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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Re: [chottala.com] Warm Wishes



Thanks Dr. Sirajuddowllah for your mail.

Warm personal wishes.

Mannan

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:05 PM, siraj uddowllah <siraj_58@hotmail.com> wrote:
 

Thanks Prof. Mannan for your reply. I was also in Chittagong as my first posting as Lecturer of Pharmacology in Chittagong Medical College at that time and I can still remember that eventful night of March 26 very well.  Bye and take care. Regards.
Dr. Siraj Uddowllah (Dowllah).

 


Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:25:47 -0700
Subject: Re: FW: [chottala.com] Warm Wishes
From: abman1971@gmail.com
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com; siraj_58@hotmail.com

Thanks Dr. Sirajuddowllah for your mail. Fortunatley regarding Zia's  declaration I was very much in Chittagong in that eventful March , and my first involvment with muktijuddoho was with a faction of his break away unit. I do not like to play fiddle with history and last of all enter into an unncessary debate at this stage about  something even which Zia did not lay a claim.
 
Take care and have a nice day.
 
 
Warm Wishes.
 
Mannan

 
On 9/18/10, siraj uddowllah <siraj_58@hotmail.com> wrote:
 

Dear Prof. Abdul Mannan,

Your writing in "The daily Jugantar" on 18th Sept, 2010 is highly appreciated but I could not appreciate your subsiding the truth about Ziaur Rahman's contribution by his first declaration of independence on 26th March from Kalur Ghat Radio station.

No doubt Gen. Zia was an unknown Major at that time but you cannot refuse and try to ignore him as a first declarer of independence in that crucial moment when the then East Pakistan was suddenly plan wise attacked from all sides by the brute Pakistani armies killing our unarmed civilians and brush firing our sleeping Bengal Regiment armies in the army barrack at a time.

People may make so many untrue self-made stories by distorting the histories about that night of 26th March, but being a professor you should be idealistic and should not disregard the actual facts.

I will be happy if instead of becoming biased you can express the truth boldly. Best of regards.

Dowllah (Dr. Siraj Uddowllah), Canada.

 

 


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From: abman1971@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:50:23 -0700
Subject: [chottala.com] Warm Wishes

 
A feature by me appears in today's Jugantor. It is on the recent visit of PM to Chittagong. The link is given below. Feedback requested.

Thanks.

Have a nice day.

Mannan


http://www.jugantor.info/enews/issue/2010/09/18/news0974.php
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_________________________________
Abdul Mannan
Professor
School of Business
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
House # 56, Road # 4/A
Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1209
Bangladesh.
BDT=GMT +6
Working Days Sunday-Thursday
E-mail: abman1971@gmail.com
http://www.ulab.edu.bd



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Abdul Mannan
Professor
School of Business
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
House # 56, Road # 4/A
Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1209
Bangladesh.
BDT=GMT +6
Working Days Sunday-Thursday
E-mail: abman1971@gmail.com
 http://www.ulab.edu.bd


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[chottala.com] Bangladesh, 'Basket Case' No More - Wall Street Journal



  • SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
  • Bangladesh, 'Basket Case' No More

    Pakistan could learn about economic growth and confronting terrorism from its former eastern province.

    By SADANAND DHUME

    Not long ago, when you thought of a South Asian country ravaged by floods, governed by bumblers and apparently teetering on the brink of chaos, it wasn't Pakistan that came to mind. That distinction belonged to Bangladesh.

    Henry Kissinger famously dubbed it a "basket case" at its birth in 1971, and Bangladesh appeared to work hard to live up to the appellation. For the outside world, much of the country's history can be summed up as a blur of political protests and natural disasters punctuated by outbursts of jihadist violence and the occasional military coup.

    No longer. At a reception Friday for world leaders attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York, President Barack Obama congratulated Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed for receiving a prestigious U.N. award earlier in the week. Bangladesh was one of six countries in Asia and Africa feted for its progress toward achieving its Millennium Development Goals, a set of targets that seek to eradicate extreme poverty and boost health, education and the status of women world-wide by 2015.

    Bangladesh has much to be proud of. Its economy has grown at nearly 6% a year over the past three years. The country exported $12.3 billion worth of garments last year, making it fourth in the world behind China, the EU and Turkey. Against the odds, Bangladesh has curbed population growth. Today the average Bangladeshi woman bears fewer than three children in her lifetime, down from more than six in the 1970s.

