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Monday, February 16, 2009

Re: [chottala.com] 1971 war criminals.

If the activities of the so called freedom politicians be analyzed then no one could be found in the group of so called freedom politicians who is not more criminals than the war criminals.

It is better to keep mouth shut up & all should praise Mrs. Indira Gandhi who had fought against Pakistan to create Bangladesh & had made an agreement at Simla in India for releasing all real war criminals..


From: "siraj@yahoo.com" <siraj@yahoo.com>
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 7:25:46
Subject: [chottala.com] 1971 war criminals.

Dear all chottala readers,

At the end  our police department caught two old unknown poor man as Razakar or war criminals of 1971 in Village Bera Bari of Mohanpur in Rajshahi district named Dawood Ali 70 years and Noore Anowar 60 years. They are now under remand.

We are still happy to learn at least two war criminals were caught. Why not Golam Azam, Ali Mohd Muzahid, Motiur Rahman Nizami and Behai who are moving in front of our nose still spared and not yet caught. Since the inception of Bangladesh we are continuously hearing about Golam Azam and many other prominant person as war criminals. 

There are so many big big war criminals still present either as parliament member or as Behai or freely moving in the open air  in a big big city like Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna, in many other big cities of Bangladesh etc.  Only two poor old men were searched and caught at the end leaving aside those big big Razakar untouched.  They should have enough courage to catch the big big fish as mentioned and not to run after  "CHUNO PUTI" only.

Dowllah.



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Dear All Brothers
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[chottala.com] BD deprived of Ganges water as India violates treaty

BD deprived of Ganges water as India violates treaty

Govt planning to enter into water sharing agreements for other 53 rivers

Staff Correspondent

Bangladesh is deprived of proper share in Ganges water as per treaty
as India is not providing expected flow of water as required by the
agreement signed between two countries in 1996.

Article 2(2) of Sharing of the Ganges Waters stipulates that effort
will be made by the upper riparian state to protect the flows of water
at Farakka as per 40 years of average availability but India is
violating this provision.
Talking to The Bangladesh, Dr Ain-un-Nishat said Bangladesh is getting
waters of Ganges as found at Farakka point but supply of waters to
Farakka point is too little for Bangladesh.

He said "There are three parts in this treaty. Article-1 provides for
sharing of water as available at Farakka but my understanding is that
allocation to Bangladesh is made based on this provision. But
Article-2 (2) stipulates that India will protect the flow at a
specified level. Unless this protection mechanism is in operation the
residual flow that arrives at Farakka may not be the flow that matches
40 years average condition. In short, the flow distributed has not
been protected by India as per provision of the treaty."

Second part of the treaty stipulates that as present level of flow at
Farakka is not adequate, it must be augmented. But this aspect of the
treaty remains unattended, he alleged.

He said third part of the treaty had proposed agreement on all other
common rivers. In my view the government should arrive at sharing
arrangement or joint management plan as soon as possible to safeguard
the interest of the country.
"Had Bangladesh entered into water sharing agreement with India in
1972/ 1973, it would not be deprived of river waters now. What India
is doing now is that it is supplying residual water to Farakka to be
shared by Bangladesh as India is either withdrawing water from upper
riparian rivers or diverting water flows to other rivers within India
by river linking projects," he added.

Water Resources Ministry said total flow reaching at Farakka during
the first ten days of February, 2009 was 81,650 cusec which was lower
than the 40 years historical average flow of 86,323 cusec as mentioned
in treaty. Bangladesh was supposed to get 46, 323 cusec water but it
has got actually 41,650 cusec water in first ten days of February.
Similarly, Bangladesh is being continuously deprived of its share
despite the agreement.

However, ministry sources confirmed that the government led by Awami
League is considering entering into fresh agreements with India in
respect of remaining 53 joint rivers to share waters from those as
well but as to when such water-sharing agreement will be arrived at is
entirely uncertain.

The Bangladesh Today – February 17, 2009


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[chottala.com] Takabbur and Gheebat is Allama Raihan's [AKA AhumanB] favorite tactics!


Dear All
 
I do not agree with Dr. Golam F. Akhter on most of the issues
and his views in general.
 
