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Friday, August 31, 2012

[chottala.com] Ershad.....



Ershad.....



Ershad's Delhi visit: Is India changing its Bangladesh policy?

The recent high profile visit of former President HM Ershad to India was surprising and intriguing. He and the Jatiya Party have been playing the "India card" more aggressively since the disappointing visit of the Indian Prime Minister to Dhaka in September last year than the BNP.Some political analysts have argued that he was invited by the Indians to convince him not to abandon the Awami League as he is threatening to. New Delhi feels that the AL is in a tight political corner with its general failure in governance and needs the Jatiya Party's support that has the potentials to emerge as a third force in the next general elections.

Full Story by M. Serajul Islam
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[chottala.com] Morsi stuns Iran with plea to back Syrian rebels



Egyptian leader stuns Iran with plea to back Syrian rebels



Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi announces 'full solidarity' with the Syrian revolution, calling for 'active interference' Photograph: Reuters

Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi has said that the "oppressive" Syrian regime had lost all legitimacy, in a blistering speech in Tehran that provoked the Syrian delegation to storm out and amounted to a stunning rebuke to his Iranian hosts.

During the first visit by an Egyptian leader to Tehran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Morsi said the world had an "ethical duty" to support Syria's rebels.

"Our solidarity with the struggle of the Syrian people against an oppressive regime that has lost legitimacy is ... a political and strategic necessity," he said.

"We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria. [We should] translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom."

Morsi's comments to a meeting of the 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran amounted to a verbal handgrenade tossed at Iran's shocked leadership. Iran is the key regional sponsor of Syria's embattled president, Bashar al-Assad, and one of his few remaining international allies.

The remarks are also a bold assertion of post-revolutionary Egypt's renewed regional leadership ambitions. With the Middle East now dividing sharply along sectarian lines, Morsi has thrown his weight behind a powerful group of Sunni states including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey that support Syria's rebels – with only Shia Iran, evermore isolated, backing Assad and his Shia Alawite-led regime.

Syria, predictably, responded with fury. Its foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem, walked out. Damascus accused Egypt of interfering in its internal affairs and instigating bloodshed. In his own speech, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, failed to mention the 17-month Syrian conflict, while Iran's state-run media blanked out Morsi's criticism of Assad.

Morsi, a moderate Islamist, has proposed that Iran take part in a four-nation contact group including Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia that would mediate in the Syrian crisis. Morsi declared: "The bloodshed in Syria is the responsibility of all of us and will not stop until there is real intervention to stop it. The Syrian crisis is bleeding our hearts."

Morsi was apparently referring to diplomacy rather than any potential foreign invasion. He also hailed both Syrians and Palestinians for their "brave" struggle against oppression. He later met Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Analysts said the week-long summit had not been the smooth diplomatic triumph Iran might have hoped for.

"The Iranians rolled out the red carpet for Morsi. But he didn't follow the Iranian script. It was embarrassing for the Iranians," said David Hartwell, senior Middle East analyst at IHS Jane's, adding: "The non-aligned movement tries to be fairly anodyne and focused on anti-imperialism. But Syria has made it problematic. Egypt also views Iranian influence in Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories as particularly unhelpful. It sees it as an Iranian/Shia attempt to spread influence in the region."

Of Morsi, he said: "We are learning about him. We don't know what his foreign policy is going to be."

Morsi is the first Egyptian leader to visit the Iranian capital since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Egypt and Iran fell out over Cairo's support for the Shah and its peace deal with Israel. Despite recent improvements, neither has upgraded ties to ambassadorial level.

Iran, meanwhile, faces diplomatic isolation and sanctions because of its alleged nuclear programme.

On the ground in Syria, fighting continued on Thursday. Opposition activists said rebels had shot down a government warplane over the northern province of Idlib, the second time in a week rebel fighters claimed to have brought down an aircraft. One video appeared to show a pilot parachuting to the ground. A subsequent video showed his dead body.

Government shelling continued in several parts of the country, with residents in Kafr Batna, in the Damascus suburbs, reporting heavy bombardment.

"The Syrian regime is attacking us with mortars and helicopters. Today there are lot of soldiers and armoured vehicles massing up at the entrance to Kafr Batna. They might storm the district at any moment," one resident, Rima Sami, told the Guardian via Skype. Sami said all the bakeries were shut and the shelling had made it impossible for the Free Syrian Army to smuggle in food.

Human Rights Watch said government forces had dropped bombs and fired artillery at or near at least 10 bakeries in Aleppo province over the past three weeks, killing and maiming scores of civilians who were waiting for bread.

The attacks were at least recklessly indiscriminate and the pattern and number of attacks suggested government forces had been targeting civilians, it said. Both reckless, indiscriminate attacks and deliberate targeting of civilians are war crimes.

One attack in Aleppo on 16 August killed up to 60 people and wounded more than 70. Another attack in the city on 21 August killed at least 23 people and wounded 30.

"Day after day, Aleppo residents line up to get bread for their families, and instead get shrapnel piercing their bodies from government bombs and shells," said Ole Solvang, emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch who has just returned from Aleppo. "Ten bakery attacks is not random – they show no care for civilians and strongly indicate an attempt to target them."