    The country's leading NGOs—most famously the microcredit pioneer Grameen Bank—have earned a global reputation. Relations with India are on a high. In August, Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee signed off on a $1 billion soft loan for Bangladeshi infrastructure development, the largest such loan in India's history.

    dhumebanglaAssociated Press

    Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters in New York.

    Perhaps most strikingly, Bangladesh—the world's third most populous Muslim-majority country after Indonesia and Pakistan—has shown a willingness to confront both terrorism and the radical Islamic ideology that underpins it. Since taking office in 2009, the Awami League-led government has arrested local members of the Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, the al Qaeda affiliate Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami-Bangladesh, and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, a domestic outfit responsible for a wave of bombings in 2005.

    In July, the Supreme Court struck down a 31-year-old constitutional amendment and restored Bangladesh to its founding status as a secular republic. The government has banned the writings of the radical Islamic ideologue Abul Ala Maududi (1903-79), founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the subcontinent's most influential Islamist organization. Maududi regarded warfare for the faith as an exalted form of piety and encouraged the subjugation of women and non-Muslims. A long-awaited war crimes tribunal will try senior Jamaat-e-Islami figures implicated in mass murder during Bangladesh's bloody secession from Pakistan.

    Of course, it will take more than a burst of entrepreneurial energy and political purpose before Bangladesh turns the corner for good. The long-running feud between Prime Minister Wazed and her main rival, Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Khaleda Zia, makes that of the Hatfields and McCoys look benign by comparison. The war of ideas against the country's plethora of Islamist groups requires the kind of sustained pressure that Dhaka has been unable to apply in the past. And garment exports notwithstanding, the economy remains shallow.

    Deputy Editorial Page Editor Bret Stephens analyzes the latest strikes.

    Despite these caveats, Bangladesh ought to be held up as a role model, especially for the subcontinent's other Muslim-majority state. Arguably no two countries in the region share as much in common as Pakistan and Bangladesh, two wings of the same country between 1947 and 1971. With 171 million people and 164 million people, respectively, they are the world's sixth and seventh most populous countries. Both have alternated between civilian and military rule. In terms of culture, both layer Islam over an older Indic base.

    Yet when it comes to government policies and national identity, the two countries diverge sharply. As a percentage of gross domestic product, Islamabad spends more on its soldiers than on its school teachers; Dhaka does the opposite. In foreign policy, Pakistan seeks to subdue Afghanistan and wrest control of Indian Kashmir. Bangladesh, especially under the current dispensation, prefers cooperation to confrontation with its neighbors.

    Perhaps most importantly, Bangladesh appears comfortable in its own skin: politically secular, religiously Muslim and culturally Bengali. Bangladeshis celebrate the poetry, film and literature of Hindus and Muslims equally. With Pakistanis it's more complicated. The man on the street displays the same cultural openness as his Bangladeshi counterpart, but Pakistan also houses a vast religious and military establishment that seeks to hold the country together by using triple-distilled Islam and hatred toward India as glue.

    In a way their best known national heroes sum up the two country's personalities. For Bangladesh, it's Grameen Bank's Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, synonymous with small loans to village women. For Pakistan: Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue nuclear scientist who peddled contraband technology to Libya, Iran and North Korea.

    Nearly 40 years ago, only the most reckless optimist would have bet on flood-prone, war-ravaged Bangladesh over relatively stable and prosperous Pakistan. But with a higher growth rate, a lower birth rate, and a more internationally competitive economy, yesterday's basket case may have the last laugh.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882404575519330896471058.html

     

    Bangla as the UN's Next Official Language? - India Real Time - WSJ

    Sep 28, 2010 ... Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday made an appeal in New York to make Bangla an official United Nations language in ...
    blogs.wsj.com/.../2010/.../bangla-as-the-uns-next-official-language/ - Cached

    Bangladesh - Information, News and Pictures - WSJ.com

    Sep 25, 2010 ... Bangladesh - Detailed Bangladesh information, including breaking news, analysis, photos, video and infographics from the WSJ.
    topics.wsj.com/.../Bangladesh/.../ead31e4a68c64b5b98f26a9b4eb25685 - Cached

    http://topics.wsj.com/subject/b/Bangladesh/1909/photos/ead31e4a68c64b5b98f26a9b4eb25685

     



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