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Monday, February 25, 2008

[chottala.com] Moin U Ahmed has Accepted a humiliating proposal that the previous government had refused to accept.

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Moeen's extraordinary India visit
and govt's approval of security
cage on border
The unelected government of Fakhruddin Ahmed has visibly swallowed the Indian proposal of constructing a 'security cage' on both sides of the border to resume direct passenger train service between Dhaka and Kolkata – a humiliating proposal that the previous government had refused to accept. The people of Bangladesh have always been in favour of maintaining close contact with the people of India, with whom they share common history and culture in many areas, and therefore welcome the perceived train services. The people of Bangladesh, however, rightly felt uncomfortable with the Indian idea of passing the trains through a 'box-type' cage to be constructed on the 'no man's land, which, the Indian negotiators believe, would deter illegal immigration, if there is any. Bangladesh had, therefore, rightly been refusing to entertain the humiliating proposal. Subsequently, the agreement of the direct train service, initiated in July 2001 and almost finalised in July 2007, did not materialise. Suddenly, Fakhruddin's cabinet approved the Indian proposal on Monday! Notably, India has direct train services with its arch rival Pakistan, but the trains do not pass through any cages.
 
 

   What, however, is especially noteworthy is that the cabinet approval of the Indian proposal came the day General Moeen U Ahmed, chief of our armed forces, which propelled Fakhruddin to power, began his extraordinary visit to New Delhi, the capital of India. The visit appears extraordinary because the general, who is believed to have been the prime backer of the otherwise unpopular government of Fakhruddin Ahmed, is scheduled to hold talks with a couple of Indian cabinet members including foreign minister Pranab Mukharjee, and also the chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal, Buddhadev Bhattacharya. This is alarming. In ordinary visits, our general is not supposed to have official talks with foreign politicians, particularly when the two countries involved have quite a good number of disputed issues to be resolved through political negotiations. That the visit is an extraordinary one is also reflected in the political enthusiasm of the Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka, who had reportedly visited prior to the general's departure for Delhi, Khandaker Delwar Hossain, the secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Zillur Rahman, the acting president of the Awami League. None of the parties involved clearly told our people as to what transpired in those meetings, creating a lot of concerns in the public mind as regards what issues would come up during general Moeen's discussions with Indian policy makers. The concern has further deepened after our government's approval of the Indian proposal to construct the controversial security cage on no man's land immediately before the visit. Are the unelected incumbents passing any message to the Indian political establishment? We do not know.
   However, what we know is that the hegemonic powers, regional or global, usually like weak governments in the neighbourhood as the hegemon finds it easy to settle disputed issues with the weak to the former's advantage. And the weakest government is the one which is not elected by the people, as is the case in Bangladesh today. The weak governments, if ambitious to cling to power without people's mandate for long, usually seek cooperation of the hegemonic powers, and at times they succeed in it, albeit at the cost of national interests. We only hope that general Moeen's extraordinary visit to Delhi would not cost us very dearly, and expect that he upon his return would apprise us all, at the least, of what issues he discussed with Indian leaders, and what are the possible implications of those discussions for our people.
 


Is this CTG better than Ershad  in case of political party reform and anti corruption drive and dealings with teachers and Students ?
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[chottala.com] Re: [khabor.com] King Saud University Names Chair after Noble Laurate Dr. Yunus

How About Shirin Ebadi, another Muslim Nobel Laureate?

Has Saudi King honoured her, yet?

 

شیرین عبادی
Shirin Ebadi



On 2/25/08, mohiuddin@netzero.net <mohiuddin@netzero.net> wrote:

KSU Names Research Chair After Nobel Laureate Yunus
Javid Hassan, Arab News
 

RIYADH — A research chair at King Saud University has been established in the name of Grameen Bank of Bangladesh founder Mohammed Yunus, who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006. Yunus was in the Kingdom yesterday for the Jeddah Economic Forum.

Fayez A. Al-Ghamdi, assistant professor of English at the College of Arts of King Saud University, said that the university has decided to establish the research chair as part of its R&D program. "There will be 15 international scholarships under his name," said Al-Ghamdi.

