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Saturday, December 3, 2011
সুন্দরবনে রয়েছে ৪শ ৪১টি বাঘ সুন্দরবনে বাঘ সংরক্ষণে দু’দিনব্যাপী প্রশিক্ষণ কর্মশালা-ROYAL BENGAL TIGER
'Tipaimukh a death trap for us'-DR. AKBAR ALI KHAN
Friday, December 2, 2011
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Pakistan Industrial group stresses govt to expedite work on Iran gas pipeline
LAHORE: Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has stressed the government to expedite work on Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline and complete the project without any further delay to overcome the acute gas shortage being faced by the industry.
In a statement issued here on Tuesday, the PIAF Chairman, Engineer Sohail Lashari said that the government should not give any wait the suggestions of the US authorities on Pak-Iran gas pipeline as taking care of national interests is the duty of the government.
He said that due to gas shortage, the industrial process has come to a grinding halt while because of low productions the industrial growth is also fast shrinking.
He said that low job creating phenomenon has taken hostage the entire society which resultantly is giving birth to a number of social issues therefore early completion of this project of national importance.
The PIAF Chairman said that despite being a frontline ally of the United States in its war against terrorism and suffering a huge monetary and colossal loss, drone attacks have become order of the day. And the most recent NATO attack on Pak forces has jolted the very basis of the country’s sovereignty.
Engineer Sohail Lashari said that the government should stop taking dictations and try to implement home grown policies in the larger interests of the country and its people.
He said that the multiple internal and external challenges being faced by the country calls for a wholesome approach and incentives to the private sector that is considered as engine of growth in all the developed economies.
The PIAF Chairman also urged the government to initiate work on Kalabagh Dam so that the masses could get rid of high electricity tariff.
In a statement issued here on Tuesday, the PIAF Chairman, Engineer Sohail Lashari said that the government should not give any wait the suggestions of the US authorities on Pak-Iran gas pipeline as taking care of national interests is the duty of the government.
He said that due to gas shortage, the industrial process has come to a grinding halt while because of low productions the industrial growth is also fast shrinking.
He said that low job creating phenomenon has taken hostage the entire society which resultantly is giving birth to a number of social issues therefore early completion of this project of national importance.
The PIAF Chairman said that despite being a frontline ally of the United States in its war against terrorism and suffering a huge monetary and colossal loss, drone attacks have become order of the day. And the most recent NATO attack on Pak forces has jolted the very basis of the country’s sovereignty.
Engineer Sohail Lashari said that the government should stop taking dictations and try to implement home grown policies in the larger interests of the country and its people.
He said that the multiple internal and external challenges being faced by the country calls for a wholesome approach and incentives to the private sector that is considered as engine of growth in all the developed economies.
The PIAF Chairman also urged the government to initiate work on Kalabagh Dam so that the masses could get rid of high electricity tariff.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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PRESS RELEASE FROM IAPSCC
Sunday, November 27, 2011
The 2012 Election and the Republicans' Foreign Policy
The Republican presidential candidates gathered in South Carolina on Saturday night to dive into a topic they had largely skirted: foreign policy. Their exchanges followed a predictable rhythm: They were long on criticism of President Barack Obama and promises to do better and short on nuance and complexity.
That balance works far better when campaigning than when governing, however. On the rare occasions that they talk to voters about international issues, the GOP candidates offer up a standard indictment of Obama's foreign policy: The president has forsaken Washington's friends, coddled its adversaries, and failed to understand America's exceptional power to do good in the world. If elected, they pledge to deliver a string of foreign policy successes. Iran would buckle to America's will and call off its nuclear program. Pakistan would end its support for terrorist groups and back U.S. policy. U.S. forces would break the Taliban in Afghanistan. Regime change would come to Syria. China would end its predatory trade practices. In short, everything would be perfect.
