Re: [ALOCHONA] No news is good news?

The ever loyal Munshi ji is awaiting orders on how to spin it.

Pak Army which rules the territory that now constitutes Pakistan cant figure exactly what the terms will be for doing there mercenary duties. Should they sacrifice their pets or get consumed by them. But dont be impatient the time of reckoning is near.

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From: Cyrus
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Subject: [ALOCHONA] No news is good news?

No self-righteous, inflamatory, and non-sensical "analysis" from the Munshi cabal on the impending Talibanization of their glorious motherland Pakistan? I am shocked!

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[ALOCHONA] Dipu Moni's statement contradicted

Dipu Moni’s statement contradicted by state minister
Courtesy New Age 27/4/09

Staff Correspondent

The state minister for foreign affairs, Hasan Mahmud, on Sunday differed with foreign minister Dipu Moni’s statement. Immediately after her arrival from Jeddah on Saturday, Dipu Moni told reporters at the airport that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was the first Bangladeshi premier to meet the Saudi king in seven years.
   Former premier Khaleda Zia visited Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud in 2005, the state minister told reporters.
   Hasan said that Sheikh Hasina had met the Saudi king in 2000 and 2001 and Khaleda Zia had visited him in 2005.
   He also said the Bangladeshi workers will now be able to change jobs without being expelled from the country.
   Briefing reporters on the outcome of the premier’s visit, Hasan claimed that the one-hour-and-20-minute meeting between the king and the premier was ‘successful’, adding that it was a ‘rare’ occasion as the king had addressed Hasina as his sister.
   The state minister, however, remained silent when a correspondent said the Saudi king had addressed Hasina as his sister on previous occasions also.

 

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[ALOCHONA] Leadership:Who stands where? Part II

