Sunday, May 3, 2009

[ALOCHONA] Jamaat-e-Islami P chief's reaction on Swat Flogging

Then, Hannan is a liar. What about the video on Taliban's own website showing beheading of a Pakistani?
Is that whole website also 'doctored'?
I think, Hannan could be doctored also, then?

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid <farida_majid@...> wrote:
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> Subject: Jamaat-e-Islami P chief's reaction on Swat Flogging
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> Jamat-e-Islami Ameer Munawwar Hassan Reaction on Swat Flogging
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> http://vidpk.com/view_video.php?vid=27417
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> Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan claimed responsibility for the flogging. "She came out of her house with another guy who was not her husband, so we must punish her. There are boundaries you cannot cross," he said.
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> "Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami believes that the years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan were one of the golden periods of Muslim history"
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> The rise of the bigots
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> Friday, April 10, 2009
> Harris Khalique
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> A friend of mine received a text message yesterday which she swiftly forwarded to me with a comment, "Please read this message I got from an old classmate. I feel sad for this woman more than the one flogged in Swat." The message came from a perfectly normal, middle-class professional woman who works with an inter-governmental agency in Islamabad. It reads, "Do not believe in the flogging video. This is a Jewish conspiracy hatched against Islam and Muslims."
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> A respected and senior bilingual journalist in one of his Urdu columns in the daily Jang went a little further and said that criticising Islamic punishments amounts to profanity. To him, westernised NGOs are doing it for dollars. The JUI-F leader found it to be a plot against the accord reached in Swat between the father and the son-in-law representing the TNSM and the Taliban, respectively. He also blamed the NGOs for blowing an incident out of proportion, which actually may not have happened. Unfortunately, the provincial information minister of the ANP thinks the same way.
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> But the masterpiece is yet to come. Behold. The new but not-so-fresh Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami believes that the years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan were one of the golden periods of Muslim history. Clearly alluding to the view that what the Taliban are doing in Pakistan is totally correct. Which means that as a citizen of Pakistan, an ordinary Muslim who believes in creating a modern, rational society where the rights of everybody who lives here, whether a woman, a minority person, a peasant or a prime minister, are equal, I must follow what the Taliban say. It is they who can establish such a state. They are the saviours, ones who guarantee a just and prosperous future to the teeming millions of this country.
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> And I am very sure that he is needed as the new spokesperson. Because the one they have now is not suave enough. One day he says that such incident has not taken place and on the very next day he says that the woman was flogged not by older men as shown in the video clip but two young boys who were not adults. Amazing! Young boys are used to flog women. Even worse I am afraid. I am sure my journalist colleague would have come up with a far better explanation. People like him could also provide understandable reasons for what happened in the last few days in the main Imambargah of Chakwal, the police academy in Lahore, the camp of the Frontier Constabulary in Islamabad. They can perhaps also justify scores of such incidents over the past couple of years.
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[ALOCHONA] What is happening in the foreign ministry?

What is happening in the foreign ministry?

