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TO THE EDITOR
Hara-kiri by AL?
A realistic and detailed staff correspondent's front-page banner headlined report was published on 18 October in a local English daily. It reported on AL's grabbing of things indiscriminately, left and right, based on the belief that "might is right". This will be the sure cause of doom for the AL. whether they like it or not*
These unscrupulous part)’ men are really succeeding in tarnishing the name and image of the part}' in power, >white the party's government Is helplessly standing and watching this growing lawlessness! The party is rapidly gaining reputation for various misdeeds. It seems that even the Hon. PM is failing to contain the party workers! In this matter at least, it seems that AL is faithfully following the footsteps of tire BNP in its heydays!
I am sure that AL realises that the first priority is to set its own house in order. They must rein in their party-men both in and outside of the assembly to be reasonable and do only what is right, and not take the law in their hands. The report had even named one of the lawmaker and his close relative, who have gone on a landgrabbing spree!
These matters need stern disciplinary action by the party central management, failing which, it will herald the "beginning of the end", as sure as night follows day. It is like committing Harakiri, with eyes open, embracing self-inflicted political death! If things continue in this fashion, as reported, then "All the king's horses and all the king's men cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again"! This the bitter reality of the fable, which is all true! Watch out AL management, time and tide waits for none. That is the bitter truth, like it or not.
A solitary citizen
Dhaka Share market
Wall Street (US Share Market) was regulated and operated by many geniuses (educated in the best Universities of the world). US FED was also headed by an extra ordinary genius like Mr. Greenspan. BUT what we witnessed is that the US stock market plunged in 2008. Before that pundits predicted that the market would remain stable. The current Bangladesh share market can experience huge decline because of l.Most of the share prices are very high (Do not have support of fundamentals). 2. People who are involved in the market are trying to make quick profit by short trading only. Most of them do not want to hold shares for long 3. Excess liquidity in the market is also pushing share prices without solid reason (only speculation). Manipulators are active! 4. Our banking and other financial institutions have exposed themselves to risk (by getting involved in speculative share trading now). When the market will crash they will be in serious trouble (Bangladesh Bank must see to this matter). Which will in turn affect die whole economy.
I shall urge all concerned to be more careful and act with prudence to strengthen our share market.
Shamsul Azam
Green Road
Dhaka
Adulteration of medicine
Bangladeshi medicines have name and fame. These are exported to many foreign countries. But a few pharmaceuticals have been making spurious medicines in the country. It is a big problem.
The issue has to be handled firmly by the government Mohammed Jamal Uddin Dept, of English International Islamic University Ctg.
National issue, but...
The inevitable has happened. They have used their only weapon, they will not cooperate on any issue with the nation, let alone the government. I do not think they have any moral sense to repent and regret even internally. They might have planned to divert the public attention from their undemocratic action of not participating in the said conference. A shameful act Their mentors have misguided the leader.
The "alamat" is already visible on the eastern border of ours. A military government is flexing its muscle openly now. I am sure our people will teach them a good lesson if they dare to break international order and disturb our peace. We know they have many friends in our country who are passing through bad days and need their unholy support to divert the public attention from poverty alleviation to border conflict.
The government must be alert and keep the people and parliament informed of any threat from across the eastern border. The media is requested to inform the people to prepare for any eventuality. We can stop them. Faqrul
California, USA
TheG20 summit
The G20 summit was held at Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Centre on September 2425, 2009. In reply to the global credit crisis, a G20 summit in one year was projected soon following the London summit in April 2009. Announced shortly after the G-20 London summit, US President Barack Obama volunteered to host this summit. at the outset planning to hold it in New York City and coordinating it with the open ing of the United Nations General Assembly. However, because of coordination
issues, on May 28, 2009, the Obama Administration announced a change of venue to Pittsburgh with the intention to highlight the city's economic healing following the breakdown of its manufacturing industry in the second half of the 20th century.
Amid the issues discussed was a suggestion to drastically reform the International Monetary Fund. French President Sarkozy also recommended that there be an app/ais^j pf measures already takem
The major venue of the summit was the David L. Lawrence Convention Centre, which was at one point the biggest LEED certified building in the world. A working dinner for world leaders was held at the Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, chosen to highlight its environment friendly features including an earth-sheltered welcome centre and aTropical Forest Conservatory described as the world's most energy efficient. Further venues to be used around the city include The Andy Warhol Museum, the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts and Rosemont, the working farm ofTeresa Heinz Kerry.
The summit proper began on the morning of September 25 at the David L Lawrence Convention Centre, downtown.
One of the first key
iannouncements to conic out of the meeting was that the group would turn put to be the new lasting commission for international economic cooperation.