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[chottala.com] বাংলাদেশী/বাঙালি খাবারের দোকান Sid’s Kitchen in Herndon, VA



Dear Community members,
আসুন আপনার প্রিয় খাবার খেতে Sid's Kitchen ', (703) 435-2465,
298 Sunset Park Dr. Herndon, VA 20170 (just off 286 (old 7100)).
আমরা অনেক ধরনের বাংলাদেশী/বাঙালি খাবার: ভাত, মাছ, মাংশ, বিরয়ানী, কাবাব, শুটকি, ভর্তা, এবং নানা ধরনের সবজি পরিবেশন করি (We serve Bangladeshi traditional healthy home style foods; Fish Plates, Shutki Plates, Biryani, Bhortas, Meat Rezala, muglai paratha, fuchka and many more…)
Our prices are affordable;
Please visit www.sidskitchen.com for details

· Bangladeshi/Bengali breakfast buffet for $4.99 (weekends only)
· Lunch buffet for $5.99 (everyday)
· Dinner buffet for $7.99 (everyday)
 
** We will be serving foods at AABEA  Family and Friends event on September 8, Pathomela in Arlington on September 15th and Reston Multi Cultural Festival in Lake Anne, Reston on September 22, please come and enjoy**
 
We do catering, please visit Catering Menu page at www.sidskitchen.com.
And please call/email us to place your order
Thank you,
Farid
Sid's Kitchen
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

[chottala.com] DigitAL corruption: PM’s circle holy no more

PM's circle holy no more

Ataus Samad

The malodorous slick of corruption has now flowed in right up to the
doorstep of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). And the sickening flow
is threatening to become a huge dark wave as the amount of money
stolen from just one state-owned bank, where Awami League predators
prowl, has set a record even in this corruption-ridden country. One of
alleged ring-leaders in this unbelievable bank-fraud had been seen in
close proximity of one of the cabinet-ranking advisers of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina.

With this latest scandal breaking out from the deep dark shadows into
the glare of public knowledge the number of official advisers of the
Prime Minister who have been named in relation to cases of alleged
corruption and swindling stands at three out of six. These advisers
sit at the PMO. Also, one minister and another former minister are
subject of investigation either for alleged corruption or for
wrongdoing. However, these five are only a few among many. Upon
completing her first year in office Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had
claimed that none has been able to point a finger for corruption at
any member of her cabinet in that time and that's what made the
difference between her government and that of BNP-led four-party
alliance (2001 ­ 2006).

At that time she had brushed aside the newspaper reports appearing
very frequently of grabbing government contracts by force by members
of the Awami League and its front organisations. Those reports were
often accompanied by photographs of armed violence by the
contract-grabbers. Even now the Prime Minister and persons seeking her
favour react angrily to any suggestion that people near to her as well
as other influential Awami Leaguers are indulging in corruption. But
howsoever loudly Sheikh Hasina and her friends may protest it is now
clear to all that she and her government have been unable or unwilling
to control corruption. And there is little that she can do now to
scrub clean this sullied image of her party, government and even that
of some of her kith and kin as investigations into charges of
corruption related to the Bangladesh government have spread to other
countries (e.g, Canada and USA). If the government wished then a fresh
case could be investigated in Netherlands.

The latest episode is, however, stunning. An inspection team of the
Bangladesh Bank has discovered that an amount of Tk.3547 crores has
been spirited away from the Sonali Bank, the largest of the
state-owned banks, by way of loans and false letters of credit. Out of
this astronomical figure just one company, by the name of Hall Mark,
took Tk. 2686.14 crores. This money was siphoned out through just one
branch of the bank in Dhaka. By some strange coincident Prime
Minister's adviser reputed ophthalmologist Syed Modasser used to visit
that branch of the bank as well as had been a guest of honour with the
Hall Mark group on several occasions. Dr. Modasser however claims his
activities to be political socialisation. Interestingly, on one
occasion when he was at that particular branch of the bank present too
was an inquiry team of the Bangladesh Bank.

The cabinet-ranking adviser had a friendly chat with that team. The
not-so-famous independent Anti-corruption Commission of Bangladesh is
investigating into the Sonali Bank case upon being requested by the
Bangladesh Bank. So far none has been detained for being involved with
the alleged swindle. But Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith and
the Sonali Bank's Board of Directors on the one side and the
Bangladesh Bank on the other have become gloriously involved in a row
on the matter. The finance minister has said that the Bangladesh Bank
had no authority to suggest that the present board of the Sonali Bank
be sacked. And the Awami League-laden board of directors, some of whom
are also alleged to have made tons of money, has claimed that they had
nothing to do with the irregularities, in fact they say they did not
even know anything about it.

They forget the simple question: if they did not know about so much
money being skimmed off from their bank then what were they doing in
the board room? Precisely this riddle also begs an answer to the
simple question: why is the finance minister angry with the Bangladesh
Bank for finally acting up just a little. And is not it strange that
even after a prima facie case has been established by the Bangladesh
Bank not one person has been detained by the government up to
yesterday?

The ravaging of the Bangladesh Railway, the destruction of highways
and byways, the murderous situation at many a government hospital, the
skimming off of the government treasury for paying subsidy to private
small power suppliers, runaway inflation (which continues even after
the Eid-ul Fitr festival), the hopeless situation at the wrecked share
market, frequent non-political disturbances at reputed educational
institutions, nagging labour trouble in the garment industry, police's
inability to prevent murders, disappearances and deaths in road
accidents and now the rampant plunder of depositors' money from even
state-owned banks and the interference in the Grameen Bank clearly
indicate that the government of the day itself has fallen into a state
of chaos and indiscipline.

It is not only a weak, intolerant and repressive government too
willing to break the heads of protesters, but it is a government
incapable of governance. It is sad.

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[chottala.com] Transit: Opportunity or threat?

Transit: Opportunity or threat?

By Dr. Afzalur Rahman

While the government of Bangladesh is dedicated to providing transit
services to India, the people are anxious as of numerous whys and
wherefores. Internal politics of Bangladesh has been divided on the
issue related to the developments, regarding the unhindered
transportation of goods between Indian cities especially from the
Kolkata to Tripura by using the roads and river transportation system
of Bangladesh.
India has been asking Bangladesh for transit since the earlier 90's.

Today the possibility of having transit facility for India is actually
on the verge of reality. However, there are innumerable questions
hovering around the issue of transit that will not make it an easy
decision for Bangladesh government to grant the transit to India. The
process of transit will not be possibly occurring until all the
irritants between India and Bangladesh are resolved. Also there is
little possibility for Bangladesh to achieve optimum benefits from the
transit. The proposal made by India to use the port of Ashuganj and
Chittagong has triggered controversies and uncertainties.