Leadership:Who stands where?  Part II A PROBE report Awami League Amir Hossain Amu Awami League presidium member, influential leader and former Food Minister, Amir Hossain Amu has been target of Sheikh Hasina's ire due to his role as reformists after 1/11. As a result, though he was elected MP in the last election, he was not made a minister. However, Amir Hossain Amu still retains considerable hold over a large section of the party's leaders and workers countrywide. He may be a backbencher in the presidium at present, but this is likely to change in time. He is likely to back a strong comeback. Present status: ACTIVE Tofail Ahmed He may have been a reformist, but Sheikh Hasina is using former Industries Minister Tofail Ahmed, albeit guardedly. He won a seat as MP, but not being in the leader's good books, was not given a place in the cabinet. He is now striving hard to win back Hasina's favour. Present status: STAGING A COMEBACK Suranjit Sengupta This veteran parliamentarian who used to be Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Parliamentary Affairs and Law Advisor in the last Awami League government, was the most vocal reformist after 1/11. That is why he has been criticized by a large section of the party and Hasina is none too pleased with him either. Though he was elected MP in the last election, he was not made minister. He is still sometimes critical about the party. Being a member of the minority community, he may retain hold over his area's vote bank, but his importance and position in the party is bound to falter. Present status: ACTIVE. He is needed in parliament. Abdur Razzak Former Water Resources Minister Abdur Razzak is known to be one of the foremost reformists in the party and so is not in Sheikh Hasina's good books. So though he became MP in the December 2009 election, he is not a minister. He doesn't have a strong position in the presidium. Present status: OBLIVION KM Jahangir Thrice elected MP, former State Minister for Textiles KM Jahangir is another reformist in Awami League. He was not given nomination in the last election. He was extremely unhappy over this, but set himself to appease the leader and remains active in party politics. Present status: STAGING A COMEBACK Maj. (retd) Rafiqul Islam Known as Mr. Clean, Maj. (retd) Rafiqul Islam was Home Minister during Awami League's last government, but lost his position in cabinet due to failure to perform. He became MP in the last election, but is of little importance to the party. It is not likely that he will clinch any important position in the party in the coming days and is nowhere near the front line. After the present government completes its five-year stint at the helm, it is not likely that Maj. Rafiq will be able to rebuild his political career. Present status: INACTIVE Salman F Rahman Salman F Rahman, owner of Beximco, one of the largest industrial groups of the country, was a friend of Sheikh Kamal. He is known to be the lobbyist within the party for a certain country. That is why, no matter what irregularities may have been revealed about his businesses, he remains close to Sheikh Hasina. He was arrested on corruption charges after 1/11 during the rule of  Fakhruddin Ahmed's caretaker government and the various businesses of Beximco were on the verge of closure. But he's back in the limelight once again and Beximco too has been given a fresh lease of life. He may not be a politician per se, but holds a lot of weight with the party President. Present status: ACTIVE Akhteruzzaman Dynamic student leader of JSD and former VP of DUCSU, Akhteruzzaman became a 'junior' when he joined Awami League. He was elected MP from Gazipur in 1996, but did not put on a good performance. During the alliance rule, he was totally inactive in politics and even now he is hardly seen or heard. He is doesn't hold much importance to the party high command either. Present status: INACTIVE Barrister Amirul Islam Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has appointed the young Barrister Amirul Islam as his Political Secretary. He was elected as MP from Kushtia in 1973. He has considerable influence among lawyers of the Awami League camp. He has a strong reputation in the legal profession, but never quite gained that strength in politics. He has never been quite active in the political arena. He sought nomination in the last election, but in vain. He no longer holds importance in Awami League politics. Present status: EXHAUSTED. He remains strong in his legal profession. Mayor Mohiuddin Ahmed Mohiuddin Ahmed has been elected Mayor of Chittagong several times and considers himself the uncrowned king of Chittagong. This attitude has created a distance between him and the other local Awami League leaders. He was sent to jail on corruption charges after 1/11. He still remains influential as Mayor, though his appeal to the younger generation is on the wane. Present status: ACTIVE. Much depends on his candidacy for Chittagong Mayor which is under active consideration. He plays a role in Chittagong's regional politics. Mustafa Mohsin Montu Formerly a daring and dynamic Jubo League leader, Mustafa Mohsin Montu followed in Dr. Kamal's footsteps to join Gono Forum.. Gono Forum, however, has become inactive in politics and frustrated Montu has also become virtually inactive. So though he has returned to Awami League, politics prospects for him are bleak. Present status: Dying horse. He is also mentally ill. Dr. Mustafa Jalal Mohiuddin This tried and tested leader of the party was elected MP for the first time, from the Lalbagh in the capital city. He is in Hasina's good books. He may even be given a place in the cabinet in the future. Present status: ACTIVE   BNP Chowdhury Tanveer Ahmed Siddiqui Founder member of BNP as well as its standing member, former minister Tanveer Siddiqui has always been loyal to Begum Khaleda Zia. During President Zia's rule he was elected MP from Gazipur, but later he failed three elections consecutively. The final nail to the coffin of Siddiqui's political career was his son's vile accusations against Khaleda Zia made in presence of Tanveer Siddiqui. Tanveer Siddiqui was expelled from the party. Present status: EXHAUSTED Shamsul Islam Shamsul Islam is a politician sans controversy. Former Industries Minister and former Information Minister, Shamsul Islam is a member of BNP's standing committee. He has been faltering in his political prominence due to his advanced years. He is still active, but at the end of the next five years it is not likely that his age will permit him to continue at this pace. His political barometer at a national level as well as in his own area is likely to plummet. Present status: EXHAUSTED. In his stead, his son will rise in politics. Mosaddek Ali Falu From Khaleda Zia's political secretary and then becoming MP from a seat in Dhaka, Mosaddek Ali Falu's rise was phenomenal. With the four-party alliance coming to power, Falu amassed unbridled power and fortune. He became a media mogul, owing the TV channels RTV and NTV as well as the daily newspaper Amar Desh. After the 1/11 takeover of the caretaker government, his power was diminished and he was sent to jail on corruption charges. He may not be politically active at present, but is gradually rebuilding his media houses. He does not actively participate in party activities and is no longer that close with Begum Zia. Present status: MAY STAGE A COMEBACK. He is a bright star for factional politics. Amanullah Aman This former DUCSU VP was elected MP thrice consecutively (1991-2001). He was State Minister for Health in the alliance government. He went to jail during the caretaker government on corruption charges. He was defeated in the 2009 election. He is presently active in politics. The government may target him on corruption grounds. His image may have been dealt a blow, but in all probability he may be back in the political fray. Present status: ACTIVE Major (retd) Hafizuddin Ahmed Former Minister of the alliance government, Major Hafizuddin was seen as a rising leader in BNP. After 1/11, he joined Mannan Bhuiyan's reformist camp and became controversial by taking up the position of Secretary General of the rebel faction. His image was dealt a severe blow, even in his own constituency. Once Khaleda Zia was released, he acknowledged her leadership once again. But the party supporters did not forget and he lost in the last election. He is presently keeping away from politics and it will be hard for him to return to his former standing in the party. Present status: ON THE BACK BURNER. May join up with Mannan Bhuiyan in forming new party. Jamiruddin Sircar Former Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar is a true blue politician. He is still popular and powerful in his area. But the present government may make things difficult for him. However, this may serve to increase his popularity. He has been elected MP from Bogra in the by-election. He is important in BNP, but this may not last till the end of this government's five year term. Present status: BACKBENCH IN POLITICS. He has cases against him which may impede his progress. