But who had stopped you from getting Bags of Money from ISI that you lost Elections, Mr. Munshi?
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khabor@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> Mohammad Munshi in FaceBook:
>
> If bags of Indian money and advice were given they all went to Gen. Moin U.
> Ahmed who manipulated the election process in 2008. He should be brought
> back to Bangladesh and questioned for his role during 1/11 and how he
> engineered the 2008 elections against the BNP alliance parties. He had an
> obvious motive in manipulating the elections as a BNP victory would have
> seen him brought to trial for treachery and his links to India would have
> been exposed. The Economist has only revealed part of the story and a more
> thorough investigation into the period from 2007-2008 would reveal the rest
> of the conspiracy to hijack Bangladesh democracy. Since it was the British,
> the Americans and India who were behind the 1/11 plan the international
> community could be said to be in direct collusion in all this and their
> declarations about the 2008 elections hold no water.
>
> India's objective in closer relations with Bangladesh is merely to treat the
> country as a captive market and obtain a strategic advantage over China.
> India's ambition is to be the dominating and hegemonic power in South Asia
> and Bangladesh will have a subservient and servile role and find its
> independence and sovereignty increasingly diminished. These are not the
> goals upon which the Liberation War of 1971 was fought. The territory that
> now constitutes Bangladesh has never accepted subjugation and this has been
> the case from the Mughal period to the British Raj and then during the short
> period of Pakistan but that attitude of fierce resistance has now utterly
> changed.
>
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> > *Bags of Indian cash*: Economist report may be true
> >
> >
> >
> > http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/08/06/97556> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
> >
> >> *Elephant Embrace*
> >>
> >> This week's *Economist* has a rather intriguing article on Indo-Bangla
> >> relations. Full article over the fold. I'm not sure whether posting this
> >> makes me a dalal or part of the dreaded 25%<
http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2011/07/03/from-manmohan-to-lalmohan/>in your eyes, but as I won't be making any further comments on this thread,
> >> please feel free to share your thoughts on my ulterior motives.
> >>
> >> Some interesting excerpts:
> >>
> >> *"Ever since 2008, when the Awami League, helped by bags of Indian cashand advice, triumphed in general elections in Bangladesh, relations with
> >> India have blossomed."*
> >>
> >> I know Bangladesh is little more than a banana-republic when viewed from
> >> the pinnacle of straight-dealing that is British journalism at the moment,
> >> but that "bags of cash" thing is a serious allegation. What is the basis for
> >> it?
> >>
> >> As a result, officials this week chirped that relations are now "very
> >> excellent". They should get better yet. India's prime minister, Manmohan
> >> Singh, will visit early in September to sign deals �
> >>
> >> Manmohan Singh's gaffe is not mentioned even once in this article. Which
> >> indicates to me that the writer possibly spends more time in Delhi than
> >> Dhaka, though I have no way of confirming that.
> >>
> >> Some Bangladeshis fret that if India tries to overcome its own logistical
> >> problems by, in effect, using Bangladesh as a huge military marshalling
> >> yard, reprisals from China would follow.
> >>
> >> Who are these Bangladeshis and when can I take them out for a drink/dinner
> >> to express my gratitude for Realist thinking? Stand up and identify yourself
> >> good ladies or gentlemen!
> >>
> >> Mrs Zia's family dynasty, *also corrupt*, is as against India as Sheikh
> >> Hasina's is for it.
> >>
> >> A bit of reading between the lines: note that "also". Earlier in the
> >> article, the author says, "Corruption flourishes at levels astonishing even
> >> by South Asian standards". The allegation of corruption against the Awami
> >> League is in the passive voice, without a subject. Yet, the Zia "family
> >> dynasty" is corrupt "also". Who exactly is the author trying to point to and
> >> has s/he been hanging out with Mahmudur Rahman too long?
> >>
> >> All in all: *very* intriguing. One does not really know what to make of
> >> these haphazard allegations and the glaring lacunae about Indian attitudes
> >> to Bangladesh, as highlighted by Manmohan Singh's comments. The only part
> >> which I dispute without reservation is its characterisation of the claim,
> >> that Sheikh Shaheb is the "greatest Bengali (sic) of the millenium", as
> >> "propaganda".
> >>
> >> That's actually the closest this Awami League government gets to fact.
> >>
> >> http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2011/07/29/elephant-embrace/> >>
> >> -------------
> >> <http://www.economist.com/node/21524917/print>> >>
> >> *Embraceable you*
> >>
> >> *Growing geopolitical interests push India to seek better relations
> >> nearer home*
> >>
> >> Jul 30th 2011 | DHAKA | from the print edition
> >>
> >> NOT much noticed by outsiders, long-troubled ties between two neighbours
> >> sharing a long border have taken a substantial lurch for the better. Ever
> >> since 2008, when the Awami League, helped by bags of Indian cash and advice,
> >> triumphed in general elections in Bangladesh, relations with India have
> >> blossomed. To Indian delight, Bangladesh has cracked down on extremists with
> >> ties to Pakistan or India's home-grown terrorist group, the Indian
> >> Mujahideen, as well as on vociferous Islamist (and anti-Indian) politicians
> >> in the country. India feels that bit safer.