The previous Prime Minister and current opposition leader Khaleda Zia
articulated her trepidation very lately on October 27 last year that
by providing transit to India, the existing government is trying to
turn Bangladesh into another 'Sikkim'. The governing party as well as
the pro-Indian Lobby in Bangladesh would illustrate this accusation as
one more groundless 'anti-Indian upsurge' via Khaleda Zia;
nevertheless in authenticity she has merely specified opinion to the
apprehensions of some Bangladeshi citizens. Meanwhile the transit
subjects have countless wrinkle allegations, counting national
welfares and sovereign status as per a state, it is authoritative to
acquire a strong or vibrant image of the matters tangled and similarly
by what means we can reply to the encounters forced from external but
with the involvement and associations of a segment of the presiding
government.

Why India requires transit amenities?Cost effective entry to the
Northeast states

It is a terrestrial realism that Bangladesh is 'India locked' as it is
enclosed on three edges by Indian terrains. On similar logic, the
northeast states such as Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur,
Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Tripura of India are 'Bangladesh
locked'. The purported 'Chicken's Neck' unraveling Bangladesh and
Nepal is the lone thin strip of terrestrial about 24 km in breadth
that attaches West Bengal and mainland India through the northeast
states. Carriage of goods and people over the 'Chicken's Neck' is
actually very exclusive and time overwhelming. This delays India's
entry to the resource-rich northeast. Transit amenities over
Bangladesh would be tranquil, less time consuming while there will be
less expenditure by saving two-thirds of the present cost of India
which is US$100 billion.

Eradicating NE Rebellion extortions
India has been struggling rebellion activities in the north east
province for quite some time. Populates living in these zones are
historically, ethnically, religiously, culturally dissimilar from
persons living in mainland India. These people have continuously
valued their liberation and conducted numerous fights as well as armed
fights to recognise their rights. These skirmishes are ongoing even
nowadays. India contemplates these actions dangerous to its
territorial integrity and safety, desiring to overpower them at any
price. Movement of armed people and transport of weaponries over
Bangladesh would be much at ease for India to defeat these revolution
intimidations.

Forearmed against military conflict with China
India has venerable provincial disparities with China, in the
northwest and northeast regions of the Himalayan mountain array. In
the northeast, the argument over Arunachal Pradesh (which the Chinese
call Zhangnan or South Tibet) is still unsolved. Whether the subject
matter would be stable cordially and peacefully cannot be predicted,
but India is not taking any probabilities. It has been firming up its
defense and offense readiness in these provinces for ages,
particularly after the dreadful 1962 border war with China. In recent
years, India has been assigning vast resources for the transformation
and development of its armed forces. In the northeast, strategies are
being applied to enlarge the current competences by increasing an
additional 100,000 armed forces with two divisions for mountain
conflict and special operations.

Entry to Myanmar market
Myanmar, located to the east and south east of both Bangladesh and
India, is full of natural resources including oil and gas both on the
land and in the ocean. It has also incredible prospects for harnessing
hydroelectric power. For these resources and also for tactical
motives, straight contacts and entry to Myanmar is very vital to both
China and India, the two financial or economic and military giants of
Asia. China at present has straight terrestrial routes to Myanmar, but
India has nothing of this calibre. India desires to counterbalance
this drawback by having straight terrestrial routes from its northeast
to Myanmar.None of these necessities as well as India's geo-strategic
desires in the East can be achieved without a widespread transit
arrangement through Bangladesh.

Transit with India: benefits and risks:Potential benefits:

In the form of transports like trucks and freight trains and usage of
the Chittagong and Mongla port of Bangladesh, Indian carriers are
needed to pay sums of transit fee every time they use the passage
through Bangladesh. It is reported by BBC news that the transit route
through Akhaura border post only could be worth a billion dollars once
Indian trucks use Bangladesh as passage to their north eastern wing of
India.

It is believed that once the transit is agreed many backward areas of
Bangladesh will be benefitted due to the route of the transit.
Investment in road and railway communication may develop along remote
parts of the country through which the trucks or freight trains will
pass. Apart from the development of road and rail communication,
businesses like residential hotels, restaurants, shops may open up
alongside these newly built roads for the transit of Indian goods
through Bangladesh.
It is believed that transit will open up new business which will
create employment beside the transit route which will eventually
benefit the neglected regions and help in the development of those
regions by improving their lifestyle. Transit can create scope for
Bangladesh traders as well as businesses to get access to Indian
market through the same route to do business which they could not
perform or get access easily earlier. It can be the doorway to reach
markets of Nepal and Bhutan of the South Asian region where
Bangladeshi goods have huge demand.

Transit fee can be used to construct new roads and highways and
improve the current infrastructure to support the transit of Indian
goods trucks and freights to pass through and which can also be used
by Bangladeshi freight vehicles. Besides roads and highways in the
development list, the seaports and rail lines may be developed to
provide transit access which will eventually benefit Bangladesh and
its people.

Mongla and Chittagong port which is mostly unused at the moment can be
made to run in maximum capacity with the allowance of transit to
Indian products through Bangladesh and through this process Bangladesh
may earn more money and further use this extra money to develop the
ports infrastructure into an international standard port. Moreover,
many argue that transit can be used as a tool to resolve many disputed
treaties between the two neighbors, especially Bangladesh may use this
tool to resolve the border and maritime disputes it has with neighbour
India.

Potential risks:
Some quarters argue that the transit may bring in some low points for
Bangladesh also. To begin with, the transit may cost Bangladesh
government a huge sum of money to invest in its infrastructure. About
US$10 billion in investment is needed to get the highways and roads in
proper order for the Indian trucks to ply on these.
Many are skeptical of how much transit fee the government will charge
for the passage of Indian trucks through Bangladesh. There is a risk
of under charging the transit fee and Bangladesh may end up being the
loser.