But what I see here is out and out Gheebat when Mr. Ahumanb 
calls Dr. Akhtar " He is a CIA and MOSAD agent."
A person may be ego-bound with distorted views, but that does
not automatically make him an agent. A true muslim will logically
refute the misguided person  & expose any factual error in the persons
post. It is difficult to understand why a dedicated Islam-possand
scholar like Mr. Ahumanb is resorting to slanderous Gheebat
against his adverories all the time .....It also difficult to
understand why a person who pretends to be a true Mostem using
such tactics which is Islamically considered a great sin [Kabira
Guna].
 
We have also seen Takabbur [vanity & pride] in Mr. AhumanB's
posting:  Example
 
The bangla-slave Ashgar seems to be jealous of my PhD as he doesn't
have one and he won't be able to achieve one during his lifetime! He
may, however, get one if he takes birth as a dog or pig in his next
life, according to the doctrine of reincarnation! But that's nothing
more than a bad dream though!
 
This is a clear example of Takabbur and Slanderous Gheebat by
S.M. Raihan PhD, AKA AhumanB.
 
Takabbur is to consider oneself superior to
others in attributes of excellence.

Allah Ta'ala says:

"Verily, Allah does not love the proud ones."

Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said:
"He who has a grain of pride in his heart will not
enter Jannat."
This is the reality of Takabbur and Takabbur is
haram.
 
Takabbur consists of two ingredients,
viz.,
1. The feeling of superiority--considering
    oneself to be great.
2. Contempt for others.
 
 As a Moslem brother we expect logic & modesty in
Mr. AhumanB's posts but what we see mostly
is posts full of Takabbur and Gheebat.
 
 
BTW, up until now the Custodian of shrines of Khana Kaaba
and Roza-e-Rasool (PBUH), Saudi Monarch King Abdullah has
not said anything against recent Israeli genocide and killings of
innocent Palestinian women, children, and  civilians......
 
Sent by
 
Syed Aslam

 
On 2/12/09, ahumanb <ahumanb@yahoo.com> wrote:

Please note that "Golam F. Akhter" is not a Muslim to begin with. He is a CIA and MOSAD agent. I can show many proofs in favor of my claim. He never wrote/said anything against Israeli genocide and killings of innocent Palestinian women, children, and civilians. Instead he believes that Israel is much more democratic and humane than any Muslim country in the world! He also never wrote/said anything against Iraq invasion and the killings of thousands of
innocent women, children, and civilians. He doesn't even like any kind of criticism against his master Bush! He is simply a mental slave of anti-Muslim media.



