Was crimes trial starts today

Bangladesh today begins the first trial of war crimes during his 1971.

Defence advice, said that it applications that try, time to prepare their defence, review the case against their client Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedd and recusal to move war crimes Tribunal Chairman.

On 3 October recorded the international crime Tribunal Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Amir Delwar Hossain Sayedee indicted on 20 counts of war crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity and aid or conspiracy

for and complicity in the Commission of murder, rape, arson and robbery.

ICTs, better known as the war crimes Tribunal to try the accused of war crimes 1971 introduced written today the beginning of the Sayeedee of law enforcement with the pursuit of their arguments and testing open prosecution witnesses.

Sayedee saved three applications on 27 October with the Tribunal, the time the process begin, review of his case before the Tribunal on 13 October and approved of the Tribunal of Chairman justice Nizamul Huq.

On 27 October, the Tribunal for November 13 written the hearing of his application to seek recusal Chairman Tribunal.

Sayedee's counsel Muhammad Tajul Islam told new age on Sunday, that the Defense petitions, which is now the time and the review would move.

In the time petition said defence, they asked for more time to prepare their defence prior to commencement.

The petition also said that no process will, to the requests for review of design order for free available and Tribunal Chair could start approved.

On 27 October reporters the Abdur-Razzaq, Sayedee Chief Counsel 'we strike the justice Nizamul Huq tried when he was a member of the Secretariat of the people Commission investigating constituted in 1994, which had carried out a model trial of Sayedee of the Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul.'

The Nirmul Committee published the results of the people's Commission investigating in 2005 now the petition said the prosecution as the prosecution document Sayedee, to pursue, used.

Tribunal Registrar Shahinur Islam, said, however, that Sayedee the Council had joined in 1994 a report on the fact-finding mission with his appeal.

Justice Nizamul was one of the 25 the Secretariat of the Commission as a lawyer.

The cause of action any other on the Tribunal Chairman active participation in activities which proves Commission, said Shahinur.

The Court of Justice Nizamul Huq, Justice ATM Fazle Kabir and judge AKM Zahir Ahmed on 3 October Sayedee in 20 points war crimes charged, even though the prosecution on 4 September proposed design of accusations against Sayedee on 31 counts at ICT 1 / 2011.

Sayedee was charged with genocide under section 3 of the law with 12 points for crimes against humanity under section 3 of the international crime (courts) Act 1973, and with four counts.

He was indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity in several ways.

He was charged with the Commission under sections 3 and aromas of the law in five points for the assistance or complicity in the prevention of crimes against humanity.

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Purnima to star plays in five oath

Cultural correspondent

No movie acted by Purnima is expected in the coming Eid-ul-Fitr, however, the popular actress will play central characters, five TV plays during the Eid special programmes in various private TV channels to be seen.

Plays in the Purnima performs Neelimar Prante Dariye, Amanisha, Ulto Dhanuk, Oi Khaney Jeyo Nako Tumi and Ekhono Bhalobasho.

This is not the first time, the Purnima in TV plays acted. One of the most popular actresses often leading film industry, Purnima Dhaliwood in TV plays. For the first time, she acted in as many games in a row.

"I played never before to in so many TV plays for oath on small screen." Different tastes in each game, get audience ' Purnima said new age.

"I enjoy acting in small screen." From the film, the medium is different, but very interesting, "she added."

Purnima debut in film E Jibon Tomar Amar Zakir Hossain in 1997. Tur Majhe Tumi was released their most popular film so far. Khomotar Gorom, Megher pore Meghnad, Shasti, Shubha, Hridoyer Katha are the other popular movies from Purnima traded.

Puran Jaye Jolia Ré, was published in the last Eid-ul-Fitr, also has a good deal. This year only, a film titled Mayer Jonyo released traded dekhechhi Purnima.

' You choose actually artists, the directors and producers. If they leave on a few, taking into account of profits of your company film, we have to wait, "she said good deals."

Purnima claims, however, that she would like to be known only as an actress. ' Film industry is a different world. It is grand and beautiful and naturally more attractive than all media,' she says.

She hoped she would be viewers able, in quality to the winning films in the future.

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Ivy asks voters brave every chance, film plots

An Awami League leader for the mayoral position in the polls Narayanganj City Corporation on Saturday who, people defying all expectations and fears, removes "Conspiracy" against the mandate during Shamim Osman, take voters to the polling stations, feared militant attacks apart from the Awami League backed candidate, asked Taimur Alam Khandoker, BNP-backed mayoral candidate and Selina Hayat Ivy, again, while today to retrieve.

"Fear ' are not the people that mandate removed people are torn if the sponsors Spotlight?" Selina Hayat Ivy said as spoke with reporters in her polling station in their home on the Deobhog.

Fearing that the elections can be manipulated Ivy, said "one of the mayoral candidates the crack has the tradition way votes and ballot boxes."

Ivy also claimed that a conspiracy is hatched from a particular quarter, was the spread of propaganda, tore the people of that judgment.

"I the polling centers, which are all fears and doubts, before a plot called for women who like my mother and sister, and the people of Narayanganj,", she said.

Army deployment she said, 'Lakhs are my troops of Narayanganj people.'

However said that the Electoral Commission responsible if unwanted incidents happened centering on the elections.

She said that Shamim Osman was not the Awami League backed candidate. "He is a candidate of the godfather." You all know, who came to support Narayanganj, Shamim, ", said Ivy. '"The Working Group of the party has given him support.'

Ivy, now identified 32 polling centres as "risky", see the list of the Commission and measures required, so call peacefully it could take place.

She wrote on the Commission to call for the action, so that Selim Osman, two brothers Shamim Osman, influence local legislator Nasim Osman and Narayanganj BKMEA President could there not on the choice, or could not threats with each voter on the polling day.

Taimur Alam Khandoker expressed his concern about the holding of elections free and fair. However, he said that he would win, to defy all odds.

'We are panic, various reasons' Taimur said when he spoke to reporters at his home in Masdair.

He asked the Election Commission also to interrogate find out Shamim from where he came to know likely militant attacks as he repeatedly had expressed his fears for such attacks before or during the polling.

Taimur threw the Electoral Commission of the violation of promises. 'The Commission has violated its promises through the use of not the army in the elections.'

He said "I desired army deployment such as the city of Narayanganj as a place of the crime is known for a long time,".

"But the Commission has not to deploy the army and even, that I will contest the polls, is sure like my win," added Taimur.

He claimed that the Commission cannot army believe deployment in their repeated requests had borrowed, that the Commission was not independent.

He also said that the Commission for its failure to provide adequate security during the polling and ensure fair polling.

Shamim Osman, whose people reportedly distributed sweets to the Commission's announcement that the army would not on Friday, but called for deployment of the army before polling day.

' I want to win the polls for certain. But my competitors are trying, call the elections in question on the plea of not use of the army, "he said."

He renewed his demand that militant attacks could take place at any time in Narayanganj. "I am afraid still, militant attacks in Narayanganj at any time it could be."

He was also highly critical of the Chief Election Commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda, could be cancelled for his statement, Shamim candidacy if an investigation not Shamim of claiming to prove true.

"Must I killed to prove that there are fears of militant attack be?", he said.

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Uncertainty looms as electioneering ends

Electioneering for Narayanganj city corporation polls set for Sunday ended midnight past Friday amid an air of uncertainties after the Election Commission announced that army troops would not be deployed for the polls.

Two of the three mayoral frontrunners – Awami League leader Selina Hayat Ivy and main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed candidate Taimur

Alam Khandoker – smelt a rat at the EC’s failures to deploy the army.

 Both the candidates alleged that there were ‘conspiracies’ to influence the election and said the commission’s failures to deploy army had raised doubts about the polls.

Soon after the commission made the announcement, a group of people gathered in front of the Narayanganj press club at Chashara and chanted slogans demanding army deployment for the sake of free and fair polls.

‘People will be able to cast votes without fear if army is deployed,’ said Hasanuzzaman Monir, a student of Tolaram College, while talking to New Age.

In her reaction, Ivy said, ‘Shamim Osman was conspiring against army deployment to make the situation volatile before the polls.’   

‘Why is he [Shamim Osman] afraid of army and the people of Narayanganj. People want army to be deployed during the election.’

 Asked if she would quit the race after the EC’s announcement, Ivy said, ‘I demanded army deployment because the people so desired. But I am not going to quit the race.’

 ‘The people of Narayanganj will work as army troops,’ she said.  

 ‘I will urge the home minister to ensure presence of the army during the election. I will also urge the chief election commission to keep his words over army deployment,’ Ivy said.

 ‘The CEC has long been claiming that the commission is independent and promised to deploy army. I want the CEC to keep his words,’ she added.

Sammilita Nagarik Parishad, a civic body backing Ivy in the mayoral race, at a press conference at her residence-cum-election office said the Election Commission and the NCC polls could be called into question due to its failure to deploy army.

‘If the commission fails to deploy army, question will arise whether it is truly independent,’ said the parishad’s member-secretary Rafiur Rabbi. 

The BNP-backed mayoral candidate Taimur Alam Khandaker went to the election office around 12:30pm to express his concern over the absence of the army.

He told reporters he might rethink his contesting the polls if army was not deployed.

Talking to New Age, he termed the delay in deployment of army a ‘conspiracy’ and said it had proved that the Election Commission was not independent.