A lot of Bangladeshi businesses are worried that formal and informal
businesses that they do with the north eastern part of India will
diminish as Indian goods will get easy access to the region. Moreover,
the transit of Bangladeshi goods to Nepal and Bhutan will not do much
benefit to Bangladeshi businesses as they have a very small market in
these countries.

The petroleum prices between both the nations are not same. So, Indian
trucks may enter Bangladesh to refuel them and use up a huge quantity
of petroleum leading to its shortage, forcing Bangladesh to import
further petroleum. This will exert pressure on the foreign exchange
reserve.

There is a great risk of smuggling of goods into Bangladesh without
payment of proper tax and the market will be overwhelmed with goods
from India which will cause Bangladeshi businesses to suffer
financially.

A potential security risk of Bangladesh exists due to the possibility
of drugs and arms to be smuggled into in huge quantity. Moreover, the
flooding of drugs may damage the youth of our country severely.

The increase of HIV/Aids patients may triple or quadruple due to the
Indian truck drivers as they are notoriously famous of HIV/Aids
carriers.Security threats from separatist rebels like United
Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) attacks can't be ruled out as they
may see Bangladesh helping India to carry weapons and arms to
strengthen the north eastern region of India.

Way forward…
The people of Bangladesh must hold upon the government and all the
opposition political parties for harmony on dynamic national issues,
particularly while it arises to defend the national welfares and
sovereignty from overseas force and control. Simply this union will
reinforce country's negotiating situation with India and other
countries and safeguard the fact that Bangladesh does not convert into
a 'satellite state' of India or undergo the fate of 'Sikkim'. The
economic and social welfares of Bangladesh over permitting transit to
India need to be very transparent to the people of Bangladesh. Till
this is completed, unfriendly inspired people will endure to misguide
public through publicity and make it tremendously tough for the
politicians. Still, as a motion of generosity, through the common
endorsement of terms and conditions on situation to situation basis,
Bangladesh may approve to offer opening through its terrain
non-commercial cargoes, merchandises and equipment concerning any
public sector mission for trade and economic growth.

- The writer is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at East West University

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[chottala.com] Re: London seminar on Govt tyranny and Indian aggression

On 8/31/12, Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

Forwarding to you the following Amar Desh report, 30 August 2012, of an
important seminar held in London against the tyranny of the present BAL govt
and the hegemonic aggression of India:

(Please click to read)
http://www.amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2012/08/30/161225

> Which is as follows:

> লন্ডনে সেমিনার : সংঘাত এড়াতে নির্দলীয় তত্ত্বাবধায়ক সরকার ব্যবস্থা


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[chottala.com] Re: Four Legal Suits filed to release of Hindu Vested Debottor (Deity's Properties) by BDMW at Sylhet District :



Good day.
 
Pls keep on filing !
As far latest update within Chittagong court alone, there are 1300 cases pending.
This is yr RIGHT and fight back for yr same.
It has been a prolong Discrimnation since Pakistan has been born and people can't remain as ENEMY (Act of notorious BLACK law) during the trend of socio-economy structure combined with era of Globalisation.
Ms Zia is going to India and i am sure similar important/sensitive matter to be in the agenda as this case was in DEADLOCK status during 2001-2006 regime.
Trust she will be smarter this time...
Good luck.

From: Rabindra Ghosh <info@bdmw.org>
To: Rabindra Ghosh <ghosh.minoritywatch.rabindra@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:05:19 AM
Subject: Four Legal Suits filed to release of Hindu Vested Debottor (Deity's Properties) by BDMW at Sylhet District :

Hi all,

Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW) started filing legal proceedings in the Courts of Bangladesh to release Vested (enemy) properties belonging to Hindu Deities in different parts of the country.

Initially BDMW took initiative to file four cases in the Court of Tribunal at Sylhet District as public interest litigation (PIL) on 26th July to 2nd of August,12

The Temple properties belonging to :

1) Sree Sree Mohaprabhu Debota of Sylhet of Bagbari Mouza : Dag No.534.Khatian Number : 1196,1172,1197,1231,1130,1137,1138,1140, 1143,1147,959,955,948,947
2) Sree Sree Norosingh Jew Debota
3) Sree Sree Radha Krishna Debota
4) Sree Sree Biswassar Jew Debota


The applications were filed one after another in the Tribunal through Mr. Arun Sarkar -Power of attorney Holder praying for release of at least 14 acres of lands which were illegally occupied by some land grabbers manufacturing some fake documents since partition of India. Those properties were recorded as Deity's properties in the Khatian and as per law those properties can not be alienated or transferred to any individual owners. Various organizations in different names started to claim those properties as their purchased properties, but as there is no Manager or Shebait since long those properties have been transformed into Tea Estate of many individuals practicing fraud upon the courts.

The value of those properties would be around Taka four hundred billion.

I, Adv. Rabindra Ghosh, Adv. Dlip Kumar Roy Chowdhury, Adv. Shamsul Hoqe Chowdhury moved those applications on 12th August,12 in the court of Tribunal and the Tribunal admitted those cases for final hearing.

Bangladesh Minority Watch started legal fight in the courts of law against Black law (Vested Property Act) now amended by the present government in the year,2011.

The filing of those cases by the competent authority or owner has been extended by the Government for further three months.

The news published soon after its admission as Public interest litigation in different media and dailies of Bangladesh.

A copy of such publication in the daily Uttar Purba dated 13th August,12.

BDMW needs full co-operation from and assistance from every quarters who want to protection of  religious Institutions in Bangladesh.