Shohag MostaflJ MBA (Strategic & In ternational Management) University of Dhaka
Road to flattery!
Mr. Badrul Ahsan's article clearly brings out the moral bankruptcy of our politicians. Even thoughts of these hypocrites make us wonder about our value as human being who year after year is subjected to such insult on intelligence. I sometimes try to find solace in a different type of explanation which is:
Politicians are a rare sensitive breed whose heart cries out for everybody else except for his or her own sorrows. That is why the dreamer politician was so scared about her leader's safety. I am sure he / she would have felt the same thing for other common people too. That the leader was in the dream is a mere technicality. Shall we ever forget the soft hearted Kazi Zafar being consoled by HM Ershad when Zafar was overtaken by grief at Mr. Ershad's mother's death? There is no other country on the face of the earth that has been blessed with such soft hearted politicians!
Iqbal Mahmood, Ph.D., P.E.
Los Angeles, G4
Border guards
After going through the recent serial reports on BDR and status of our borders in a vernacular daily, I was horrified, felt guilty. It speaks of the level of administration that we have since the creation of Bangladesh.
These very Jawans guarding our borders used to take the bullets from the enemy and face the enemy valiantly with so limited logistics and paraphernalia They have to walk on foot, cross the water bodies at the mercy of local boatman to protect our borders. They are not even provided with enough bicycles, let alone armoured vehicles. Th^ sacrifice their lives to ensure our sovereignty. In other words they are the symbols of our sovereignty.
What puzzles me is that in spite of all sorts of limitations and shortcomings how courageously they used to counter the enemies and repulse the attacks! But never ever they were rewarded for their heroism and love for the motherland, nor noted down in our history. The state did not even recognize their gallantry and bravery. But why so? Could it be for fear of antagonizing India?
But we the common people who are grateful and proud of our JAWANS would like to pay our homage to our dead and wounded soldiers who sacrificed their lives to protect our borders.
Khalid Hussain
London, UK
Vegetable production
Vegetable is one of the essential food items for growth and maintenance of health. But in Bangladesh people are facing a tremendous shortage of vegetables in different seasons. Bangladesh is predominantly an agricultural country with rich soil condition and climate. Numerous types of vegetables are grown over here in different seasons. It is matter of regret that after four decades of independence we could not produce enough vegetables for the people.
One suitable Sadar Union in every rural Upazila should be earmarked, especially for vegetable production. Type of vegetable is to be selected on the basis of soil condition, climate and season. We know that Sadar Unions are ready as market for vegetable consumption. The government has to supply necessary inputs for vegetable production. Farmers should be motivated to grow vegetables. Vegetables would generate cash for the growers. It would help to reduce dependence on rice. We know modern science says that eating too much rice, which we do in general, is not suitable for health.
A documentary film may be made on each vegetable show-ing different important aspects like, transplant seedlings, plant cultivation, insect protection, use of fertilizer, harvesting, storing & grading, selling vegetable etc. and storing vegetable seeds for future use. The documentary should be telecast repeatedly through the available electronic media.
Md. Ashraf Hossain Ramna, Dhaka
Effective solution Traffic jam can be significantly reduced even from tomorrow. The govt can introduce passenger train or shuttle train from airport station to Kamalapur station during the office hours. There should be train stoppage on the route at Banani, Mohakhali, Karwanbazar/Mogh bazar, Malibagh rail-gate, Khilga'on and Kamalapur, so that passengers can easily use this train as city buses to reach their destination without traffic jam from different points of Dhaka city. The Bangladesh railway can adjust the schedule with other inter district trains giving priority to the movement of city dwellers. Our existing rail line and railway property in the city should be used to minimise traffic jam. Please think in a different way as we have many limitations.
Masum Ahmed
On e-mail
First serial killer?
It's unfortunate to see that Bangladesh has got its first serial killer. He has added a new dimension into the already extensive crime landscape of the country. I think the dramatic story of betrayal that this ruthless killer has
portrayed as the motive behind his killing-spree must not be taken as a truth without conclusive evidence. It's quite possible that he made up this story that can be found in cheap Bangla movies in order to conceal his original motive, h's apparent from the descriptions and nature of the murders that all of these murders are nothing but horrendous sex-crimes. All of the victims were raped before they were murdered and I think nothing but nasty sexual motivation was behind these killings. This guy is not psychologically disordered. He is rather a sex-obsessed maniac, who slaughtered innocent girls after raping and torturing them mercilessly. Historically, sexually motivated killers (like Ted Bundy) were known as ordinary members of society until their gruesome crimes were exposed.
