাড়ে সাত কোটি বাঙালির সবাই স্বাধীনতার পক্ষে প্রত্যক্ষ বা পরোক্ষভাবে অবদান রেখেছেন; মাত্র কিছু কুলাঙ্গার সন্তান রাজাকার, আলবদর, আল শামসের সদস্য ছাড়া। এই গৌরবের মুক্তিযুদ্ধের জন্য জাতিকে তৈরি করেছিলেন মহান নেতা জাতির জনক বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান। ১৯৭০ সালে পাকিস্তান সেনাবাহিনীতে কমিশন পেয়ে আমি কুমিল্লা সেনানিবাসে চতুর্থ ইস্ট বেঙ্গল রেজিমেন্টে যোগ দিই। '৭০-এর নির্বাচনের পর অন্যান্য মানুষের মতো পাকিস্তান সেনাবাহিনীতে কর্মরত বাঙালি সদস্যরাও আশা করেছিলেন, নির্বাচনে বিজয়ী আওয়ামী লীগের হাতে রাষ্ট্রক্ষমতা দেওয়া হবে। বাঙালিরা পাকিস্তান সরকার পরিচালনা করবে। তবে দুর্ভাগ্যের বিষয়, পাকিস্তান সেনাবাহিনীর জুনিয়র সদস্যরা পর্যন্ত বলতে থাকল, পাকিস্তানের কর্তৃত্ব তুলে দিয়ে বাঙালিদের বিশ্বাস করা যায় না। পরে আমরা দেখতে পেলাম, বেসামরিক পোশাকে হাজার হাজার সেনা, অস্ত্র, গোলাবারুদ ও যুদ্ধসামগ্রী পশ্চিম পাকিস্তান থেকে পূর্ব পাকিস্তানে আনা হচ্ছে। তখন আমরা বুঝতে পারলাম, এসব গোলাবারুদ নিরীহ বাঙালিদের বিরুদ্ধে ব্যবহার করা হবে। সেনাবাহিনীতে থাকা বাঙালিরা সিদ্ধান্ত নিয়েছিলাম, কোনো অবস্থাতেই অস্ত্র সমর্পণ করা হবে না। প্রয়োজনে বিদ্রোহ করে পাকিস্তানিদের বিরুদ্ধে অবস্থান নেওয়া হবে। বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান ঐতিহাসিক ৭ মার্চের ভাষণে যে দিকনির্দেশনা দিয়েছিলেন, '...প্রস্তুত থাকো... তোমাদের যার যা কিছু আছে, তাই নিয়ে শত্রুর মোকাবেলা করতে হবে...'_ সে ভাষণ শুনে চতুর্থ ইস্ট বেঙ্গল রেজিমেন্টের সৈন্যরা সিদ্ধান্ত নিয়েছিল, সময় অনুযায়ী পাকিস্তানিদের মোকাবেলা করা হবে। ২৫ মার্চের কালরাতে যখন পাকিস্তানি হানাদার বাহিনী নিরস্ত্র বাঙালির ওপর ঝাঁপিয়ে পড়ল তখন ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়ায় অবস্থানরত অফিসার ও সৈনিকরা তৎকালীন সিনিয়র বাঙালি অফিসার মেজর শাফায়াত জামিলের নেতৃত্বে ২৭ মার্চ সকাল সাড়ে ৮টায় বিদ্রোহ ঘোষণা করে পাকিস্তান সেনাবাহিনীর পক্ষ ত্যাগ করে বাংলাদেশের পক্ষে অবস্থান নেয়। সেই থেকে আমার মুক্তিযুদ্ধ শুরু। প্রথমে আমি ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়া