--- In khabor@yahoogroups.com, "akhter" <akhter@...> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> Forwarded- Note of Caution From The author who teaches physics at
Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. Our religious, traditional, and
normal- all leaders should make a note of it, our Bangladesh is not
far behind Pakistan in Saudi-isation!
> Regards.
> Yours sincerely,
> Golam F. Akhter
> ---------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Zinda
> To: Yahoo! Groups
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:14 PM
> Subject: FW: The Saudi-isation of Pakistan
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> Please see interesting article below.
> Extremism is breeding at a ferocious rate in public and private
schools within Pakistan's towns and cities
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> The Saudi-isation of Pakistan
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> By Pervez Hoodbhoy
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> The common belief in Pakistan is that Islamic radicalism is a
problem only in FATA, and that madrassas are the only institutions
serving as jihad factories. This is a serious misconception.
Extremism is breeding at a ferocious rate in public and private
schools within Pakistan's towns and cities. Left unchallenged, this
education will produce a generation incapable of co-existing with
anyone except strictly their own kind. The mindset it creates may
eventually lead to Pakistan's demise as a nation state.
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> For 20 years or more, a few of us have been desperately
sending out SOS messages, warning of terrible times to come. In fact,
I am surprised at how rapidly these dire predictions have come true.
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> A full-scale war is being fought in FATA, Swat and
other "wild" areas of Pakistan, resulting in thousands of deaths. It
is only a matter of time before this fighting shifts to Peshawar and
Islamabad (which has already been a witness to the Lal Masjid
episode) and engulfs Lahore and Karachi as well. The suicide bomber
and the masked abductor have crippled Pakistan's urban life and
shattered its national economy.
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> Soldiers, policemen, factory and hospital workers,
mourners at funerals and ordinary people praying in mosques have all
been reduced to globs of flesh and fragments of bones. But, perhaps
paradoxically, in spite of the fact that the dead bodies and
shattered lives are almost all Muslim ones, few Pakistanis speak out
against these atrocities. Nor do they approve of the army operation
against the cruel perpetrators of these acts because they believe
that they are Islamic warriors fighting for Islam and against
American occupation. Political leaders like Nawaz Sharif and Imran
Khan have no words of solace for those who have suffered at the hands
of Islamic extremists. Their tears are reserved exclusively for the
victims of Predator drones, even if they are those who committed
grave crimes against their own people. Terrorism, by definition, is
an act only the Americans can commit.
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> What explains Pakistan's collective masochism? To
understand this, one needs to study the drastic social and cultural
transformations that have rendered this country so completely
different from what it was in earlier times.
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> For three decades, deep tectonic forces have been
silently tearing Pakistan away from the Indian subcontinent and
driving it towards the Arabian peninsula. This continental drift is
not physical but cultural, driven by a belief that Pakistan must
exchange its South Asian identity for an Arab-Muslim one. Grain by
grain, the desert sands of Saudi Arabia are replacing the rich soil
that had nurtured a magnificent Muslim culture in India for a
thousand years. This culture produced Mughul architecture, the Taj
Mahal, the poetry of Asadullah Khan Ghalib, and much more. Now a
stern, unyielding version of Islam (Wahhabism) is replacing the
kinder, gentler Islam of the Sufis and saints who had walked on this
land for hundreds of years.
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> This change is by design. Twenty-five years ago, the
Pakistani state used Islam as an instrument of state policy. Prayers
in government departments were deemed compulsory, floggings were
carried out publicly, punishments were meted out to those who did not
fast in Ramadan, selection for academic posts in universities
required that the candidate demonstrate a knowledge of Islamic
teachings and jihad was declared essential for every Muslim. Today,
government intervention is no longer needed because of a spontaneous
groundswell of Islamic zeal. The notion of an Islamic state - still
in an amorphous and diffused form - is more popular now than ever
before as people look desperately for miracles to rescue a failing
state.
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> Villages have changed drastically; this transformation
has been driven, in part, by Pakistani workers returning from Arab
countries. Many village mosques are now giant madrassas that
propagate hard-line Salafi and Deobandi beliefs through oversized
loudspeakers. They are bitterly opposed to Barelvis, Shias and other
sects, who they do not regard as Muslims. The Punjabis, who were far
more liberal towards women than the Pukhtuns, are now beginning to
take a line resembling that of the Taliban. Hanafi law has begun to
prevail over tradition and civil law, as is evident from the recent
decisions of the Lahore High Court.
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> In Pakistan's lower-middle and middle classes lurks a
grim and humorless Saudi-inspired revivalist movement that frowns on
any and every expression of joy and pleasure. Lacking any positive
connection to culture and knowledge, it seeks to
eliminate "corruption" by regulating cultural life and seizing
control of the education system.