I think the entire Rasu Khan case has explicitly underscored the vulnerability of marginal women in our country. The horrid face of this rapist cum killer can be regarded as an epitome of the sickness of our diseased society: a society where underprivileged women are still deprived of their dignity, social security and basic human rights. Often they are even stripped of their right to dream about a secured home, a dependable life-partner and a better future for themselves. Have we ever wondered how many serial killers we have who are skilled in killing buddingdreams?
Kh. Asef Safa Kabir Muhammadpur, Dhaka
Easing traffic jams
We have long been assured of steps like underground tubes, overhead expressway, link roads, circular waterways around the city to solve the nagging traffic problem. Those steps are yet to see even the feasibility studies, only Almighty knows when they will take off? We do not see any serious efforts to ease the traffic jams. Only changes in office and school timings beget nothing. Have the govt ever thought of double deckers replacing the mini-buses, and buses? If the govt goes ahead with the plan to completely re-organize the transport system with double deckers, it will cut down the existing number of public transports (mini-bus, bus) to nearly half. Not only that, as a double decker takes longer time to get filled up so it decreases the frequencies of the vehicle plying. The city of London took it as one of the measures to ease traffic and it proved very effective. If the govt, plans it, it can be done within a very short time. The govt can think of giving soft loans to the existing transport companies tp implement the project. We have huge liquidity in banks. We can not afford ' to go with this traffic conges- 1 tion any longer.
Dr. M M Mortayez Amin Consultant, Labaid Fertility * Centre '
labaid Specialized Hospital 1
Dhanmondi, Dhaka Obama wins Nobel
The only positive side of 1 Obama's winning of the Nobel Prize, in my view, is that he prudishly reiterates the need for peace in the present world, although during his presidency he could add no feather to his cap which can be quoted as his achievement, especially in obtaining peace.
In the' name of bringing peace in the middle-east, he supported the Israeli stance. In some cases he is unequivocal in taking side with Israel which has been killing innocent Palestinians almost every day. In the name of establishing peace and democracy, he is supporting the most corrupt regime of Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan who has been killing or letting the foreign forces kill hundreds of his countrymen. In the name of establishing peace Obama is adding more 40,000 ISAF troops to Afghanistan whose only task will be killing thousands of people more. Yet he has got the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
Killing thousands of innocent people Mr. Rabin, the then Prime Minister of Israel and patronizing the killers Henry Kissinger also got the same Nobel Peace Prize. What a paradox!
Monzur Rahman Dhaka
Political killings On Wednesday 21 st of October 2009, Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh MP, came under attack by what appears to be a bomb charged to the vehicle he was about to get in. He was lucky enough to survive the bomb attack which happened outside his office in the capital's downtown Motijhee 1 Commercial Area, but that left at least 13 other people wounded. What has happened has been disgraceful and very much damaging for our country.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time that a political leader has been under attack. It has become an every day matter in our country's political culture. Since the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, over the last thirty eight years Bangladesh has seen the days , of brightness and promise as well as the horrific realities of ( death and destruction. Our ■ country which was born out of । a bloody war costing millions ] of lives fell again into the tricky ; trap of revolution and counter > revolution and secret political J killings paving its way to ter- j rorism in politics. (Beginning with the murder of ou? 'fbundFA^ JRithe’r Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, followed by the jail killings of high profile political leaders whose contributions to the liberation of Bangladesh can hardly be underestimated and of course the murder of General Ziaur Rahman , the former President of Bangladesh, the killing extravaganza has continued over the last nearly four decades. And the situation is neverending.
Surprisingly, the perpetrators of such heinous crimes have not been brought to justice until recently when the trial of Bangabandhu and his family killing has started under the present government
All these political killings are related to each other.
Barrister Arafat Hosen Khan L.L.B (University of Essex) Bar-at-Lau> (Honourable Society of Lincolns Inn)
The recent bomb attack on AL lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh indicates that some people have not yet lost their thirst for blood. Their action reminds us that those who pursue the path of violence and conspiracy are not taking a day off, and as a citizen it upsets me that most of these conspirators often go untouched. In the early hours of 15th August 1975, young Taposh (age four) and his brother (age six) were left orphaned when their parents were brutally murdered by the conspirators who plotted the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Today, the young AL lawmaker Taposh , who has two young sons, makes me wonder whether history was about to repeat for them.
Now, the job at hand is to identify the miscreants who made this attempt on his life. If as a society we allow such incidents to go unpunished, Lhen our political arena will ceep on losing potential lawmakers who can actually bring a change. 1 am thankful to God hat Taposh with a stroke of uck has not joined the long ist of politicians who we have ost to unholy acts of men. Moreover, as an individual I an only hope that the con-ciousness of human beings Io not rationalize such mea-ures, irrespective of their tolitical ideology. Violence las never raised the morale of nation.
ishikur Rahman
’hD Candidate
andon School of Economics LSE), UK