সদরে ছিলাম। পরে গঙ্গাসাগর, আখাউড়া, খড়মপুর, সিঙ্গারবিল এলাকায় যুদ্ধ করে মে মাসের প্রথম সপ্তাহে ভারতে প্রবেশ করি। ফিরে এসে গেরিলা যুদ্ধে জড়িয়ে পড়ি। পরে কে ফোর্সের অধীনে কনভেনশনাল যুদ্ধ করি। মুক্তিযুদ্ধের শেষ পর্যায়ে চৌদ্দগ্রাম হয়ে কুমিল্লার দিকে অগ্রসর হই। ৮ ডিসেম্বর আমরা কুমিল্লা শহর মুক্ত করি।
যুদ্ধকালীন একটি স্মৃতি আজও আমার হৃদয় আকাশে ধ্রুবতারা হয়ে জ্বলজ্বল করে। '৭১ সালের নভেম্বরের ২০-২১ তারিখে ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়ার কসবা থানার উত্তরে চন্দ্রপুর লাথুমুরা এলাকায় ৯ ইস্ট বেঙ্গল রেজিমেন্ট নিয়ে একটি আক্রমণ পরিচালনা করেছিলাম। বিশেষ কয়েকটি কারণে আমাদের এ আক্রমণ আংশিক সফল হয়। প্রায় ১৮ ঘণ্টা একটানা ভয়াবহ যুদ্ধের পরে আমাদের পশ্চাৎপসারণ করে আসতে হয়। এই যুদ্ধে আমাদের একজন অফিসারসহ অনেক মুক্তিযোদ্ধা শহীদ হন। যুদ্ধের ভয়াবহতার কারণে আমরা শহীদদের মৃতদেহ এমনকি আহত সহযোদ্ধাদেরও ফিরিয়ে আনতে পারিনি। আহতদের সেই আর্তনাদ এখনও আমার কানে বাজে। যুদ্ধের সেই ভয়াবহ স্মৃতিটি আমি আজও ভুলতে পারিনি।
আমরা মুক্তিযুদ্ধ করেছিলাম বিশেষ কয়েকটি আদর্শ ধারণ করে। প্রথমত, পাকিস্তান ছিল ধর্মভিত্তিক রাষ্ট্র। এর বিপরীতে আমরা প্রতিষ্ঠা করতে চেয়েছিলাম বাঙালি সংস্কৃতিভিত্তিক রাষ্ট্র। সে কারণেই যুদ্ধের জয়ধ্বনি ছিল জয় বাংলা। তাছাড়া একটি অসাম্প্রদায়িক রাষ্ট্র প্রতিষ্ঠার জন্য বাঙালি হিন্দু, বৌদ্ধ, খ্রিস্টানসহ আপামর জনসাধারণ মুক্তিযুদ্ধে অংশ নিয়েছিল। আমরা চেয়েছিলাম একটি সম্পূর্ণ গণতান্ত্রিক রাষ্ট্র, যেখানে জনগণই হবে সব ক্ষমতার মালিক। দুঃখের বিষয়, সে সব লক্ষ্য থেকে আমরা অনেক দূরে সরে গেছি। যার জন্য মৌলবাদ. সন্ত্রাসবাদ, উগ্র সাম্প্রদায়িকতা আজ সমাজে শক্ত অবস্থান নিয়েছে। এ অবস্থার উত্তরণ ঘটাতে হলে নতুন প্রজন্মকে এগিয়ে আসতে হবে। তাদেরই প্রচেষ্টা চালাতে হবে মুক্তিযুদ্ধের আদর্শে নতুনভাবে রাষ্ট্রকে গড়ে তোলার জন্য। যে রাষ্ট্র হবে পৃথিবীর বুকে মর্যাদাশীল রাষ্ট্র_ বাংলাদেশ।
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Re: [mukto-mona] Fw: First-hand report from Afghanistan