A number of voters said they feared whether the polls would be free and fair without army deployment.

The Awami League-backed candidate Shamim Osman could not be reached by phone for comments despite repeated attempts.

Earlier on the day, Shamim Osman told newsmen that he would be happy with whatever decision the commission takes as regards army deployment.

He, however, was critical of the commission for transferring the officers-in-charge of two police stations in Narayanganj.

However, all the candidates were seen electioneering even after the commission’s announcement that the army would not be deployed.

About 4,000 more members of law enforcement agencies were deployed on polls duty from Thursday. Check points have been set up to prevent entry of outsiders into the city before the polls.

 No outsiders will be allowed to stay in the city from today until the polling day.

At a press conference in the evening, the returning officer, Biswas Lutfor Rahman, hoped the election would be held in a free, fair and transparent manner even without the presence of army.

The candidates conducted their last-minute election campaigns till midnight past Friday.  All the candidates spent the final hours canvassing frantically to woo voters before the deadline for electioneering expired. Three major mayoral candidates wrapped up their campaigns addressing street rallies in the city.  Supporters of some candidates paraded many city streets even after midnight.

According to the Election Commission decision, the army troops were scheduled to be on duty from 6:00am Friday, apart from some 4,000 additional members of different law enforcers, including Rapid Action Battalion and police.  

The returning officer of Narayanganj city corporation polls, Biswas Lutfor Rahman failed to give any reasons for the delay in deploying army.

‘I am deeply concerned over the delay in army deployment,’ he said.

 After keeping the people in suspense all day, the chief election commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda said the commission would not deploy army in the polls. 

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Hotel jailed journalists released in Tripoli

Agence France-Presse. Tripoli

Some 30 mostly foreign journalists who Hotel Libyan strongman Muammar al-Gaddafi held faithful against their will in Tripoli by Rixos by guards, were freed on Wednesday.

The journalists, the short food and water grew to limited on the hotel since Sunday, it left at 13: 00 (1500 GMT), they reported.

"The crisis is over." The journalists are, "one of them on Twitter posted."

The circumstances of the release were not immediately known, but an AFP reporter said that she had moved to the Corinthia Bab Africa hotel in a safe part of town.

Since the early Monday was the journalists unable to leave the RIXOS, where the regime, foreign media are required.

The vast majority of Government soldiers, who had continuous protection outside their positions Wednesday, leaving, as rebels claim on wide areas of Tripoli, including Gaddafi close to Bab al-Aziziya-connection.

But a handful remained, dressed in civilian clothes and carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles.

Journalists were kept on the first floor, and spent the entire day, bullet-proof vests and helmets bear.

Electricity temporarily cut was restored, but water remained scarce. Mobile phone signals were poor.

"It's already pretty miserable here and you can only imagine the kind of voltage the foreigners here, here, the journalists are at the moment the feeling" BBC correspondent Matthew price BBC Radio said on Wednesday.

After her release, price said: 'we drove connection in a different city than the one from the hotel, we had seen seven days previously.'

Speaking of which, he said the guards, "it was their faith that when we went outside the hotel, the rebels would collect us, kill us and to rape the women stuck."

The reporters said they were in the dark about, what to expect and whether rebels meet armed resistance would take if they tried the Rixos.

"I to a point some time on Monday, as I thought: you will use this hotel as a barracks for the army for a last stand ' said price."

"If they do, what will us happen?" We found out that we had no viable escape route. In the Middle all this violence, with the battle of flaring up to us, that we hear, couldn't see but it creates this feeling of paranoia.'

As a result, she hung banners outside Windows plastered with the words 'TV', 'Press,' or in Arabic: ' news, not shoot. "

Wednesday morning, again some of the journalists have tried a few yards (metres) of car from the hotel before shots broke, and armed men ordered them within.

In addition to the guards expressed also fears told reporters of snipers.

"Gunmen were roaming around the corridors," price said. "We believe, there is still a sniper on the roof of the hotel and effectively our movements are restricted."

On Tuesday, the hotel by stray bullets, which is raised, was hit when forces to rebel of the Bab al-Aziziya ell. The two sites are separated by a forest.

In the hotel the journalists were deprived largely electricity and water and food was.

After rebels attacking Tripoli days, employees and managers leave the Rixos their contributions, while the regime officials, which the hotel such as an Office also disappeared.

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No troops in NCC polls

An official oversees as cartons of ballot papers are unloaded from a vehicle at the Zia Hall at Chashara in Narayanganj on Friday.— Sony Ramany

Ivy, Taimur smell rat, demand immediate deployment of army

Staff Correspondent

No troops have yet been deployed for the Narayanganj City Corporation polls, scheduled for Sunday, because of the ‘non-cooperation’ of the government.

The chief election commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda, at a briefing at the Election Commission on Friday said, ‘In order to hold free and fair elections to the city corporation, we had a plan under which army troops were supposed to be deployed there on Friday but no troops were deployed yet presumably because of the non-cooperation of the government.’

He said that the commission on October 16 had decided to deploy troops and sent a letter the same day to

the principal staff officer of the Armed Forces Division asking for four companies of troops for the city polls.

‘We have received no reply from the army till 5:00pm today [Friday]. We may assume that the government has issued no order for army deployment and also presume that the army is not coming,’ Shamsul told reporters after a four-hour emergency meeting of the commission.

Four companies of troops were originally scheduled to be stationed in Narayanganj at 6:00am on Friday as ‘striking and mobile force.’

The returning officer for the NCC polls, mayoral candidates but for the ruling Awami League-backed Shamim Osman expressed concerns about the non-deployment of the army.

The returning officer, Biswas Lutfor Rahman, told reporters Friday noon, ‘I am deeply concerned about the delay in army deployment.’

Two out of three heavyweight candidates — Awami League leader Selina Hayat Ivy and Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed Taimur Alam Khandoker — smelt a rat in the commission’s failure to deploy the army and termed it a ‘conspiracy’ to influence the elections.

They demanded an immediate deployment of troops to ensure free and fair polls.

Supporters of Taimur took to the streets in Narayanganj demanding an immediate deployment of troops.

The police dispersed a procession of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the BNP-backed student organisation, by charging at the activists with truncheons when they tried to go on demonstrations on Bangabandhu Road at 7:00pm in protest at the commission’s announcement of not deploying troops.

The BNP vice-chairman Abdullah Al Noman at a briefing at the party’s central office in Dhaka in the evening said the party would make a decision today regarding the elections if the troops were not deployed by this morning.

The Election Commission considers the non-deployment of army to be a violation of the constitution.

‘It was a constitutional obligation for the government to deploy troops as we asked for it,’ Shamsul said. ‘We do not have any liability in this regard. We took steps and send requisition, but the government paid no heed to it. I do not know whether this is the government’s negligence but it has given no reply to our letter.’

After failing to get any positive response regarding troops deployment, the commission had thought about two alternatives — to suspend the elections or to proceed with the elections considering the absence of the army, he added.

He also said that according to the law, elections to the city corporations need to be held in 180 days after the formation of the corporation and the time limit ends on November 2.

‘We have informed the Rapid Action Battalion director general and the home ministry and they have confirmed that a 100-member additional force would be sent tomorrow [Saturday],’ he added.

Regarding Shamim Osman’s apprehension of terrorist attack, the CEC said the candidate had sent a letter and also filed a general diary in this regard.

‘We have asked the home ministry to investigate the matter and to report to us in seven days. If the allegation is proved wrong, action will be taken against him in accordance with the rules, he said. ‘His candidature may be cancelled even if he is elected.’

By-elections to the Habiganj 1 constituency and the Brahmanbaria 3 constituency were held on January 27 without the deployment of troops although both the Election Commission and the BNP had so demanded.

Just a day before the polls, election commissioner Muhammed Sohul Hussain in the presence of another election commissioner, M Sakhawat Hussain, told the media that that the army might be deployed at night, a couple of hours before the polls would begin. But no troops were deployed.

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Most DCC employees against getting split

Most of the associations and trade unions of the Dhaka City Corporation employees are opposed to the government’s decision to split the corporation into two, purportedly to ensure better service delivery.

The mayor of Dhaka, Sadeque Hossain, told New Age on Friday that all the DCC ward councillors, officials, and employees were against the decision.

The cabinet in its weekly meeting on October 17 decided to divide the corporation into two by amending the Local Government (City Corporation) Act, 2009.

In reaction, on October 24, a DCC board meeting, participated by 120 ward councillors and chaired by the mayor, formed a seven-member committee of ward councillors to inform the government about their unanimous opposition to the decision by submitting memorandums to the government agencies concerned.

The head of the committee, DCC Ward 74 councillor Quazi Abul Bashar, told New Age on Friday that they had already submitted memorandums to this effect to the offices of the local government and rural development minister and state minister, secretary to the LGRD ministry, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the ministry, and 15 lawmakers of Dhaka. 

‘The government should strengthen and delegate more power to the existing corporation,’ Abul Bashar said, adding that the service-providing agencies of the city like the Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, Dhaka Power Distribution Company, Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited, and Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited should be placed under the corporation to ensure centrally coordinated service delivery by them.

Earlier on Wednesday, DCC Officers’ Association general secretary Khandker Millatul Islam told New Age that, if the corporation was split into two, it would increase the lack of coordination between the service delivery agencies of the city and intensify the manpower crisis of the DCC.

