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ANALYSIS

Claims vs reality

INAM AHMED and Shakhawat Liton
We are facing a strange phenomenon of late.
In case of almost every gruesome murder, the government, and in some instances the head of the government, says something which later turns out to be different.
The trend now is to hold the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami responsible for the crimes. However, it later turns out that AL men were involved in the misdeeds.
Let's take some big events in the last few years and begin with the latest, the murder of Ekramul Haque, chairman of Fulgazi upazila in Feni.
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Kishida told a press conference in Tokyo while making a formal announcement on May 16.
His Bangladesh counterpart AH Mahmood Ali in a pre-departure press conference in Dhaka yesterday said the visit would open “a new horizon" in the bilateral partnership.
Hasina, who left for Tokyo last night, would lead a 109-member delegation including a 45-member business team. This is the first bilateral tour after the January 5 general elections, about which Japan along with some other western countries has reservations.
Upon her return from Japan, the premier is set to pay another six-day official visit to China beginning on June 6.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said Bangladesh would seek Japanese finance in the megaprojects that included Ganges Barrage project, a multimodal and multilane tunnel beneath the Jamuna river, a second nuclear power plant (NPP), a rail bridge parallel to Bangabandhu Bridge over the Jamuna, eastern bypass road and restoration and excavation of four rivers surrounding the capital, and improvement of Mawa-Kalna-Narail-Jessore road with construction of a bridge at Kalna.
The minister, however, could not say the amount of the new Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) Bangladesh would seek as Dhaka and Tokyo continued discussion on financing these projects.
"Nothing has yet been finalised about funding those big projects.... It will depend on our negotiations," he said in reply to a question.
During Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida's visit to Dhaka on March 22, Japan made a pledge of $ 1.18 billion under the 3 5 th ODA to Bangladesh to finance five projects in energy and infrastructure development.
According to the programme schedule, Hasina would hold a summit meeting with her Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe tomorrow afternoon mainly to discuss Japanese economic and technical assistance to Bangladesh.
She would also have an audience with the Emperor of Japan on Monday and the Japanese prime minister would host a banquet in honour of his Bangladesh counter-
part.
The two countries are scheduled to sign a joint communique on May 26 after the Hasina-Shinzo summit talks.
Asked about the risk of having nuclear power plants, the foreign minister said accident might occur, but operation of the plants did not stop in other countries. "We shouldn't stay idle fearing accidents," he observed.
In his opening remark earlier, the minister said the visit of the prime minister was a timely tour.
He said Japanese investors felt encouraged to make big investments in Bangladesh. Hasina would also address a conference of the Japanese investors and meet top executives of JICA, JETRO and JBIG.
Dhaka wants liberalisation of the rules of origin and seeks duty-free access of Bangladeshi products to the Japanese market. Mahmood expressed the hope that Japan would continue its ODA assistance to Bangladesh.
Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque, Secretary (Bilateral) of the Foreign Ministry Mustafa Kamal and other senior officials were present.
NOTHING OFFICIAL ON MODI VISIT
Refuting media reports, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday said there was no official announcement yet regarding Indian Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh but Dhaka wants to see such a visit.
"We don't know about it (Modi's visit) yet. Let it be done first. Let him take oath first. We want to see that he pays his first foreign visit here," he said in response to a question at a press conference at the foreign ministry.
Earlier, Indian daily Business Standard reported that Modi's first official visit as head of government would likely be in Dhaka, where he was expected to sign the much-awaited Teesta water-sharing agreement.
The issue was discussed at length during Modi's telephonic conversation with Hasina, who not only requested Modi to make Bangladesh his first foreign destination as prime minister, but to also consider Dhaka as his "second home", said the report.