If 'we' leave Afghanistan, how would 'we' ever control the 'silk road', the Caspian oil, and the underground resources of Afghanistan?

Afghanistan serves an example of what Islam can do to a land.  The place was ruled by the Greeks, the Buddhists etc., and much of Indian 'culture' also entered into the subcontinent through it.  Contemporary Afghanistan is one of the most backward nations in the world and serves an example of what Pakistan would be in future.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

FYI

--- On Mon, 2/27/12, Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>
Subject:
To: "Jiten Roy" <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, February 27, 2012, 11:31 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-nato-attacked-seven-u-soldiers-wounded-014622779.html

 

 

I just finished a year in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor. Allow me to give my views:

1. Killing/Fighting is ingrained in this society. A man is not considered a man unless he has killed someone in battle. That is why these people are continously fighting each other. It's cultural. They won't stop because the West says it's Stone Age thinking.

2. Most Afghan peasants -- for lack of a better term -- are uneducated, and illiterate. Most could not read the Koran, or recognize it, if it was put in front of them. 30 years of war, and 10+ years under the Taliban, saw to that. The Afghans are not stupid, don't get me wrong. They are cunning, and crafty, people. But, they are ignorant as to the ways of the modern world. They don't want any part of "modernity." Our ways are not theirs. And, they don't want any part of it. They are happy living in their mud hooches, or in their tent villages. A 2-story McMansion with a white picket fence and 2 Bentleys in the driveway is a totally foreign concept.

 

3. Referencing #2 above, most Afghans out in the countryside get their news, etc, from the local Mullah, or Imam. These guys are the religious establishment, and most have Taliban leanings. Do you think they are going to tell the people the truth? Hardly. All it takes is a Imam to say that we desecrated a Koran, or insulted Mohammed, and off the people go. It is a mob mentality. They are not taught to question, or to ask, "Show us proof." Even if they did, the Imam could show them a burned copy of Time magazine, and claim it was a Koran. The average villager wouldn't know the difference.

4. The Afghan Army. God help us if this is what will protect Afghanistan after we withdraw. Having seen them first-hand, and having lived among them, I would agree that they are not the most trustworthy. They spent more time trying to chase the American female Soldiers on our site, instead of going after the bad guys. When the ANA weren't smuggling Taliban sympathizers on to our camp, they were pacing off targets for rockets or mortars, or supplying the Taliban with cell-phone photos of our defenses. The ANA on our camp concentrated harder on raiding our supply section than fighting the Taliban. We even caught the Afghan Army Colonel in command of the ANA on our site stealing light bulbs out of our warehouse! The U.S. Army was no better, I have to add. They helped themselves to our supplies as well. Our security had video of both sides climbing over our walls and razor wire, and stealing whatever wasn't nailed down. We turned our proof over to the US Govt for action. Nothing was said or done. As for the ANA, they will dissolve as soon as we pull out. And, all of the weapons, etc, we are leaving in-country will end up in the hands of the Taliban.



5. I agree with some of the comments made about this article. When we withdraw, the Taliban will take over. Those Afghans in the puppet government -- Karzai, for one -- will run crying to the U.S. to save them. We'll take them in, and give them cushy houses in D.C. where they will spend their days running the "True Afghan Govt in Exile", or some such nonsense. And, 5-7 years after that, we will find ourselves back in-country because it has reverted to a terrorist haven.

 

The Afghans have had 10+ years to get it right, or at least make a start. They have done nothing. And, they won't. Unity, or a Government that represents all, is not in their view of "nation". Afghans are loyal to Islam first, and Tribe second. They don't care about nationhood. They don't care about democracy. Give an Afghan a pencil, and try to teach him write. He will only use it as a weapon and try to kill you with it.

It's time to pull out, and let them go their own way




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ISI paid Rs50 million to Khalida Zia to help her in polls against Hasina Wajid



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Re: [mukto-mona] Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful: Ayatollah Ali Khameini



Read my e-mail again. You have obsession with India and Israel. Try to think with reasons. Get rid of Pakistani mentality.

