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Saturday, September 13, 2008

[vinnomot] Re: [dhakamails] Support for an Amar Desh Report

Friends


All patriotic Bangladeshis should be supporting(in fact are doing so ) "Amar Desh" for performing the ONUS as the vanguard of people and national interest.

Is there is point asking questions which will not only embarrass (I doubt ) the Bhotu politician the agent of the Multinational Oil Companies in Bangladesh ?????????????????????? No point ?????

Friends, this  erudite BAL activists who has not only eaten fruits "Gacher Ta ebong nicher tao"   has helped then Govt. to frame and conclude PSC(Productiona Sharing Contracts) for OIL and GAS and intentinally keeping serious loopholes to benefit the suckers and reap some benifit by the  "BHOTU Politician".

This Hodol Kuth Kuth and Kachim politician  always remained behind the seen after any serious happening which caused havoc to the budding nation.

I am sure that he has no answer like other BAL activists against the questions raised by the Mr. Jaglul since they (BAL) never ever believed in peoples interest they claimed to have been shedding blood for ages ?????
 

This Bhotu politicians is shameless like the gigolo that even after being beaten and dragged out of BAL's office  and being commented in filthy,insulting,un-parliamentary language by the only and the only "Jono Netri  Bhotu's Hasi Bhatijhee he is still wondering( ghur ghur) around the vicinity of his Bhatijhee that if by mercy again pickep up and be close to power to serve the sicvker not the nation ?????????????????????

So, friends just drop this Bhotu from the mind as he is not only obsolate but redundent as well.


Faruque Alamgir


2008/9/13 Isha Khan <bd_mailer@yahoo.com>

Support for an Amar Desh Report

 
By Zoglul Husain, UK

London 11 September 2008. The Daily Star reported on 10 September 2008, 'A legal notice has been sent to the editor, publisher and a reporter of the daily Amar Desh for publishing a false, malicious and defamatory report about The Daily Star, Prothom Alo and Transcom Group'. And 'following the publication of a false, malicious and defamatory piece by Amar Desh on 3rd September 2008 on the front page, their clients had sent a rejoinder on the same date demanding the withdrawal of the report, unconditional public apology and printing the full rejoinder.' Dr Kamal Hossain and Associates served the notice on behalf of the group.

As a member of the public, I express my full support to Amar Desh for the report referred to, which I believe has been published in the interest of the public. The overriding and salient feature here is the public interest, and not the intimidation of legal wrangling by Dr Kamal Hossain. In my opinion, Amar Desh has every right to publish the report with the question in the report header, as they did, to attract any response about the validity or invalidity of the report.

For, the report has already been published in many international electronic newspapers and also in a printed newspaper in Assam, and it has already been read by many Bangladeshis as well as foreigners. An Indian journalist, who claims to be specialising in Bangladesh, dished out the report to various media, that ULFA has made an investment in the Daily Star-Prothom Alo group. The report on ULFA's investment in Bangladesh is certainly a matter of public interest, as it is internationally very sensitive, and the informed circle as well as the public of Bangladesh cannot for obvious reasons afford to shut their eyes to it.

Therefore, Amar Desh has done the right thing by bringing it to the public domain in the interest of the public, with a question about whether it is true. They have also printed the rejoinder from the Daily Star group, may be an abridged version, but a rejoinder all the same. The matter should have rested peacefully there, until and unless someone would produce evidence to prove or disprove the report, partly or wholly. But to try to gag a newspaper by another newspaper is not the right newsperson spirit. Baksal government gagged all the newspapers in 1975 except for the subservient or the compliant four. That did not save the government from its disastrous downfall within six months. The need for upholding public interest and the freedom of press cannot be overemphasised. Public interest must be in the core of journalism, of politics, of justice.

How many times did India accuse Bangladesh of harbouring large numbers of ULFA camps in Bangladesh, the reports of which being splashed in Bangladesh media? How many times has Dr Kamal Hossain gone to the court over this? How many times did India accuse of Bangladeshi terrorists bombing in various places in India, which again being published in Bangladesh media unhindered? How many times has Dr Kamal Hossain gone to the court over this?

When the former Prime minister Sheikh Hasina told her lawyers at a special judge's court recently that Dr Kamal Hossain had whitened Tk 102 crore of black money, he merely, with the pretence of childlike benign innocence, spoke of his ignorance of arithmetic about how many zeroes were required in one crore. The report was published widely. But did he go to the court against the former Prime minister?

Dr Kamal Hossain was Minister of Law in 1972, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1973 to 1975, and Minister of Petroleum and Minerals from 1974 to 1975.

Where was he in 1971? Jail? Why does he not make a full statement to the questions posed by the journalists, who can investigate his statement? Where was he when Rakkhi Bahini massacred reportedly 30 thousand patriots during his time as a minister? Where was he when the bands of plunderers and armed thugs, who rampaged in Bangladesh between 1972 and 1975, unleashed a reign of terror? Where was he when, in the man-made famine of 1974, reportedly three- to five hundred thousand people perished? Did he resign? Did he go to the court? How many energy companies appointed him as legal adviser? And what did he do about the ruthless huge plunder by the energy companies in Bangladesh? Etc.? Etc.? What credibility has he got when he talks about law and order, and of corruption? Who decides whether a person is Shushil or Kushil?? Do they have to be self-proclaimed???

Dr Kamal Hossain is a political personality. So, the public has a right to question his activities and the credibility of what he says.. Mahfuz Anam is also a media personality and a covert politician. So, the public has a right to examine what he says and what he does. It is not that they don't live in glass houses. They do. And when they throw stones at others, they should expect one or two stones to be hurled back at their own glass houses. The best thing is to make a sober assessment of all points of views and heighten the spirit of upholding the interest of the public at least that is what we the general public would like our journalists to do.

By Zoglul Husain
E Mail :zoglul@hotmail.co.uk


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