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Former State Minister for Tourism, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has a clean image within the party. He remains steadfast in his loyalty to Khaleda Zia. Even after 1/11 he faced no controversy. His acceptability within the party is growing. He may be made party Secretary General. Present status: ACTIVE. He is a rising star in BNP. Altaf Chowdhury While Home Minister of the alliance government, former Air Force Chief Altaf Chowdhury became subject to censure for his controversial statements. His poor performance was criticized within the government too. He was dropped from the cabinet. While minister, he got involved in corruption and once he lost his cabinet position, he became inactive in politics. His image was tarnished in his own area too. He remains away from politics. Present status: EXHAUSTED AKM Musharraf Hossain This former bureaucrat was also known as the husband of Ershad's lady friend Zeenat Musharraf. He was elected BNP MP twice. He was State Minister for Energy, but lost his position in cabinet for taking bribes from a foreign oil company. He became inactive in the party after that. Present status: EXHAUSTED. However, as a technocrat, he may remain in the scene. Maj. (retd.) Akhteruzzaman He was elected MP twice from Kishoreganj. This talkative politician became the centre of attention by speaking out loud against his own party. He has always been a thorn in BNP's flesh. He contested in the last election, but lost. He does not have a good standing with the party leaders and workers. He holds no importance in future politics. Present status: EXHAUSTED. But will remain in the media. Ehsanul Huq Milon He was elected BNP MP twice, in 1996 and 2006, from Chandpur. He played a very positive role as State Minister for Education during the alliance government's rule, doing away with rampant cheating during exams. But he was also accused of misusing his power. He fell rather silent after 1/11. After losing in the last election, he became further inactive in politics. He may be target of his rival MP's ire. This young leader has Khaleda Zia's blessings and may make a comeback. Present status: INACTIVE at present. Might make a comeback. Haris Chowdhury He may have been neither an MP for a veteran politician, but Haris Chowdhury wielded untold power within BNP. He was Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Political Secretary. He made money through all means, legal and otherwise. After 1/11 he fled from the country and the Anti-Corruption Commission filed a case against him in his absence. He is back, but no longer has his old clout. He is a non-entity even in BNP. Present status: EXHAUSTED   LDP Col. (retd) Oli Ahmed Col. Oli Ahmed entered politics through BNP. He was elected MP four times from the Chittagong-13 seat and once from Chittagong 14. In 1999 he became minister. In 2001 he was MP but not made minister. This led him to rebel against the party and lash out against Begum Khaleda Zia. Along with like-minded leaders of the party he formed the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In the December 2008 election he was the only one of LDP to win, the others facing miserable defeat. Present status: STAGE A COMEBACK. He has good relations with Hasina. His anti-Ershad stance impeded his politics. He might join the cabinet. Alamgir Kabir Former left leader Alamgir Kabir was at one time the target of much controversy due to his involvement in underground brutal politics in North Bengal. He came clean and joined BNP politics, being elected MP thrice from Naongoan-6. He was a minister of the alliance government. He is accused of being involved in the rise of JMB and Bangla Bhai. He then disassociated himself from BNP and joined LDP. But since then he became politically inactive. Present status: EXHAUSTED   Bikalpadhara Maj. (retd) Abdul Mannan Having been elected twice from Dhaka's Ramna-Tejgaon constituency in 1991 and 2001 respectively, Maj. (retd) Mannan left BNP to join B. Chowdhury and his Bikalpadhara. Bikalpadhara Secretary general Mannan then joined LDP, only to jump back to Bikalpadhara. He contested from three constituencies in the last election, but lost in all seats. He, evidently, has lost importance to the people. Present status: EXHAUSTED   Civil Society Barrister RokonUddin Mahmud This lawyer of the Awami League ilk was titled to be a candidate in the much-talked-about January 22 (2007) election from Dhanmandi.. He was in the media limelight at the time. But after 1/11, he suddenly vanished from the spotlight and hasn't even spoken in favour of Awami League since then. He is now silently concentrating on his professional work. Present status: LICKING HIS WOUNDS. He is in the process of healing after the election and it will take some time to recover his old joie d vivre. Kazi Faruk Ahmed Kazi Faruk Ahmed, head of the NGO Proshika, has always been controversial. He was very much involved in the 'April 30' scam of Awami League during the alliance rule. In violation of the rules, he used his NGO for political purposes. He has even been accused of misappropriating Proshika money. The Anti-Corruption Commission filed a case against him after 1/11. He then left Awami League politics to form a party of his own and was a candidate in the last election. He used Proshika workers here too. He faced defeat in the election and his party activities ground to a halt. He power also diminished. He still faces charges. In the NGO sector he went from hero to zero. Present status: EXHAUSTED   Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed Begum Khaleda Zia, as prime Minister of the alliance government, recalled  Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed from abroad to make him Governor of Bangladesh Bank. It is alleged that he resorted to irregularities while in that post, unlawfully providing a banker relation with favours. He was later made head of PKSF. Then 1/11 changed his fate and he became Chief Advisor of the caretaker government.. In this position he made all sorts of pledges and commitments to the people, but his government has been more of a failure than a success. He even deviated into extra-constitutional actions for which he has been strongly criticized. And rather shockingly, he simply took off for America a day after the BDR carnage. He remains the country's most controversial caretaker chief till date. He has lost his initial good image. Present status: OBLIVION Abdul Awal Mintoo It is hard to discern the party leanings of Abdul Awal Mintoo, one of the country's topmost businessmen and former President of FBCCI. It has been heard that he aspires to be Mayor of Dhaka City. He has at times vied for candidacy from BNP and at times from Awami League. It is alleged he provided Awami League with funds and other assistance for the 'April 30' scam, aiming at the downfall of the BNP-led alliance government. He was arrested and sent to jail after 1/11. He may contest for the office of Dhaka Mayor, though it is not certain which party he will stand from. The business circles also have their reservations about him. There is a large billboard at Mohakhali where he models for an advertisement of the daily Amar Desh. It is to be seen whether the people of Dhaka see him fit to be their Mayor. Present status: ACTIVE Tapan Chowdhury Entrepreneur of the Square Group of Industries, Tapan Chowdhury was an Advisor of the Fakhruddin caretaker government. But his performance was weak and he had to step down from office. He is alleged to have misused his power as advisor to stop the raw material import of a certain pharmaceutical company for his own company's benefit. His failure in the caretaker government has tarnished his image somewhat. No one is likely to select him for such an important government position in future. Present status: ON THE BACK BURNER. It's back to business as usual and he is presently 'hosting' Dr. Wazed, husband of Sheikh Hasina, at Square Hospital.   http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5099