With best regards,

Adv.Rabindra Ghosh
Founder President-Bangladesh Minority Watch (BDMW)
12- K.M. Das Lane, Tikatully, Bholagiri Trust, Sutrapur P.S.,Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

[chottala.com] India predicts regime change in Dhaka by early 2014

India predicts regime change in Dhaka by early 2014

ntelligence agencies in India, including Research & Analytical Wing
[RAW] has categorically alerted the Indian government about the
replacement of the current government in Bangladesh by a new "regime"
during early 2014. According to the reports, the popularity of the
Bangladesh Awami League led leftist-Islamist coalition is at fastest
decline. It said, more than 73 percent of the total population is
either unhappy or annoyed with the current government, who are looking
for changes during the next general election. The intelligence reports
also predicted Khaleda Zia returning to power with landslide victory.

India's prestigious daily newspaper The Times of India, a report by
Bharti Jain titled 'India's worries could mount with Khaleda Zia's
expected return to power in Bangladesh', said "With indications
increasingly suggesting the possibility of a regime change in Dhaka in
early 2014, the intelligence establishment here is worried that
anti-India forces could once again get a free run to use Bangladesh as
a staging post for terrorism and other subversive activities.

"The term of the Sheikh Hasina government, which reined in terror
outfits operating from its soil, ends in January 2014. Revolving-door
politics being much the norm in Bangladesh, it is likely to be the
turn of Begum Khaleda Zia, Hasina's arch rival who is not known to be
friendly towards India. In fact, as she rises in the charts
capitalizing on Hasina's incumbency, Khaleda has also been busy
painting the prime minister an Indian stooge.

"The security agencies fear that Bangladesh-based subversive elements,
like those aligned with fundamentalist outfit and BNP partner
Jamaat-e-Islami, could resume their policy of sponsoring and
sheltering insurgent groups active in northeast India which use the
neighbouring country as a safe haven besides providing an infiltration
route to Pakistan-sponsored terror outfits.

"The communal divide between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims in
parts of Assam has the potential to be exploited by Bangladeshi
fundamentalists to radicalize the Muslim youth there and add muscle to
home-grown terror in India."

The Times of India termed the cooperation extended by Sheikh Hasina
government to New Delhi as "unprecedented" saying, "New Delhi has got
unprecedented cooperation from the Hasina regime in busting the havens
of Indian insurgent groups in her country as well as in the
investigation of terror incidents with Bangladeshi linkages. However,
as the popularity of the Awami League regime under Hasina dips, ceding
ground to rival BNP, the agencies fear that the gains of the last few
years may be reversed if Khaleda regains power."

Bharti Jain has once again made the same attempt similar to that of
false report which was published in Khaleej Times stating Pakistani
ISI gave money to Bangladesh Nationalist Party during election in
1991. She even falsified the statement of ISI ex-boss Asad Durrani's
statement saying, he [Durrani] had already acknowledged the fact of
funding BNP. In the report, Bharti Jain said, "It is no secret that
Pakistan's ISI has been using Bangladesh to carry out anti-India
operations. Bangladeshi terror outfit HuJI enjoys close links with
Pakistani tanzeems. Many of the ISI-sponsored perpetrators of terror
attacks in India had either infiltrated through Bangladesh or escaped
to the neighbouring country after the strikes. There are many other
instances of ISI links with Bangladesh: ISI footing the election bill
of Khaleda in 1991, a revelation made by none other than former ISI
chief Assad Durani; NSCN cadres travelling to Pakistan from Dhaka in
March 1996 for training in guerrilla warfare; an ISI-sponsored
technical expert training Ulfa in operation and installation of
communication equipment at a Nagaland camp; detaining of NSCN (I-M)
chief T Muivah at Bangkok airport in January 2000 while returning from
Karachi after allegedly inspecting an arms consignment; and the
revelation of arrested All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) cadres that ISI
had extended $20,000 assistance to Tk 58 lakh to the outfit, besides
imparting arms training to eight ATTF cadres in 1997 at Kandahar,
Afghanistan.

"With ISI and Bangladeshi group Jamaat-e-Islami allegedly funding
Assam-based Muslim fundamentalist groups like Multa, Mulfa, Simi and
Indian Mujahideen, it is feared that the latter may be used to exploit
the tension between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims in Kokrajhar to
stoke communal fires and instigate local Muslims to take to home-grown
terror.

"Obviously, the Indian security establishment is keen to arrest the
slide in Awami League's popularity. Though there is little it can do
to reverse the incumbency disadvantage, a positive development on the
Teesta water-sharing pact, financial assistance for the Padma Bridge
project and exchange of enclaves may go a long way in correcting the
negative perception in Bangladesh that Hasina has not managed any
major concessions from India. However, these will be possible only
after UPA's troublesome ally, the Trinamool Congress, is convinced to
drop its reservations on Teesta and the enclaves."

Bharti Jain even forecasted in her report that a number of leaders of
Bangladesh Nationalist Party [BNP] will be convicted within 2013 on
war crime charges. She also categorically mentioned that Indian
intelligence agencies, including RAW are actively trying to find ways
of stopping the fastest decline in popularity of the ruling Bangladesh
Awami League led leftist-Islamist coalition government.

"Even as efforts will intensify over the next year to recover lost
ground for Hasina, senior intelligence officials here claimed that
Khaleda's BNP alliance, saddled by corruption cases and expected
conviction of its leaders by war crimes tribunals, could see a
reversal in its growing popular perception closer to the polls,
expected sometime in February 2014."

http://www.weeklyblitz.net/2517/indian-predicts-regime-change-in-dhaka-by-early

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India's worries could mount with Khaleda Zia's expected return to
power in Bangladesh

With indications increasingly suggesting the possibility of a regime
change in Dhaka in early 2014, the intelligence establishment here is
worried that anti-India forces could once again get a free run to use
Bangladesh as a staging post for terrorism and other subversive
activities.

The term of the Sheikh Hasina government, which reined in terror
outfits operating from its soil, ends in January 2014. Revolving-door
politics being much the norm in Bangladesh, it is likely to be the
turn of Begum Khaleda Zia, Hasina's arch rival who is not known to be
friendly towards India. In fact, as she rises in the charts
capitalizing on Hasina's incumbency, Khaleda has also been busy
painting the prime minister an Indian stooge.