Courtesy New Age 1/5/09

Confirmed and unconfirmed reports do not suggest that the foreign ministry is performing that well. The foreign minister, who embarrassed herself and the nation during the visit of the Indian foreign minister with the faux pas on the question on ‘buffer state’, has now embarrassed herself, her ministry, her prime minister and the Saudis by her eagerness to claim a first for her prime minister. In claiming that Sheikh Hasina’s meeting with the Saudi King was the first by a Bangladesh prime minister with the Saudi monarch in seven years, she found out quick enough that as prime minister, between 2002-2006, Khaldea Zia had met the Saudi King on four occasions.
   The post of Bangladesh’s ambassador to Germany has been vacant for over a year now. So are a large number of ambassadorial posts that are now in the process of being filled up. Retired ambassadors are being recalled to fill important posts while political patronage is also getting a few of these positions. A former vice chancellor of Rajshahi University is going to London. The brother of the finance minister is being sent to Saudi Arabia. Together with him, two other former ambassadors who are being given important posts are all US citizens. A post where unequivocal loyalty to the country is absolutely fundamental, it is illegal, immoral and unethical to give these individuals who have given their loyalty to another country as Bangladesh’s ambassadors.
   In this policy or lack of one, the BCS (FA) cadre officers are being treated most summarily. Whenever a foreign secretary has been sent abroad, he has usually gone to a post of his choice in the US, UK or the United Nations at New York. The present foreign secretary who has been in the post for nearly three years was, as the rumours go, offered Cairo that he declined and is now being considered for Geneva. These developments in the foreign ministry are creating a breakdown of morale in the ministry that will only make the foreign ministry weaker where the need of the time is to create a strong and effective foreign ministry with top grade professionals as career diplomats to take up the challenges of globalisation.
   The foreign minister is very quickly turning out to be a big disappointment for her priority seems to be is to make the prime minister happy as one can easily conclude by the faux pas she made over the credit she has given Sheikh Hasina for being the ‘first’ prime minister to meet the Saudi King in seven years. The state minister for foreign affairs, not to be overshadowed by his boss, took pride that the Saudi King addressed her as ‘sister’ as if this is rare for a Saudi king to do. If either had even the rudimentary grooming in conducting diplomacy, he/she would have known that on common sense both statements were wrong. A foreign minister with some knowledge of diplomatic norms would have known that one cannot please one’s boss in conduct of foreign relations where a foreign head of state is involved without checking facts. Her error is not a simple one; it has embarrassed Bangladesh to the Saudis.
   In the context of the present day world, a nation can either make or break on its understanding of the forces of international politics. In dealing across national frontiers, it is imperative that a country has a good foreign policy and a mechanism for conducting its external relations. In Bangladesh, we have none. We still, when it comes to policy, have a one line foreign policy which is now not even worth the value of a cliché: friendship for all and malice towards none. In terms of mechanism, we have a foreign ministry that is only so in name and cannot decide on anything except matters so exclusive to the ministry that the rest of the government is not even interested to know about. In this situation, we now have two novice ministers who are more eager to please the prime minister and very little about the ministry they head.
   I don’t think the foreign ministry has ever been in such a pitiable state of affairs as it is today. To me, the way things are being allowed to be in this important ministry signifies more than anything else that our governance level is sliding and all the talk about Vision 2021 and Digital Bangladesh are to take us for a ride.
   Rashed Ahmed
   Gulshan, Dhaka

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[ALOCHONA] Re: Reports of an assassination plot against Sheikh Hasina in the Indian press

Every reader must be aware of MBI Munshi and his ISI/Pakistan defense connection. MBI Munshi works as SENIOR MEMBER of Pakistan Defense Forum where he is ranked as Major General. Please go to this link to know about his long ISI/Pakistan connection.

Link: http://www.defence.pk/forums/members/mbi-munshi.html Once you consider his background, you will understand from where his write-up is paid from.

We must protect our country and shun Major General MBI Munshi of Pakistan Defense Forum from giving us Pakistan disaster formula. Closing our eyes will not stop the storm so we must keep abreast and fight the terrorist outfits until they are vanished.