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[ALOCHONA] The roller-coaster:Bangladesh-India relationship

Commentary The roller-coaster : Bangladesh-India relationship Mahmud ur Rahman Choudhury Indian warning of assassination plot The Indian foreign secretary Mr. Shiv Shankar Menon paid an unscheduled visit to Bangladesh on 12 April 2009. The Bangladesh foreign ministry officials stated that such a "short notice" visit was unprecedented but maintained that the trip was "just part of ongoing dialogue between friends, between neighbours". The visit went almost unnoticed in the Bangladesh media until the Indian Express on 18 April published a report claiming that the visit was prompted by a need to warn Bangladesh of an assassination threat against its prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. The Indian Express further claimed that Indian intelligence had picked up electronic communications between members of radical/ militant/ terrorist groups operating "in the neighbourhood" and that these intercepts pointed to the existence of a plot to target the "new Sheikh Hasina government". "That prompted India to go ahead and warn the Bangladesh top brass of the threat", the report contended. There are many explicit and implicit aspects to this Indian Express report. The Indian media has for long been propagating a perception and stoking its own paranoia that Bangladesh is awash with militancy and terrorism quite forgetting the fact that for the last one decade radical politics of the right or religion-based militancy and terrorism have never been able to take root in Bangladesh and have been tackled with draconian measures, reducing any organizational or structural integrity, these "militants" might have had, to impotence. Explicit in the Indian Express report is the fact that India is so concerned about Bangladesh that it is devoting its overstretched intelligence resources to finding out what is happening here, inspite of the reality that the highly inept and corrupt Indian "intelligence" and law-enforcement agencies have been able to do next to nothing about terrorist, militancy and separatist threats which are tearing India apart. As a matter of fact Indian intelligence agencies have a long history of incompetence if one considers the fact that two Indian prime ministers - Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi - were assassinated without these intelligence agencies being able to get even a hint of these events happening. One could therefore, quite legitimately question the competence and acumen of the Indian intelligence in identifying threats of assassination against the prime minister of Bangladesh. This leads us to the implicit aspects of the Indian Express report. Implicit in the Express report is the fact that India will not look upon kindly to any government in Bangladesh which will not serve the Indian purpose of establishing a monopoly on South Asia and its considerable resources and markets - and this includes the maritime-boundary demarcation in the Bay of Bengal containing energy resources, the continuous building of barrages upstream, to divert waters of 54 major rivers passing through Bangladesh and transit through Bangladesh making passage of goods, from one part of India to another, easier. Any Bangladeshi government not seeing eye-to-eye with India on these issue is likely to be tarred with the brush of "islamist radicals" and that is why the Indian media and foreign policy campaign of drumming up the extremist/terrorist threat in Bangladesh. This is a stark warning that any Bangladeshi government inimical to Indian interests is likely to face "interventions" of various sorts and extents, physical and military encroachments included. As to how much of this threat is reality and how much bluff, is difficult to say particularly now when India is in the middle of an election which could lead to a change in government but like all things in international politics bluffs work, if the "target" is ready and willing to believe the bluffs and is unable to "call" them - Bangladesh is now in the unfortunate position of not being able to call these bluffs. Impacts of change of government in India on Bangladesh India is holding its elections but it will be a month before anyone can get to know the results - so vast is the country, so massive its electorate and so many its constituencies. Who forms the government in India is of concern to everyone including countries like USA, China and Russia, but smaller states of the South Asian region, including Bangladesh, are more than worried because the impact of the change is more direct and immediate. On the surface, politics in India and Bangladesh have many similarities: both are plagued with "dynastic" politics and with corruption, divisiveness, violence and conflict. A more striking similarity is that both polities are dominated by conglomerates/ coalitions of two major parties - in India, the Indian National Congress is a secular centrist party which led the Indian independence struggle and now heads a coalition called the United Progressive Alliance or UPA (comparable, in Bangladesh to the Awami League and its grand alliance); standing in opposition to the Congress and UPA is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a religious based nationalist party that fronts a loose coalition of parties dubbed the National Democratic Alliance or NDA (comparable, in Bangladesh to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its 4 party alliance). The linkages do not end here but go much deeper. In 1971, India led by Congress with Indira Gandhi as the Prime Minister actively supported the Bangladesh War of Liberation led by the Awami League with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as its undisputed leader. After that successful intervention which led to the independence of Bangladesh, India and Bangladesh signed a 25 year treaty of friendship. Since then, the Bangladesh Awami League and the Indian National Congress have a close, almost symbiotic relationship with each other; anytime both are in government in their respective states, "cooperation" between both countries increase exponentially. When the BJP is in government in India, such close relationships and cooperation are replaced with more formal inter-state interactions between Bangladesh and India. When the BNP is in government in Bangladesh and the BJP in India, relationships between India and Bangladesh take a frigid, often confrontational turn. Regardless of whether it is the BJP or the Congress in government, India would want a sympathetic, if not exactly a friendly government in Bangladesh and so, by all counts, calculations and probabilities, as far as India is concerned, the government of choice in Bangladesh is an Awami League government. Were it not for the peculiar coincidence that the Congress coalition was in government in India when elections in Bangladesh took place and now during Indian elections an Awami League government is in place in Bangladesh, Bangladesh could expect active interference, even interventions in its politics by the Indians which could lead to a severe destabilization of Bangladesh and the entire region, already riven by separatism, terrorism, conflict and violence of various types and magnitudes.   http://www.thebangladeshtoday.com/leading%20news..htm#lead%20news-03

