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Monday, October 20, 2008

Re: [chottala.com] BEWARE OF CHANNEL-I OFFICIALS

Dear Robin,

Thank you for your comments and support for me. In fact, these kinds
of incidents are happening every day and night in our country which
can be stopped only when people are concious and take it seriously.

Thank you,

Synthia

--- In chottala@yahoogroups.com, Ferrari <spider_man195@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Synthia
> It is very sad to hear your story, it is really very bad to hear
such things here, i think in these days ppls will get his/her job
based on the knowledge and experience and qualification, what happen
to u that is really bad, i hope ppl will change there mind join wth a
good effort to serve each other
> wish you all the best
> Ciao
> Robin
>
>
> --- On Sun, 10/19/08, synthia.haque@... <synthia.haque@...> wrote:
>
> From: synthia.haque@... <synthia.haque@...>
> Subject: [chottala.com] BEWARE OF CHANNEL-I OFFICIALS
> To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 4:43 PM
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> I dropped my CV to Channel-i for a post of News Presenter few
months
> back. After several auditions I remained at their short-list with
> expectation to be selected finally. At this stage I received a call
> to my mobile phone one mid-night from a person who described
himself
> as a senior official ("Kormokorta" ) of Channel-i and asked me
whether
> I am interested to be his 'friend'. He called the mobile number
which
> was only at the CV that I dropped at Channel-i. Even after he knew
> that I am married (from the CV), he wanted to take 'advantage' of
his
> post. I had to reject his proposal with hate to be a News Presenter
> of this century.
>
> I knew that model girls, film actresses and other professionals of
> glamour world have to 'sacrifice' sometimes to get positions. But I
> had no idea that News Presenters have to face same problems. Now I
> lost honor to the profession and faith to the TV channels of our
> country.
>
> Regards,
>
> Synthia Haque
>
>
>
>


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RE: [chottala.com] Aafia being treated inhumanely in US custody: SM Zafar

Dear all chottala readers,
 
What Syed Aslam has been continuously writting about a Pakistani woman Dr. Aafia Siddiqui for such a long period in this posting about the inhuman activities and torture done to her in detention, I also endorse my freeling with him and equally sympathecise for her. The same thing happened in a more barbaric way by the brutal Pakistani soldier in 1971 during our liberation war to thousands even lacs of Bangladeshi girls and women under detention in the Pakistani army camp. So many girls of Eden girls hostel suicided at that time. After the liberation many girls were rescued from the Pakistani bunker.
 
Doula, Windsor, Canada.       




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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:37:59 -0400
Subject: [chottala.com] Aafia being treated inhumanely in US custody: SM Zafar


 
 

Aafia being treated inhumanely in US custody: SM Zafar

By SAJID ZIA submitted 1 day 13 hours ago

LAHORE - Senator SM Zafar has said that Pakistani citizen Dr Aafia Siddiqui in US detention is facing inhumane and undignified treatment. She is in a very bad health after being badly tortured in custody particularly in Afghanistan, he added.
Senator Zafar who met Dr Aafia during his US visit as a member of the Senate team has urged the national and international human rights organisations to take up her case to seek that she should be given normal human treatment available to other inmates in US custody. He said he learnt from the meeting with her that she did not expect fair justice from the US jury. "She is highly disturbed and weak yet she is confident and thankful to Pakistan for taking up her case," said SM Zafar while talking to The Nation.
Mr Zafar, head of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rigts, Mushahid Hussain Syed, Chairman Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate, Chairman Committee on Interior Senator Talha and Member Foreign Affairs Committee Sadia Abbasi on behalf of the government of Pakistan had met Aafia Siddiqui to find her condition and to examine as to how she could be helped in defending herself and ease her condition on humanitarian grounds.
At the Complex in Dallas, where the Senator held meeting with Dr Aafia, he said, around 1500 to 1600 females inmates were present but Dr Aafia was kept in strict detention separate from others. He said he found Aafia very weak and frail who in the beginning was somewhat reluctant to communicate with them but later "When we told that we are members of the Pakistan Senate and are here to know how can we help her in the case she was facing, she gradually opened up and begun to discuss her condition."
He said Dr Aafia under strict custody was subject to 'strip search' to come out of the cell. This strip search, he said was totally undignified and dehumanising. Aafia, who told she was taken into custody some three years back, wanted to see her relations.
The Senator said that Aafia was much worried about her other two children after a third one had been given back to the custody of his aunt. "She wants support for the recovery of her two children." He said his committee on its part would take up this matter with the US, Afghanistan and Pakistan government.
Zafar said, "Aafia at present is being led before the jury by advocate Elizabeth Fink, who undoubtedly is a good human right lawyer, but she actually needs a lawyer expert in dealing with the criminal cases for proper defence of her case." He said anyone from among the Pakistani lawyers on criminal side in the US could assist her in defending against the charges that she snatched weapon from a GI and tried to kill him.
Senator Zafar said the Pakistan government and the expatriate Pakistanis in America would be the source, who could provide her help, in addition to the assistant by the Senate Committee and the Parliament.
He said, "I understand that the government is taking interest in the matter and is engaged with the US State Department on this count." However, he said, the government needed to focus on the area where case against Dr Aafia should be withdrawn on the plea that she herself had received serious injuries after one of the GIs had struck her and the bullet had hit her stomach. He said she could not be repatriated to Pakistan unless the case was withdrawn.
He said in New York, their team also discussed the case with advocate Saleem Rizvi, who is one of the members of the lawyers who are defending her, and also talked to the brother of Dr Aafia in Texas