Sincerely

Shamim Chowdhury

Maryland

MBI Munshi

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "M.B.I. Munshi" <MBIMunshi@...> wrote:
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> Since I have not been too far wrong in my predictions so far (although
> on occasion I have attempted to reverse the outcomes) I think I can make
> some observations on The India Express report. I doubt that India has
> any specific intelligence on any assassination plots against the
> government or has intercepted any 'electronic chatter' of terrorist
> groups involved in such a conspiracy. The unannounced visit of the
> Indian Foreign Secretary and the follow-up news report in the Express
> was really intended to preempt such a threat to Sheikh Hasina's
> life. Since India is now engaged in a lengthy elections process it would
> not be able to come to Sheikh Hasina's aid if anything were to
> happen hence the advance warning.
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> It is entirely likely that this AL administration has accumulated a
> number of enemies especially due to its likely involvement in the BDR
> mutiny as hinted in the New Age editorial today (April 18, 2009),
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> "Disturbingly still, there is also growing concern, especially among
> army officers and BDR jawans who were not involved with the BDR tragedy,
> that a plot may be on to derail the investigations and tamper with the
> findings of the ongoing inquests. Apprehension is also there that the
> findings of the investigations might not be properly reflected in the
> reports of the probe committees due in less than a month. Should such
> apprehension be even perceived to have come true, the consequence could
> be dangerous for our nation state."
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> This is of course one of the factors for the ill will felt against this
> government with others including the power crisis, political repression,
> War crimes trials and corruption. The threat to this government clearly
> does not come from an amorphous group of Islamist terrorists whose
> attempts to perpetrate violent acts have been largely thwarted during
> the last 4 years.
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> The significant aspect of the Express report is the last paragraph which
> appears to suggest that a successful attempt on Hasina's life or a
> takeover of power would necessarily be perpetrated by Islamist
> terrorists which would be considered in New Delhi as a threat to Indian
> and regional security and would justify intervention. One would have to
> read carefully between the lines to come to this conclusion but anyone
> who has studied wider Indian strategic objectives would understand the
> implications of this message. The most important point is that the
> Indian threat is at this point an empty one hence the very public visit
> of the Indian Foreign Secretary to preempt any undermining of this
> government while India is distracted. Some in Bangladesh would be
> justified in arguing that this is direct interference in the internal
> affairs of Bangladesh but since the Express message is couched in
> indirect terms the threat is only implied. No one would argue that the
> Indian's weren't clever if not sneaky, devious and cunning at
> the same time.
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RE: [ALOCHONA] Reports of an assassination plot against Sheikh Hasina in the Indian press

"Churer Shabud holo Gat kata" - Is it not often true?

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: MBIMunshi@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:07:22 +0000
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Reports of an assassination plot against Sheikh Hasina in the Indian press

Since I have not been too far wrong in my predictions so far (although on occasion I have attempted to reverse the outcomes) I think I can make some observations on The India Express report. I doubt that India has any specific intelligence on any assassination plots against the government or has intercepted any 'electronic chatter' of terrorist groups involved in such a conspiracy. The unannounced visit of the Indian Foreign Secretary and the follow-up news report in the Express was really intended to preempt such a threat to Sheikh Hasina's life. Since India is now engaged in a lengthy elections process it would not be able to come to Sheikh Hasina's aid if anything were to happen hence the advance warning.

It is entirely likely that this AL administration has accumulated a number of enemies especially due to its likely involvement in the BDR mutiny as hinted in the New Age editorial today (April 18, 2009),

"Disturbingly still, there is also growing concern, especially among army officers and BDR jawans who were not involved with the BDR tragedy, that a plot may be on to derail the investigations and tamper with the findings of the ongoing inquests. Apprehension is also there that the findings of the investigations might not be properly reflected in the reports of the probe committees due in less than a month. Should such apprehension be even perceived to have come true, the consequence could be dangerous for our nation state."

This is of course one of the factors for the ill will felt against this government with others including the power crisis, political repression, War crimes trials and corruption. The threat to this government clearly does not come from an amorphous group of Islamist terrorists whose attempts to perpetrate violent acts have been largely thwarted during the last 4 years.

The significant aspect of the Express report is the last paragraph which appears to suggest that a successful attempt on Hasina's life or a takeover of power would necessarily be perpetrated by Islamist terrorists which would be considered in New Delhi as a threat to Indian and regional security and would justify intervention. One would have to read carefully between the lines to come to this conclusion but anyone who has studied wider Indian strategic objectives would understand the implications of this message. The most important point is that the Indian threat is at this point an empty one hence the very public visit of the Indian Foreign Secretary to preempt any undermining of this government while India is distracted. Some in Bangladesh would be justified in arguing that this is direct interference in the internal affairs of Bangladesh but since the Express message is couched in indirect terms the threat is only implied. No one would argue that the Indian's weren't clever if not sneaky, devious and cunning at the same time.