These promises fly in the face of the conventional wisdom that frames most of the GOP field as isolationist. True, polls show that the number of Americans who believe Washington "should pay less attention to problems overseas and concentrate on problems at home" has grown in recent years. That has not meant, however, that GOP candidates favor disengaging from the world. (There is, of course, the notable exception of Congressman Ron Paul, who on Saturday night made his familiar argument that America's far-flung overseas operations do more to threaten its security than advance it.)
Put simply, GOP candidates have failed to acknowledge the dispersion of economic, political, and even military power resulting from the onward march of globalization.
In fact, most of the GOP presidential candidates are internationalists intent on pursuing an activist foreign policy -- and in that respect, they fall well within the Republican Party's foreign policy tradition of the past half century. This is not to say that the candidates march in lockstep on specific issues; they frequently differ in approach, priority, and tone. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich say that a military strike on Iran should be an "option" to stop its nuclear program; Herman Cain, meanwhile, "would not entertain military opposition." Jon Huntsman wants fewer troops in Afghanistan, because America's "future is not in the Hindu Kush"; Rick Santorum favors continuing the current surge until the "Taliban is a neutered force." Governor Rick Perry proposes cutting off all aid to Pakistan; Congresswoman Michele Bachmann argues that that is a bad idea. Nonetheless, they all see a critical role for active U.S. leadership abroad.
Actually, each GOP candidate shares far more of Obama's worldview than he or she would care to admit. With the exception of climate change -- a topic even the White House seldom mentions these days -- the president and his critics all see the same dangers and threats: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, and the rise of China. The GOP candidates disagree with the president on the tactics of how to advance America's interests in the world, not what those interests are.
Would the GOP strategies have more success in achieving Obama's goals than he has had? They have yet to make a compelling case that they would. Romney is the only candidate to produce a white paper spelling out his foreign policy vision in detail. As such documents go, it is a fine piece of work that soberly acknowledges the array of challenges facing Washington in the coming years. Romney is also the only candidate to assemble what amounts to a shadow National Security Council staff. His advisers have impressive credentials and extensive government experience, many having served previous Republican presidents.
Even so, Romney's approach leaves much to be desired. Its proposals are vague: On the revolts in the Middle East, he calls for the United States "to train all of our soft-power resources on ensuring that the Arab Spring does not fade into a long winter." On the end of the war in South Asia, he argues for a "full review of our transition to the Afghan military," a process that could lead to any outcome in Afghanistan. Rhetoric is easy to produce; workable (much less successful) policies are far more difficult.
To be sure, the Obama administration's own strategy has not solved all the problems it identified upon coming to office -- it has failed to end Iran's nuclear weapons program, whip Pakistan into shape, or force China to revalue its currency. But these outcomes cannot be reduced to ineptitude, however satisfying it may be for opposition politicians to claim. Obama's failures have had much more to do with the fact that U.S. leverage is more limited than the GOP candidates acknowledge. So-called crippling sanctions on Iran, which several of the candidates have called for, would not succeed without the cooperation of China, Russia, and numerous other countries. But such cooperation could be purchased only at a high price, if at all. Washington may not be able to live with Pakistan, but if it wants to succeed in Afghanistan, it cannot live without it, either. The United States can punish China for its trade and currency practices, but Beijing has numerous ways to retaliate. The list goes on.
Put simply, the GOP candidates have failed to acknowledge the dispersion of economic, political, and even military power resulting from the onward march of globalization. The United States is, and will remain, the single most powerful and influential global force for some time. That does not mean, however, that its friends and allies will automatically rally to its leadership, or that its adversaries will melt in the face of a confident assertion of will. Many of today's foreign policy problems cannot be solved through the unilateral application of American power, so figuring out how to generate cooperation is among the greatest strategic challenges the United States faces. And on that point, not a word was uttered on Saturday night.
That may be because Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Huntsman, Perry, Romney, and Santorum are not ready to grapple with such complexity. But it may also be because, simply put, voters these days are not asking for it. Unlike in 2004 or 2008, when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were front and center and the pain of 9/11 was still fresh, next November's election will most likely turn largely on domestic issues. Voters only want to know that a candidate possesses basic foreign policy competence. They will leave the details and complexities to others.
