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Khaleda Zia may face house arrest
Special Correspondent
Awami League's general secretary Syed Ashraf has accused Khaleda of 'treason' due to her recent assertion that the government could face removal from power if the BNP took to the street. Following Ashraf's hurling of extreme accusation against the leader of the opposition, there are whispers in the grapevine that BNP chairperson may be put into house arrest soon in order to restrict her free movement and communication with others.
One source says a female officer has been deputed at the cantonment police station to execute that scheme while another source confided Khaleda's brother, Maj (retd) Sayed Iskandar, too may be arrested in coming days...[ FULL STORY ]
Jatiya Sangsad may lose its dignity in unilateral show
Special Correspondent
The Jatiya Sangsad is poised to become only a ruling party game in absence of the minority opposition largely ignored and often offended.
The marginal opposition BNP has finally decided to stay away from the parliament accusing the government of vitiating the atmosphere inside and outside the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) through autocratic behaviour. BNP alleged that the government and the ruling party were trying to unleash a 'reign of terror' by repression on the opposition and the people.
BNP Secretary General Delwar last week called upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to create an environment of consensus "so that BNP can join the House". ..[ FULL STORY ]
Country heading towards a grim winter
of discontent?
Sadeq Khan
The country appears to be heading towards a grim winter of discontent. And the government has reportedly already embarked on a campaign of preventive arrests, albeit on multifarious grounds of suspicion, but designed essentially to contain unrest. Over the second half of the last week, more than five hundred persons have been taken into custody by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police in the capital city. A long list, according to crime reporters, has been drawn up by the Detective Branch for interrogation and implication in criminal cases under prosecution or under investigation, as a double-edged weapon to deter unrest and also to show progress (on paper at least) in crime prevention...[ FULL STORY ]
Bangladeshi victims of DV scammers
Our North America Correspondent
Many Bangladeshis like unfortunate young man Foysal could not escape the swindlers' gang in the Diversity Visa (DV) lottery even after coming to the United States, says a report published in the local Bangla Patrika. The report was picked up by the Community Media of New York and circulated in the last issue of the "Voices that Must Be Heard", a web publication for immigration people.
A vicious bunch of criminals are threatening both Foysal here in the US and his family back home in Bangladesh. Despite risking his life, Foysal went to Bangladesh on September 13, to ask for security from the Bangladeshi government for himself and for his family...[ FULL STORY ]
SOME A.L. LEADERS UNDER SURVEILLANCE
Facade of democracy challenged
from within
M. Shahidul Islam
Nothing differentiates better the characteristic of a leader from that of a demagogue as does their expressed intents. A leader moves with vision, boldness and clarity while a demagogue resorts to clever, crafty and surreptitious moves only to annihilate oppositions by any means.
The fact that the AL-led regime has undertaken a die-hard mission to annihilate all political oppositions is no secret. What pains people is the pretension of democracy which the regime tries to display in public while the true intents remain too obvious to conceal.
That is why a number of senior leaders from within the ruling party, including former secretary general Abdul Jalil, have been showing serious dissent to the manner in which the AL is running the affairs of the state...[ FULL STORY ]
Mannan Bhuiyan floats new party
Special Correspondent
Ending all speculations, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, a former secretary general of BNP has finally decided to organise a party of his own by uniting dissident and disgruntled BNP leaders and workers.
According to sources close to him, Mannan Bhuiyan has already assigned leaders to organise the party units and its front organisations. A group of intellectuals has also been engaged to prepare a draft constitution for the party.
Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan has set up a temporary office at Kohinoor Tower near his residence in Gulshan and held a preparatory meeting last week for organising a peasant front of his prospective party. A participant of the meeting told The Holiday that Mannan Bhuiyan has stared the process to launch a new organisation...[ FULL STORY ]
Govt appeasing India by granting transit
Faisal Rahim
The Government's move to grant India transit and corridor facility will bring the country's 'economy and security' under serious threat for no tangible benefits to the nation, except repaying the debt to Delhi by the Awami League-led grand coalition government for bringing it to power.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is planning to visit Delhi shortly, but notably after about one year since takeover of power -- and analysts here say that one of the reasons of delaying the visit is that the Indian government wants to see a substantive progress in the transit issue before welcoming her to the Indian capital...[ FULL STORY ]
NEW SINO-INDIAN COLD WAR: US THINK TANK
Nepali Maoists firm to pull down govt, troops, Maoists on warpath in India
Shamsuddin Ahmed
The situation in this region is boiling up. Political parties in Nepal are on a confrontation course. War between security forces and Maoist insurgents is looming in India. An US think tank indicated the beginning of a cold war between India and China. Pakistan is already in a perilous situation giving many to doubt about its existence.
Unified Communist Party of Nepal (UCPN-Maoist) is all set to launch a countrywide agitation from November 2 in a bid to pull down the five-month old what they call 'puppet' government of Madhav Kumar Nepal. Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda on Wednesday announced blockade of Kathmandu and the country's lone international airport during the fortnight agitation programme.
"We will not allow any aircraft to take off or land," said the former rebel leader Prachanda. He has directed the party activists to encircle all government offices paralyzing the administration and declare formation of autonomous states. ..[ FULL STORY ]
Positive interaction with children boosts their mental health
Abdur Rahman Khan
Praising and acknowledging a child's good work can be very helpful for his or her psychological and intellectual development. They need care and nurturing and at the same time they need our understanding for whatever they do and feel.
"Praising can make one feel important and powerful. This is especially true when it comes to healthy development of the children", says Kamal Uddin Ahmed Choudhury, Chairman of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Dhaka...[ FULL STORY ]
CIA's paid agent running Afghan
opium trade
Fazle Rashid in New York
Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, is a paid CIA agent. The New York Times in its lead story Wednesday said the Afghan President's brother "is a player in the country's booming opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency." Wali Karzai receives payments for a "variety of services including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the CIA's direction."
A section of the Obama administration feels that the ties have complicated America's increasingly tense relationship with President Hamid Karzai, who has struggled to build sustained popularity and long been viewed by the Taliban as an American puppet. The CIA has strongly refuted the claim of the NYT...[ FULL STORY ]
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