He also said, instead of dividing the city corporation, the idea of electing a metropolitan governor, who would control all metro services, could be implemented for ensuring better service delivery. ‘Former mayor the late Mohammad Hanif also supported this idea,’ he added.

DCC Sramik Karmachari Union general secretary SM Mosharraf Hossain Milan urged the government to reconsider the decision. ‘Splitting the corporation into two will increase the waste of money and the level of violence in the city,’ he said, adding that, if one city corporation failed to serve the city dwellers then two city corporations would only produce a chaos.

A capital cannot be divided, maintained DCC Transport Drivers’ and Employees’ Union president Akhter Hossain Dewan.

He said institution of two city corporations in Dhaka would increase the administrative complexities and demanded holding of the overdue DCC elections.

DCC Scavengers’ and Workers’ Union general secretary Abdul Latif said, before making any decision about the government move, they would first observe its implementation. ‘We cannot comment on the matter before identifying any positive or negative effect of the decision,’ he added.   

Mohammad Mizanur Rahman Bhuiyan, president of a faction of the pro-Awami League DCC Sramik Karmachari League, said they welcomed the government’s decision to split the DCC into two. ‘It will decentralise the work of different DCC departments and the city dwellers will get services at their expected level,’ he said. 

Mohammad Shah Alam Siraj, president of another faction of the DCC Sramik Karmachari League, said they would also support the government’s decision. ‘We are with our party.’

The mayor, Sadeque Hossain Khoka, said the decision of creating two city corporations was not necessary as the existing one was able enough to carry on doing its duties.

Two city corporations would mean increased administrative complexities, he said and regretted the fact that the government had not discussed with the DCC office bearers before taking the decision.

‘As far as I know, all ward councillors, officials, and employees of the DCC are against the decision,’ the mayor said.

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Tk 1,200cr lies unused for lack of guideline

The economy that is laming under the burden of a huge budget deficit is yet to receive from the authorities concerned a release and utilisation process of the Gas Development Fund even after 27 months of its formation, while around Tk 1,200 crore accrued in the fund over the period is lying unutilised.

It took a long bureaucratic process for the Energy Division to arrive at the decision to release and utilise the GDF following a guideline, instead of a rule, incorporating a major part of the guideline designed by the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission in January this year.

The current complications ensued after the BERC through an order issued as per its GDF guideline had allotted Tk 500 crore for three state-run oil and gas exploration and extraction companies on an emergency basis.

In August this year, the Energy Division freezed the move to release and utilise the allotment made from the GDF for the state-run companies, claiming that the BERC did not hold the authority to formulate any guideline and monitor the utilisation of such a fund.

Earlier in 2009, the Energy Division formulated another release and utilisation guideline for the GDF.

An Energy Division official told New Age that both the guidelines were incomplete and inconsistent with certain government rules. The energy ministry then drafted a fresh guideline following the recommendations of the BERC and sent it for approval to the Finance Division on Wednesday.

‘We have decided to utilise the fund under a guideline as the Finance Division gave us the green signal, indicating that it would allow us to use the GDF in the self-finance mode following the guideline. Top officials of the Finance Division also assured us that there would be no problem in using the 55 per cent of the fund, which is realised by the National Board of Revenue as supplementary duty and value-added tax and refunded by the Finance Division to the GDF for self-financed projects, although this portion of the fund is supposed to be utilised under the Annual Development Programme,’ he said.

The official said the Finance Division would scrutinise the draft guideline to check whether it in any way contradicts with the Financial Rule.

He said, after getting the Finance Division’s clearance, the Energy Division would allow Petrobangla, the state-run Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources Corporation, to spend the GDF for oil and gas exploration and extraction activities.

In a public hearing on July 30, 2009, the BERC increased the price of gas for power generation, fertiliser production, and industrial, commercial, and household use by 11.22 per cent on the condition that a ‘gas development fund’ would be formed by the additional revenue collected from the consumers from August 2009.

The commission also specified the areas – oil and gas exploration work, drilling of wells, setting up process plants, and laying down pipelines connecting them to the gas transmission lines – where the GDF would be utilised.

Experts and rights activists have criticised the Energy Division’s move, saying that a quarter in the government was creating obstacles to the process of increasing the investment capacity of the state-run oil and gas exploration and extraction companies, so that international oil companies would have to be offered to carry out the tasks.

A Petrobangla official said around Tk 1,200 crore had been accumulated in the GDF. As the extraction of gas has been on the rise since early 2010, the fund will start increasing by more than Tk 1,000 crore per annum within a year or two.

According to the BERC-formulated GDF guideline, the authority of releasing and utilising the fund had been delegated to Petrobangla.

The guideline also says, ‘A committee set up by Petrobangla, comprising officials of Petrobangla and its subsidiaries engaged in exploration and production, will identify the projects that will be financed with money from the GDF.’

But, as per the guideline drafted by the Energy Division, the energy ministry will control the GDF and the oil and gas exploration and extraction companies will have to take permission of the Energy Division through Petrobangla for approval, finance, and implementation of such projects under the GDF.

Experts said such a control of the Energy Division on the GDF would waste the project implementation time of the oil and gas exploration and extraction companies.

Officials of the state-run oil and gas exploration and extraction companies said a number of projects were in limbo at the moment as those had been planned for implementation using the GDF.

These projects include the one designed by the Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company, or BAPEX, to drill an exploration gas well and, after discovery of any gas reserve, to drill a gas extraction well and set up a gas process plant in the Shunetro Gas Field using the GDF. Another BAPEX project to drill gas wells and set up process plants in Shahbajpur, Rupganj, Begumganj, and Semutang gas fields and a project of the Bangladesh Gas Field Company to drill a gas well and set up a process plant in Kamta Gas Field near Dhaka using the same fund are also put on ice.

Petrobanagla chairman Hossain Monsur, however, hoped that implementation of the projects would start soon.

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BNP condemns diatribe against Khaleda in JS

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

Staff Correspondent

The parliamentary party of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday demanded withdrawal of what was discussed in the house on Wednesday under rule 68 and alleged that the discussion had violated the rule itself.

The opposition chief whip, Zainul Abdin Farroque, at a briefing in the Jatiya Sangsad media centre, demanded withdrawal of the speeches of the ruling Awami League lawmakers who had demanded that sedition charges be brought against the opposition leader Khaleda Zia.

‘The discussion under rule 68 initiated by Suranjit Sengupta was unprecedented

in the history of parliament. For the first time issues out of parliament have been discussed,’ he said.

The discussion was supposed to continue for an hour but it dragged on for three hours in violation of the rule itself and 15 lawmakers launched diatribes against the opposition leader, he said.

‘We condemn it and demand withdrawal of the speeches,’ he said.

Farroque termed the ninth parliament totally dysfunctional. ‘The parliament is now being run by proxy. Neither the questioner nor the respondent remains present in the session. How could the opposition return to the house in such a situation,’ he asked.

He alleged that the opposition was not allowed to speak on issues of the killing of Bangladeshi nationals on the border, subservient foreign policy and Indian move to construct a dam at Tipaimukh that would displace thousands of people downstream in Bangladesh.

Farroque alleged that the speaker did not accept the opposition’s notice for discussion on law and order and the price spiral but accept an ‘unusual’ notice.

He said the government was plotting to ‘sell out’ the country forcing the opposition to take to the streets. ‘But the ruling party is trying to mislead the people about the road marches,’ he said.

In response to a question, he said the opposition might return to the house if the treasury bench brought a bill to restore the caretaker government system.

He said the treasury bench has to table the bill and cited that Khaleda Zia had passed caretaker government bill after Sheikh Hasina went out on movement for caretaker government in 1996.  ‘That bill was tabled by the ruling party, not the opposition.’

Responding to a question, Farroque said the BNP was never against holding trial of war criminals rather it was the party which had repeatedly demanded trial of ‘real’ war criminals.

He said the BNP would hold trial of the killing of Siraj Sikder and 30 thousand political activists in 1972-1975, if it returned to power.

BNP lawmakers AM Mahbub Uddin Khokan, Asifa Ashrafi Papiya and Shammi Akhtar were present at the briefing.

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Broom, greet you boos return Tigers

Fanatical cricket fans boo the national cricket team players with broom sticks, performance of the Zimbabwe tour murky slippers and banners with rude comments for her after her arrival at the airport of Hazrat Shahjalal on Wednesday. -New

Staff correspondent

Fans carried out broom sticks in Bangladesh cricket-team returning to Dhaka by Zimbabwe on Wednesday, their anger and frustration in the course of the calamitous tour air team to make.

Bangladesh against Zimbabwe a one-off test match before going down 2-3 in the subsequent a-day series, which cricket obsessed deeply dismayed Bengali.

This was the first ODI Bangladesh despite series against Zimbabwe in six years go to in the series as the clear favourites to win the last five matches against their African opponents.

Dozens of fans braved late in the night's sleep to outside of Hazrat Shahjalal international airport as the team returned 03: 05 on Wednesday.

The protesters, such as the bleary-eyed players their emigration formalities completed banners, posters and chanting slogans were carried out.

Welcome to the Bangladesh cricket team with brooms, read one of the posters.

The players have not the protesters, face, but to leave the airport after a brief period of five minutes at the arrival gate.

Talking to journalists in the VIP lounge, blame skipper Sakib al Hasan of the squad lack of preparation for the unexpected defeat.