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[ALOCHONA] Re: [khabor.com] PM planned to do office from Canada

f Mr. Momen is right then Sheikh Hasina has done a great injustice to her daughter. Her unemployed felon son lives in a million dollar house in Northern Virginia who also owns another house in the same area. We don't know how many more he owns. Sk Hasina before leaving office last time wanted to take the 'gonobhobon' for good and wanted to have life long protection by SSF. It costs millions to have SSF for someone. It doesn't seem usual for someone who wants a palace like 'gonobhobon' would live in a two bedroom apartment without security. The supporters of BNP and BAL are very good at making fabricated stories about their leaders, it is not the first time. --- On Sat, 4/25/09, Iftekhar Arif <ekdin.protidin@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Iftekhar Arif <ekdin.protidin@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [khabor.com] PM planned to do office from Canada To: khabor@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009, 11:38 AM Mr Nuran Nabi   Whoever says anything against AL and Sheikh Hasina you guys call them Razakar or Anti-liberation force . What kind of STUPID thinking is this ? Liberation war was not paternal property of AL or Sheikh Hasina. Responding the call of Bangabondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman all bengali poeple joined the liberation war, directly or indirectly. Only few poeple were against that who were known as anti-liberation force. Many freedom fighters were never involved in politics before or after the liberation war.   So Mr Nurun Nabi, please stop accusing everyone as anti-liberation force or razakar who only doesn't like AL or it's leaders. This is an absolutely STUPID thinking which we DO NOT expect from you.     Thanks all   Iftekhar --- On Sat, 4/25/09, Nurannab nuranabi@aol. com <Nurannabi@aol. com> wrote: From: Nurannabi@aol. com <Nurannabi@aol. com> Subject: Re: [khabor.com] PM planned to do office from Canada To: khabor@yahoogroups. com Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009, 9:10 AM Mannan Bhai, Yes, you are right that it's waste of my time to respond to such a nonsense. As you know that anti-liberation forces have resources to employ full time people to do propaganda against pro-liberation forces in the Internet with fake names. Some time we are compelled to respond.   I agree with you that we have positive things to do in our lives. Regards, Nuran Nabi -----Original Message----- From: Abdul Mannan <abman1971@gmail. com> To: khabor@yahoogroups. com Sent: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:24 pm Subject: Re: [khabor.com] PM planned to do office from Canada Nabi bhai,   Why waste time? Use it for something more useful. We met at Mr. Mohiuddin Ahmed's (former Foreign Secretary) house at Uttara, if I am not wrong. He is very sick. On Sunday he might leave for Singapore.   Warm wishes.   Prof. Mannan Former Vice Chancellor University of Chittagong.   On 4/24/09, Nuran Nabi <nurannabi@gmail. com> wrote: Mr. Delwar, Dr. Momen is 100% right. I also visited the then PM Sheikh Hasina in Florida in a seven member delegation of FOBANA (many of them were not supporter of AL) nbsp;and found her in a situation as described by Dr. Momen. After my meeting with her, I also attended a public meeting with her in FL. You may take self satisfaction by doing  false propaganda against PM Sheikh Hasina, however, truth will prevail. It was proven in the last election where people  overwhelmingly voted Sheikh Hasina to power.    You degrade yourself when you spread false against truth. I challenge you to come with any proof to support your claim. On the other hand, just see the news papers published at that time  and you will find that you are wrong.   Finally, I am ready to have a face to face debate with you in a public place on this issue if you identify yourself and agree. If not, please stop this nonsense and move on. Regards, Nuran Nabi   On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Delwar Mazumder <delwar98@hotmail. com> wrote: Mr. Momen,   Your information is totally false and fabricated. Asked your netri where she did her office at that time? You are visited when she was not PM.   Delwar   To: khabor@yahoogroups. com; dahuk@yahoogroups. com From: abdul_momen@ hotmail.com Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:38:50 -0400 Subject: RE: [khabor.com] PM planned to do office from Canada Dear Mr. Delwar;   Your information is not correct. It is simply false and unfortunately, you did not do any investigation.  The fact of the matter is; when she came to attend her daughter's delivery in Florida, she stayed at her daughter's 2-BR apartment. It was a very simple and small apartment.   I know it as I visited her in that apartment. When I went to visit her, I met a resident and asked her about the direction of the apartment. While walking together, I told her that Bangladesh PM was staying with her daughter in that apartment.  At this, she was simply surprised as she can never believe that a Prime Minister could live in such apartments or even in such locality.  That lady was living in an apartment which was just next to that of Putul.   I was expecting security check up and crowd of automobiles in front of the apartment. But to my surprise, there was none.... only one US security car standing opposite to that apartment and they did not stop me.  I went up to the 1st floor and when knocked the door, his son-in-law opened the door.  It was a very simple living, not a 5-star hotel.=2 0You may further get surprised that I found the Bangladesh PM preparing fish curry for her family just like any other Bangali mother.    Abdul Momen         To: khabor@yahoogroups. com; dahuk@yahoogroups. com From: delwar98@hotmail. com Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:22:34 +0000 Subject: [khabor.com] PM planned to do office from Canada Dear Members,   Koyla Dhoileo Moyla jayna. Sheikh Hasia, during her first term (1996-2001), spend more that one month in the USA  to observed her first grand daughter's delivery (Putul's first baby). She stayed in 5 star hotel from where she did her so called office work and spend Millions of dollars. 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[ALOCHONA] FW: [dhakamails] Solving the Energy Crisis

Some Questions !!!
 