From: Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net>
To: subimal@yahoo.com; jnrsr53@yahoo.com
Cc: ovimot@yahoogroups.com; mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com; dahuk@yahoogroups.com; jnrsr53@yahoo.com; chottala@yahoogroups.com; odhora@yahoogroups.com; nazrulic@gmail.com; syed.aslam3@gmail.com; akhtergolam@gmail.com; liaquat707@gmail.com
Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2012 6:48 PM
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Mr. Subimol,
You didn't mention  those countries by name(Indai and Israel). You mentioned Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan all three Islamic Republics by name.
 Why you hesitate to mention those two nations name ?
---------- Original Message ----------From: subimal chakrabarty <subimal@yahoo.com>To: Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net>,  "ovimot@yahoogroups.com" <ovimot@yahoogroups.com>Cc: "mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>,  "dahuk@yahoogroups.com" <dahuk@yahoogroups.com>,  "jnrsr53@yahoo.com" <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>,  "chottala@yahoogroups.com" <chottala@yahoogroups.com>,  "odhora@yahoogroups.com" <odhora@yahoogroups.com>,  "nazrulic@gmail.com" <nazrulic@gmail.com>,  "syed.aslam3@gmail.com" <syed.aslam3@gmail.com>,  "akhtergolam@gmail.com" <akhtergolam@gmail.com>,  "liaquat707@gmail.com" <liaquat707@gmail.com>Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful: Ayatollah Ali KhameiniDate: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:46:02 -0800 (PST)
In my earlier e-mail in this connection, I have categorically said that no country should have nuclear arsenal. It includes Israel and India too. Read it again.
 
 
 
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Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2012 2:32 PM
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Mr. Subimol,
 
You didn't answer my questiin about Israeli Nukes. Why the State of Israel was allowed to keep its Nukes. May be you like Israel to keep its nukes to threatren her neighbour. You mentioned Pakistani Nukes but didn't mention Indian Nukes. You  avoiding  comment on Israeli and Indian nuclear capability instead attacking Saudi or Iranian nuclear ambition. This is a clear discrimination. Even you will criticise Bangladeshi nuclear ambition I believe , if Bangladesh want to protect its territorial integrity from three of its nuclear neighbour Pakista, India and China.
Why such discrimination. My clear point was a Nuclear Free Middle East. What's yoiur opinion about nuclear freee M.E. Do you support it or oppoose it ?---------- Original Message ----------From: subimal chakrabarty <subimal@yahoo.com>To: Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net>,  "mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>,  "dahuk@yahoogroups.com" <dahuk@yahoogroups.com>,  "ovimot@yahoogroups.com" <ovimot@yahoogroups.com>,  "jnrsr53@yahoo.com" <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>,  "chottala@yahoogroups.com" <chottala@yahoogroups.com>Cc: "odhora@yahoogroups.com" <odhora@yahoogroups.com>,  "nazrulic@gmail.com" <nazrulic@gmail.com>,  "syed.aslam3@gmail.com" <syed.aslam3@gmail.com>,  "akhtergolam@gmail.com" <akhtergolam@gmail.com>,  "liaquat707@gmail.com" <liaquat707@gmail.com>Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful: Ayatollah Ali KhameiniDate: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 09:31:58 -0800 (PST)
Not only America, many muslim countries will also not like Iranian nuclear bomb. To Saudi Arabia, Iran is a ferocious poisonous snake ready to strike any moment and hence it's throat needs to be cut (please remember a news item several months old). If Mr. Anwar is advocationg for Iran to be allowed to make nuclear bombs, he is doing it to be politically correct. Being a fan of Saudi rule and policies, he will definitely not want a Shiite country to possess nuclear bombs. American foreign ploicy has proved many a time to be a myopic one. One example is letting Pakistan (to be more specific---acceptance of nuclear weapon in Pakistan) to possess nuclear capability.
 
 
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Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 7:23 PM
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Why nobody is talking about Israeli nukes?
Most critics believe Israel posses huge nuclear arsenal with the help from her western  backers.
Why state of Israel has immunity to keep its nukes ?
Why civilized western world never talk about vast arsenal of Israeli nukes?
If  poor nations like India, Pakistan can obtain nukes,  why it's wrong for other rich nations  in Middle East  to have it, even they can't even think about this nukes?
Is nuclear  the monopoly of selected nations ?
Why nuclear discrimination continuing in modern World?
My understanding is that not only nukes, all  unconventional deadly weapons should be eliminated for a peaceful World.
We heard about Nuclear Chapabazi(Lie) by western powers about so called Iraqi Nukes before attacking Iraq to destroy its nukes, but
unfortunately, nothing found but million human lives were lost for this Chapabazi(Lie). Why such devastation ? To protect whom?
Nobody paid price or questioned for this Chapabazi(Lie)
My understanding is that, If Israel can posses Nukes, than why my motherland Bangladesh can't  also get nukes to protect its  territorial integrity from foreign aggression?
Finally to protect  the volatile Middle East , Middle East should be declared 'Nuclear Free Zone' by the United Nations and enforced by all Big Powers
 