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RE: [ALOCHONA] She loves me, she loves me not

The common character of all India haters and Pakistan lovers is to raise their eye-brows up and mark as the Indian agent, anyone who wants to criticize their unproductive antipathy. This is their common sickness; despite having an evaluation by the common patriotic Bangladeshis, as to be so is nothing but a nuisance to common Bangalees. Every common patriotic Bangladeshi who does not like any kind of sectarianism, does agree that the muslims being minority in British-India, wanted a separate homeland for them. Tensions grew between the Eastern and Western parts of India, in choosing where this separate homeland will be created. A. K. Fazlul Haque, Bhashani, Suhrawardi, wanted it to be in the East including full Bangal, Assam, and Tripura. Iqbal, Jinnah, Liaqat Ali Khan wanted it in the West. British ran a poll and all majority muslim parts were put together as Pakistan, except Kashmir and Hydrabad (arose a scam). High hope prevailed to be a peaceful and ideal homeland for the muslims. But Urdu speakers rose their nose high up trying to step their feet on all others that resulted ultimately the Bangalees to revolt and adopt all possible steps to separate themselves from the obnoxious urdu-speakers. After all episodes when the East won absolute majority in the National Election, the urduwalas started demolishing the Bangla speakers. Bangalees declared independence and started the freedom fight. India helped and Bangladesh achieved independence. Ninety-thousand pakistabni soldiers and equal or more numbers of local traitors (Shanti-bahini, rajakars, al-bodor, al-shams, and their cohorts) surrendered. Tremendous amount of blood flew for achieving the independence. However, the traitors always remained behind to demonize Bangladesh. They are extremely vibrant even today. They pose they are the better people. In fact they are the worst people in the society, always want to create chaos inside the country as well as with the neighbors. Brothers and sisters who by heart and soul are Bangladeshi, love Bangla, Love the independence of Bangladesh, love to remain free for all times for all generations to come, please remain vigilant, and do not be lured by these slick sleazes who would always try to drive you against the common Bangladeshis in the interest of the old enemies of Bangladesh from Pakistan, Middle-East, and their cohorts all over the world.

To: dhakamails@yahoogroups.com
From: bd_mailer@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 22:41:57 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] She loves me, she loves me not

She loves me, she loves me not

By Misha Hussain

Dhaka-based journalist Misha Hussain considers the Indian elections in light of Bangladesh's love-hate relationship with the world's largest democracy.

The recently elected government in Bangladesh has a special relationship with the current Indian administration. It was, after all, Indira Gandhi's Congress Party that catalysed Bangladesh's liberation and secured the freedom of East Pakistan for Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League. India opened up its borders, set up refugee camps, helped to train and arm the Mukti Bahini guerrillas as well as collected tax to ease the suffering of the Bengalis. Independence was India's engagement ring to Bangladesh in a marriage of convenience. Despite a prevailing sense of gratitude, there are many who continue to raise eyebrows at Indian regional hegemony and feel that Bangladeshis are still paying off the dowry.

The India-Bangladesh relationship began to sour in the mid-1970s with the erection of the Farakka Barrage. The dam, which was meant to run on an experimental basis to help navigation in the Calcutta ports, created problems in irrigation and aquatic life, silted up rivers and increased salinity, thereby threatening crops further downstream in Bangladesh. Over 100 bilateral talks have taken place since then to establish provisions to guarantee water for Bangladesh, but these were never properly upheld. Thirty-five years later, the water sharing of the Ganges is still fresh in the minds of the rural population. As Nadim Shah, a Baul (mystic minstrel) from Kushtia, puts it: 'What kind of country denies its neighbour water?'

The fact is, India still regards itself as the regional breadwinner and thinks accordingly. 'Its attitude towards countries in South Asia was clearly set out in the Indira Doctrine," says Professor Akmal Hossain from the department of International Relations at Dhaka University. This doctrine essentially argues that India can do whatever it wants, but no other country can act without the express permission of India.

This attitude was evident in the surprise visit of the Indian Foreign Minister earlier this month, which went against required protocol and shocked parliamentarians. As recently as 2007, India started constructing the Tipaimukh Dam on the Sylhet border without consulting Bangladesh. Previously, in 2002, India made an unprecedented move (anti-dumping measure) to stop the sale of acid batteries from Bangladesh. This was later overturned by the World Trade Organisation, but slapping a least developed country (LDC) like Bangladesh with an anti-dumping measure is the diplomatic equivalent of wife beating.