(1) Can the agricultural sector make up the deficiency in supply of urea if all urea factories are shut down?
 
(Since Bangladesh has improved the agricultural productions drastically in the last few years and is producing food for almost the entire people of the country, not counting the natural disasters, the closure of the urea factories can result in the reduction of food production, and thereby increase hunger and food prices, damaging the country a lot.)
 
(2) Does the gas supply organizations such as Titas Gas, have enough resources to make significant improvements in the installations of extensive quantity of gas pipelines and increasing the pipeline pressure?
 
(3) What are the advantages of barge mounted power plants as opposed to traditional shore-mounted or river-bank mounted power plants?
 
(As the industry practice, a power plant generally refers to a large power producing facility, not a standby diesel generator for peak shaving of a utility supply at the times of maximum demands, or to offset the crises of utility power to a big building, an institutional campus, an industrial plant, or even a housing complex. These standby plants can be diesel or natural gas fired, and can be stationary or mobile. The mobile ones can be barge mounted, trailer mounted, truck mounted, or wheeled container mounted. The stationary units can be pad mounted. All large power plants shall be stationary and needed to be installed near a natural water source (River, lake, bay, sea, falls, bills, etc. to be able to get cooling water intake and discharge easily and continuosly during the unit operations. The discharge must be processed before letting it to go to the nature again. often times it needs discharge retaining ponds, open air and sunlight, bacteria culture, sedimentation & filtering plants, osmosis, and various other arrangements. A barge is incapable of doing all these and ultimately will be a source of natural water pollutions. No one thought that the tube wells will someday be a severe source of arsenic, rather than the best solution for drinking water. Someday the barge mounted power plants may be proven so.)
 
(4)  Does bangladesh have the enough resources to be able to buy huge amount of foreign currencies (even not being sure whether tomorrow the mostly accepted foreign currency will be dollar, euro, pound, or any other currencies that the current worldwide economic turmoil may result in inevitably.)?
 
(Bangladesh bank must boost the foreign currency as much possible based on the means of country and being helped by the exports and money sent to Bangladesh by the wage-earners and the NRBs. The resource shall be increased by appropriately collecting all taxes, stopping bribes, giving due process to the actors of financial frauds, and increasing the trust and cooperation amongst all, by creating a pleasant, stable, and reliable political atmosphere and setting up the rule of law through fully democratic way. Short of it will no way help in this respect. Also to make government debt selling institutions stable, productive, and popular amongst the citizens and the foreigners such that government can sell substantial amount of bonds and other financial products. Government must also aggressively pursue Grants, very low interest loans, and revenue/Toll paid loans for the physical projects. Revenue collection rates and procedures must be sustainably introduced, administered, and make result oriented. Let us install as many traditional stationary power plants as possible throughout the country using these financial resources and this approach will not strain the other sectors.)
 
(5)  Is not water scarce like electric power or even more throughout the country, not only in Dhaka?
 
(Crises in utility supplied electricity does reduce pumping capacity of water. However, water itself is in crisis. The amount of potable water the the entire country is very little compared to its demand. Underground water has proven detrimental to human health and natural aquafar system. The only presumable both long and short term solutions of drinking water is the surface water. Water of the monsoon shall be stored in natural or artificial conserving containment. Lot more pukurs & dighis have to be dug in and completely protected as the sources of drinking water only and not for bathing, washing and cleaning stuff as used to be done traditionally in the country. Some country programs have to be taken to install underground concrete vaults of large sizes for all house holds, collecting water from rains or natural sources during rainy seasons and using water from there as long as possible. This will reduce the burden on electricity.) 
 
(6) Is it not necessary to stop the practice of allowing the gas flame to remain lit for all times in the kitchen stoves, for conserving gas as well as increasing the fire safety for the homes?

(7) In supplying power by PDB to the consumers, are not two issues most critical, such as the shortages of (1) transmission lines, and (2) theft of energy by the joint effort of the dishonest contractors & consumers (bribe givers) and the dishonest employees of the power distribution sectors such as the meter readers, inspectors, estimators, revenue collectors, section employees and officers, etc. (bribe takers) ? Can these be eradicated from bangladesh? What are the plans and how? Did ethics, religions, and un-imposed weak laws could at all help to resolve this crisis of stealing energy?
 
(8) Has private sources of producing electric power and selling to Government been considered?
 
(9) Has the non-traditional means and methods of producing electric power by smaller amount form the natural/renewable sources of energy been planned, studied, public been encouraged to adopt, and attempted to reduce burden on the electric utilities?
 
(For example, it is easily possible to drive a generator of fairly small to medium sizes by a windmill fan, keeping a whole hose or a housing complex electrified. Solar cells along with batteries can be installed on all roofs, producing enough electricity for that house. It is also possible to miniaturized the model of the hydro-generators and run in the nearby stream, canals, rivers, falls, guisers, and sea/ocean tides. Like the drops of water make an ocean, when all these mini-sources of the electricity productions are added together, it will relieve the national grid a lot.)
 
(10)  Did anybody planned how can be electricity produced when natural gas will be unavailable?
 