---------- Original Message ----------From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>To: Undisclosed-recipients:;Subject: [mukto-mona] Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful: Ayatollah Ali KhameiniDate: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 05:35:43 -0500
 
         I think religion does have a place in politics, as a voice in the public arena, but a voice speaking from a moral high ground above the fray, not as one of the manipulating, cheating, indoctrinating tool in the hands of one of the parties jostling for power.          The infested mindset of the Pakistani glory and pride in owning the 'Islamic Bomb' is an outdated and tiresome 'wannabe like the West' or better and 'holier than thou' mindset that should look for a permanent cure soon.              Farida Majid======================= <<  Neither Iraq nor Iran had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks that launched our nation on a never-ending and essentially irrational �war on terror.� Irrational, because the terrorist enemy has come to be defined through political convenience rather than through an objective threat assessment. Iran�s Shiite leaders were sworn enemies of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida, which was inspired and financed by the Wahhabi Sunnis of Saudi Arabia.>>  

The Ayatollah Is Right About One Thing: Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful

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Posted on Feb 29, 2012
AP / Vahid Salemi
A pro-government Iranian demonstrator holds a poster with photos of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at an annual demonstration in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
 
Given my own deep prejudice toward religious zealotry, it has not been difficult for me to accept the conventional American view that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme theocratic ruler of Iran, is a dangerous madman never to be trusted with a nuclear weapon. How then to explain his recent seemingly logical and humane religious proclamations on the immorality of nuclear weapons? His statement challenges the acceptance of nuclear war-fighting as an option by every U.S. president since Harry Truman, who, in 1945, ordered the deaths of 185,000 mostly innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 
�We do not see any glory, pride or power in the nuclear weapons�quite the opposite,� Iran�s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Tuesday in summarizing the ayatollah�s views. Salehi added, �The production, possession, use or threat of use of nuclear weapons are illegitimate, futile, harmful, dangerous and prohibited as a great sin.�
 
Of course, the ayatollah�s position will be largely interpreted by the media and politicians in the United States as a devious trick to lull critics, but words of such clarity will not be so easily dismissed by his devout followers. They are words that one wishes our own government would embrace to add moral consistency to our condemnation of other countries we claim might be joining us in holding nuclear arms.
 
As awkward as it may be to recall, it was the United States that gifted the world with these sinful weapons. And even more to the point of assessing sin, ours is the only nation that has ever used such weapons toward their intended purpose of killing large numbers of the innocent. That fact alone should provoke some measure of humility in responding to Salehi�s offer this week at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva to negotiate a treaty banning nuclear weapons.
 
Unfortunately, his remarks were all too predictably met with swift condemnation by the United States. Laura E. Kennedy, the American ambassador to the conference, said that Iran�s claim to be opposed to such weapons �stands in sharp contrast� to that nation�s failure to comply with international obligations. But the fact is that the administration she represents has stated that there is as yet no evidence that Iran is committed to building a nuclear bomb.
 
 
She is right that Iran�s resistance to inspection �is hardly illustrative of a commitment to nuclear disarmament,� but such a remark is grotesquely hypocritical coming from the representative of a nation that has produced more than half of the world�s nuclear arsenal under the most severe conditions of secrecy. It is also true that U.S. acceptance of nuclear weapons in Israel and Pakistan, both of which have been recipients of American military aid despite breaking international nonproliferation codes to which U.S. presidents have long subscribed, is hardly a sign of consistency on this issue.
 
 
It is obvious, in a week when the U.S. welcomed North Korea�s renewed commitment to inspections, that even the most recalcitrant of nations can be induced to reason. The treatment of Iran is complicated by this being a U.S. election season, during which the Republican candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, have been beating the war drums over what they claim is Iran�s nuclear threat. In no way has the GOP�s zeal for military confrontation been chastened by the fact that a similar crusade in 2003 by Republican hawks led to the invasion of Iraq over patently false claims that it was developing a nuclear arsenal. The result was a pro-Iranian government in Baghdad.
 