The Nobel laureates will serve as part-time faculty members at KSU, where they will make their own contribution to various programs in the university. Some of them participated in workshops on nanotechnology as well as the international conference on knowledge-based economy. They also provided valuable input in scientific programs and conferences, including the 7th Saudi Engineering Conference held in November last year.

He said the research program was set up almost six months ago and was intended to forge strategic alliances with prestigious international scholars.

"With this in view, we started contacting tens of Nobel laureates during August and September last year with the support of 25 sponsors," he said. "Five of the Nobel laureates have visited KSU and four of them signed service contracts with its rector, Dr. Abdullah Al-Othman."

Al-Ghamdi said that in the second semester the university would have eight laureates, with the number set to increase to 14 this year. "We have contacted 25 Nobel laureates," he said. "Through this program we would like to reap the benefit of their rich experience and expertise by sponsoring joint research projects in scientific fields."

The second objective, he pointed out, was to set up a training program for KSU's new faculty for nanotechnology. In addition, they will supervise post-doctoral and sabbatical research programs. All of these were part of the agreement signed with the Nobel laureates.

Al-Ghamdi said the laureates would be connected to their own scientific fields through the university's various departments.

The university will send another delegation from faculty members to visit the Nobel laureate's own university and get an idea of the research programs. In some cases, the students could also be trained there as well.

He said there would also be a student-exchange program.



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[chottala.com] Is that CEC we've got after Aziz or 1/11?

CEC's impartial (?) role is coming to daylight clearly day by day.
 
I think this talkative CEC is the main obstacle to practice democracy in Bangladesh. He is the classmate and close friend of Rashed Khan Menon. These leftists in BD and India talk about limited and bracketed democracy only when it is good for own sake.
 
Many of us might have allergic to read that daily but try to understand the fact that was provided from the EC itself.
 
Please go through this links:
 
 
 
Be free and fair to everybody, you are fooling yourself, Mr. Dr. Huda, founder of the theory  'Doctrine of Neceessity'.
 
Although you are an ex-communist, your present position wants you to be just for any group either you like or not.
 
What is your problem to talk with Islamists and Nationalists forces? Did India send you some special messages?
Learn from past, people will through you out to the dustbin as they did so many times in past as Shaikh Hasina warned few months ago.


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[chottala.com] Bangla boss to meet Buddha

Bangla boss to meet Buddha
India switches on the charm

New Delhi, Feb. 25: Bangladesh's power behind the throne, General Moeen U. Ahmed, is being given a red carpet treatment reserved but rarely for guests of his stature.

The six-day tour of Ahmed, who arrived here last evening, will culminate in a meeting with Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Friday and a possible visit to Gede railway station to learn about arrangements for the proposed Maitreyee Express train service between Calcutta and Dhaka.

"This (Ahmed's visit) will definitely improve relations between our two offices, in particular, and between Bangladesh and India, in general," said army chief General Deepak Kapoor after receiving his Bangla counterpart.

Ahmed is scheduled to stop by in Calcutta on February 29. He will fly to Calcutta on his return where he will meet Bhattacharjee that evening. It is likely that Ahmed will also visit Santiniketan.

In Calcutta, the chief minister and the army chief are expected to explore issues that Ahmed might suggest to his army-backed interim government on his return to Dhaka. The communist leader and the general are not known to have met in the past.

But this is one engagement — of the several lined up for the general — that is likely to quickly fade out the stiffness of military formalities and dissolve into the cloying sweetness of a common mother tongue.

Shortly after Ahmed was given a guard of honour in South Block this morning, he was handed over the reins of six horses that the Indian Army gifted to the Bangladesh army.

Ahmed was told that the stallions, Valiant and Arzoo, and the four mares were bred and produced at Equine Breeding Studs of the Remount Veterinary Corps at Hisar and Babugarh.

Ahmed was briefed on the impeccable lineage of the thoroughbreds, the bay-coloured Valiant and the grey Arzoo. Valiant was sired by Volcano, a Hanoverian stallion.

"Valiant has also acquired Arab blood through its mother, daughter of Gulshan and granddaughter of the famous Sumrak, a proven Russian Anglo Arab which was gifted by the Russian government to (the then) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1960," according to an officer of the Remount Veterinary Corps.