The fact is, India still has a long way to go.. There is a disproportionate amount of poverty (India is estimated to have one third of the world's poor) and the health and education systems outside the major population centres are as bad as anywhere else in South Asia. How can a nation call itself a democracy when an estimated 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in the last 20 years, 20 million female foetuses have been aborted in the last 10 years, and people remain unequal due to the caste system? There is a strange mix of pride and denial amongst the Indian elite, resulting in little room for criticism and a lack of recognition that India is still struggling - it's the image that is thriving.

That said, one cannot deny the immense progress that India has made over the past 60 years. With the exception of a 21-month period when Ms Gandhi had declared emergency, the 1.4-billion-strong population has seen a succession of elected governments. This uninterrupted political progression has helped to boost India's GDP from 3.1 per cent of the world's income to 6.8 per cent (three trillion dollars, purchasing power parity) – and there is a lot that Bangladesh can learn from that.

India's economy is so strong, its population so big, its military so powerful that it creates a sense of helplessness in neighbouring countries. Even in the market-leading garments sector, which pulls in over 11 billion dollars a year, Bangladesh is now beginning to lose ground. The depreciating rupee has meant that orders are increasingly being placed in India as the Bangladeshi taka remains strong. In addition to this, India-based companies are setting up liaison offices in Dhaka. Trading from Dhaka using Bangladesh's 'most favoured nation' status means lower tariffs in the US and European markets. The shipment comes out of Bangladesh, but the money ends up in the India. For Bangladesh, there is nowhere to turn. The only platform for protest, SAARC, has been reduced to nothing more than marriage counselling for nation states due to endless bickering between Pakistan and India.

No doubt, there is an inferiority complex that can be associated with any smaller nation. But Bangladesh should realise that it has a lot to offer in terms of fighting terrorism (both separatist movements in Assam and religious extremism), allowing transit to the Seven Sisters, and, of course, taking the edge off the threat posed by an increasingly unstable Pakistan. However, the lack of magnanimity shown by the current Indian government and its predecessors with regards to water sharing, the lowering of tariffs and transit to Nepal has left Bangladeshi politicians with their hands tied. To be seen as giving in to India would be tantamount to political suicide.

Indeed, there has to be a shift in attitude from both sides. 'If the Indian elite become a little more generous to their smaller neighbours, they will automatically have a spiritual leadership over this area,' says Nurul Kabir, editor of the left-leaning New Age, an English-language daily in Bangladesh.

India is also increasingly being seen as America's puppet in the region and thus running the risk of isolation. 'Go to any SAARC capital and you'll find a significant number of well meaning intelligentsia who are anti-Indian,' adds Kabir.

For the most part, though, Bangladesh has mixed feelings towards India. No one here truly believes that a BJP or Congress-led coalition will do much in the way of improving the country's situation and it is clear that the government is in no position to negotiate. Still, Bangladesh remains thankful to have a thriving industry that it can tap into, both officially and unofficially. One just hopes that matrimony doesn't turn into acrimony, as is so often the case.

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/01-she-loves-me-not-01

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[ALOCHONA] Swine Flu - Egypt garbagemen clash with police over pig cull

The Govt of Egypt couldnt wait to exterminate the pigs even though there was no case of swine flu in Egypt just to open their path to paradise & to raise their pietic worth among Egyptian masses.

Forgot a tiny little inconvenient fact in their pious zeal that pigs help clean up the garbage in Cairo in the absence of govt reponsibility and competence in providing basic services.

Enjoy the tamasha!

Robin

Egypt garbagemen clash with police over pig cull
Sun May 3, 2009
REUTERS
http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKL3263137

CAIRO, May 3 (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired tear gas on Sunday at garbage collectors who pelted them with rocks and bottles over fears they had come to seize their pigs as a precaution against a new flu virus.

At least 10 people were injured in the clashes in Manshiet Nasr, a shantytown on Cairo's outskirts where residents burned trash barriers in the street to keep police at bay. Security sources said up to 15 people were detained.