Neither Iraq nor Iran had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks that launched our nation on a never-ending and essentially irrational �war on terror.� Irrational, because the terrorist enemy has come to be defined through political convenience rather than through an objective threat assessment. Iran�s Shiite leaders were sworn enemies of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida, which was inspired and financed by the Wahhabi Sunnis of Saudi Arabia. Yet when the Obama administration recently concluded a huge, 10-year arms deal with the Saudi kingdom, the top Republican candidates were in full approval.
 
Of course the world�s people should be alarmed by the prospect of Iran, or any other nation, joining the nuclear weapons club. But demonizing Iran and attempting to further isolate that nation�s leadership hardly advances the cause of nonproliferation. If Washington can find a basis of reasonable accommodation with a bizarrely erratic and paranoid North Korea, serious negotiations with Iran should be eminently possible. A place to begin would be with the acceptance that the justifiably reviled ayatollah might for once be demonstrating moral leadership when he denounces all nuclear weapons, including those in our own massive arsenal, as sinful.
 
 
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[mukto-mona] Re: [notun_bangladesh] DNA: Muslims are Gujarat’s new outcastes: Surve y



What an irony! I guess everybody's attention was drawn to a recent piece of news according to which Narendra Modi was invited to Pakistan by Pakistan Chamber of Commerce (?) as an honorable guest. Probably he could not make it physically but participated through videoconferencing. Business interests can ignore crimes of a big man and the plight of the ordinary people.  

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---------- Forwarded Message ----------From: Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha <mohammad_b_haq@yahoo.co.uk>To: bangla vision <bangla-vision@yahoogroups.com>Cc: greenleft_discussion@yahoogroups.com,  libert under <libertyundergroundtalk@yahoogroups.com>,  CODE PINK <codepink@yahoogroups.com>,  notun bangladesh <notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>Subject: [notun_bangladesh] DNA: Muslims are Gujarat's new outcastes: SurveyDate: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 09:31:45 +0000 (GMT)
 

Muslims are Gujarat's new outcastes: Survey
Published: Friday, Mar 2, 2012, 9:30 IST | Updated: Thursday, Mar 1, 2012, 23:14 IST 
By Roxy Gagdekar | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_muslims-are-gujarats-new-outcastes-survey_1657290 

The 2002 communal riots not only drove Muslims into new ghettos all over the state, they also reduced them to the status of second-class citizens who do not seem to exist for the government. This is the finding of a city-based NGO, Janvikas, which conducted a survey on the status of the minority community in the state after the riots.
The survey has revealed that Muslims are the new outcastes who, more often than not, are denied basic facilities which are available to people of other communities. Not only that. It appears that this neglect of the community is officially sanctioned for the riot victims find no mention in government records as people who need help.
The neglect of the minority community is evident even in efforts to resettle them as little has been done to provide them access to government schemes, health facilities and loans.
About 16,000 Muslims displaced by the riots are still living in relief colonies that are denied even the most basic amenities.
The riots displaced more than 2 lakh people across the state.
These people remained displaced for almost two years after 2002. However, NGOs and Muslim relief organisations settled a total of 16087 people in 83 different relief colonies."These are the people who cannot or dare not return to their original place of residence and have been living in shelters for the last 10 years," said Vijay Parmar, CEO of Janvikas.
The 83 relief colonies that were built after the riots are almost all located in Muslim majority areas. Fifteen of them are situated in Ahmedabad and the support they receive from the state government is negligible.
"The government did next to nothing for creating awareness about social security schemes meant for Internally Displaced People (IDP)," said Khatunben, a resident of Citizen Nagar, a relief colony in Ahmedabad.
The houses in which the displaced people have been living since 2002 have not been formally transferred to their names.
There has also been a sharp decline in the earnings of almost every displaced individual. The survey has revealed that the average annual income of displaced Muslims in Ahmedabad has come down by 31% as compared to their income before the riots.
 