The security agencies fear that Bangladesh-based subversive elements,
like those aligned with fundamentalist outfit and BNP partner
Jamaat-e-Islami, could resume their policy of sponsoring and
sheltering insurgent groups active in northeast India which use the
neighbouring country as a safe haven besides providing an infiltration
route to Pakistan-sponsored terror outfits.

The communal divide between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims in
parts of Assam has the potential to be exploited by Bangladeshi
fundamentalists to radicalize the Muslim youth there and add muscle to
home-grown terror in India.

New Delhi has got unprecedented cooperation from the Hasina regime in
busting the havens of Indian insurgent groups in her country as well
as in the investigation of terror incidents with Bangladeshi linkages.
However, as the popularity of the Awami League regime under Hasina
dips, ceding ground to rival BNP, the agencies fear that the gains of
the last few years may be reversed if Khaleda regains power.

It is no secret that Pakistan's ISI has been using Bangladesh to carry
out anti-India operations. Bangladeshi terror outfit HuJI enjoys close
links with Pakistani tanzeems. Many of the ISI-sponsored perpetrators
of terror attacks in India had either infiltrated through Bangladesh
or escaped to the neighbouring country after the strikes. There are
many other instances of ISI links with Bangladesh: ISI footing the
election bill of Khaleda in 1991, a revelation made by none other than
former ISI chief Assad Durani; NSCN cadres travelling to Pakistan from
Dhaka in March 1996 for training in guerrilla warfare; an
ISI-sponsored technical expert training Ulfa in operation and
installation of communication equipment at a Nagaland camp; detaining
of NSCN(I-M) chief T Muivah at Bangkok airport in January 2000 while
returning from Karachi after allegedly inspecting an arms consignment;
and the revelation of arrested All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) cadres
that ISI had extended $20,000 assistance to Tk 58 lakh to the outfit,
besides imparting arms training to eight ATTF cadres in 1997 at
Kandahar, Afghanistan.

With ISI and Bangladeshi group Jamaat-e-Islami allegedly funding
Assam-based Muslim fundamentalist groups like Multa, Mulfa, Simi and
Indian Mujahideen, it is feared that the latter may be used to exploit
the tension between Bodos and Bengali-speaking Muslims in Kokrajhar to
stoke communal fires and instigate local Muslims to take to home-grown
terror.

Obviously, the Indian security establishment is keen to arrest the
slide in Awami League's popularity. Though there is little it can do
to reverse the incumbency disadvantage, a positive development on the
Teesta water-sharing pact, financial assistance for the Padma Bridge
project and exchange of enclaves may go a long way in correcting the
negative perception in Bangladesh that Hasina has not managed any
major concessions from India. However, these will be possible only
after UPA's troublesome ally, the Trinamool Congress, is convinced to
drop its reservations on Teesta and the enclaves.

Even as efforts will intensify over the next year to recover lost
ground for Hasina, senior intelligence officials here claimed that
Khaleda's BNP alliance, saddled by corruption cases and expected
conviction of its leaders by war crimes tribunals, could see a
reversal in its growing popular perception closer to the polls,
expected sometime in February 2014.

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Indias-worries-could-mount-with-Khaleda-Zias-expected-return-to-power-in-Bangladesh/articleshow/15912179.cms


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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

[chottala.com] Re: Low and disorder: 30 Murdered in 6 days





http://jugantor.us/enews/issue/2012/08/29/news0400.htm


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[chottala.com] Re: Ershad's India connection [1 Attachment]

[Attachment(s) from Isha Khan included below]

Indian Govt's Favour to Ershad

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:



http://www.amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2012/08/25/160249

http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2012-08-25/news/283575

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Pro-India politricks of Ershad

http://www.banglanews24.com/detailsnews.php?nssl=5c0b22ae24d0082d80a0d52feb219798&nttl=22082012134014


On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Prof Mahbubullah on Ershad's India visit


http://www.amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2012/08/18/159808


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:





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Re: [chottala.com] SIRAJ SIKDAR issue






It is interesting that Siraj Sikdar was hurling arsenal at India because he had information Hindus during the war killed many, thus he was going after India, and as he was Menon Group I also think he was influenced by  Chinese backed politics, Now that is may be not why he and his allies did not go after China as i am sure during the war of Independence, Chinese backed also killed people during the war of Independence and subsequently..

Well the thing is India is Hindu..Guess what Siraj Sikdar will remind you of a bread and snack route delivery driver in Oklahoma, name Sikh Jaswant Singh Mudhar..then if he was an Engineer in his profession that would be just what dr ordered guess what hint is my employers non discriminating Jewish Director he had his stuff in his residence and moved them out after he left the company..may not believe this I


From: Debasish Barua <gorba196138@yahoo.com>
To: "chottala@yahoogroups.com" <chottala@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:09 PM
Subject: [chottala.com] SIRAJ SIKDAR issue

 
It seems SIRAJ SIKDAR had access to very sophisticated ARSENAL, hint is sourced thur ISRAEL, in fact though he was not a military individual the location where he was arrested in his hied out in SUNDER BAN area..was very carefully designed Should I say hint was as if it was prepared by ARTILLERY CORE in MILITARY..may had backing from then Bangladesh Military..it seemed his capture was expedited as he fired ROCKET fire from his location to INDIAN territory was the jungle is shared by both country..he was captured by two female and one male police...again ordered by some kind of court. It is hint his escape from custody was aided by people that helped him built that hide out..and as he died in cross fire again those helped him eliminated him because they did not want him to disclose anything some segment of his family was secretly co operating with Govt..

By the way the people that fired on JSD procession same people killed Sheikh Mujib and his family...




