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Date: Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:35 AM
Subject: RE: Hasina's advisers to visit India ahead of Manmohan's visit
To: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Dr. Mashiur Rahman, PM's Economic Adviser, said that it would not be 'civilised' for the govt to charge fees for transit to India.
Dr. Gowhar Rizvi, PM's International Adviser, said that we have wasted 40 years and must start with transit immediately.
I think less said about these lackeys of India, the better!
Mark Tully has his own reasons for supporting India's position on transit. Born in 1936 in Kolkata (his mother born in Tripura), he was BBC's bureau Chief in Delhi for 20 years. He is fluent in English and Hindi. He was awarded Padma Shree in 1992 and Padma Bhushan in 2005 by the govt of India. We know who gets awards from Indian Govt. We also know how 'objective' and 'truthful' many of the Western journalists were in connection with Afghan and Iraq wars!!
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:36:13 +0600
Subject: Hasina's advisers to visit India ahead of Manmohan's visit
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Hasina's advisers to visit India ahead of Manmohan's visit
Two advisers to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will reach in New Delhi on Tuesday to hold talks with senior Indian officials to fine tune the key agreements to be singed during Indian premier Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka next month.
During their two-day visit, PM's economic adviser Mashiur Rahman and international affairs adviser Gowhar Rizvi was scheduled to meet Indian National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon and other senior officials to discuss the agreements and other issues relating to Singh's official visit on September 6 and 7.
Among the key agreements expected to be signed during Singh's visit relate to demarcation of boundary across 6.5 km, adversely-held enclaves that will end a major unresolved issue in bilateral ties that has been a legacy of the partition of the Indian subcontinent, transit and sharing of waters of Teesta and Feni rivers, our New Delhi correspondent Pallab Bhattacharya reports. The advisers are also likely to interact with a select group of senior Indian journalists at the end of their visit.
Meanwhile, former BBC journalist and leading columnist Mark Tully thinks the slew of agreements expected to be signed during the Indian PM's visit to Bangladesh "will bring about a sea-change in relations between the two countries" and "will immeasurably benefit Bangladeshis".
In a write-up published in a special supplement of leading Indian newspapers on Monday to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he commended Hasina for showing "great courage" in negotiating the agreements with India in the face of attacks on her for allegedly selling out to India.
Tully, who had extensively covered the Bangladesh Liberation War and the developments in the sub-continent, said "ever since the tragic assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, there have been politicians in Bangladesh who have provoked fear of India and made hostility to India a fundamental tenet of their political creed".
"Even those politicians who have seen the folly of this have had to be careful about advocating any steps which could be seen as compromising with India," he added.
"So, even while Bangladeshis mourn on Monday the murder of their founding father, they can look forward to a few weeks from now and take great comfort from in the promise of transformatory changes in their relations with their big neighbour in the west that will be ushered in by the Indian prime minister's visit to their country," Tully observed.
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