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Re: [mukto-mona] Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful: Ayatollah Ali Khameini



Nuclear bomb is the worst thing man has invested in. Probably it is not too late. Mad competition must be stopped. Next step should be to gradually destroy the arsenal lying scattered throughout the world until the inventory is reduced to zero.

From: qar <qrahman@netscape.net>
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Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2012 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful: Ayatollah Ali Khameini
 
:-)

I have no problem with your ideas either. No nation should have nukes!!

HOWEVER are you going impose "Sanctions" on Israel until it dismantles her nukes?

You need to have a level playing field when dealing with different nations. Israel has been attacking her neighbors and if you want to force Iranian (Or other nations for that matter ) NOT to have any nukes, you need to ensure they are not facing any "Nuke threats" from aggressive countries like Israel.

I have no problem in having sanctions against Iran BUT clearly there is a double standard on this issue. That is what Mr. Anwar is talking about.

I am glad to see Ayatuallahs of Iran think nukes are sinful. I hope more countries of that region joins him declaring it a nuke free zone.


Shalom!


-----Original Message----- From: Subimal Chakrabarty <subimal@yahoo.com> To: Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net> Cc: mukto-mona <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>; dahuk <dahuk@yahoogroups.com>; ovimot <ovimot@yahoogroups.com>; jnrsr53 <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>; chottala <chottala@yahoogroups.com>; odhora <odhora@yahoogroups.com>; nazrulic <nazrulic@gmail.com>; syed.aslam3 <syed.aslam3@gmail.com>; akhtergolam <akhtergolam@gmail.com>; liaquat707 <liaquat707@gmail.com> Sent: Sat, Mar 3, 2012 7:57 pm Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful: Ayatollah Ali Khameini
 
Mr. Anwar's opinions are self contradictory. There must not be any 'If ----------then" logic. No country should have it. The countries which have it must destroy it. There must be absolutely "No" to nuclear arsenal. 
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 3, 2012, at 1:23 AM, "Mohiuddin Anwar" <mohiuddin@netzero.net> wrote:
Why nobody is talking about Israeli nukes?
Most critics believe Israel posses huge nuclear arsenal with the help from her western  backers.
Why state of Israel has immunity to keep its nukes ?
Why civilized western world never talk about vast arsenal of Israeli nukes?
If  poor nations like India, Pakistan can obtain nukes,  why it's wrong for other rich nations  in Middle East  to have it, even they can't even think about this nukes?
Is nuclear  the monopoly of selected nations ?
Why nuclear discrimination continuing in modern World?
My understanding is that not only nukes, all  unconventional deadly weapons should be eliminated for a peaceful World.
We heard about Nuclear Chapabazi(Lie) by western powers about so called Iraqi Nukes before attacking Iraq to destroy its nukes, but
unfortunately, nothing found but million human lives were lost for this Chapabazi(Lie). Why such devastation ? To protect whom?
Nobody paid price or questioned for this Chapabazi(Lie)
My understanding is that, If Israel can posses Nukes, than why my motherland Bangladesh can't  also get nukes to protect its  territorial integrity from foreign aggression?
Finally to protect  the volatile Middle East , Middle East should be declared 'Nuclear Free Zone' by the United Nations and enforced by all Big Powers
 
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> To: Undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [mukto-mona] Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful: Ayatollah Ali Khameini Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 05:35:43 -0500
 
         I think religion does have a place in politics, as a voice in the public arena, but a voice speaking from a moral high ground above the fray, not as one of the manipulating, cheating, indoctrinating tool in the hands of one of the parties jostling for power.            The infested mindset of the Pakistani glory and pride in owning the 'Islamic Bomb' is an outdated and tiresome 'wannabe like the West' or better and 'holier than thou' mindset that should look for a permanent cure soon.                Farida Majid =======================   <<  Neither Iraq nor Iran had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks that launched our nation on a never-ending and essentially irrational �war on terror.� Irrational, because the terrorist enemy has come to be defined through political convenience rather than through an objective threat assessment. Iran�s Shiite leaders were sworn enemies of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida, which was inspired and financed by the Wahhabi Sunnis of Saudi Arabia. >>    