Three police were also injured in clashes with pig farmers in another area of the capital.

Egypt, already hit hard by bird flu, ordered the slaughter of all Egypt's roughly 300,000 to 400,000 pigs on April 29 as a precaution against the H1N1 swine flu virus, a move the United Nations said was "a real mistake".

Egypt, which has not reported any H1N1 cases, fears another flu virus could spread quickly in a country where most of the roughly 80 million population live in the densely packed Nile Valley, many in crowded slums around Cairo.

One security source said police had gone to the Manshiet Nasr neighbourhood, a mix of concrete and brick apartment blocks and makeshift shanties, to seize pigs belonging to garbage collectors who make their living sorting trash.

But another security source said police were simply surrounding the neighbourhood to prevent residents from moving their animals outside the neighbourhood to hide them from officials seeking to enforce a cull.

"We serve the people and they come and cut off our livelihood. The pigs don't have any disease. The country is diseased. Take samples from the pigs and if they have disease, we would cull them," Manshiet Nasr resident Marzouk Badr Adli said after the clashes, complaining about the cull.

The new virus strain -- a mix of swine, avian and human viruses -- is being spread by people, not pigs. But culling swine, largely viewed as unclean in Muslim Egypt, could help quell any public panic in the most populous Arab country.

Pigs are mainly raised by the Christian minority, and government officials have complained that some farmers are trying to hide their pigs, making it harder for officials to carry out the cull.

The World Health Organisation has identified 787 H1N1 infections in 17 countries, including in Egypt's neighbour Israel, and said there were 19 confirmed deaths in Mexico. (Writing by Cynthia Johnston; Editing by Richard Balmforth)

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RE: [ALOCHONA] Govt plans to ban twelve militant organisations

A poisonous tongue can only spread poison,
can only spread twists, torsion and destruction;
A tongue does not become poisonous in a day,
Parents, family, friends, train them every day;
It starts out of blindness, greed, and lust,
By hating humans and self-rating number one,
Trying tirelessly to quench all thirst of their lord,
Delabeling all human goodness and human word,
Who need nothing but just absolute sacrifice,
Obedience, obedience, and just obedience;
This shapes all brain molecules unidirectional,
Leaving only this, making all else, non-functional;
The robots of the goal; marching all times,
Tirelessly impatiently to quest souls in paradise.
That dream never, of course, would come ever true,
Because the soul theory is nothing but an innuendo.

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: maqsudo@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:29:51 +0000
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Govt plans to ban twelve militant organisations

For so called pro-liberation forces
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Will you be nice enough to explain, what does this new , twisted, destructive phrase mean?

Are pro-liberation forces...better citizens in Bdesh, who contribute something/ anything to the common, helpless,
ordinary people?

Have they read the 1st. chapter on " violence-free lifestyle"?

Do they beleive in corruption/ violence/ conspiracy-free community? With more actions, rather than " non-stop chat"?

When they aggressively, loudly attack the IMAGINARY " anti-liberation " forces....do they really know what they are saying?

Have they ever re-scrutinized the financial/ moral/ ethical situation of some of these SO CALLED " pro-liberation forces"?

Hitler and few other dictators GENERATED twisted stories about their perceived enemies and MANUFACTURED new, evil classification of the society. Just ... to justify all the brutal, destructive, inhuman activities.

So - called " Pro-liberation forces"...in Bdesh... are not far from that kind of nasty path.

Best wishes.

Khoda hafez.

dr. maqsud omar

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com; dhakamails@yahoogroups.com
From: thoughtocrat@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:24:38 -0700
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Govt plans to ban twelve militant organisations

About bloody time. Jamaat should top that list! Most of them are Jamaat's franchise anyway!

From: Isha Khan <bd_mailer@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:41:48 PM
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Govt plans to ban twelve militant organisations

Govt plans to ban twelve militant organisations

As the government is mulling over the possibility of banning 12 militant organisations active across the country, the home ministry has instructed different law enforcement and intelligence agencies to take action against the members of these militant outfits, sources in the home ministry said.