' The three months of break (after the matches against Australia in April), that we had made the difference,' Shakib reporters at the airport.

"Most of us were of game practice." It does not matter how much training we had. The practice games we played were not enough.

"As we game settings during the games, not practice faced, the batsmen took to get time in the River." The simple reason is that we have had problems adapting to the conditions at the beginning of the tour.

"Our schedule was hectic, which I think was also a big problem."

' We rarely have time to rest, as soon as we reached Zimbabwe between the goals. I think all in all, had we been more possibilities better to prepare, would be much the results, "said Sakib."

Despite is surpassed by the people of Zimbabwe in the first two ODI, looked around on course, Bangladesh again in the series in the third match before you finally are short with five runs, a defeat, the Sakib basis.

' What I think is that we are also in the last three games of the match.   We could not compete with them only in the first two games, "he said."

"If we were good in the third ODI could have and it is limited to a lower value, then it would have a fair chance for us, the game bag."

"Still the wicket was good enough for us, but we not use", he said.

Sakib also dismissed reports of an internal feud, the many costs Bangladesh of series.

Several reports suggested that Sakib created a growing dislike for former skipper Mohammad Ashraful, a sharp distinction in the team vice-captain, Tamim Iqbal said on Sakib have provided.

' I think it would be much easier for me to answer this, when the entire team was present in this moment.  "Answers would have been more appropriate if this individually for each player was asked", he said.

The team of airline employees in Zimbabwe with Sakib leads returned the largest group on their arrival in parts due to a strike. Not a member of foreign coaching staff returned to the players.

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AROUND THE CITY

Art exhibition

Group exhibition

(To the 36th death anniversary Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial)

Organizer: Jatiyo Shokh Dibosh Udjapon Parisad

Date: Aug 18-Aug 31

Time: 10: 20

Location: Zainul Gallery

Faculty of fine art. DU

Event

If Blues Jazz meets

(Concert)

Time: 20

Location: Berlin-Halle

Goethe-Institut, Bangladesh

Theatre

Onoitihashik

By Tirandaz Natyadal

Date: Aug 25 and 26 Aug

Time: 19: 30

Location: Studio Theatre Hall

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy

Film

Tumi Swapno Tumi sadhana

Location: Balaka Cineworld, Dhaka

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Grown ups

Salt

Guerilla

Prince of Persia: The sands of time

Location: Star Cineplex

Bashundhara city, Dhaka

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Rights situation grim in Bangladesh: FIDH report

Torture and extrajudicial killings continued unabated with impunity in most of the cases, the space for freedom of expression further shrank, journalists reporting cases of corruption and rights violations became victims of judicial harassment, attacks and threats and human rights defenders were subjected to harassment in Bangladesh in 2010-2011. This was stated by the New York-based international rights organisation, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) in its annual report on the situation of human rights defenders in about 70 countries.

The report was released on Monday at a press conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The chapter on Bangladesh in the report stated that parliament was running without the opposition raising concerns about the effectiveness of the legislative process and about the opposition’s ability to influence government policies.

The report said impunity for acts of torture and ill-treatment, as well as extrajudicial killings continued during 2010-2011. Despite high level assurances to the contrary, successive governments have shown indifference to these practices.

Although torture is prohibited by the constitution, torture and ill-treatment remained pervasive and was practised regularly by law enforcement agencies, the report said adding that torture was not a criminal offence under Bangladeshi law.

‘In addition,’ the report said, ‘despite the widespread and well-known practice, magistrates continued to admit statements from accused persons held in remand detention.’

The Border Security Force of India also continued to commit human rights violations, including killings, abductions and torture and other forms of violence along the India-Bangladesh border. The BSF also frequently conducted operations deep in Bangladeshi territories.

‘Yet, these concerns were not raised by prime minister Sheikh Hasina during her official visit to India in January 2010,’ said the report.

It said the space for freedom of opinion and expression continued to shrink as attacks on and harassment of journalists by supporters of political parties, closure of and restrictions placed on newspapers and television stations remained widespread.

About the bill tabled in parliament seeking amendment to the Anti-Corruption Commission Act requiring the commission to obtain government permission for suing public servants on graft charges, the report said the proposed amendments would significantly strengthen the government’s control over the commission.

Journalists exposing cases of corruption and denouncing human rights violations continued to suffer severe consequences, including judicial harassment, torture and ill-treatment. In particular, the daily newspaper Amar Desh and its staff members were targeted by the police and the judiciary, the report said.

It also mentioned the arrest of Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, subsequent cases filed against him and Supreme Court verdict sentencing him and special correspondent Oliullah Noman on contempt of court charges, cancellation of declaration of Amar Desh forcing suspension of its publication and resumption of the publication through Supreme Court order.

Journalists also became victims of physical attacks and threats for reporting on human rights issues, the report said.

It also mentioned that New Age editor Nurul Kabir on February 23 and 26, 2010 was threatened with dire consequences for himself and his family if he continued ‘to write and speak against terrorism and violence’.

Human rights defenders and organisations continued to be subjected to various acts of harassment, including killings, in 2010-2011 for denouncing human rights violations committed by security forces, the report said.

On March 15, 2010, Abdullah Al Farooq, a lawyer and human rights defender with Odhikar, who provided legal support to the poor victims, was killed by unknown persons, it mentioned.

On March 22, 2010, an exhibition organised by Drik Gallery highlighting the crossfire killings committed by RAB was closed down by the police before being later allowed to reopen by a decision of the High Court on March 29, 2010, the report stated.

It also mentioned that the human rights organisation Odhikar continued to face serious obstacles in carrying out its activities, as Bangladeshi authorities decided to cancel several of its proposed human rights projects.

Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1

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Students may not get books on time

Textbook publishers and National Curriculum and Textbook Board officials feared that students of Class VI–VIII might not get some textbooks on the first day of the new academic year as the board was yet to deliver film positives for printing for some books.

‘We have not received all the film positives for textbooks of Class VI– VIII and it is impossible for us to deliver the textbooks by the time set out in the tender documents,’ a publisher said.

He said that all the press workers would go on long leave for Eid-ul-Azha and they would face problems in printing the textbooks and deliver them in time.

The textbook board this year is printing books according to the new curriculum.

Publishers said that they had not yet received the film positives for Bangla, Bangladesh and global studies and information and communications technology books for Class VI, Bangla and Bangladesh and global studies books for Class VII and Bangla and Bangladesh and global studies books for Class VIII.

‘The publishers have completed printing other books but they cannot deliver them as seven of the books are yet to be printed,’ said Tofail Khan, the president of the Bangladesh Textbook Printing and Marketing Association.  

He said that the government should take immediate steps to deliver the film positives.

‘The publishers need time to print textbooks and it will be difficult for the publishers to deliver the books to the textbook board on time if we are late in giving them the film positives,’ an official said.

He alleged that some officials in collusion with some printers were delaying the process so that textbooks could be sold on the black market.

The board chairman, Mostafa Kamaluddin, earlier told New Age that this year textbooks would be delivered to upazilas by October 30 but the board is likely to miss the deadline.

Mostafa said that publishers had not received not film positives for some books.‘But they will get the film positives in a day or two.’

He said that they were late in delivering the positives because of the new curriculum.

Kamaluddin, however, gave an assurance that students would get textbooks on the first day of the academic year.

‘Sixty per cent of the books have already been delivered. Students will get all the textbooks on the first day of the academic year,’ he said.

Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1

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Bangkok’s second airport shuts as floods advance

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota
A resident talks on her mobile phone as she wades through floodwaters near the Chao Phraya river after an embankment ruptured overnight flooding another area in central Bangkok on Tuesday.— AFP photo

Agence France-Presse . Bangkok

Bangkok’s second airport shut down Tuesday as floodwaters advanced into the Thai capital, forcing authorities in ‘crisis mode’ to declare a five-day public holiday in preparation for the deluge.

The cabinet ordered an October 27-31 holiday for Bangkok and 20 other provinces affected by the kingdom’s worst flooding in decades, amid warnings a high tide would surge up the capital’s main river and escalate the disaster.

‘The government has switched to a crisis mode as a massive run-off will arrive in the capital on October 26, coinciding with a high tide on October 28,’ the Flood Relief Operations Centre said in a statement.

Ministers made the decision at a meeting in Don Mueang airport in the city’s north, which handles domestic flights and has also been doubling as an evacuee shelter and a headquarters for the flood relief operation.

But as the waters that have already flooded several northern and eastern districts of Bangkok closed in, both airlines operating there, Nok Air and Orient Thai, said they were suspending all flights.

‘Because a lot of water is creeping into the northern premises of the airport, it could cause planes to slide on the runways,’ Airports of Thailand said, adding that Don Mueang’s two runways would be closed until November 1.

About 100 domestic flights normally operate from the airport each day.

The prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, who is facing her first major crisis since coming to power in August, said before the cabinet meeting that the evacuees sheltering there would also have to relocate.

‘We will move them to safe areas,’ she said.

The public holidays are designed to allow Bangkok’s 12 million residents to brace for the floods now creeping towards the city centre after swamping other parts of the nation, killing some 360 people and damaging millions of homes.

‘The public and private sectors have been urged to allow their flood-hit staff some time off, so that they would have a chance to look after their property and protect their homes,’ said the FROC statement.

