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Posts Tagged ‘bangladesh’

Pakistan should learn from Bangladesh

By Adnan Farooqui • Sep 7th, 2009 • Category: Features

It is true that Bangladesh, once a part of Pakistan came into being almost 24 years later than Pakistan. So it is basically a fact that keeping in views the entire crisis that Pakistan faces, and the shortfalls, Bangladesh would be one step ahead.
The key to eliminate all the difficulties and eradicate all of the [...]



Stateless in Bangladesh and Pakistan Generation of Oppressed

By Guest Blogger • Aug 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The following is a brief narrative of the tragic saga of a stateless minority population spread over three countries and six decades. This minority has suffered incredible atrocities in the form of mass killings, rapes, arson, confiscation of property, loss of employment, economic exploitation, mass and arbitrary denial of nationality of the scale, level and [...]



What are Rental Power Plants

By Guest Blogger • Aug 14th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In Pakistan, you are damned if you do and you are damned if you don’t. Not always, but more often than not. There is massive power loadshedding across the country, factories and plants are closing down, manufacturing businesses and exports are down, unemployment and poverty is increasing, there are riots on the streets, trains and [...]



China-Bangladesh Relations and Potential for Regional Tensions

By Isha Khan • Jul 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The geographic area encompassing South Asia and its contiguous maritime spaces are of growing strategic importance to China, as reflected in China’s web of partnerships and coalitions with states in the region. The dynamics of these relationships appear on the surface to be based on interdependence, but are actually driven by long-term political, economic and [...]



Crises that loom beyond the military action

By Dr Shireen M Mazari • May 29th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Despite the very effective censorship on the media regarding the military operation in Swat, tales of despair are coming through – especially of those who have lost their families in the artillery and aerial bombardments and of those over two million still trapped in the war zone. Then there are the images of wheat crop [...]



RAW’s man ‘Joe Fleishman’

By Isha Khan • May 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In the past I forwarded a few articles of Sunita Paul, mentioning that Sunita Paul is a Mossad operative and that Mossad seems to have developed a conflict of interest with RAW regarding Bangladesh. After the BDR massacre, Sunita Paul wrote many articles in quick succession pointing at BAL for the massacre, with a host of questions, which created sensation in [...]



International Manpower Hiring Practices in Bangladesh Textile Industry

By Farid Masood • May 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics

A relative of mine who has a long experience at senior positions in Pakistani Textile Industry applied for a job on one of the Internet job portals. He was offered a job from Bangladesh. That prospect employer had given all references to him required to apply for a visit visa (not a employment visa). Their [...]



Love’s Zam Zam is Flowing

By M Mirza • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)


Md.YUNUS on present meltdown

By captainjohann • Mar 26th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Nobel Laurette Md.Yunus of Bangladesh talks about Global meltdown and other crisis like oil price rise,poverty,food crisis etc
Q&A: ‘Meltdown Not the Only Crisis in the World’
Catherine Makino Interviews MD. YUNUS, Bangladeshi banker and economist
Grameen Bank’s Muhammad Yunus, in Tokyo, this week.
Credit:Catherine Makino/IPS
TOKYO, Mar 20 (IPS) - Muhammad Yunus, who claimed the 2006 Nobel Peace [...]



Indian Army Preparing for Coup in India

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

After Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma, now Indian army is also flapping it’s wings to have a coup and “discipline” the Indian people. Indian army’s inroads in the political arena through BJP and some of the hawks in Congress are all too visible. Their involvment in the riots and terrorists activities, manipulation of politicos and technocrats, [...]