State Minister for Home Tanjim Ahmed Sohel Taj yesterday told The Independent that the law enforcement agencies had been asked to remain on high alert about the activities of all the militant organisations, which are conducting their activities in the name of Islam.

We also instructed the police and the intelligence agencies to arrest the activists of the militant organisations, who are carrying illegal activities", he said.

"We are trying to stop militancy from the country at any cost," he said adding, "Our friendly countries like USA and India assured us of necessary assistances to stop militancy." He also said that the government would root out the militancy from the country.

Sources said that the government has already warned officials of the field-level administration like divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners (DCs) and upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) to remain on high alert about the activities of militant organisations.

The government advised them to hold regular meetings of the law and order committees in the divisional headquarters and at district and upazila levels and inform the government of the latest situation with regard to militant activities in their areas.

The Home ministry last formed a high-powered committee headed by state minister to create social awareness among the local people against militant activities.The sources said that Islamic militants under the banner of 29 different organisations were still active across the country.

The law enforcing agencies are also apprehending that the militants are likely to create untoward incidents.Besides, drive against the militants has been intensified for nabbing them. The law enforcers have arrested some militants from different parts of the country over the last few months.

According to the sources, the 29 militant organisations which are still active across the country are: Zadid Al Quida, Hijbut Tahrir, Allar Dal, Joishey Mohammad, Warat Islamic Front, Hijbeh Abu Omor, Jamaatul Mujahidin Bangladesh (JMB), Harkatul Jihad (Huji), Jaamatul Falaiya, Bishwa Islamic Front, Shahadat-e-Nobuyot, Al Zihad of Bangladesh, Jamayat Assadat, Horkat-e-Islam Al Zihad, Muslim Millat Sharifa Council, World Islamic Front for Zihad, Hizbul Masadi, Islamic Dawati Kafela, Al Islam Marhutas Brigade, Dawate Islam, Tanzim, Ijbe-Abu Omar, Al Harat Al Islamia, Joishey Mostafa of Bangladesh, Al Khidmot, Hizbullah Islami Somaj, Dawate Islam and R-cud.

The sources said that over 750 leaders and members of different Islamic militant organisations were arrested during the last three years.On February 23, 2005, the BNP-led four-party alliance government banned the militant organisation JMB and its offshoot Jagrata Muslim Janata, Bangladesh (JMJB).

On March 30, 2007, six top militants including Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) supremo Shaikh Abdur Rahman, his deputy Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai, JMB Majlish-e-Shura (highest decision-making body) member Abdul Awal and Shaikh Abdur Rahman's son-in-law, military commander and Rahman's youngest brother Ataur Rahman Sunny, suicide bomber Iftekhar Hasan Mamun and Shura member Khaled Saifullah were hanged in different jails for killing two Jhalakathi judges.

Hijbut Tahrir, Allar Dal, Bishwa Islamic Front, Harkat-e-Islam Al Jihad, Muslim Millat Sharifa Council, Dawate Islam, Al Harat Al Islamia, Joishey Mostafa of Bangladesh, Al Khidmot, Hizbullah Islami Somaj, Dawate Islam and R-cud one likely to be banned soon.

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Dear Maqsud Razakar,
Can u tell us more about Tarek-Coco,Mamun-Falu,Kharis Chowdhury-Lalu of Bogura? How Tarek Zia buying Hawa Bhabon by staying in London?
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:34:48 +0000
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] New millionairres in Bdesh!

" The head office of Pall Mall Group in Gulshan remained closed for the third consecutive day after Sunday's clash between staff of the group and workers of Khan Jahan Ali Paribahan, owned by Awami League MP Sheikh Helal.
The office of Khan Jahan Ali Paribahan, where Sheikh Rubel, brother of Sheikh Helal, sits, was also closed yesterday. Police have been deployed there.
Earlier, police arrested eight staff of Pall Mall Group."

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Can someone...please tell us more about these 2 gentlemen...Are they related to PM Hasina?
What was their situation few years ago?
How they have made a million dollar business-empire?
Any more exciting news about them??
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