Schools and government offices will be closed, while the central bank said it was still considering whether to shut down financial markets during the newly-declared public holidays.

Bangkok governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra made a televised address Tuesday warning residents along the Chao Phraya river in the capital to be on ‘full alert’ after the waterway reached record highs of 2.30 metres on Monday.

‘If the situation continues in these circumstances, the water level this weekend will hit 2.60 metres, while our average flood embankment is 2.50 metres high,’ he said.

In the city centre, residents were lining up to buy bottled water directly from trucks resupplying shops, after days of panic-buying emptied supermarket shelves.

Information about the floods has often been inconsistent, with politically inexperienced Yingluck apparently at odds with Bangkok’s local administration, run by a rival party, and rumours of tensions with the army.

Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1

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Twelve Sramik Dal men, in the AL attack in Khulna

Our correspondent. Khulna

At least 12 Sramik Dal men were injured, as the cadres of the ruling, Awami League a human chain formed unit of Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal at Khulna hardboard mill on the Khalishpur in Khulna city attacked by Khalishpur.

They formed the human chain, the payment of their fees and wages for last

three months and

Festival premium before Eid-ul-Fitr.

The injured Sramik Squad, Mohammad Khokon, Mamun, Foysal and Ripon, include Dal men were treated at local hospitals Fazle Halim fabischmidt, Sheikh SADI, Abdul, city BNP said Guide.

Witnesses said the Sramik Dal men began to the human chain at 11 but AL men, escorted by police and armed with bamboo sticks attacked, they and them away.

At least 12 Sramik Dal were men in the attack, said BNP leaders and witnesses violated.

Khulna city BNP Secretary General Moniruzzaman Moni claimed that the police AL men helped with the attack on the Sramik Dal activists.

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Sahara asks people to arrange own security before leaving Dhaka

 

The home minister, Sahara Khatun, on Tuesday called on city residents to make security arrangements on their own for houses and business establishments before leaving Dhaka to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha in outlying areas.

She said that the law enforcement agencies would remain alert and on patrol during the Eid holidays beginning in the first week of November to keep order.

The minister, presiding over a law and order meeting at the secretariat, asked the owners of apparel factories to pay wages to the workers before Eid, likely to be celebrated on November 7.

She said that mobile courts would be in operation in and around cattle markets in Dhaka and across the country to keep law and order.

‘A large number of people, many of them businessmen, leave Dhaka to celebrate Eid with their family in village homes. I ask them to make some security arrangements locally for shopping malls, markets and houses before leaving the city fopr Eid,’ Sahara said at a press briefing after the meeting.

The police and the Rapid Action Battalion would continue with regular patrol during the time, she, however, said.

Lawmakers for constituencies in Dhaka city, heads of law enforcement agencies, senior officials concerned and representatives of the Bangladesh Tanners’ Association, among others, attended the meeting and discussed ways to check smuggling of hide out of the country as a huge number of animals would be sacrificed for Eid-ul-Azha.

The BTA president, Shahin Ahmed, sought measures to contain crimes and extortion in hide trade after Eid. He also sought security for bank transitions at Postagola and Hazaribagh where most of the tanneries are located.

Sahara said that crimes and extortion would not be allowed. She asked the businessmen to use machines to identify forged notes as some quarters become active during Eid to circulate forged notes.

Mobile law enforcement teams will be deployed on roads and waterway leading to cattle markets to check harassment of sellers and buyers of sacrificial animals.

The home minister asked the Border Guards Bangladesh to strengthen vigilance in the frontiers so that the hide does not get smuggled into neighbouring countries.

The meeting decided that no one would be allowed to carry hide of sacrificial animals from the Dhaka city to check smuggling.

Sahara directed the authorities concerned to set up closed-circuit television cameras at city cattle markets to tighten security systems.

Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1

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Lukaku flattered by Drogba links

Reuters. London

Inclined than the next Didier Drogba, Chelsea is flattered new young Romelu Lukaku, power forward are compared, with whom he bears a striking resemblance in stature and playing style.

Fed Chelsea's burgeoning roster of Belgian Club RSC Anderlecht media reported this month for a fee in the region of 18 million pounds ($29.68 million), 18-year-old is now learn all he can from Drogba.

With his Hulk-like the young Belgian invited obviously part and rapid changes of tempo comparisons with a player, what many experts, that he said had been brought in to replace.

But Lukaku takes tips from twice African Footballer of the year Drogba now.

"A very great honour for me, is similar to Didier" Lukaku told reporters on Tuesday when he was introduced along with fellow season recruit Oriol Romeu.

"Every time I spend time with him we speak and I sit next to him in the locker room." I hear all the time because he advises, and also with Nico (Nicolas Anelka) and Fernando (Torres), it is the same, so I'm very happy to have world class strikers around me.

"I am not here only to Didier, Chelsea, play to replace, and I hope he remains as long as possible, so I can play with it and learn from him further." He is a world-class ' Lukaku added.

"If we have some production exercises after training, he said, as long as possible to focus when you hit the ball too, until the last minute." (These are) very small things, but very efficient. "

Lukaku, a Chelsea fan who a club shirt in possession before signing for the Premier League team, said that he was a little intimidated when he arrived at Stamford Bridge.

"I was quiet and not say, I saw," he said.

"You don't know what to say, if the Captain John Terry says, 'If you need me you can me', and Didier says, 'Well done Romelu'." It's like, ' he said only that me?'.

"It gives you a boost, to do more, but sometimes when you do something wrong they also scream at you." It's not game now, that's over, and we must work hard to get success. "

Midfielder Romeu, came from Barcelona this month on a four year contract, one could apply to the future with only 19. The young Catalan is however determined to force his way into the first team conflicts.

' I'm focusing on this season. I will do my best and take advantage of the opportunity I was given was, "he said."

"Chelsea have given me this opportunity, and I would like to play as many games as possible."

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Working to destabilize the area patronised BDR carnage country: plaintiff

Staff correspondent

Activities of the accused during the BDR mutiny on 25-26 February 2009 were destabilizing 'patronize by a group of interest' to the country, the plaintiff said of the case carnage BDR Dhaka Court on Wednesday.

'..... .the accused committed (activities) to illegal with sick designs, synonymous with the incitement and serious offence, use ' the plaintiffs of the case of NABA Jyoti Khisa, metropolitan Dhaka sessions Court said the judge Mohammad Jahurul Haque, where his deposition.

The Court had indicted earlier 824 BDR men and 23 civilians with murder and 25 crimes now renamed 2009 Office, during the rebellion at the headquarters of Bangladesh rifles, as border Bangladesh, Dhaka on February.

The Court began formal process at about 09: 45 depicting the deposition of the plaintiff in the makeshift courthouse on the ground of Aliya Madrasah Bakshi Bazar in the capital amid tightened security and rain set up.

The first of 1.287 prosecution witnesses, NABA Jyoti, also a former officer-in-charge of Lalbagh police station in his deposition the role of the accused and the State of the survivors in detail during the mutiny headquarters of the German civil code.

'Deputed' the accused led by, had killed the father Tawhidul Alam in complicity with each other and critically injured, army officers, in BDR and their family members and other people and committed arson, theft, pillage, disposal of bodies of dumping or buried in mass graves and other crimes..., said NABA Jyoti.

The plaintiff in the Swabia for almost two hours said that hundreds of BDR passed their arms soldiers in the evening of February of 26.

He said he had seen BDR soldiers, return to the barracks after the weapons and uniforms and weapons, ammunition and grenades, found in different parts of the BDR headquarters in Pilkhana.

NABA Jyoti, appear uniform police court, said this time they found a total 72 provide the officers of the army, their family members and some staff of the BDR.

The plaintiff was complete to his deposition, went to the Court for a 30-minute break because of excessive rainfall, built with corrugated iron sheet created a big noise on the roof of the courthouse.

After the break, the applicant produced the first information report and relevant files.

Some of the Defense councils then began cross-examination of the plaintiff.

Some 829, including former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed pintu and local Awami League leader Torab Ali have been accused in the courtroom.

The Court is trial of the case then to September 7.

The criminal investigation department pressed filed charges in two cases - one for murder and other 25 crime criminal code and the other under the explosive substances Act - prevent 850 border, staff and civilians.

Twenty of the accused were still in hiding while three died in prison.

The Court on Wednesday accused charges against 831 also consulting on the design under section 3 and 4 of the explosive substances Act.

Relying on the post-mortem reports, a defender, Faruque Ahmed argued that accused 101, for the Court, that all 74 people were killed, shootings, not explosives blasts killed during the mutiny.

Referring to a statement of the High Court, Faruque said however, that it not the right how to file case of same offence.

The Court however requested to refrain from Faruque, misinterpreted the law.

'According to the law officer examination give 82 days his investigation according to the law explosive substance' Faruque told the Court.

""But", he said, ' the CID took 509 days, to investigate the case of the laws."

Citing legal bindings, Faruque told the Court that the police officers had not used explosive substance in accordance with the above-mentioned Act.

Advice, 321 accused of 831, which under the explosives on the Court for the discharge of the accused in the case of applied Substances Act.

Seventy-five including 57 officers in the army were killed in the bloody uprising, later renamed rifles, borders Bangladesh, on secondment in Bangladesh.

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Ibrahimovic fit for the season opener

Agence France-Presse. Rome

AC Milan star forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic fit A season has been declared for the start of the new series after suffering a twisted ankle, his club AC Milan said on Wednesday.

