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DHAKA: Police on Wednesday admitted they failed to make any substantial headway into all recent sensational killings and disappearance of an opposition leader despite the home minister herself claimed in public that the progresses were apparently satisfactory.
As asked by lawmakers at a legislative committee meeting, the heads of the police and Rapid Action Battalion said that they could hardly make any headways into the disappearance of M Iliyas Ali, a former lawmaker of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, killings of journalist couple Sagor Sarwar and Meherun Runi, and Saudi embassy official Khalaf Al Ali.
"They (the lawmen) informed that there has been no desired level of progress towards the investigations into the sensational cases," Abdus Salam, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of home affairs told reporters after the meeting at parliament building.
The lawmen's comment came a day after, Home Minister Sahara Khatun, who attended the meeting, claimed that her forces were trying to locate whereabouts of BNP leader Ali, who along with his driver has been missing since April 17.
The minister in her public statements frequently claims that substantial progresses have been made in the gruesome killings of Sagor and Runi, but the facts could not be make public for the sake of investigation.
Journalists Sagor and Runi were killed at their apartment in Dhaka on February 11 while the Saudi embassy official was killed in March 6.
The JS panel meeting, attended by nine out of 10 members, asked the police force to expedite their efforts to capture the perpetrators of the killers and trace whereabouts of Iliyas Ali.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party enforced five nationwide general strikes protesting Ali's disappearance that left at least five people killed in violence and arson attacks and consequently the party's top brass are indicted in lawsuits related to vandalism during the strikes.
The government says it was still trying to trace the missing leaders.
"We are trying to locate the BNP leader," Shamsul Haq Tuku, state minister for home affairs, told The Independent after the parliamentary panel meeting.
Asked whether he was still hopeful about tracing the missing BNP leader, the state minister varied and said such question should be asked to the home minister.
Replying to a question, about the progress in Iliyas disappearance case, the state minister for home affairs told the meeting that Iliyas might have been under the BNP's custody when Jatiya Party lawmaker Mujibul Haq Chunnu asked the question at the meeting, said the source.
The meeting, attended among others by Shafiqul Islam, Mirza Azam and Sanjida Khanam, also has discussion on a project to strengthen parliamentary democracy through committee system with the financial assistance from the United Nations Development Programme.
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TIMES OF HASINA, THE DICTATOR'S DAUGHTER
An Interesting article below:
Creeping corruption: Quid pro quo between a regulatory body and institutions under its domain
Link:
http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=130586&date=2012-05-24
Abdullah A Dewan
Several emails received from a few private commercial banks (PCB) executives after the publication of the article, "Nexus between business and politics", in the Financial Express on May 07 last, alerted this writer about the most improbable shenanigans that have been alleged to be going on among some Bangladesh Bank (BB) senior officials and the PCBs. The allegations may courteously be characterised as "quid pro quo". This essentially amounts to "soft extortion" - unlike the groaning of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FBCCI) about "political extortion" that were elucidated in the afore-mentioned May 7 article.
The alleged quid pro quo has tended to be a source of "additional emoluments to some BB supervisors/regulators". This happens whenever these officials are invited as guest speakers on commercial banking-related training activities. A BB source, however, told this scribe that any training activities, initiated by the central bank, is absolutely free of any charges to the PCBs as they are part of its regulatory obligations. There is no quid pro quos involved here.
The specific allegations that are laid out to this writer are: Some senior BB officials, especially supervisors/regulators, impose training requirements on the PCB officials while presenting themselves as specialists and/or guest speakers and in return extract exorbitantly high honorarium. The PCBs have little choice but to succumb to such pressure and payments.
The "going along and getting along banks" comply because they find the payoffs an easy way out of pressure from the BB supervisors' intent for "witch hunt" of all-encompassing banking operations. Because of the alleged mutually complementary arrangements - constituting a perfect example of quid-pro-quo deal - some banks may be suspected of conducting their activities which can be aptly leveled as regulation non-compliance banking. This practice seemingly makes regulation-compliant banks at a competitive disadvantageous position relative to their rivals.
For guest speaking activities, the BB officials must get prior approval from their respective seniors. The honorarium per hour is fixed at Tk2000/00 per hour. In reality, though, the payment could rise to as high Tk10,000 per hour or even more, depending on the extent of training receiving banks' willingness to please the BB guest speakers. The speaking hours can be deliberately inflated to match the honorarium paid to pass official audit scrutiny. In exchange for inflated honorarium, the PCBs can avoid being examined and questioned for lacking some compliance of day-to-day regulations.
Believe it not, one source told this scribe that "there is no bank -- I repeat no bank", which doesn't yield to employment pressure from BB senior officials. In fact, some recent conservative statistics would indicate that at least 10 to 15 per cent of PCB officers were recruited on pressure from the BB supervisors/regulators at different levels.
Corridor whispers in Motijheel and Dilkusha commercial buildings thrive on stories how tuition fees of children of some BB senior officials are paid by some PCB directors - mostly involving banks that show up in the list of regulations' non-compliance watch list. They mostly include banks with politicians as directors or powers-that-be leaning directors. These directors are also rumoured to give 'extra cash dollars' to the BB senior officials when they take foreign trips accompanied by their wives. The wives, in some instances, are often reportedly claimed as bank directors' sisters.
