Friday, October 29, 2004India: Piracy and Maritime Terrorism The main use of their maritime capabilities by the terrorist elements of this region has till now been for logistic purposes for transporting arms and ammunition and explosives, men and narcotics for facilitating land-based terrorist operations. Nexus with trans-national mafia groups like the one headed by Pakistan-based Dawood Ibrahim has placed at their disposal maritime facilities which could be used and are being used for the clandestine movement of trained men and material required for land-based terrorist operations in other countries. Evidence of such nexus could be seen from Pakistan as well as Bangladesh. If there is any major act of maritime terrorism of a tactical nature against their perceived adversaries or of a strategic nature to disrupt the regional trade and economy staged by them in the South and the South-East Asian region , there is a strong possibility of its having originated from either Pakistan or Bangladesh. http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/india-piracy-and-maritime-terrorism.html India: Big Talking with "small" neighbours Of late there are unmistakable signals that Bangladesh too is being chased by the evil shadow of the terror. Hopefully it would realise soon that it does not pay to act as big brother to those who know only the language of the gun. With this background in view, it is to the collective benefit of all these countries that they join hands to wipe out terrorism not only from their soil but also the entire zone lock, stock and barrel. Our neighbouring countries would do well to take note of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s offer to carry out ‘joint or coordinated action’ against Indian insurgent groups active anywhere in the region. The proposal serves a dual purpose. Undoubtedly it takes care of India’s immediate interests. At the same time it rids the other countries of any moral dilemma that they may face on account of having become by intent or otherwise a safe refuge for those itching to destroy peace and normalcy in this land. http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/india-big-talking-with-small.html Diaspora: When you're in love with a Bengali women It wasn’t my first visit to New York, but it was my first trip into Queens for the tour of the neighborhood and inevitable parental meeting. My girlfriend was driving, for ease of navigation, and we finally arrived in front of her house after a 45 minute journey passing through the Holland Tunnel. Upon arriving, her house was nothing like I had pictured. Regardless of preconceived notions, her face was beaming with anticipation, nervousness, and excitement for the journey that we were about to embark on. This journey would place me as the only white person inside the house an outsider making a desperate attempt to act natural in this completely unnatural environment http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/diaspora-when-youre-in-love-with.html Bangladesh: Border on the Brink The loose propaganda network of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of the government of India itself has been relentlessly suggesting in a number of newspaper and Internet publications of late that the IM (DT) Act of 1983 allows an illegal immigrant to be treated as a foreigner as defined by the Foreigners Act of 1946, and facilitates immigration rather than prevents it, making it impossible to detect and deport illegal immigrants. The result is that, according to these propagandists, the Assam elite embraces Bangladeshi infiltrators who adopt Assamese as their mother tongue, and the Congress party remains the beneficiary of the vote bank of rehabilitated immigrants. Now Assam is under threat of Muslim Bengalis who are the single largest block of ethnic population in Assam, which intrinsically retains latent separatist tendencies to join Bangladesh. The revolutionary offspring of Assam, the United Liberation Front of Assam, has already joined, along with Minorities United Liberation Front of Assam, an Islamic manch or umbrella organisations of clandestine Islamic groups active in Bangladesh, West Bengal, Assam and Nagaland, and the Arakan state of Myanmar, to establish a trans-national Islamic state with Bangladesh at its core. http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/bangladesh-border-on-brink.html Bangladesh: Overview of the security situation The overall situation, vis-a-vis law and order in the country, awaits substantive attention of government agencies. The measures taken so far have produced some fruit. But much more rigorous enduring actions are needed to arrest and take legal action against the underground elements. People remain in an environment of uncertainty for life and living.While on the subject, it may be noted that law-enforcing agencies have yet to contain the possession and use of arms by criminals and members of underground parties. Some teams of law-enforcing agencies had to fight with such criminals and party-members. Some members of the law-enforcing agencies have either been killed or injured in the course of their investigation. People at large only wonder about the realities in the