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Pak Government can bring back Aafia in a day
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Senators' statements shock Dr Aafia's family
Daily Times, Pakistan - Oct 17, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Dr Aafia Siddiqui's sister Dr Fouzia Siddiqui on Friday expressed shock over Pakistani senators (who visited Aafia) statements that she was ...
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BBC
Amnesty International Human Rights Watch News
Aafia's son freed by Kabul, flown to Islamabad
Pakistan Dawn, Pakistan - Sep 15, 2008
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Full security for Dr. Aafia's son: interior ministry sources The News International
Afghanistan frees young son of al-Qaida suspect The Associated Press
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RE: [chottala.com] FW: Obama

On the contrary, no one should just support the blood relatives, leaving behind the others, who are empowering him, giving all necessary supports. During his raising in the childhood, and later in his professional rise, the blood relatives, including his own father, did not help him when he mostly needed the help. He was raised by his mother and maternal grand parents. He got absolutely no supports (mentally, physically, financially, psychologically or spiritually) from any one of his father's family. Then in the schools, colleges, and in the universities, he made all distinctions, with the help of the teachers and scholarships from the educational institutions, and by his talent he earned very good financial supports from the educational donors. No Kenyans or no one from his father's side made any contributions for him to bring him to this position. He got full supports by the taxpayers' money, and the institutional donor's money from the USA. US institutions shaped him up. People of US supported him by all means to bring him in this position. So, he is doing the right thing, trying help US to build anew. On top of all these, if he can help his father's family in Kenya, it would be wonderful. But I do not see any reason why someone will say, "...no one wants a president who do not or will not support his relatives sooner or later.'' This comment does not make any sense. The great people always try to help everybody whenever and whatever way possible. They do not do nepotism. Obama personally visited his father's family in kenya, wore kenyan dress that many pointless criticizers criticized. It is not true that he is not helping his father's family, but the deep attraction to a family comes from the closeness, that he was never been offered. Still he is doing what he should do. This is not any point of discussions, specially for the people who never know the facts. Let him take care of his sacred business, save the US and the world. There is ample time ahead to help just a family.
 
Thanks,
KR




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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:15:12 +0600
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] FW: Obama


I think Obama, needs to start connecting with his family. Surely, no
one wants a president who do not or will not support his blood
relatives sooner or later.

Zia, IITM
Dhaka



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[chottala.com] Jamaat recognises Liberation War, allows non-muslims to become it's member

 Jamaat recognises Liberation War
 
 
Key Points:
(1) allows non-Muslims to be members  [Is Jamaat becoming a secular party ?]
(2) anti-liberation Jamaat-e-Islami has recognised the historic Liberation War of Bangladesh.
(3) Jamaat also dropped a symbol with the words 'Allahu' and 'Aqimuddin'.
(4) provisions for reserving 33 percent seats for women in all its committees.
(5) the party is renamed as Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BIJ), changing its earlier name Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh (JIB).
 
[Note:
One great philisopher [perhaps Hegel] remarked somewhere that historic facts and personages
appear, so to speak, twice. Another historian added: the first time as tragedy, the second time as
farce. These may very well proven again in Bangladesh in case of Jamaate Islami.... in 1971
Jamaat was a tragedy for Bangladesh ....... it is very likely that this time Bangladesh Jamaat-e-
Islami will prove itself to be the farce of 21st century Bangladesh ...just a matter of time ..]
 - Syed Aslam]
 
 
 
[Sangbad Cartoon]
[Also read JIB becomes BJI
 
 
 
Jamaat recognises Liberation War
Makes major changes in constitution for registration; allows non-Muslims to be members but puts onus of protecting independence only on them
Shakhawat Liton and Rashidul Hasan

Finally, anti-liberation Jamaat-e-Islami has recognised the historic Liberation War of Bangladesh in its newly revised constitution.