Another example of alleged "quid-pro-quo" deal involved BB's retired deputy governors. Recently, three of the just retired BB Deputy Governors were appointed as adviser/consultant in three large PCBs, upon approval from the BB. Such appointments within two weeks of their retirement certainly do not bode well -- and can easily be suspected as being pre-negotiated and pre-arranged while they were holding the high offices of deputy governors.
There are also unbelievable rumours that many PCBs are paying for the day-to-day groceries of some senior BB officials while writing them off as business development expenses. One email goes to the extent saying: "There is some stark similarity between traffic police and BB bank supervisors -- the former thrive on traffic law violating busses and trucks while the later thrive on regulations' non-compliant banks."
Such alleged quid pro quo among some BB regulators and PCBs may appear petty violations to draw the attention of the law makers and anti-corruption commission (ACC) compared to the scale of alleged mischief being committed by government ministers and high officials. Nonetheless, the role of the central bank in overseeing that the nation's commercial banks operate within the confines of all statutory requirements cannot be compromised -- however petty they may be - guaranteeing liquidity, solvency, and profitability at all times to safeguard the stability of the financial sector.
Regardless of such allegations and accusations, the complainants agreed that the BB is still the single-most respected institution where corruption and day-to-day mischief are miniscule. As this writer gathered from his phone conversations, they're concerned that malice in an institution creeps in on a small scale, like cancer cells and then proliferate gradually -- and if goes undetected or unchecked, it becomes systemic.
Like the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, the BB does not take tax payers' money for its all-enveloping operations; generates its own income from interest earning from government bonds and loans to the PCBs' and fees charged to commercial banks for various services, interest receipts on its foreign exchange holdings at abroad and so on. For example, last year the BB had a net income of nearly Tk. 2.2 billion, which, as in the past, was turned in to the Treasury at year end.
The BB officers are considered to be the highest salaried government officials with fat benefits. For example, last year all employees (excluding the Governor and Deputy Governors) received year-end bonus of 3.5 times their basic salary. They can borrow up to Tk 0.6 million (Tk 60 lacs) as house building loans at a low interest rate of 5.0 per cent. They can also take car loan at 5.0 per cent interest rate. These rates are not available to any other government officials. From all considerations, the BB officials are the privileged government servants. These benefit and privilege package for the BB officials were designed with a definite purpose - to make them incorruptible.
One obvious recourse to eliminate any appearance of quid pro quo is forbidding payments to the BB officials by commercial banks - be they nationalised or private - for being the invited guest speakers or similar individualised services. If such honorarium were to be received, then honorarium, checks must be written with the BB as the payee since these officials are already paid for the time they spent as the guest speakers.
The writer, formerly a Physicist and Nuclear Engineer, is a Professor of Economics at Eastern Michigan University, USA. adewan@emich.eduOn Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:How to Defeat Dictator Hasina! Ant Story!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcRQN0sUjxQ&feature=related
Bug's Life Movie from Disney.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdMCFgahtzQ&feature=fvwp&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcRQN0sUjxQ&feature=relatedOn Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, one of World's Top 10 all Time Known Dictators, Killed Brutally
Abid Bahar
Research shows, the man most Bangladeshis fondly called Bangabandhu Mujib until he established a one party rule is also one of the world's all time top 10 dictators who was killed brutally.
10. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,(Bangladesh was killed with 20 other family members). The 9 other dictators are:
9. Sadam Hossain of (Iraq)
8. Gaddafi (Libya)
7. Somoza (Nacaragua)
6. Ceauseseu (Romania)
5. Doe (Liberia)
4. Antonescu (Romania)
3.Kabila (Congo)
2. Musolini ( Italy)
1. Ceaser (Roman empire)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the most powerful dictator from South Asia. He was elected to office but in less than four years of his reign he established a one party rule, turned himself a lifelong president, closed opposition newspapers and about half a million people died between 1974-75 in a "man-made" famine from corruption and nepotism by his officials and his cadres called mujibbadis. Mujib's Rakkhi bahini forces killed approximately 35 000 people who opposed his rule. Similar to Sadam and Gaddafi and their notorious sons, Mujib's two sons and and a nephew took control of the law and order and through underground black money the economy became miserable. For a short period Mujib with Indian help acted like a king. For his use of cadre politics and special forces to kill the opposition members and his anti democratic rule, he was branded by modern scholars as a fascist leader. A comparison of the similarities with world's other fascist leaders especially with Musalini, show Mujib was a powerful South Asian Fascist.
Killing of democracy and the Death of a Fascist
Tajuddin warned Mujib not to install BKSAL. For installing BKSAL and closing the opposition newspapers, the economy and the country in a disarray Mostaque Ahamed one of Mujib's cabinet ministers with help from some freedom fighters and young majors in the army, Mujib was killed along with 20 members of his immediate and extended family (rare in history). While most countries condemned their fascist leaders, the Awami party in Bangladesh celebrates Mujib as one who wanted to establish a "Sonar Bangla."Awami League honors Mujib and celebrates fascism (Mujibbad) in Bangladesh.
Fascism Continues in Bangladesh
Two Mujib daughters escaped the massacre in the Mujib family. One of them reelected as the Prime Minister years after her father's death follows Mujib's fascist tradition of killing and enforced disappearance and the mass arrest of opposition members. Similar to India led Rakkhi bahini in Mujib's time, Hasina survives with Indian security provided to her but the country is going through anarchy.
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