(Natural gas reserve in bangladesh id not even 0.08% of the world's gas reserve. However, the gas consumption in bangladesh is quite high and it is predicted that the natural gas may not be available in Bangladesh after next 10/15 years, if miraculously, not a lot more gas reserves are discovered in the coming decade. So, coal may help but the only viable replacement of gas will be nuclear power source. Bangladesh is planning Russian made reactors which are extremely unreliable, created thousands of accidents in Russia and throughout the then USSR. Please look at India. Even being so big friend, India did not buy nuclear reactors from Russia. India is buying massive amount of nuclear power apparatus and equipment from USA because USA produces the best quality nuclear power products. So, Bangladesh must buy nuclear reactors from better reliable producers such as USA, France, etc. For nuclear power, quality and safety must be looked at before anything else.)
 
(11) Did Bangladesh think about building smart-grids and installing smart meters?
 
(Smart grids can receive/deliver power simultaneously from different varieties of sources of different quality and different rates and the smart meter can record different sources of power and the power of different rates, thus better serving the energy needs of the country.)
 
(12) Is Bangladesh taking serious steps for energy conservation and to encourage the consumers to use low rate powers at off-peak hours and thus reducing peak shaving needs, and be able to live with reduced generating unit sizes and reduced size of transmission/distribution cables?
 
There may be many more questions but these are some useful thoughts that might contribute to alleviating the power crises in Bangladesh.
 
Thanks and have a great day.
 
Regards,
KR
 
 

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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:41:36 -0700
Subject: [dhakamails] Solving the Energy Crisis