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Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [chottala.com]Mujibur Secret Visit to Agartala My assessment Few other notes

 

Kennedy was assassinated around year 1993, Shere- Bangla died just few months before Kennedy died. Now their seems to another conjecture hint as it states Mujib stayed in Prison their and not only that their is few more things hint is their is this Child abuses case over my custody, that would be about the year it might got started, Jinnha wanted my custody as I was born in 1961. A Catholic Judge ruled in favor of my parents over Jinnhas request . Not only that, I also belief that Mujib and my grand father who despite himself being involved in the mess over me, was my lawyer. They were both Jinnhas member of parliament..I wonder who else of foreign origin was their...

It seems this issue of over which my custody was fought some segment of family members fought for change of custody and some where for custody to be with my parents...it seems..as I have mention to few that even after the war Mujib had personnel interest in the investigation and assigned a relative police Daroga to designate another junior relative policeman to investigate the issue it has been on going..it is that police man that died during Zia rule in prison mysterious circumstance...that Darogas name was also SACHIN   DAROGA some one that also was stationed in Sylhet..I get hint that their could be tie to this event with as India's movie actress who is now India member of Parliament REKHA with INDIA's Cricket Team Captain SACHIN TENDULEKAR

Why custody battle was fought had many reason that include family inheritance issue to etc...now I also have relative in India her name is I think REKHA..she is the daughter of..my father fathers sister JOGOMAYA..many in Chittagong may have seen her she used to stay in our living room and was very religious, her husband was also an army men and died in India..hint is their may have been tie in this with Rekha and then Indias Cricket team captain...as it is not surprising Indias recent captain Sachin Tendulekar played test match with Pakistan..as Bangladesh has too..their is possibilities as I think Sachin and as Bangladesh Cricket control board dictated by Tareq younger Khoka tied to Thailand has been seeking the Pakistani Copy of the court filling in recent ..Mujib and Toffazal as press is also very keen on investigative journalism and hint is Toffazalas are tied to as high as TIME WARNERS..why was the custody ruling came in favor of my parents it was considered open and shut case...it was and still is a very high stake custody issue, it seems Judge relied on..my step grand mothers sister families report in the issue provided by law enforcement well that is the side I think as it involves Coke inheritance issue...they were actually backed by PEPSI COLA, thus Chinese...the Bishuddhanada side, seems this is the other side that got piece of the truth hint is actually the BRAHMAN that did my horoscope KUSTHI may have been involved in getting the truth....I think their is one more possibility...when was the KAPTAI DAM built...their was also resistance to this..

As I see..

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Subject: Re: [chottala.com]Mujibur Secret Visit to Agartala My assesment

 

It is indeed a very detailed report of Mujib being spotted in India, or Tripura. I also read many of the names associated in the article. Remind you that may not be first trip of Mujib to India and as he studied in INDIA...If  not ALIGHAR, Calcutta University for sure. I am sure he had few if not many Hindu friends..and I do not think that would be very surprising..

I also see a discrepancy in the article how many accompanied Mujib to Tripura one place it states he was accompanied by two other and in other place it states three other....but it does identify Toffazal Hossain as it is claimed of famed ITTEFAQ. It is interesting authors hint something improper in the trip as Mujib and hints Mujib off course was not in AGARTALA conspiracy...

I do not know why Mujib had to go their could be many reason..one i think around that time their was INDIA/ CHINA war..and if their was anything improper in the trip..in the nature of AGARTAL CONSPIRACY..could one of the accompanied was SGT JAHURUL HAQUE, he is the other co accused in the Agaratala Conspiracy ..mysteriously Toffazal Hossain Manik Mia was not accused in AGARTALA Conspiracy..

I do believe ITTEFAQ played a significant role in its  news reporting during the war and the time period that lead up to the war, that created an environment pro independence of Bangladesh..but then again MUJIB with other banned ITTEFAQ, paper of Tofazzal Hossain ..could it be Toffazal Hossain related some how to  other popular leader..HOSSAIN SHAHID..may be just speculation on my part..

Another interesting conjecture is the name of KAR..I came across, this name more then once..in Chittagong we do have KAR COMPANY.  I guess he was in Tripura as invited guest to attend and may be he was doing MISTY MOOKH..as KAR COMPANY by court building is like other BOSE BROTHERS..famous for SWEETS and SNACKS..

Not only that among the people Rabindranath Tagore corespondent with also comes a name KAR..I guess many possibilities...back to RABINDRANATH, EINESTINE Clique issue...

What ever the purpose of the visit I think INDIA , CHINA war stopped in a stalemate soon after.. their could have been many possibilities, we could have been OCCUPIED BY CHINA has INDIA lost that war out right, I think CHINA would have like to steam role it..10 million man army, I guess we could have been..10th province of China..I guess mear Mujibs presence could have some  had some effect in the war ..

Their was this other report..KISSINGERS most despised man was MUJIB..and rumor is..his favorite was BHUTTO..hint is it is BENAZIR some how communicated to Hassina like Kennedy assassination that..Her father that would be ZULFIQAR told her of MUJIB being killed in actual..time was MUJIB was still alive then..

I guess watch JFK and the discussion between Jim Garrison and his Military contact it was stated their..AUSTRALIAN press reported the assassination of Kennedy before it actually happened..

Nixons man in China was Kissinger as news report has it..for many reason TRIPURA and BANGALADESH HILLTRACTS faces insurgencies , some of these are very long time in planning that is just now coming a bit Clear..I guess many in Bangladesh like those MAO Badis , in Tripura..

The thing is MUJIB was not COMMUNIST as Many likes them...that is why GUS HALL buddies around the world did not like him..

Debasish Barua



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Subject: [chottala.com] Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman&#65533;s Secret Visit to Agartala

 


 
 

January 11, 2012

Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman�s Secret Visit to Agartala

Sheikh Hasina�s visit to Agartala on Wednesday will occasion a trip down memory lane for three elderly men who can still remember how fifty years ago her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman made a secret foray into this city after crossing over to Khowai in West Tripura district-for the first and the last time to meet the then Chief Minister Sachindra Lal Singha. Only a few top-notch in the administration knew about the secret visit and fewer still knew that he spent a full November night in Agartala Central Jail. And that visit was five years before famous Agartala Conspiracy Case of 1968 which ultimately set the stage for the Bangladesh Liberation War. Of course, Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman was not involved in the Agartala Conspiracy Case-though he was implicated and made Accused No-1 � but at that time he did not come to Tripura.

