Could these Think Tanks tell us, where was National Security, when General Niazi was surrendering to Indian Army in Palton MaiDaan in 1971?
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *Govt accused of threatening national security*
> Free Thinkers Forum, Bangladesh (FTF, B), a national think tank, organised
> the roundtable conference on 'Bangladesh under security threat'Speakers on
> Sunday at a roundtable in the capital said the Awami League Government
> itself insecure its position and also that of the nation by perusing a
> subservient policy depending mainly on India.
>
> "A national security is a must to ensure the state-security," they said
> expressing their grave concern over the multiple-security-threats both
> internally and externally. A group of leading scholars, educationists,
> lawyers, politicians and professionals were addressing a roundtable
> discussion at the National Press Club in the capital yesterday afternoon.
>
> Free Thinkers Forum, Bangladesh (FTF, B), a national think tank, organised
> the roundtable conference on 'Bangladesh under security threat' with FTF
> Chairman Jahangir Chowdhury in the chair.
>
> Terming the incumbent Awami League Government a very weak one and dependent
> on the neighbouring country India, BNP Standing Committee Member Barrister
> Moudud Ahmed, MP, said, "Such a weak Government with a subservient foreign
> policy, it would be very tough to ensure the state security."
>
> He was very critical of government's secret deals with the Indian
> Government, what he mentioned, endangered the AL itself. "Day by day the
> security issue has become the main factor of the country now-a-days. Recent
> one $ billion
>
> Treaty with the India, Tipaimukh Dam, aggression on the water bodies amid
> the violation of the water sharing issue between Bangladesh and India, law
> and order and less economic growth of the country have largely frustrated
> patriotic citizens," he observed.
>
> On the democratic norms and values, the former Law Minister said, there is
> rule of law but the country is absolutely run by the Awami League style,
> where people's life and wealth are totally unsafe. The misrule of the
> present government has already crossed that of the 1972-75 tenure."
>
> He blasted the government for its repressive activities on the opposition
> leaders and activists saying, "None is allowed to speak freely or criticize
> about any misdeeds of the ruling quarter." "Leaders and activities belonging
> to AL committed crimes but cases were lodged against BNP and Jamaat people,"
> he added expressing his grave concern over frequent violation of human
> rights in the name of legal actions against opposition leaders and activists
> across the country.
>
> Barrister Moudud said, the government has absolutely failed to ensure any
> sorts of development rather it is trying to divert people's attention
> through raising different controversial issues keeping people in dark about
> their multi-sufferings.
>
> BNP standing committee member Lt General Mahbbur Rahman said, "The country
> has passed 40 years but our development is still remain questionable.
> Independence and sovereignty of the country are under threat. Democracy did
> not get any institutional shape till date."
>
> He expressed his grave concern over the below standard life style of over
> six core people of the country.Former Army Chief also echoed to the opinion
> of the Maudud saying that Bangladesh now representing a subservient foreign
> policy. Referring to the security threat on water bodies, he said almost all
> rivers are facing security threats as India constructed dams on all rivers.
>
> Journalist Sadek Khan observed that the ruling quarter is using the law for
> their own interest. "Mainly the government has become isolated from the
> countrymen. An undeclared emergency is going on across the countr ," he
> added.
>
> Editor of The Naya Diganta Alamgir Mohiuddin apprehended that a dire
> consequence is waiting for the Bangladesh as Indian quarter has already
> hided in different areas across the country to serve their malafied
> intention.He called upon the patriotic people to become aware of them.
>
> Editor of The New Nation Mostafa Kamal Majumder said that any move to
> distort the Constitution of 1991 might threaten democracy in the
> country.Among others, Professor Dr Tareq Shamsur Rahman of Jahangirnagar
> University, Former Secretary Barrister Haider Ali, BNP Executive Committee
> Member Ismail Hossain Bengal, Bangladesh Jatiya Party Secretary General Abu
> Naser Rahmatullah, Advocate Mohammad Tajul Islam, Former MP Advocate Ferdous
> Akhter Wahida, Journalist Mehedi Hasan Palash, Secretary General of National
> Awami Party (NAP) Golam Mostafa Bhuiyan, and FTF Information and Publicity
> Secretary Hossain Md Shaifqur Rahman took part in the discussion.
>
> http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/08/09/news0026.htm
>
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