The big Swede injured that in training, a week before and feared Milan, that he would need two weeks to recover, which means that he missed the first game should be. Ghanaian footballer Kevin-Prince Boateng has also green light was given after recovering from a calf muscle retrieved. Milan begin the defence of their title to Cagliari away on Saturday.

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HC asks Sherpur dist judges to omit tasks

Staff correspondent

The High Court on Wednesday asked Sherpur district magistrate Ismat Ullah, his work do till October 25 for allegedly beating and forcing a candidate of Union Council member to get up and sit down establishments the ears within the polling station on 18.

The Bank of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore passed the order hearing a writ petition submitted, human rights and peace for Bangladesh magistrates discipline to the applicant union manage to Member Golam Mostafa.

The Court on a newspaper report, calls the organization published on 19 June, which said the Sherpur district had magistrate concerned candidate beaten and ordered him to get up and put 15 times keep the ears of the public on grounds of enter the polling Centre at the Dupuria primary school in Jhenaigati in Sherpur.

After hearing of the writ petition, the Court called on the judge in court 9 appear on Wednesday to explain his behavior.

The Court was also a rule to explain him why he should not be punished for his action.

The magistrate was wanted in court, and exemption from his appearance in person at the next meeting on Wednesday.

The Court however rejected the petition, and ordered him to reappear on September 25 before the Court.

Yousuf Hossain Humayun functioned magistrate's and Manzill Murshid moved the writ petition.

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UN-Embraceable you

Embraceable you

The latest issue of the Economist takes a comprehensive yet in question report on India and Bangladesh relations. There are a few serious allegations in the report, which may be permitted only unanswered. The first paragraph asserts that helped India Awami League with cash and advice in 2008 General elections. The publication has bothered even to book this open claim with evidence. I take more seriously the "cash" part. There is no harm in taking advice from a rising democracy, especially when the whole world to this specific set of governance is. But "Cash" is a different story at all: it undermines not only the credibility of a democratically elected Government, but also colors the objectivity of the report.

The Awami League has historically good relations with India, and now logically tries to cement these relationships to various agreement on sensitive issues, which were an obstacle to the peace of South-East Asia. By claims that the current Government has the "cash" from India to support come to power, the report is in fact try undermine peace efforts in the region. The Economist has decided to publish this report at a time when both countries contracts finalization to resolve long-standing issues and broaden the horizons of cooperation. The sensitive handles ensure the resolution of issues such as border disputes, sharing of water, electricity procurement for Bangladesh, transit routes and proportionally balanced trade. These offerings benefit equally Bangladesh economy and as first steps towards a South Asian Union be taken.

For transit routes, the report has cites the fears of the "military types" that such system could provoke reprisals from separatist outfits to India. Above all, what are "military type"? Are they people with a military background or simply a handful of people with a military setting? And secondly, so that helps India transit routes to the seven sisters in fact Bangladesh outsourcing, the fight against of the problem of militancy, because have separatist groups in North East India of deep links with underground movements in Bangladesh. Such links have repeatedly played into the hands of militant, you will be a conduit for arms and safe havens.

Coming back to the Economist, delete the purpose of this report tests the sweeping comment about lack of transparency in the upcoming 1971 war crimes. It is obvious that the report was created with the intention of highlighting this issue only. For a Western magazine page with an Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, an eye opener should be. This is the very party that has proved links with religious fighters in the country, this is the very party that has hired lobbyists by third-party contacts in the West against his cause, and this is the very party that supports known war criminals. Hardly any questions or claims regarding the impartiality of the war crimes tribunals in Cambodia or Rwanda were raised. Also in the issue of the Armenian massacre on one side Western media with the victims, not EU candidate Turkey. But for Bangladesh, sympathies surprisingly against the perpetrators of the 1971 crimes against humanity.

Jamaat-e-Islami is a coalition partner of the Bangladesh nationalist party of Khaleda Zia opposition. So, the BNP will quite obviously never continue these studies. Therefore, remains only the Awami League, the victims of this heinous crime to closure. The Economist is no qualms about stating no signs, that "the"
(in_Vorbereitung) war crimes trials of the events of 1971 are a way of Justice less than used as to crush opposition Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami ". The publication also lack of sensitivity 1971 showed journalistic use of the term "Events" for the Holocaust. Although it is, that the mass atrocities studies have rarely free of political controversy, they have still meaningful results, both in terms of the closure of the victims and bring the perpetrators to justice as produced in the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone and Cambodia etc.. Also, I agree with international experts, that "ultimately the quality of the evidence before the Court, the success or failure of the Tribunal of Bangladesh test". And also "is based on comparative experience, produce a study, which is not considered legitimate, the weak results, the vulnerable to further challenge across the Board."

So must focus on the crimes and victims, and not on the political affiliation of the suspects to stay. Not the attempts, but the suggestion of the Economist, that these experiments a witch-hunt in reality are at risk, the validity and the effectiveness of the rule of law and justice. Despite the policy, this problem can not the fact that it will be ignored widespread desire to simply put the war criminals to justice. This was one of the big election 2008, obligations of the Awami League before the elections for the party backed up massive public votes.

But as the Economist just at the beginning of his report, that Awami League won the polls by questionable means, it only goes to prove what many in Bangladesh destabilize as a Western conspiracy to the region. It can be no doubt that the attempts includes only the situation would worsen a painful episode of the history of the country, and also the reversal of the process.

The Economist report is nothing more than to create a fade effort atmosphere of fear and uncertainty about events, to bear the enormous value for the future of Bangladesh. Journalism is the only media propaganda to bottleneck peace efforts in South Asia.

Source: e-bangladesh.org

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Transit issue not a one-sided love affair

Transit has become a question of the cries of the people of Bangladesh. Lay people and think tanks of the country make a storm in the teacup due to one of these contemporary problem. The most interesting is probably the most important, that all people from different classes of the balance sheet are calculating, before at India, to use the soil of Bangladesh. There is a pool of people that is very concerned about the transit problem in Bangladesh. These people claim that internal security is compromised, when Bangladesh, India, most allow her.  The infrastructure of the country is hindered less compensation by overuse and payment of neighbouring country such as the present Government the contract still not open. These people believe that even after Bangladesh India multimodal transit and other facilities, these gestures of good will has to respond to its larger neighbour. Page of ally sometimes says that Indians want to see Sheikh Hasina in force for the second consecutive term, but they are going to a fast implementation of the outstanding issues, diplomatic and political relationship plaguing both countries. Fights, you want the unresolved issues with Indian interests in mind before the Awami League Government ends its term.

Now comes the question of whether this Propagandas of a miss conception among the citizens of this country make? We make our neighbor enemy, or we show an antagonistic attitude to her? All debates and Miss understand could make it very clear, if our Government would make it very public and our local media people would understand and focus on this issue. But unfortunately both groups could not make it possible. However, the transit is treated more as a political issue as the economic benefits. But the thing is, that Bangladesh has nothing to worry about Northeastern States type of transit rights on his landlocked countries. Bangladesh connectivity is after India through its territory, market access, the latter is to on the northeastern Indian States.

The main task of our diplomats would be to pick the best one for Bangladesh. India has started negotiations on the subject. The high officials of the country often visit Bangladesh for their sweet share. We are lagging here highly.

Services that share sensitive issues, such as rivers early visit in September India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, send electricity across the border, settling disputed patch of territory on the frontier 4.095 km (2,500 miles) and stop India's trigger-happy border guards of migrants and cow smugglers. Most importantly, however, an offer for setting up is a handful of transit routes through Bangladesh, India's remote, isolated in the Northeastern States. This is the "seven sisters" are squeezed on the border with China. On the front of that $10 billion is developing poor areas cut off from India's booming economy. Asian Development Bank and others also see Bengali gains from better roads, ports, railways and necessary trade. In Dhaka, the capital, according to the integration with India broader Governor of the Central Bank from economic growth a few percentage points of almost 7% could already lift. India has about half of the one billion US dollar loans for the project passed, and the money spent on the new river excavators and rolling stock is. Bangladesh rulers are mustard-keen. The country missed a previous infrastructure Bonanza, with a plan to pipe gas from Myanmar to India. China got the pipeline instead.

So the whole a mutual game where both of the country are benefiting each other help. Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan have opened their door to India. Pakistan has enormous transaction with India as Bangladesh in commercial and cultural activities. Why should we then behind left behind. People of this country should understand the basic principle of international trade, the poor country receives more trade with a rich country.  It's not that we all India and always 0 (zero). A better Bangladesh and the resource of the country need to open our door full of we and our neighbouring friends welcome.

Source: e-bangladesh.org

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Economist owe an apology in Bangladesh and India

The honesty and integrity of the British media has are subject to serious scrutiny in the recent past. Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is forced to close his "news of the world" for their unholy methods call charged at the image of leading figures and smearing Nations. Rupert Murdoch had to appear before a parliamentary probe Committee and regret for the fraud. Almost published "the Economist" has at the same time an other British media question has a highly controversial report relationship in India and Bangladesh, the emergence of Bangladesh, the genocide of Pakistan army in 1971and the identified criminals 1971 conducted.

