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The Indian pressure to access her north-eastern states through Bangladesh, subtly pursued since her birth in 1971, reached peak in recent months. Although India has ostensibly projected expansion of trade and mutual co-operation as the only motive, the corridor is primarily to enhance her defence strategy. The recent armed rebellion in the north-eastern states has soared its importance further. The mountainous contour of the region makes it fit for a long guerrilla warfare. India has already been stranded there in a lengthy war with little gains. Indian stubbornness to chase a safer transit through Bangladesh largely owes to easy susceptibility of her north-eastern logistic conduit to rebel attacks as it trails a narrow mountainous terrain between Bangladesh and Nepal. The presence of China, a potential player of the regional politics, on the very fringes of the troubled spot makes such a lone conduit more vulnerable. The country fought one of her bloodiest war against India for control over the same area in 1962.
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Bangladesh now passes through its most critical period of its history. The country’s economy, culture, politics and even its sovereignty are at stake since the foreign agenda have almost overwhelmed those national issues. The aliens have effectively used this fertile land to rear their most obedient surrogates. The nation is indeed divided two nations: nation of Islam and a nation of anti-Islam. The Muslims forces now stand face to face against these home-grown intellectual and political aliens. Now the stakeholders of the conflicts are not only the people of Bangladesh, among others India now appears to be a major player. Since the conceptualisation of a nationalist Bangladesh, India enjoys a vintage point in its politics. The secular nationalist forces of the country have a long history of collaboration with India to promote communal Hindu hegemony in the sub-continent. Through effective propaganda, they could successfully glorify their servile past and persuade a large part of younger generation to carry on their own legacy. Such spectacular success of the pro-Indians owes to heavy Indian investment in projects in Bangladesh that are primarily aimed at intellectual and cultural conversion of the young generation.
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Sins or misdeeds always precipitate a Divine curse. Such a belief is an indispensable element of Islamic faith. The greatest misdeed of the ruling Awami League is its purposive misrule. It is the nurture of the wicked and punishing the innocent. The published reports in the main stream media show that the unprecedented increase in crime owes to inaction of the prosecution, and in many cases encouragement of the political hooligans and party terrorists. Whenever Awami League - the present ruling party - ascended to the power showed unprecedented strength in spreading lawlessness, corruption and other elements of despotism, and not in implementing the rule of law. The party turned the state-craft into an instrument of repression. Such state-sponsored misdeeds always bring wrath from the Almighty Allah. Awami League indeed showed talent in ushering that; whenever the party was in power, whatever short period it may be, jeopardized the country's peace and tranquility. During its rule in 1954, it turned the parliament a combat ground, and the deputy speaker - Mr. Shahed Ali - became a casualty of such blatant state terrorism.
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Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal, MBBS, MPH*, Dr Abdullahel Hadi, MS** Dr A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury, Ph.D***
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This study investigated some aspects of the sustainability of the immunization programme by exploring the association between immunization coverage and price affordability with some selected socioeconomic variables in rural Bangladesh. It was conducted in 75 villages in 10 districts. Eligible interviewees were 1145 resident mothers having a child of age 12 to 23 months. Both paternal and maternal education were found to have a significant influence on immunization. There was no significant association between immunization coverage and the child’s sex, household's cultivable land, labour sale and NGO involvement. Exposure to media like radio increases predictability of immunization by about two folds. Most people wish to pay none or minimal user fee; therefore restrict the financial sustainability of the programme on its own. An increase in parental education enhances the willingness to pay user fees. (Read More)
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Exploitation, subjugation and physical annihilation against weaker nations are not the only crimes of the European colonialists. In Islamic countries, they went further to rock their moral fabrics that were built through centuries. Institutionalised practice of such immorality in the form of prostitution is such an immoral colonial legacy in Bangladesh. They nurtured and sponsored such a vice as a profession. These colonialists descended on that Muslim land from a different social, cultural and moral milieu. Secularisation left them bereft of moral values that could prevent them from institutionalisation of such a sin. Their hedonist lust took them to promiscuity, homosexuality, prostitution and other perversions that were unknown at least in the public arena. These were indeed severely punishable offence in any Muslim land. Unfettered sex was not a crime in their value system, but in Bangladesh they did not have institutional premise to put that in practice. Hence, they launched prostitution not only as a trade, but also an institution.
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