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> "Classical music is on its last legs in Pakistan; the
sarangi and vichitraveena are completely dead," laments Mohammad
Shehzad, a music aficionado. Indeed, teaching music in public
universities is violently opposed by students of the Islami Jamaat-e-
Talaba at Punjab University. So the university has been forced to
hold its music classes elsewhere. Religious fundamentalists consider
music haram or un-Islamic. Kathak dancing, once popular with the
Muslim elite of India, has few teachers left. Pakistan produces no
feature films of any consequence. Nevertheless, the Pakistani elite,
disconnected from the rest of the population, live their lives in
comfort through their vicarious proximity to the West. Alcoholism is
a chronic problem of the super rich of Lahore - a curious irony for
this deeply religious country.
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> Islamisation of the state and the polity was supposed
to have been in the interest of the ruling class - a classic strategy
for preserving it from the wrath of the working class. But the
amazing success of the state is turning out to be its own undoing.
Today, it is under attack from religious militants, and rival Islamic
groups battle each other with heavy weapons. Ironically, the same
army - whose men were recruited under the banner of jihad, and which
saw itself as the fighting arm of Islam - today stands accused of
betrayal and is almost daily targeted by Islamist suicide bombers.
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> Pakistan's self-inflicted suffering comes from an
education system that, like Saudi Arabia's system, provides an
ideological foundation for violence and future jihadists. It demands
that Islam be understood as a complete code of life, and creates in
the mind of a school-going child a sense of siege and embattlement by
stressing that Islam is under threat everywhere.
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> On the previous page, the reader can view the
government-approved curriculum. This is the basic road map for
transmitting values and knowledge to the young. By an act of
parliament passed in 1976, all government and private schools (except
for O-level schools) are required to follow this curriculum.. It was
prepared by the curriculum wing of the federal ministry of education,
government of Pakistan. It sounds like a blueprint for a religious
fascist state.
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> Alongside are scanned pictures from an illustrated
primer for the Urdu alphabet. The masthead states that it has been
prepared by Iqra Publishers, Rawalpindi, along "Islamic lines."
Although not an officially approved textbook, it is being used
currently by some regular schools, as well as madrassas associated
with the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), an Islamic political party that
had allied itself with General Musharraf. These picture scans have
been taken from a child's book, hence the scribbles.
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> The world of the Pakistani schoolchild remained largely
unchanged, even after September 11, 2001, the event that led to
Pakistan's timely desertion of the Taliban and the slackening of the
Kashmir jihad. Indeed, for all his hypocritical talk of "enlightened
moderation," General Musharraf's educational curriculum was far from
enlightening. It was a slightly toned down version of the curriculum
that existed under Nawaz Sharif which, in turn, was identical to that
under Benazir Bhutto who had inherited it from General Zia-ul-Haq.
Fearful of taking on the powerful religious forces, every incumbent
government has refused to take a position on the curriculum and thus
quietly allowed young minds to be moulded by fanatics. What may
happen a generation later has always been a secondary issue for a
government challenged on so many fronts.
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> The promotion of militarism in Pakistan's so-
called "secular" public schools, colleges and universities had a
profound effect upon young minds. Militant jihad became part of the
culture on college and university campuses. Armed groups flourished,
they invited students for jihad in Kashmir and Afghanistan, set up
offices throughout the country, collected funds at Friday prayers and
declared a war which knew no borders. Pre-9/11, my university was
ablaze with posters inviting students to participate in the Kashmir
jihad. Post-2001, this ceased to be done openly.
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> Still, the primary vehicle for Saudi-ising Pakistan's
education has been the madrassa. In earlier times, these had turned
out the occasional Islamic scholar, using a curriculum that
essentially dates back to the 11th century, with only minor
subsequent revisions. But their principal function had been to
produce imams and muezzins for mosques, and those who eked out an
existence as 'maulvi sahibs' teaching children to read the Quran.
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> The Afghan jihad changed everything. During the war
against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, madrassas provided the
US-Saudi-Pakistani alliance the cannon fodder they needed to fight a
holy war. The Americans and Saudis, helped by a more-than-willing
General Zia, funded new madrassas across the length and breadth of
Pakistan. A detailed picture of the current situation is not
available. But according to the national education census, which the
ministry of education released in 2006, Punjab has 5,459 madrassas
followed by the NWFP with 2,843; Sindh has 1,935; the Federally
Administrated Northern Areas (FANA), 1,193; Balochistan, 769; Azad
Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), 586; the Federally Administrated Tribal
Areas (FATA), 135; and the Islamabad capital territory, 77. The
ministry estimates that 1.5 million students are acquiring religious
education in the 13,000 madrassas.
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> These figures appear to be way off the mark. Commonly