The Ayatollah Is Right About One Thing: Nuclear Weapons Are Sinful

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Posted on Feb 29, 2012
AP / Vahid Salemi
A pro-government Iranian demonstrator holds a poster with photos of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at an annual demonstration in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
 
Given my own deep prejudice toward religious zealotry, it has not been difficult for me to accept the conventional American view that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme theocratic ruler of Iran, is a dangerous madman never to be trusted with a nuclear weapon. How then to explain his recent seemingly logical and humane religious proclamations on the immorality of nuclear weapons? His statement challenges the acceptance of nuclear war-fighting as an option by every U.S. president since Harry Truman, who, in 1945, ordered the deaths of 185,000 mostly innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 
�We do not see any glory, pride or power in the nuclear weapons�quite the opposite,� Iran�s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Tuesday in summarizing the ayatollah�s views. Salehi added, �The production, possession, use or threat of use of nuclear weapons are illegitimate, futile, harmful, dangerous and prohibited as a great sin.�
 
Of course, the ayatollah�s position will be largely interpreted by the media and politicians in the United States as a devious trick to lull critics, but words of such clarity will not be so easily dismissed by his devout followers. They are words that one wishes our own government would embrace to add moral consistency to our condemnation of other countries we claim might be joining us in holding nuclear arms.
 
As awkward as it may be to recall, it was the United States that gifted the world with these sinful weapons. And even more to the point of assessing sin, ours is the only nation that has ever used such weapons toward their intended purpose of killing large numbers of the innocent. That fact alone should provoke some measure of humility in responding to Salehi�s offer this week at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva to negotiate a treaty banning nuclear weapons.
 
Unfortunately, his remarks were all too predictably met with swift condemnation by the United States. Laura E. Kennedy, the American ambassador to the conference, said that Iran�s claim to be opposed to such weapons �stands in sharp contrast� to that nation�s failure to comply with international obligations. But the fact is that the administration she represents has stated that there is as yet no evidence that Iran is committed to building a nuclear bomb.
 
 
She is right that Iran�s resistance to inspection �is hardly illustrative of a commitment to nuclear disarmament,� but such a remark is grotesquely hypocritical coming from the representative of a nation that has produced more than half of the world�s nuclear arsenal under the most severe conditions of secrecy. It is also true that U.S. acceptance of nuclear weapons in Israel and Pakistan, both of which have been recipients of American military aid despite breaking international nonproliferation codes to which U.S. presidents have long subscribed, is hardly a sign of consistency on this issue.
 
 
It is obvious, in a week when the U.S. welcomed North Korea�s renewed commitment to inspections, that even the most recalcitrant of nations can be induced to reason. The treatment of Iran is complicated by this being a U.S. election season, during which the Republican candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul, have been beating the war drums over what they claim is Iran�s nuclear threat. In no way has the GOP�s zeal for military confrontation been chastened by the fact that a similar crusade in 2003 by Republican hawks led to the invasion of Iraq over patently false claims that it was developing a nuclear arsenal. The result was a pro-Iranian government in Baghdad.
 
Neither Iraq nor Iran had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks that launched our nation on a never-ending and essentially irrational �war on terror.� Irrational, because the terrorist enemy has come to be defined through political convenience rather than through an objective threat assessment. Iran�s Shiite leaders were sworn enemies of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida, which was inspired and financed by the Wahhabi Sunnis of Saudi Arabia. Yet when the Obama administration recently concluded a huge, 10-year arms deal with the Saudi kingdom, the top Republican candidates were in full approval.
 
Of course the world�s people should be alarmed by the prospect of Iran, or any other nation, joining the nuclear weapons club. But demonizing Iran and attempting to further isolate that nation�s leadership hardly advances the cause of nonproliferation. If Washington can find a basis of reasonable accommodation with a bizarrely erratic and paranoid North Korea, serious negotiations with Iran should be eminently possible. A place to begin would be with the acceptance that the justifiably reviled ayatollah might for once be demonstrating moral leadership when he denounces all nuclear weapons, including those in our own massive arsenal, as sinful.
 
 
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