> >>
> >> Now the dynasts who rule each country are cementing political ties. On
> >> July 25th Sonia Gandhi (pictured, above) swept into Dhaka, the capital, for
> >> the first time. Sharing a sofa with Sheikh Hasina (left), the prime minister
> >> (and old family friend), the head of India's ruling Congress Party heaped
> >> praise on her host, notably for helping the poor. A beaming Sheikh Hasina
> >> reciprocated with a golden gong, a post
> >>
> >> humous award for Mrs Gandhi's mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi. In 1971 she
> >> sent India's army to help Bangladeshis, led by Sheikh Hasina's father,
> >> Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, throw off brutal Pakistani rule.
> >>
> >> As a result, officials this week chirped that relations are now "very
> >> excellent". They should get better yet. India's prime minister, Manmohan
> >> Singh, will visit early in September to sign deals on sensitive matters like
> >> sharing rivers, sending electricity over the border, settling disputed
> >> patches of territory on the 4,095km (2,500-mile) frontier and stopping
> >> India's trigger-happy border guards from murdering migrants and
> >> cow-smugglers. Mr Singh may also deal with the topic of trade which,
> >> smuggling aside, heavily favours India, to Bangladeshi ire.
> >>
> >> Most important, however, is a deal on setting up a handful of transit
> >> routes across Bangladesh, to reach India's remote, isolated north-eastern
> >> states. These are the "seven sisters" wedged up against the border with
> >> China.
> >>
> >> On the face of it, the $10 billion project will develop poor areas cut off
> >> from India's booming economy. The Asian Development Bank and others see
> >> Bangladeshi gains too, from better roads, ports, railways and much-needed
> >> trade. In Dhaka, the capital, the central-bank governor says broader
> >> integration with India could lift economic growth by a couple of percentage
> >> points, from nearly 7% already.
> >> Our interactive map displays the various territorial claims of India,
> >> Pakistan and China from each country's perspective
> >>
> >> India has handed over half of a $1 billion soft loan for the project, and
> >> the money is being spent on new river-dredgers and rolling stock.
> >> Bangladesh's rulers are mustard-keen. The country missed out on an earlier
> >> infrastructure bonanza involving a plan to pipe gas from Myanmar to India.
> >> China got the pipeline instead.
> >>
> >> Yet the new transit project may be about more than just development. Some
> >> in Dhaka, including military types, suspect it is intended to create an
> >> Indian security corridor. It could open a way for army supplies to cross
> >> low-lying Bangladesh rather than going via dreadful mountain roads
> >> vulnerable to guerrilla attack. As a result, India could more easily put
> >> down insurgents in Nagaland and Manipur. The military types fear it might
> >> provoke reprisals by such groups in Bangladesh.
> >>
> >> More striking, India's army might try supplying its expanding divisions
> >> parked high on the border with China, in Arunachal Pradesh. China disputes
> >> India's right to Arunachal territory, calling it South Tibet. Some
> >> Bangladeshis fret that if India tries to overcome its own logistical
> >> problems by, in effect, using Bangladesh as a huge military marshalling
> >> yard, reprisals from China would follow.
> >>
> >> Such fears are not yet widespread. Indeed, India has been doing some
> >> things right in countering longstanding anti-Indian suspicion and resentment
> >> among ordinary Bangladeshis. Recent polling by an American university among
> >> students found a minority hostile to India, whereas around half broadly
> >> welcomed its rise. A straw poll at a seminar of young researchers at a
> >> think-tank in Dhaka this week suggested a similar mood�though anger remained
> >> over Indian border shootings.
> >>
> >> For India, however, the risk is that it is betting too heavily on Sheikh
> >> Hasina, who is becoming increasingly autocratic. Opposition boycotts of
> >> parliament and general strikes are run-of-the-mill. Corruption flourishes at
> >> levels astonishing even by South Asian standards. A June decision to rewrite
> >> the constitution looks to be a blunt power grab, letting the government run
> >> the next general election by scrapping a "caretaker" arrangement. Sheikh
> >> Hasina is building a personality cult around her murdered father, "the
> >> greatest Bengali of the millennium", says the propaganda.
> >>
> >> Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of
> >> the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
> >> Similarly, war-crimes trials over the events of 1971 are to start in a few
> >> weeks. They are being used less as a path to justice than to crush an
> >> opposition Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami.
> >>
> >> It hardly suggests that India's ally has a wholly secure grasp on power. A
> >> tendency to vote incumbents out may yet unseat Sheikh Hasina in 2013, or
> >> street violence might achieve the same. She would then be replaced by her
> >> nemesis, Khaleda Zia, of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Mrs
> >> Zia's family dynasty, also corrupt, is as against India as Sheikh Hasina's
> >> is for it. But India's habit of shunning meetings with Mrs Zia and her
> >> followers may come to look short-sighted. When he visits Bangladesh in
> >> September, Mr Singh, the Gandhi family retainer, would do well to make wider
> >> contact if India's newly improving relations are not one day to take another
> >> big dive for the worse.
> >>
> >> http://www.economist.com/node/21524917/print> >>
> >
> >
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