The change of policy was forced upon it by its desperation to keep itself legitimised as a parliamentary party registered with the Election Commission (EC), in the face of new amendments to the Representation of the People Order (RPO).

The amended RPO says the constitution of a political party seeking registration cannot contradict the country's constitution.

Jamaat's provisional constitution which was submitted to the EC for getting registered as a parliamentary party, also renamed the organisation Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, changing its earlier name Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh.

Jamaat also dropped a symbol with the words 'Allahu' and 'Aqimuddin' in Arabic from the cover of its provisional constitution.

The party adopted its constitution in 1979.

Its also allows non-Muslims to be members of Jamaat, but puts the responsibility of protecting the country's independence and sovereignty by taking an oath only on them, while the Muslim members are exempted from taking that oath.

"I shall actively play a role in defending the independence and sovereignty of Bangladesh," reads a section of the oath scheduled for non-Muslim members, whose inclusion was prompted by the party's latest necessity for removing religious and gender discriminations within the organisation.

According to Jamaat's interim constitution which will be ratified by a national council within six months of the first sitting of the next parliament, as promised by it, both Muslim and non-Muslim members however must swear to abide by the rules and decisions of the party, giving the highest priority to implementing the decisions.

Among other fundamental beliefs and spirits, Jamaat also accepted the spirit of the heroic liberation war of 1971 by inserting a new paragraph into the preamble of its new provisional constitution.

The heroic struggle of the people and freedom fighters that liberated Bangladesh and put it on the world map as an independent country has been mentioned as a part of the fundamental beliefs and spirits of the party.

Submitting the application for registration and the provisional constitution to the EC for being qualified to contest in the upcoming parliamentary election, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, assistant secretary general of Jamaat, said his party has been in politics since May, 1979 by accepting the creation of Bangladesh through the liberation war.

Jamaat was constitutionally banned for years in the newly independent country for its anti-liberation activities and collaboration with the invading army in 1971.

Many Jamaat leaders were facing charges of war crimes and some of them were on the run.

But the party was allowed to resume its activities in 1979 as the constitutional ban on forming religion based political parties was repealed after the bloody regime change of August 15, 1975.

Lately, Jamaat's survival was facing difficulties again as the revised RPO made political parties' registration with the EC mandatory for contesting in the parliamentary election.

The strict new provisions forced the party to change the preamble to its constitution accepting the historic liberation war as its original constitution contradicted the Constitution of Bangladesh.

Jamaat, traditionally an Islamist fundamentalist party, in its revised constitution replaced the phrase describing its goal of 'establishing the rule of Allah' with a new phrase of 'establishing a fair and just Islamic society'.

The party included a new section in its constitution's preamble that says, "Jamaat-e-Islami will work to establish an Islamic social system that guarantees justice for all, since Bangladesh emerged as the third largest Muslim country through a heroic battle of the people and freedom fighters."

According to its interim constitution, Jamaat also co-opted the members of its women's majlish-e-sura into the central majlish-e-sura, the highest policy making body.

It also added provisions for reserving 33 percent seats for women in all its committees with a promise to achieve the target by 2020.

In line with the amended RPO, the new Jamaat constitution also promises to nominate parliamentary contenders from a panel created by the grassroots level committees and forwarded to the party's parliamentary board.

About severing its ties with front organisations, Jamaat Assistant Secretary General Muhammad Kamaruzzaman who yesterday went to apply for the party's registration, said Jamaat has no front organisation.

Jamaat, a key component of BNP-led four-party alliance which ruled the country just before the current caretaker government, had earlier refused to get registered with the EC under the current RPO, and challenged its legality in the High Court terming some of the amendments unconstitutional.
 
 
 
 
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[chottala.com] Re: [notun_bangladesh] American Muslim PAC Endorsed George W. Bush for Presi dent in Elections 2000

Excellent comment, Mr. Salauddin Ayubi !!!
In fact, there are many people of Jewish origin who
are very supportive of Palestinian causes and minority
rights (including the rights of new immigrant Muslims
in USA).
 
