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Hasina tells ministers, MPs; directs Anisul Haq to write to US govt for deportation of convicted self-confessed Bangabandhu killer Rashed Chowdhury

Hasan Jahid Tusher
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed Law Minister Anisul Haq to write a letter to the United States government to send back AM Rashed Chowdhury, a selfconfessed convicted killer of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
She also directed ministers and lawmakers to write letters from now on seeking to know labour rights conditions and trade union facilities in countries, including the US, which often try to "poke their nose" into Bangladesh's labour rights conditions and which have been pressing the government to ensure trade unions in garment factories.
Several ministers informed The Daily
Star of the directives, coming at a weekly cabinet meeting in Bangladesh Secretariat.
Though labour unrest sometimes occurs in those countries, they express concerns about Bangladesh's labour situation, she added, mentioning that such letters had been sent by US senators and congressmen.
Foreigners often want to implement their agendas by making some people, who do not even work in the garment sector, labour leaders, she said, adding that her government would not meet any such demand of foreign nations on an urgent basis.
About the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) facility, she asked ministers not to speak about the issue as, what she
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claimed, GSP did not affect Bangladesh's readymade garment (RMG) export.
Bangladesh has found alternative RMG markets much bigger than that of the US, she said without mentioning names, and that the GSP issue will be dealt with when it comes up.
The US will provide the GSP facility if it thinks Bangladesh deserves it and Bangladesh will not try to influence the US, she said.
At the informal discussion ministers made fun of Rail Minister Mujibul Haque's wedding and of known Marxist leaders, Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu and Civil Aviation and Tourism Affairs Minister Rashed Khan Menon, performing Hajj.
The cabinet approved the draft "Trademark (Amendment) Act-2014" seeking to extend the trademark related dispute disposal period from 120 to 360 working days.
Briefing journalists afterwards, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said the cabinet was also apprised about the third quarterly report on implementation of its decisions.
He said 33 of 55 decisions taken from July to September had been implemented.