The report without a credible evidence brought a claim, that the Government of India sponsored the Awami League with money and advice to the elections to win 2008. Congress is in the Indian State makes, and there is a historical connection between the Congrees and Awami League based on good wish or even blessing as both democracy champion. But how can one mention leading international media, that Indian Government financial support Awami League made available? They have a credible evidence? Neutral observers and media of the world renowned unanimously the free, fair and transparent elections in 2008. Also no big objection was raised by any of the opponents. But, as after two and a half years later "the Ecomonist" could be such a serious Declaration? This report has certainly undermine and in fact embarrassed, India and Bangladesh. The countries have every right to question validity and authenticity of the report. This is now more relevant, as two friendly neighbors of SAARC, after years of distrust and disbelief, positive measures have begun to resolve some outstanding issues - share water, enclave Exchange, action against terrorists, border disputes, regional connectivity, trade streamlining common. Some questions were basically agreed visit to India in Bangladesh of PMs, and most of the others are in advanced stage for a meeting of minds at the highest level at the forthcoming Summit of the 14 in Dhaka in September 2011.

There is a group of people who smells in all, what some Indian fish in Bangladesh.This group but hesitate not Indian clothes to go to for shopping India or medical treatment according to India, if required. They do not use dirty polluting Indian coal, but to increase it if the Government takes shouting imitative own sweet coal or explore for oil in the offshore object. This group will certainly be promoted, to by such Yellow journalism, "The Economist."
Economist report in question visit provided the Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi visit to Dhaka in a satirical way. Sonia was in Dhaka at the invitation of PM Hasina participate an international seminar on autistics children and the highest civilian honor [posthumous] get for late Indira Gandhi for her maternal contribution during the war of independence in. It can no doubt, if the head of the two ruling parties share political ideas and opinions on the regional policy and Government Affairs at any time anywhere.

The report questioned also the crackdown of militant groups and terrorists by Bangladesh Government. The section of the report can specify here:

Since 2008, when the Awami League, supported by pockets of Indian liquid consulting, in general elections in Bangladesh triumphs, pages of relations with India. To Indian joy, Bangladesh politicians of the country has been hard on extremists with ties to Pakistan or India's home-grown terrorist group of the Indian Mujahideen and loud Islamist (and anti-Indian). India is of the opinion that something more secure.

We are very delighted if Economist cash can specify the credible evidence of the case, claims, have granted it by the Government of India. Otherwise, an apology owe Economist India and Bangladesh.

From 2002-2006 Bangladesh became a safe haven of terrorists. Finance Minister SAMS Kibria, popular MP was Ahsanullah master by grenade attacks killed. Attacks against the British High Commissioner in Bangladesh, Mayor of Sylhet and MP Suranjit Sen Gupta were made. Finally killed terrorists under State support several Awami players are, including the wife of the President of Bangladesh in a carnage and chaos to Awami League Central in the heart of the capital. The terrorists so organized, that they at the same time grenade explosion 64 places of the country at the same time to run. Killed at the courthouse, cinema. It has been claimed that some country's intelligence service unfriendly to progressive force from Bangladesh and India setting up secure training of protection in Bangladesh trained terrorists and deadly weapons carry out subversive activities in Bangladesh and India. Huge arm haul by Jetty Chittagong was seized on CUFL, allegedly was traversed to Bangladesh for a separatist group of India. Current Government took a very courageous appropriate measures against the group. Government has measures to the initiated authentic all acts of terror of the last checkpoint. Rather than admire Governments criticized efforts Economist report unfortunately the admirable action of Bangladesh.

The saddest part of the report is that it identified the Bengali initiative in the execution of the criminals in question provided. It can be or more disagreement over the process of development. But it is to try a long-term legitimate demand of the people and to punish the employees of the Pakistan army in the implementation of genocide, rape, looting and Arsening in 1971. Economist has unfortunately advocates for the alleged criminal under guardianship. The purpose of the report is well understood.

The report also on various process of outstanding bilateral issues asked. It has provided regional connectivity in question. We cannot deny not our geographic reality. We are surrounded by India of 2.75 pages. All regional connections benefit all Nations. If his main regions with neglected India, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura it connect can, how it hurts Bangladesh? Why we are concerned, that is India army or military newspapers through the corridor traffic? This connection is only for Commerce and industry. We are not aware of the details of the regional connectivity. It will not make sense to talk about at this time.

Finally, we would like the editors of "The Economist" to the questions that request in the report and the address of the Bangladesh response.If this kind of reports regularly published, who knows, that may be necessary to embrace the same fate as Rupert Murdoch's "The News of the World" is some day.

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JS Panel adheres to open pit

Abdullah Juberee

A parliamentary Panel decided on Wednesday, coal Barapukuria to the 22 'reality' observing area deposit visits

It stood by its earlier proposal for open-pit mining for "increased extraction against the demand."

The Parliamentary Committee on the Ministry of energy and mineral resources had made the decision at its 29th meeting on the Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban before today's meeting of the House.

"We have already proposed was to extract coal in mining for further extraction of coal to the call to the Ministry." The Committee has decided to see mine in the Barapukuria area the real situation, "the Committee Chairman Subid Ali Bhuiyan, said.

The Committee visit several coal mines in China, to get regional and international mine first-hand experience of the used in a month after the visit of Barapukuria, Subid said.

The Committee, as soon as it visited several coal mines in Germany in 2010, but it was moved for fear of public unrest, sources in the Committee and the Division of energy it should visit Barapukuria.

Different permission groups, environmentalists, energy experts, and the National Committee for the protection of oil, gas, makes natural resources, and had ports for for a long time against open pit, out of fear that it would displace hundreds of thousands of people from their homes destroy fertile farmland and the u-Bahn water table and in many other ways to environmental damage.

The immediate past BNP-led Government favours open pit method but movement in the face of the uprising of the indigenous in the three fires of border guards were killed, then it known as the Bangladesh rifles, suspended on 26 August 2006.

The people were against plans to extract coal from Phulbari with open-pit mining method by the Asia energy, the later its name in global coal management or the GCM change demonstrates.

Then had opposition leader in Parliament, Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister is now their support for the people's movement at a rally in Phulbari extends the Government in 2006 after the BNP led an agreement with the movement organizers, the National Committee for the protection of oil, gas, minerals, makes and ports.

She had asked the BNP-led Government on all conditions of the transaction.

The most important conditions of the transaction have been suspension Asia energy mine coal project at Phulbari, ban on open-pit mining in the country, so that none extracts foreign company for coal extraction and export of coal.

Wednesday the decision of the Standing Committee the Government followed from moving coal extraction to public opinions for open-pit mining which is located in the northern districts to create particularly the Phulbari coal mine, and develop a mining town in Dinajpur, near the coal deposits of Phulbari and Barapukuria.

As part of the movement, the Parliamentary Committee on the power, energy and minerals Ministry members, Secretary of State for Home Affairs visited Secretary of State for power and energy, and the Prime Minister's Adviser on energy, along with senior officials, the involvement of experts, some areas in Cologne and Hamburg in Germany in October 2010 to see the impact of the mine.

After people revolt found face down and open the Asia energy a number of professionals such as teachers, politicians and journalists after Germany to support for the Phulbari project to drums.

The journey of Subid Ali Bhuiyan and Secretary of State for energy Mohammad Enamul Huq, see her reports to the Prime Minister, recommend the environmentally controversial open pit method.

A U.S. diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks in December 2010, said that energy consultant of the Prime Minister had assured Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, the United States, support for the Phulbari-coal project of the Asia energy through the parliamentary process drums, after the U.S. Government, the project again under pressure diplomats.

After it, the State oil, gas and mineral resources Corporation Petrobangla are five deposits of approximately 2500 million tonnes of high-quality coal in the three northern districts. The coal Phulbari, Barapukuria and Dighipara are in Dinajpur.

It was estimated that there are 572 million tons of coal in the Phulbari deposit at a depth of 150 metres up to 240 meters and the Barapukuria deposit 390 tons of coal in the depth of 119 m up to 506 meters.

Since 2005 extract of Barapukuria coal mining company Ltd, a subsidiary of the Petrobangla from the Barapukuria deposit coal.

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Liberation Army and the PLA day - memory and the hope of a Bangladeshi

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August the first is one of the governmental holidays in China to celebrate her People’s Liberation Army Day, in short PLA or Army Day. The day is set aside to commemorate the contribution that the PLA has made to China both in the past and in the present days. Chinese leaders and public figures go to veterans’ homes to show their great concern for them, and get-togethers are held for the soldiers on this day. In some places, soldiers and their dependents are rewarded with the opportunity to visit tourist attractions for free while some are also presented with beneficial books to mark the occasion.

According to Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia, “China has a long military tradition, dating back to the earliest days of recorded history. The martial exploits of kings and emperors, loyal generals and peasant rebels, and strategists and theorists are well known in Chinese high culture and folk tradition. Throughout the centuries, two tendencies have influenced the role of the military in national life, one in peacetime and the other in times of upheaval. In times of peace and stability, military forces were firmly subordinated to civilian control. The military was strong enough to overcome domestic rebellions and foreign invasion, yet it did not threaten civilian control of the political system. In the past 150 years, a third factor entered the Chinese military tradition—the introduction of modern military technology and organization to strengthen military capabilities against domestic and foreign enemies. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, all three tendencies have been discernible in the role of the military in national life. These factors have been particularly apparent in the role of the People’s Liberation Army in the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party, in the military’s role in the politics of the People’s Republic of China, and in the efforts of Chinese leaders to modernize the armed forces”.