Professor Neil E. Todreas, a scholar-engineer and a Jew by birth
hired Dr. Mujid S. Kazmi a Palestanian birth without
any prejudice in the highly sensative Nuclear Engineering Department
of MIT. Professor Kazmi eventuallly rose up to the position the Head
of the MIT Nuclear Engineering Department. [BTW, Professor Kazmi
is currently the Director of The Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy
Systems (CANES) and holds Professorship both at Nuclear Engineering
and Mechanical Engineering Departments of MIT.
 
This is just an example. We must abhor sectarianism and communalisn
in all phases of our life at all costs.
 
Syed Aslam

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Salahuddin Ayubi <s_ayubi786@yahoo.com> wrote:

Our battle is against zionists and not against the jews. Mr. Libermann was not a zionist and this fact should have been taken note of by the Muslim voters.
                    Ayubi

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From: mohiuddin@netzero.net <mohiuddin@netzero.net>
Subject: [Amra-Bangladesi] Re: [khabor.com] American Muslim PAC Endorsed George W. Bush for Presi dent in Elections 2000
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Cc: notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com, chottala@yahoogroups.com, khabor@yahoogroups.com, amra-bangladesi@yahoogroups.com, SonarBangladesh@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 4:21 PM


Mr. Aslam,
Please do not try to bring historical mistake of the U.S. Muslims while they voted for GWB. Now US Muslims are more matured voter and won't do the same mistake like voting for GWB.
The main reason muslim voters did not vote for GWB's opponent AL Gore is his teammate Joe Lieberman (Jewish Senator)as VP candidate. THis time situation is different Joe is with Republican candidate Senator MCCain. And I am more than confident that US muslims will overwhelmely vote for Barack Obama wiothouit any doubt.
Ameticam Muslim PAC should have applogized for their past mistakle for supportinmg GWB.


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Re: [chottala.com] FW: Obama

I think Obama, needs to start connecting with his family. Surely, no
one wants a president who do not or will not support his blood
relatives sooner or later.

Zia, IITM
Dhaka

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[chottala.com] Aafia being treated inhumanely in US custody: SM Zafar

 
 

Aafia being treated inhumanely in US custody: SM Zafar

By SAJID ZIA submitted 1 day 13 hours ago

LAHORE - Senator SM Zafar has said that Pakistani citizen Dr Aafia Siddiqui in US detention is facing inhumane and undignified treatment. She is in a very bad health after being badly tortured in custody particularly in Afghanistan, he added.
Senator Zafar who met Dr Aafia during his US visit as a member of the Senate team has urged the national and international human rights organisations to take up her case to seek that she should be given normal human treatment available to other inmates in US custody. He said he learnt from the meeting with her that she did not expect fair justice from the US jury. "She is highly disturbed and weak yet she is confident and thankful to Pakistan for taking up her case," said SM Zafar while talking to The Nation.
Mr Zafar, head of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rigts, Mushahid Hussain Syed, Chairman Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate, Chairman Committee on Interior Senator Talha and Member Foreign Affairs Committee Sadia Abbasi on behalf of the government of Pakistan had met Aafia Siddiqui to find her condition and to examine as to how she could be helped in defending herself and ease her condition on humanitarian grounds.
At the Complex in Dallas, where the Senator held meeting with Dr Aafia, he said, around 1500 to 1600 females inmates were present but Dr Aafia was kept in strict detention separate from others. He said he found Aafia very weak and frail who in the beginning was somewhat reluctant to communicate with them but later "When we told that we are members of the Pakistan Senate and are here to know how can we help her in the case she was facing, she gradually opened up and begun to discuss her condition."
He said Dr Aafia under strict custody was subject to 'strip search' to come out of the cell. This strip search, he said was totally undignified and dehumanising. Aafia, who told she was taken into custody some three years back, wanted to see her relations.
The Senator said that Aafia was much worried about her other two children after a third one had been given back to the custody of his aunt. "She wants support for the recovery of her two children." He said his committee on its part would take up this matter with the US, Afghanistan and Pakistan government.
Zafar said, "Aafia at present is being led before the jury by advocate Elizabeth Fink, who undoubtedly is a good human right lawyer, but she actually needs a lawyer expert in dealing with the criminal cases for proper defence of her case." He said anyone from among the Pakistani lawyers on criminal side in the US could assist her in defending against the charges that she snatched weapon from a GI and tried to kill him.
Senator Zafar said the Pakistan government and the expatriate Pakistanis in America would be the source, who could provide her help, in addition to the assistant by the Senate Committee and the Parliament.
He said, "I understand that the government is taking interest in the matter and is engaged with the US State Department on this count." However, he said, the government needed to focus on the area where case against Dr Aafia should be withdrawn on the plea that she herself had received serious injuries after one of the GIs had struck her and the bullet had hit her stomach. He said she could not be repatriated to Pakistan unless the case was withdrawn.
He said in New York, their team also discussed the case with advocate Saleem Rizvi, who is one of the members of the lawyers who are defending her, and also talked to the brother of Dr Aafia in Texas

