Dear Alochok Q Rahman
Rest assured that Indians generally don't go about knowingly harming the interest of their country. Lets not worry about Pinak letting his country down.
We've got far bigger problems of our own :)
Regards
Ezajur Rahman
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, qrahman@... wrote:
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> Pinak da lost his brain.
> We spend billions of dollars buying Indian goods and services and this
> "Diplomat" is hurting his own country. Awami leaders went out of their
> way to defend him the first time with Tipaimukh comment.
> This time it will be difficult. India is not an European country.
> Rather an oppressive country with little social protection. It is
> possible that few people may overstay their Visa but Pinak da thinks he
> is from California of last century. Is this guy for real or a cartoon?
> No wonder south asian countries are having difficult time fixing
> regional issues.
>
> We just want to live in peace with dignity of a free nation. Don't
> think it is too much to ask.
> -qar
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> From: Ezajur Rahman <ezajur.rahman@...>
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:39:53 +0300
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Pinak terms 80pc visa seekers touts, brokers
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> Courtesy New Age 21/7/09
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> Staff Correspondent
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> Some 25,000 of the Bangladeshi
> travellers going to India with legal visas every year do not come back,
> claimed
> the Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, Pinak Ranjan Chakrabarty,
> and
> described most of the visa seekers as ‘touts’ and
> ‘brokers’.
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> Â Â Â He
> made the allegations at a conference on ‘Bangladesh-India Economic
> Rela
> tions’ in Dhaka on Monday in a bid to justify the Indian High
> Commission’s cumbersome process of issuing visas, as shown by the
> extremely long queues of visa seekers.
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>    ‘Eighty
> per cent of the visa seekers are not genuine. Those [whom you see in
> the queue]
> are touts and brokers,’ said the Indian ‘diplomat’, adding
> that the visa issuing process would be much easier if the Bangladesh
> government
> ensured that touts and brokers no longer queue for submitting visa
> applications.
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> Â Â Â He
> attributed the current visa regime to India’s security concerns
> against the backdrop of incidents such as the terrorist attacks in
> Mumbai.
> ‘Twenty-five thousand of the Bangladeshis who are going to India with
> legal visas [every year] are not returning to their country,’ he said,
> although he could not specify the reasons for the alleged disappearance
> of the
> Bangladeshis.
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> Â Â Â A
> large 50-member delegation of the Federation of Indian Chambers of
> Commerce and
> Industry, led by its vice-president Harsh C Mariwala, attended the
> daylong
> conference organised by the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of
> Commerce and
> Industry at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel.
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>    Pinak’s
> far from diplomatic outburst was an attempt to rebut the complaints
> made by the
> president of the FBCCI, Annisul Huq, about India’s slow and tortuous
> process of issuing visas to Ban
> gladeshis.
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> Â Â Â Talking
> about non-tariff barriers to bilateral trade, Annisul quipped that the
> queue of
> the visa seekers was usually three miles long and it should be included
> as one
> of the Guinness World Records.
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>    ‘We
> certainly need to ensure a significant reduction in our apparently
> small,
> non-tariff barriers that threaten bigger opportunities of growth,’ said
> Annis.
>
> Â Â Â In
> response, Pinak said that the High Commission would not object to
> multiple
> visas for businesspeople. ‘I promise you that business visas will be
> issued as quickly as possible.’
>
> Â Â Â Pinak
> said that New Delhi had been offering duty-free
> access of all goods and commodities from Bangladesh as a least developed
> country since 2008, and had only excluded a ‘small negative list of 434
> items’.
>
> Â Â Â Speaking
> at the opening session before leaving to attend the weekly cabinet
> meeting,
> commerce minister Faruk Khan urged the business leaders of the two
> countries to
> pressure their governments to develop cooperative relations for mutual
> benefit.
>
>    ‘We
> have created problems ourselves. People-to-people contact is good but
> when it
> comes with governments, especially politicians, we see problems,’ he
> said, expressing the hope that the present democratic atmosphere in the
> entire South Asia would give the politicians the ‘right
> message’ to work20for cooperation.
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> Â Â Â At
> a seminar in Dhaka on June 21 Pinak had said,
> ‘It is unfortunate that there are some so-called water experts who make
> comments without considering some of the issues. They are basically
> attempting
> to poison the minds of the friendly people of Bangladesh
> against India.’
>
> Â Â Â The
> foreign affairs minister, Dipu Moni, who spoke later as chief guest,
> did not
> make any comments on Pinak’s remarks that subsequently sparked off a lot
> of controversy and indignation, although she later termed his haughty
> attitude
> and antagonistic remarks a violation of diplomatic norms.
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