Arzoo has also acquired Hanoverian blood through its sire Arjun and grand sire Accord II. The horses will leave for Bangladesh in three trucks. "It is a goodwill gesture," said Kapoor, who was surprised when one of the mares neighed after Ahmed patted her. She quietened down with the taller Kapoor standing next to her.

Army sources pointed out that Ahmed was himself of a rare breed. He is the first army officer commissioned after the liberation to rise to be army chief. "In fact, he is of the age of many of our brigadiers," an Indian officer said.

Ahmed has been an instructor in his army staff college three times. It would follow that he would be well-networked in his force. He had also served as Bangladesh's defence attaché in Pakistan, said the officer, implying that the Bangla army chief had deeper insight into the geopolitics of South Asia than some of his peers.

The general is expected to meet the President, the Prime Minister and minister of state for defence Pallam Raju. He will also meet foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee.
 
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[chottala.com] Moeen for new era of alliance with India


Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor, right, gestures as he speaks with Bangladesh Army chief Gen Moeen U Ahmed after a welcome ceremony in New Delhi yesterday. Photo: AFP
On his maiden visit to India, Bangladesh army chief Gen Moeen U Ahmed yesterday met Indian army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor and Indian Air Force chief Air Marshal Homi Major and promised to usher a new era of close defence cooperation with India.

Gen Moeen, who also had a meeting with the vice-chief of Indian Navy, held extensive military talks with his Indian counterparts.

"I propose to usher in a new era of close cooperation between the two armies," Moeen told reporters in a brief interaction on his arrival at South Block.

Setting a positive tone to his six-day visit, Indian army presented two stallions and four mares to Bangladesh army as a gesture of goodwill and friendship.

The reins of the thoroughbreds, worth more than Rs 4 crore, were handed over by Gen Kapoor to Gen Ahmed at a spectacular presentation ceremony yesterday. Lt Gen Sudhir Sharma, quartermaster general, and Lt Gen N Mohanty, director general Remount Veterinary Services, were also present at the ceremony.

The horse presentation ceremony was followed by a guard of honour to Gen Moeen by Indian Defence Forces. Moeen laid a wreath at Amar Jawan Jyoti at the India Gate.

The stallions and mares will form a strong breeding germ-plasm for production of quality horses for Bangladesh Army and promote multifarious equestrian activities.

The two stallions and the four broodmares have been bred and produced at Equine Breeding Studs of Remount Veterinary Corps of the Indian Army.

These horses will be transported to India-Bangladesh border by road and will be handed over to Bangladesh Army at Haridaspur-Benapole transit point.

General Moeen, who is accompanied by his wife, is also scheduled to visit Indian Military Academy in Dehradun today and other Army institutions including some naval set-ups in Goa.

He is expected to travel to Kolkata and meet West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on the last day of his visit before flying back home.

Meanwhile, leading newspaper Indian Express in a top editorial said the Indian army's gift of the six horses to Gen Moeen "is hopefully a symbol of South Block's commitment to a new relationship with the security forces of Bangladesh".

"The very fact that Moeen has chosen to travel to India opens the door for a productive engagement between the security forces of the two countries… Moeen could be seen to represent an opportunity for structural change within Bangladesh and in Indo-Bangla relations," the editorial read.

Press Trust of India (PTI) reported that Gen Moeen also met Indian political leaders including External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, and State Minister for Defence MM Pallam Raju.

Although there was no official word on the meetings, sources said New Delhi took the opportunity to apprise Gen Moeen on its concerns over 'illegal civilian migration' from Bangladesh, according to the PTI report.

Gen Moeen, during his six-day stay in India, may also call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and visit the army's key establishments in Dehradun, Agra, and Kolkata.
 
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[chottala.com] Gen Moeen Vikka Chai Na Kutta Samlao !!!!!!!

 
dear all,
india gifts 6 horses to BD military chief gen moeen, pls click 
same time, indian BSF killed 4 bangladeshi on 23 feb 2008, pls click
and 2 on 25 feb,pls click
 
what type of fun is this?
they killed 6 bangladesh human being within 2 days, but gifted 6 horses showing so-called token of FRIENDSHIP?
value of 6 human being is equal to the value of 6 horses?
 
vikka chai na kutta samlao
 
hasan
 
 
 

 
 
 
 


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