But the fact is that crafting a successful foreign policy should matter to the eight GOP candidates who were on stage in South Carolina on Saturday night -- especially in a world in which the United States is increasingly vulnerable to pressures from rising and rogue states. And it should matter on the stump in the coming months. One of them could be the next president of the United States, and if he or she fails to understand how to navigate an increasingly complicated world, campaign pledges, however earnestly presented, will not withstand even the first foreign crisis, something that will no doubt arrive on day one in office, to be followed inevitably by another.
(Photo: Chris Keane / Courtesy Reuters)
বিএনপির অনেক নেতা আ. লীগে আসতে চাচ্ছে
আওয়ামী লীগ ছাড়লে বিএনপিতে সম্মানজনক পদ দেওয়ার খালেদা জিয়ার ঘোষণার একদিনের মধ্যে আওয়ামী লীগের একজন শীর্ষ নেতা দাবি করেছেন, ওই দলটির অনেক নেতা গোপনে আওয়ামী লীগে যোগ দেওয়ার চেষ্টা করছে।
রোববার রাজধানীতে এক আলোচনা সভায় দলের সবাপতিমণ্ডলীর সদস্য ওবায়দুল কাদের বলেন, “আওয়ামী লীগ ভুলত্র“টির ঊর্ধ্বে নয়, তবে দলে এমন কোনো পাতলা ঈমানের লোক নেই যে কেউ ‘কলা ঝুলিয়ে মুলা দেখালেই’ তারা বিএনপিতে যোগ দিবেন। বরং বিএনপির অনেক শীর্ষ স্থানীয় নেতা আওয়ামী লীগে যোগ দেওয়ার জন্য নিয়মিত যোগাযোগ করছেন।”
বিএনপি চেয়ারপার্সন শনিবার এক জনসভায় আওয়ামী লীগ নেতাকর্মীদের তার দলে যোগ দেওয়ার আহ্বান জানিয়ে বলেন, দলে যোগ দিলে তাদের সম্মানজনক পদ দেওয়া হবে।
খালেদার ওই বক্তব্যের সমালোচনা করে আওয়ামী লীগ নেতা কাদের বলেন, “আপনারা আওয়ামী লীগের সমালোচনা করুন, আপনাদের স্বাগতম। তবে কোনো ধরনের নেতিবাচক অবস্থান নিয়ে জাতিকে বিভ্রান্ত করে গণতন্ত্রকে ধ্বংস করার চেষ্টা করবেন না।”
নব্বইয়ের স্বৈরাচার বিরোধী আন্দোলনে শহীদ ডা. মিলনের অবদানের কথা স্মরণ করে ওবায়দুল কাদের বলেন, “যে গণতন্ত্রের জন্য ডা. মিলনসহ আমাদের দেশের অনেক সন্তান রক্ত দিয়েছে, সে গণতন্ত্র প্রধান বিরোধীদল ছাড়া অপূর্ণ। গণতন্ত্রকে শক্তিশালী করতে হলে সরকারি দল এবং বিরোধী দলকে সংসদে এসে এক সঙ্গে কাজ করতে হবে।”
মুক্তি মিলনায়তনে আওয়ামী শিল্পী গোষ্ঠী আয়োজিত আলোচনা সভায় অন্যদের মধ্যে সংগটনের কেন্দ্রীয় সভাপতি সালাউদ্দিন বাদল, ঢাকা জেলার সভাপতি হুমায়ুন কবির মিজি, মুক্তিযোদ্ধা আব্দুল হাই কানু, কৃষকলীগ সাধারণ সম্পাদক এম এ করিম, ছাত্রলীগের উপদপ্তর সম্পাদক তারেক রায়হান প্রমুখ বক্তব্য রাখেন।
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