quoted figures range between 18,000 and 22,000 madrassas. The number
of students could be correspondingly larger. The free boarding and
lodging plus provision of books to the students, is a key part of
their appeal. Additionally, parents across the country desire that
their children be "disciplined" and given a thorough Islamic
education. The madrassas serve this purpose, too, exceedingly well.
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> Madrassas have deeply impacted the urban environment.
Until a few years ago, Islamabad was a quiet, orderly, modern city
different from the rest of Pakistan. Also, it had largely been the
abode of Pakistan's elite and foreign diplomats. But the rapid
transformation of its demography brought with it hundreds of mosques
with multi-barrelled audio-cannons mounted on minarets, as well as
scores of madrassas illegally constructed in what used to be public
parks and green areas. Now, tens of thousands of their students,
sporting little prayer caps, dutifully chant the Quran all day. In
the evenings they swarm the city, making women minus the hijab
increasingly nervous.
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> Total segregation of the sexes is a central goal of the
Islamists, the consequences of which have been catastrophic. For
example, on April 9, 2006, 21 women and eight children were crushed
to death and scores injured in a stampede inside a three-storey
madrassa in Karachi, where a large number of women were attending a
weekly congregation. Male rescuers, who arrived in ambulances, were
prevented from moving the injured women to hospitals.
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>
>
> One cannot dismiss this incident as being just one of a
kind. In fact, soon after the October 2005 earthquake, as I walked
through the destroyed city of Balakot, a student of the Frontier
Medical College described to me how he and his male colleagues were
stopped by religious elders from digging out injured girl students
from under the rubble of their school building. This action was
similar to that of Saudi Arabia's ubiquitous religious 'mutaween'
(police) who, in March 2002, had stopped school girls from leaving a
blazing building because they were not wearing their abayas - a long
robe worn in Saudi Arabia. In a rare departure from the norm, Saudi
newspapers had blamed and criticised the mutaween for letting 15
girls burn to death.
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> The Saudi-isation of a once-vibrant Pakistani culture
continues at a relentless pace. The drive to segregate is now also
being found among educated women. Vigorous proselytisers carrying
this message, such as Mrs Farhat Hashmi, have been catapulted to the
heights of fame and fortune. Their success is evident. Two decades
back, the fully veiled student was a rarity on Pakistani university
and college campuses. The abaya was an unknown word in Urdu. Today,
some shops across the country specialise in abayas. At colleges and
universities across Pakistan, the female student is seeking the
anonymity of the burqa. And in some parts of the country she seems to
outnumber her sisters who still "dare" to show their faces.
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> I have observed the veil profoundly affect habits and
attitudes. Many of my veiled female students have largely become
silent note-takers, are increasingly timid and seem less inclined to
ask questions or take part in discussions. They lack the confidence
of a young university student.
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> While social conservatism does not necessarily lead to
violent extremism, it does shorten the distance. The socially
conservative are more easily convinced that Muslims are being
demonized by the rest of the world. The real problem, they say, is
the plight of the Palestinians, the decadent and discriminatory West,
the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Kashmir issue, the Bush
doctrine - the list runs on. They vehemently deny that those
committing terrorist acts are Muslims, and if presented with
incontrovertible evidence, say it is a mere reaction to oppression.
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> The immediate future does not appear hopeful:
increasing numbers of mullahs are creating cults around themselves
and seizing control of the minds of worshippers. In the tribal areas,
a string of new Islamist leaders have suddenly emerged: Baitullah
Mehsud, Maulana Fazlullah and Mangal Bagh. Poverty, deprivation, lack
of justice and extreme differences of wealth provide the perfect
environment for these demagogues to recruit people to their cause..
Their gruesome acts of terror are still being perceived by large
numbers of Pakistanis merely as a war against imperialist America.
This could not be further from the truth.
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> In the long term, we will have to see how the larger
political battle works out between those Pakistanis who want an
Islamic theocratic state and those who want a modern Islamic
republic. It may yet be possible to roll back those Islamist laws and
institutions that have corroded Pakistani society for over 30 years
and to defeat its hate-driven holy warriors. There is no chance of
instant success; perhaps things may have to get worse before they get
better. But, in the long term, I am convinced that the forces of
irrationality will cancel themselves out because they act at random
whereas reason pulls only in one direction. History leads us to
believe that reason will triumph over unreason, and the evolution of
the humans into a higher and better species will continue. Using ways
that we cannot currently anticipate, they will somehow overcome their
primal impulses of territoriality, tribalism, religiosity and
nationalism. But, for now, this must be just a matter of faith.
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> The author teaches physics at Quaid-e-Azam University,
Islamabad.
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