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Pak Government can bring back Aafia in a day
Thaindian.com, Thailand - Sep 20, 2008
Karachi , Sep 20 (ANI): One day is enough to bring American educated Pakistani neuroscientist and terror suspect, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, back to Pakistan if the ...
Senators' statements shock Dr Aafia's family
Daily Times, Pakistan - Oct 17, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Dr Aafia Siddiqui's sister Dr Fouzia Siddiqui on Friday expressed shock over Pakistani senators (who visited Aafia) statements that she was ...
Aafia being treated inhumanely in US custody: SM Zafar The Nation, Pakistan
Demo for Aafia's release The Post
all 3 news articles »
 
Watch the video:

Mein Ne Uss Se Yeh Kaha

Filed under: Pakistan, Video — naumanz @ 1:20 pm
Tags: , , , ,


BBC
Amnesty International Human Rights Watch News
Aafia's son freed by Kabul, flown to Islamabad
Pakistan Dawn, Pakistan - Sep 15, 2008
By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: A 12-year-old son of neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui was handed over to his aunt Fauzia Siddiqui here on Monday ...
Full security for Dr. Aafia's son: interior ministry sources The News International
Afghanistan frees young son of al-Qaida suspect The Associated Press
Aafia Siddiqui's Son Released to His Aunt OhmyNews International
New York Times - Online - International News Network
all 371 news articles »

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[chottala.com] China growth slows as crisis bites

 
China growth slows as crisis bites
Chinese exporters are feeling the pinch from slowing global demand [AFP]

China's economic growth rate has slipped into single digits for the first time since late 2005, as the global financial crisis begins to have an effect on the world's fourth largest economy.

According to government figures released on Monday, growth in the first nine months of the year was 9.9 per cent over a year earlier, compared to 11.9 per cent for the whole of 2007.

Growth for July to September slowed to nine per cent, the lowest since the second quarter of 2003 when the outbreak of the Sars virus saw Chinese economic growth plummet to 6.7 per cent.

"The growth rate of the world economy has slowed down noticeably," Li Xiaochao, a spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics, said during a news conference in Beijing called to release the latest data.

"There are more uncertain and volatile factors in the international economic climate," he added, noting that "all these factors have started to release their negative impact on China's economy".

"It's very obvious now that economic growth is slowing quickly"

Zhang Fan, 
Tebon Securities

The slide in growth is being blamed on cooling global demand for China's clothing, toys and other exports - a trend analysts expect to see continue for the foreseeable future.

"It's very obvious now that economic growth is slowing quickly, although some indicators such as exports are holding up due to lagging effects," Zhang Fan, an economist at Tebon Securities in Shanghai, told the AFP news agency.

Reacting to the latest data, shares on the benchmark Shanghai composite index slid 0.7 per cent in Monday morning's trade.

Although the latest growth rates are still robust compared to other major economies, the latest economic data has raised speculation that the government will introduce new measures to counter the slowdown.

China's leaders need to keep growth high to avoid political tensions [GALLO/GETTY]
China's leaders need to keep growth rates high to reduce poverty and minimise job losses that could stoke political tensions.

At the weekend a meeting of China's state council, or cabinet, saw senior leaders outline measures to ease lending and stabilise volatile financial markets.

"Financial, credit and foreign trade measures will be carried out in the near future in response to the slowing trend of the country's economic growth,'' the official Xinhua news agency said in a report late on Sunday.

Among measures expected are fresh tax cuts, stepped-up investment in infrastructure such as railways, and an easing of curbs on the real-estate market which is already being eased in some cities.

In other economic data released on Monday, China's politically sensitive inflation rate slowed in September to a 15-month low of 4.6 per cent, officials said.

The figure compares with a 12-year high of 8.7 per cent in February this year.

The inflation slowdown, thanks largely to moderating food costs, could free China's leaders to do more to help spur growth after trying to rein in bank lending and other factors blamed for pushing prices higher in recent years.

 
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