He came only once and that was in 1963.�Though the specifics of his meetings with Sachindra Lal Singha will never be known because both Singha and Mujib are long dead and gone, there is no doubt that the �Bangabandhu� was testing the waters to secure Indian help for his cause.��Yes, of course I have seen Sheikh Mujib when he came to Khowai. But that was long ago, perhaps 50 years ago. I was then employed in the SDO office and I saw Sheikh Saheb entering into the SDO Sir�s residence, part of which was his office then�, said the 86 years old man as he sat straight on his bed.�Satya Deb, a former Class IV staff of Smarajit Chakrabarty, the then Sub Divisional Officer of Khowai, West Tripura is among the three living men who had seen Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman during that secret trip to Tripura.�It was if I correctly remember in November 1963-according to some it was cool November 3 afternoon-when Sheikh Mujib crossed over the border�, said Arun Bhattacharjee, then a clerk at the SDO Khowai office.
�The way all involved maintained hush-hush and the alacrity in which the entire visit was handled it became clear to us that it was a top secret visit by Sheikh Mujib. Then SDO was Smarajit Chakrabarty and evidently he was alerted by the higher ups. Sheikh Mujib crossed the border through tea estate in the afternoon along with three persons. Then we did have only two jeeps, one belonged to SDO and one to BDO.��It was indeed a top secret visit of Sheikh Mujib to India believed to have been for seeking New Delhi�s help for some sort of movement that Bangabandhu was planning even as early as in 1963. He had met the then Chief Minister Sachindra Lal Singha, who was his friend, and had asked him to help in this regard.��I remember SDO Sir asked the then Khowai police station OC Sudarshan Kar to remain alert and then went off to receive him in the border without saying anything to anyone. Within half an hour the SDO came back with his jeep TRA 54. And he was accompanied by three others, one among them was Sheikh Mujib�, said Bhattacharjee, who can still clearly remember the visit.The jeep went straight to Chakrabarty�s office and they just slipped hurriedly into first the SDO office and then at the back of the office in his Chakrabarty�s drawing room. �It was then I saw Sheikh Saheb. He was wearing Punjabi Pyjama and a shawl was wrapped around his upper part. He was a tall man. I saw three others but did not recognize them�, said Satya Deb. Some sources said, Mujib was then accompanied by editor of Ittefaq newspaper of the then East Pakistan Tofazzul Hussain and two other reporters.�Abhijit Chakrabarty, youngest son of the SDO said, �my mother Rama Chakrabarty told me she had prepared coffee for them�.Soon Sachindra Lal Singh�s younger brother Umesh Chandra Singh arrived Khowai as speacial emmisery of the Chief MInister and immediately all of them in two jeeps � one of them of the SDO and one of the BDO sped towards Agartala.
�Interestingly driver of SDO�s jeep Haripada Das came to our headclerk Birendra Kumar Bhattacharjee and requested him for some money as he would need to buy petrol as he would have to take �some Bangladeshi VIPs� to Agartala. �God knows how many times I have to run. so I need some money for petrol, Haripada told the head clerk who in turn told the cashier to give him the money, said Bhattacharjee.��I still remember soon after Sheikh Mujib crossed over there were hectic military movements in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) border. We could see Pakistani military and para-military jeeps wildly moving and deployment being done. Obviously they came to know Mujib would be crossing over to Tripura on some secret mission but they were late.�Mujib and his three associates arrived Agartala and went straight to Chief Minister�s residence at 12�30 am at night. Within a day seven more close associates also arrived in Agartala. In Agartala while Mujib was made a guest of Singh�s sister Hemangini Devi in Arundhuti Nagar. Others were housed in two other places- one being the Colonel Bari at the city heart. According to veteran journalist JItendra Paul, who was a close associate of Singh said the Chief Minister had got a call from Prime Minister Jawhar lal Nehru not to keep Mujib and others in his official residence and they might all have been �armed� and that they �sneaked; into Indian territory illegally.
It was after a series of discussions with Mujib, Tripura Chief Minister Sachindra Lal Singh accompanied by Chief Secretary B Raman flew to New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Jawhar Lal Nehru.�I met the Prime Minister personally as Chief Secretary stayed at the Foreign Secretary�s office chamber. We discussed Indian helps for Mujib�s movement. But Nehru was not ready at that moment since only one year ago we had Indo-China war�, according to a written statement given to a Bangladeshi reporter by Singh some months before his death. As the talks failed Mujib was visibly sad. But the problem arose as to how they should return home. Decision was taken that they would be pushed back. �I was then SDO Sadar (Agartala). At the instruction of the Chief Minister and Chief Secretary I received Mujib at a city area and took him Agartala Central Jail�, said KP Chakrabarty over telephone last year to this writer last year. As Mujib went to jail and a case for �intrusion� was registered against him, the then District Magistrate and SP met Mujib in jail.
�My father Nani Gopal Kar Bhowmik was the Superintendent of Jail and according to Jail code he was also present during the meeting. But he did not divulge me what transpired in the meeting�, said Manish Kar Bhowmik, and eminent senior layer of Gauhati High Court. �Chief Minister also came to meet Mujib in jail. But that at that time my father was not there. Mujib stayed a full night in Agartala Central jail and a sentry by the name of Abu Taher was posted to attend him�, Kar Bhowmik added. Next day Mujib and three of his companions were �officially� pushed them back to East Pakistan through Kamalasagar border crossing the Salda river. �This was the only time Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman came to Tripura. And it still remains a top secret and not many were at all aware.

 
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