country. http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/bangladesh-overview-of-security.html Pakistan: "Jaishul Muslameen" - a new Taliban off-shoot The group, calling itself the Army of Muslims, contacted an Islamabad-based correspondent from the Arabic Al-Jazeera satellite station less than four hours after the afternoon abduction to claim responsibility. "Fighters from the Army of Muslims have kidnapped the three UN workers," said the group's commander, Syed Akbar Agha, without making any demands.The Pakistani religious leader said Mullah Omar, the leader of the hardline Islamic Taliban group who has been on the run since US-led forces overthrew his regime in late 2001, had established the Army of Muslims. "Jaishul Muslameen (Army of Muslims) is the new military wing of the Taliban. It is headed by Mullah Mohammad Omar," said the leader, who had close links with the ousted regime. http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/pakistan-jaishul-muslameen-new-taliban.html Global Jihad: Did the US really let bin Laden get away? As part of his argument that President George W. Bush has "failed miserably" to make America "safer at home and more respected in the world," Mr. Kerry has repeatedly asserted that Mr. Bush "took his eye off the ball of Osama bin Laden" in Afghanistan to attack Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. As evidence for this charge, Kerry says US forces could have killed or captured bin Laden when they had him trapped in the mountains of Tora Bora in 2001, but bungled the operation because they did not have enough troops on the ground and "outsourced" the job to Afghan warlords. http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/global-jihad-did-us-really-let-bin.html Pakistan: Musharraf calls the bluff Unreported by the international media, the Valley of Kashmir has seen an ethnic and cultural genocide that has resulted in the fleeing from the valley of almost all the Hindu families who have been living there since human habitation was first recorded. Over nine dozen temples that had served the Hindu population have been destroyed, with some used as building material and others as urinals. Thus far, none of the many "human rights" busybodies across the world have bothered to even notice such a development. http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/pakistan-musharraf-calls-bluff.html Thursday, October 28, 2004 India: Analysis - The new Myanmar Policy That was a quarter of century too long for analysts and leaders in India who have quietly steered a revamping of India’s policy towards its neighbors from a somewhat preachy and moralistic one advocating democratic values to one that takes in hard realities both domestic and external. For example, when Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf took over in a military coup five years ago New Delhi refused to deal with a military dictator but within the space of two years got around to inviting him over for a summit, as realization dawned that the army was a fairly permanent feature of India’s biggest neighbor. http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/india-analysis-new-myanmar-policy.html India: Return of Advani Advani became the deputy prime minister in the wake of the Gujarat pogrom of 2002, when the party was seriously considering repeating Gujarat in other states as an election strategy. He has become the de jure BJP president for the third time after the second major electoral debacle in a year (in Maharaashtra). If the party returns to its roots after every such rebuff, it becomes doubly rabid in its reaction to a double defeat. Until then, Advani, the ‘ideologue’ and others of the parivar will make do with other issues. Like the ‘demographic invasion’ from Bangladesh, combined with the ‘conspiracy’ of India’s own minorities to breed so fast as to deprive the country and the BJP of a Hindu majority within a few centuries. http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/india-return-of-advani.html Bangladesh: TI Corruption Index - A Further Analysis It is natural to conclude that the media in Bangladesh has a big responsibility to bear in the findings of the TI corruption report of 2004 where Bangladesh for the fourth time in a row has been designated the most corrupt nation in the world. It should be obvious where this perception comes from - that ordinary Bangladeshis who read New Delhi leaning newspapers like The Daily Star, Prothom Alo and Dainik Janakantha or attend seminars organized by New Delhi inspired entities like the Centre for Policy Dialogue or listen to New Delhi influenced politicians like Sheikh Hasina or Dr. Kamal Hossain or parties expounding a New Delhi agenda like the JSD or Workers Party will eventually become anti-Bangladeshi and feel a sense of hopelessness and despair for the nation. http://dakbangla.blogspot.com/2004/10/bangladesh-ti-corruption-index-further.html Bangladesh: Terrorism compared to other security threats And, in an already food deficit country like ours, over 3 million acres of prime arable land producing 16 percent of our rice would cease to exist, and the cost to fish cultivation as well as the cost of abetment is likely to be in billions of dollars. 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