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AL not out to destabilise Khaleda govt, says Hasina

From M J Zahedi, Star Special Correspondent
KARACHI, Sept 11: Bangladesh Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina Wajed has categorically refuted the allegation that her party wanted to destabilise the government of Begum Khaleda Zia. On the other hand, she said, her party strengthened Begum Zia's hands by sponsoring the bill which brought back parliamentary system in the country.
"We knew that in a presi-denllal system, the real power did not lie with the prime minister and therefore Khaleda Zia could be thrown out of power." Hasina said in separate Interviews with two Karac hi newspapers, Dawn and The News.
“For the sake of democracy wc sponsored the bill, maintained pressure Inside and outside parliament for Its passage. If we wanted to destabilise the government It Was an opportune time because Khnlcdas was a very shaky government," the Bangladesh Opposition lender said. But she laughingly added. "My relations with Begum Zia, on a women-to-womnn level, was not bad."
She was here to attend a seminar on the role of the Opposition In the SAARC countries. The seminar was organ ised by the leader of the Opposition In Pakistan, Ms Be* ruiz.1r Bhutto.
But Hasina accused Begum Zia's government of not per forming Its role In a democratic manner. "Neither It Is following the norms which could help strengthen democratic traditions tn Bangladesh,* she said. She did not cite specific instances but said during Gen Ershad's martial law regime, whenever she went abroad the "Bangladesh diplomatic missions tn foreign countries would co-operate with us and extend the protocol which the leader of the Opposition deserved," and alleged that the Deputy High Commissioner of Bangladesh "had not turned up anywhere in Karachi during my stay."
She said she did not want to discuss In a foreign country what the Dhaka government was doing to the workers of her party.
Hasina said there had been no long-term planning tn Bangladesh since the assassf-
nation of her father. Most of the #25 billion received in foreign aid had gone to the unproductive sector, she said and added that tn the matter of al leviatlon of the people's economic lot her party was trying to support the government and was not competing with tt. "Bui the party In power has not cared to Implement even Its own programme" of freeing the people from the clutches of poverty.
Site agreed with the Dawn reporter that women leaders were proving better leaders than men, at least In the Third World countries. But she added that In the Third World countries women leaders had emerged as consequences of tragedies. "They have sacrificed more and can organise much belter." About the trial of the assassins of her father, Hasina said by not repealing the Indemnity clause incorporated into the country's Constitution during the Zia regime, Begum Zia was subverting the process of Justice. "Wc will continue to build pressure for meeting the requirements of Justice."
On her first visit to Pakistan since the establishment of Bangladesh in which her lather played the major role and at the invitation of Benazir whose father was the main adversary of Sheikh Mujlb at that time, Hasina was pleased with the warm hospitality she had been received with. "I don’t pretend, that the past has completely been obliterated, but it would be unfair if I did not mention ’the warm hospitality of the
PPP leaders," she added.
She said she noticed a similarity in the assassination of the. popular leaders In Bangladesh. Pakistan. India and Sri Lanka. These were not just isolated incidents." she remarked.
She said that opposition parties had played a vital role in establishing democracy in Pakistan and Bangladesh. She attributed her party's failure to win the 1990 elections in Bangladesh to 'the invisible alliance' of the BNP. the Jamaat-e-lslam and the Jatiya Party, although she said her party's subsequent alliance with’ the Jatiya Party was a parliamentary expedient. She, blamed the military bureaucracy for much of the problems of her country and remarked the BNP was bom in a cantonment.