Solving the Energy Crisis   Salman Rahman and Forrest Cookson     The nation is now trapped in a cruel energy crisis undermining the quality of daily life, disturbing factory production, making examination studies more difficult, reducing the volume of water available in Dhaka and threatening economic development.  These are serious consequences.  It is not our intention here to blame anyone for actions taken or not taken.  What has happened has happened..  However, it is clear to everyone that a strong, action oriented program is needed to overcome the crisis.  We have set forth here just such a program.  The ideas in this article have been discussed in various forums by many experts.  What we offer here is to bring all the threads together into a coherent package.  The program outlined can readily be executed with dramatic improvement in the availability of electricity.    It is essential to keep focused on the key actions.  There is too much wandering around looking for magic solutions.  There are none.  Programs that come to fruition in ten year or more are of little help in the immediate crisis that has enveloped the nation, a crisis that could last for a decade if determined actions are not taken.  We have become very skeptical about what can be expected as there is a long history of false claims and broken promises from the Government organizations responsible for providing gas and electricity to the nation.    Our approach is very simple.  For the next four years the only fuel available for generating electricity is gas.  Diesel can be imported for critical generating requirements or for standby; power and solar power can provide some power for some buildings but it is only natural gas that will provide the large amount of additional electricity.  To provide this natural gas a series of actions are necessary:    SIX CRITICAL STEPS – COMPLETE IN THREE MONTHS   Close down all the government owned urea plants and divert the gas released to power and industrial use.  This must be done promptly, but systematically, simultaneously increasing urea imports.  The Government has under consideration closure of the Chittagong urea plant on a temporary basis.  We are arguing for shutting down all urea plants for several years to provide gas to fuel a major increase in power.  KAFCO will probably have to remain open but the financing of the plant may be reviewed and refinancing at lower interest rates and for a longer time period sought.  If it is impossible to close KAFCO at least one should try to get the best possible price for the urea, linking the selling price to the costs of production, not the international price.  Closing the urea plants is the only immediate source of additional gas.  Without this extra gas additional electricity cannot be produced.   Sign long term agreements to import urea.  Now is the time to do so as international price of urea is low.   The improvement of the gas pipelines and installation of compressors to pressure increase pipeline should be implemented immediately without concern for whether the ADB portion of the project finances enough of the total cost.  Raising the pressure in the gas pipelines is essential.  The PM noted the urgency of this when the project was approved but the completion of the contract is still being worked on.  Government should be prepared to finance itself the additional amounts required.   Many industries require gas for heating purposes and with the current low line pressures plants face much more difficulty, reducing production and increasing unit costs.   The Government should contract for several large barge mounted power plants as was done in the previous AL government; however, these should be short term contracts for only a few years.  These barge units will use much of the gas released from the urea plants.  These barge mounted plants should be able to supply 600 MWs additional capacity by the end of the year.   We believe that aggressive management of the power generation will enable the Government to have an additional 1000 MWs producing electricity by the end of the year using existing generating capacity and rented barge mounted plants.    This will ease the power crisis and provide breathing room for a few years while other fuel sources are developed and the required power plants constructed.   Instruct Bangladesh Bank to begin to buy additional foreign exchange at the rate of $25 million per week to finance the import of fertilizer. We expect that the total bill for urea might come to one billion dollars per year.   Water in Dhaka:  The supply of water in Dhaka is significantly reduced as a consequence of power outages and the failure of WASA to provide back-up diesel driven generators.  Low water changes, corruption, falling water table, neglect of maintenance for the distribution system have combined to make the water supply system very vulnerable to disruption.  There are grand projects to fix these infrastructure problems but action is needed at once to ease the shortages.  The Financial Express quotes a WASA official that about Taka 600 million is needed for stand by diesel generators..  This is less than US $10 million; the Government should procure these at once and of necessary airfreight them.  In the interim WASA should rent or borrow generators from anyone that will spare them.   FOUR CONTRACTUAL ACTIONS:  There are four complex contractual actions to be achieved.  These are all rather urgent and should be completed in six months.  This is a very demanding task but completion of these tasks is essential to insure the expansion of gas, electricity and urea after the next four years.   Contract for one or two large [about 500MW each] gas fired plants. Once these plants come on line the barges rented on a temporary basis would be sent away.  Diverting the gas from the urea factories and improving the capacity of the pipelines will enable gas to be delivered in amounts that will support the private sector and enable the national grid to deliver much more electricity.   Contract for new urea plants that are more efficient users of gas.  As coal fired power plants come on line in five years the gas can be sold to the urea factories enabling imports of urea to be curtailed.   By that time inefficient gas fired power plants can be decommissioned, and there will sufficient gas for the renewed urea production.   Contract for open pit mines at Barapukaria and Phulbari and associated coal fired power plants.   These contracts would target to production of 12 and 15 million metric tons of coal per year displacing coal imports [currently about 5 million mt] and providing ultimately 18 million mt to the power plants [enough for 6000 MWs] and exporting high value coking coal.  Contract for three coal fired power plants each for 1000 MWs planned to come on line in about four to five years.  When these plants are available gas is switched to new efficient urea plants and peaking plants for the power sector and for direct industrial use.   Accelerate the exploration for gas.  Conserve electricity and natural gas by raising the price of both to households and by installing meters on gas connection as rapidly as possible. Price hike of electricity and natural gas may seem to be an unpopular move in the short term but in the long run these steps will prove to be good for the country.   SEVEN PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE THE ENERGY AVAILABIOLITY:  These programs are complex and require major efforts; these are important complements to the major actions covered in points 1-10.   Conserve electricity and natural gas by raising the price of both to households and by installing meters on gas connection as rapidly as possible.  In addition, existing industrial meters should be checked and monitored to reduce corruption.  Further, the government should promote LPG as a residential cooking fuel by raising the price of natural gas and insuring the build up of the availability of LPG.  There have been numerous proposals to improve energy conservation including use of energy saving bulbs; these should be implemented.  Conservation will pay off but all of this takes time, and will not ease the crisis but by starting now in a major way after three or four years we should see a significant impact lower as demand.   The price of electricity and gas must be raised to insure that production costs including a reasonable return to capital are fully covered.  This is essential to encourage conservation.  Most actions taken recently encourage use not promote conservation.  But it is also essential that the taxation of the sector should not be excessive.    Improve the electricity distribution systems in Dhaka.  More than 10% of the electricity generated is lost in the transmission and distribution system.  Fixing this is a major undertaking but much can be done in the next two years to reduce heat loss in sub-stations.  A systematic program is needed to clean up the network of cables, wires, transformers, and illegal connections.  Much progress has been made; it must be accelerated.   The progress made during the Caretaker Government to reduce system losses in gas and electricity must be continued by aggressive administrative and police action. We have learned how much corruption existed in the Government's energy enterprises.  Efforts to stop this corruption and improve the performance of the distribution companies must be implemented.   Government policy should focus on regulation and sound policies.  The history of the Republic has demonstrated that the Government's operational involvement in the sector is wasteful, inefficient and corrupt.   While privatization may be premature, a policy of no new public power plants is urgently needed.  It is hard to understand why an approach to the power sector that has failed should continue to be supported and encouraged.   A major manpower development is urgently needed for the sector.   Renewable energy:  Renewable energy investments will ease demand for electricity.  Efforts to use solar power on tall buildings and factories should be promoted with low cost loans while insuring duties and taxes on solar equipment are kept at zero.  These efforts should include retrofitting buildings if owners find this economic.   Nuclear power for electricity:  Exploration of nuclear energy should go forward.  This is long complex process but it is essential to begin.  It will not impact the next decade but thereafter this could become an important source of energy.  There are also available nuclear batteries – self contained generating units that provide 25-50 MWs.  These are expensive but could be used in some instances to provide power to key Government operations.   This program would transform the energy sector in Bangladesh.  It would provide the basis for massive increases in manufacturing and job creation; it would provide the electrical power needed for most households and small businesses through the power grid.  The essential points of our program are:   ·        Solve the short run problem---power during the next four years---by directing gas to high priority uses and import urea during this transition period.  Use large barge gas fueled power plants for production of electricity right now.   ·        Carry out a major multi billion dollar investment program:  Start open pit coal mining Expand the power system to use coal for the base load and gas for peaking power.  Rebuild the urea factories to achieve efficient plants.  Build the transmission, distribution systems for gas and electricity that will be needed to complement the production of energy.   Accelerate the exploration for gas.  Mount a major program to develop the manpower needed for this massive energy development program.   ·        Implement the pricing, conservation, and ownership policies that the energy sector so badly needs.   Bangladesh stands before a tremendous economic and social hazard.  Without bold, decisive action the nation will face years and years of power shortages.  The wear and tear on the generation and distribution system may lead to a slow steady reduction in the availability of electricity.  Just staying even will prove difficult.  Without our program these shortages will cumulate making things worse: equipment will burn out, power plants will be over stressed and collapse from inadequate maintenance; we will become used to power outages of 8 hours per day; and there will be little growth of the manufacturing sector.   Never have so many persons been trapped like this.  The ideas we have set out here have been thought about by many persons.  There is no other solution that will produce prompt results with a high probability of success.  Continuation on the present path will lead to national disaster.

 

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