The PLA, initially established on 1st August 1927 through Nanchang Uprising of the communists against the Nationalists, is now the unified military organization of all land, sea, strategic missile and air forces of the People’s Republic of China. It is one of the largest military forces in the world. Again PLA, initially called the Red Army, grew under Mao Zedong and Zhu De from 5,000 troops in 1929 to 200,000 in 1933. Only a fraction of this force survived the Long March in retreat from the Nationalists. After rebuilding its strength, a large portion of it, the Eighth Route Army, fought with the Nationalists against the Japanese in northern China. After World War II, the communist forces, that is the renamed People’s Liberation Army, defeated the Nationalists and formed The People’s Republic of China in 1949 which has already emerged as today’s mighty economic super power in the world within so short time.

PLA is a people’s army created and led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and the principal body of China’s armed forces. The PLA is made up of both active and reserve components. Its total force is maintained below the 2,500,000. The active components of the PLA are the country’s standing army, consisting of the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Second Artillery Force, whose main task is to conduct operations of defense, and, if necessary, help to maintain social order in accordance with the law. Through the General Staff Headquarters, the General Political Department, the General Logistics Department and the General Armaments Department, the CMC exercises operational command over the whole PLA and leadership for the development of the PLA.

The Navy of the PLA was established on April 23, 1949. Its primary missions are, independently or jointly with the Army and Air Force, to guard against enemy invasion from the sea, defend the state’s sovereignty over its territorial waters, and safeguard the state’s maritime rights and interests. The Air Force of the PLA was established on November 11, 1949. Its primary missions are organizing homeland air defense to protect the territorial air, and providing air security for key facilities; organizing relatively independent air offensive operations; independently or jointly with the Army, the Navy or the Second Artillery Force, engaging in joint operations against enemy invasion from the air, or in conducting air strikes against the enemy. Adopting a system of combining aviation with ground-to-air defense forces, the Air Force consists of the aviation, surface-to-air missile, anti-aircraft artillery and airborne units, as well as communications, radar, ECM, chemical defense, technical reconnaissance and other specialized units. The Air Force has an air command in each of the seven military areas of Shenyang, Beijing, Lanzhou, Jinan, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Chengdu.

The Second Artillery Force of the PLA was established on July 1, 1966. It is composed of the ground-to-ground strategic nuclear missile force, the conventional operational-tactical missile force, and the support units. The strategic nuclear missile force, under the direct command of the CMC, constitutes the main part of China’s limited nuclear counterattack capability. It is equipped with land-based strategic nuclear missile systems. Its primary missions are to deter the enemy from using nuclear weapons against China, and, in the case of a nuclear attack by the enemy, to launch an effective counterattack in self-defense independently or jointly with the strategic nuclear forces of other services, at the order of the supreme command. The conventional operational-tactical missile force is equipped with conventional operational and tactical missile systems. Its task is to carry out fire assaults with conventional missiles.

The PLA’s reserve force, established in 1983, is a force with its own preset organizational structure, with reserve personnel as the base and active personnel as the backbone. The reserve force operates a unified organizational system. The divisions, brigades and regiments of the reserve force are conferred designations and military banners. The reserve force implements orders and regulations of the PLA, and is incorporated into the PLA’s order of battle. In peacetime, it is led by the provincial military districts or garrison commands, and in wartime, after mobilization, it is commanded by the designated active unit or carries out combat missions independently. It receives military training in peacetime in accordance with the relevant regulations, and, if necessary, helps to maintain social order in accordance with the law. In wartime, it may be called into active service in pursuance of a state mobilization order. ¡The PLA forces stationed in Hong Kong and Macao are under the direct leadership of the CMC. The PLA Hong Kong Garrison is mainly composed of ground, naval and air units. The PLA Macao Garrison is mainly composed of a ground force, with some naval and air force personnel on its staff.

Photo: Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie (4th L) and other generals attend a reception hosted by the Ministry of National Defence of the People’s Republic of China, to mark the 84th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army, in Beijing, capital of China, July 31, 2011. (Xinhua/Wang Jianmin).

To commemorate this year’s PLA day, that is to mark the 84th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army, Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie delivered a speech on July 31, 2011, at a reception hosted by the Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China, in Beijing, the capital of China. Guests from home and abroad attend a reception hosted by the Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China. In his speech he expressed that China will steadily reform national defense and the army and constantly modernize the military forces, quoted by Xinhua news agency. He also said “In the world today, peace, development and cooperation remains the trend of the times. However, world peace and development faces multiple challenges. China is going through unprecedented and extensive social changes,” Mr. Liang also said the army faces more arduous and heavier tasks and should stay alert to challenges. He called for enhancing the capability to accomplish diversified military tasks, with the capability to win local wars under the changing conditions. “We will expand and deepen preparedness for military struggle, vigorously carry out military training, promote independent innovation in defense science and equipment development,” said Liang. He also called for accelerating the building of modern logistics, intensifying the training of high-caliber and new-type military personnel, actively and steadily carrying out defense and military reforms and constantly modernizing the PLA. Mr. Liang, also a member of China’ Central Military Commission and a state councilor, said the army will continue to oppose and deter the secessionist activities for “Taiwan independence” to make due contributions to the peaceful development of cross-Straits relations and China’s complete reunification. He also pledged working for long-lasting peace and common prosperity of the world. “(We will) continue to follow the independent foreign policy of peace, deepen friendly exchanges and cooperation with the armed forces of other countries and contribute to building a harmonious world of enduring peace and common prosperity.” Over the past 84 years, the PLA has made outstanding contributions to safeguarding the nation’s sovereignty, security and territorial integrity as well as advancing China’s economic and social development, said Liang.

In the recent past, Chinese President Hu Jintao also expressed at a meeting of PLA deputies to the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, that the armed forces to provide solid security guarantee for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the armed police should constantly improve their capabilities of comprehensively performing their missions in new century and new stage, The armed forces should speed up their efforts in pushing forward the modernization of national defense and the army, so as to resolutely safeguard state sovereignty, security and development interests, said Mr. Hu. The armed forces should unswervingly obey the Party’s command, said Hu, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission. Mr. Hu also urged the armed forces to actively participate in economic, social and ecological construction, support the transformation of economic development pattern, and shoulder emergency response tasks such as disaster relief.

Bangladesh and China established diplomatic relations on October 4, 1975 and since then Bangladesh Army also started cooperation with PLA. Many Bangladeshi defense personnel were trained in PLA. Besides, most of the equipments of Bangladesh Armed Forces are also from PLA or China.  The Bangladeshi military began its development with weapons surrendered by Pakistani forces and the arms supplied by India to the Freedom Fighter (Mukti Bahini). However, by the early 1980s, China had become Bangladesh’s primary supplier of military equipment.

It was 15th September 1988 when I first landed in Beijing being one of the foreign students to learn Chinese language and have had studied Chinese language for two years staying in China. That was my closest opportunity to know China and its people when I was very young. Since then I had been visiting China regularly and have seen the changes in last 23 years. I have seen the China from Herbin in the north to Hainandao in the south and also in between many cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzen, etc, and almost whole China accept three provinces. I wish I would soon complete seeing those places too.

During my every visit to China I was always very surprised seeing her continuous developments and progresses. Every time I took a long breath and answered to myself, “it is China and they are Chinese and so it is possible!”. The achievements of China during last few decades are known to all indeed. During my every visit to China I also had the opportunities to be in close touches with many Chinese leaders as well as very common people in the official as well as business and private capacities from which I have learned something for myself. Of course, there are many related factors associated to the success of present China, however, I would like to express my personal opinion as to what all major factors had possibly been contributing to these continuous successes. In my opinion, major factors were the political stability of the nation, the discipline, motivation and willingness of people to develop the country, and of course the special Chinese leadership to take the country ahead. The pride of the Chinese people that, “we are Chinese and it is China and of course one China” was the main motivation behind all success in my understanding. Well, PLA provided the basic security and strength to the nation for achieving the present glory.

During past 23 years I had the opportunities to listen many top ranking leaders of China and Bangladesh regarding the Sino- Bangladesh friendly cooperation in general and the relationship between PLA and Bangladesh Armed Forces in particular. Today I may recall the speech delivered in 1993 by General Zhang Wan Nian, the then Chief of General Staff (CGS) of PLA during his visit to Bangladesh where he strongly expressed that relationship between PLA and Bangladesh Armed Forces in particular and Sino-Bangladesh relationship in general is long time tested and would remain trusted forever. I have also heard many peace loving common people of both the countries.  I have learned and now believe from all those talking that China Bangladesh relationship is the relationship of long history, not only this formal 36 years, however, now it has taken the shape of the relationship of connectivity, relationship of trust and confidence, relationship of inter dependability, and the relationship of future hope and continuous cooperation for mutual win-win benefits.

Considering the space limitation of this writing, I would like to express only one desire on behalf of common peace loving people of both countries so that the authorities at both ends may consider facilitating easy access to each other’s country and their people for the continuous promotion of culture, sports, tourism, trade and other sectors in general and the understanding as well as bondage between PLA and Bangladesh in particular. I hope the concern authorities would soon do something more positive in this regard. Long live the relationship between PLA vis-a-vis Bangladesh Armed Forces and long live Sino Bangladesh relations.

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