Bangladesh upholds life sentence for prominent JI member.

[Sine Nomine]

What's your problem with AL? It is Bangladesh's internal matter

Btw even Kim Jong Un is better than Nawaz, Zardari, Musharraf and co.

Btw even Kim Jong Un is better than Nawaz, Zardari, Musharraf and co.

Wish i could have gifted these all to BD or Bay of Bengal

 

[Mage]

Not really. I'm rather pleased with AL govt.

Wish i could have gifted these all to BD or Bay of Bengal

Nah...you guys can keep them. Good fit for Pakistan.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

we don't desire any favour from BD.But the truth is mate,BD is going to be single party state and may be cult following like North Korea.

We don't have any capability to do any favor to Pakistan.What I mean was that BNP govt. used to have good relation with Pakistan.

No single party state.2014 election was an unusual one due to stupidity of BNP.They should not have boycotted that election.Other than boycotting by BNP, there was no other fault in that election.BNP boycotted that election with a demand which no other democratic country follow.Now they are biting their hands.It is allmost certain that in 2019 election,BNP will participate in general election.They may loose or win.But if Awami League try to influence that election by illegal means,then people will take to the street.Our people will certainly not allow anyone to linger on power by illegal means.We don't think AL will do anything like that.Small scale irregularity possible,but large scale vote rigging on a nationwide isn't possible in current Bangladesh.So if BNP can appeal to the people,it have a chance.But I think,AL don't need to do anything illegal to win the next election.Most of the people still have more confidence with AL than BNP. BNP is a party of stupidity,incompetence,corruption and questionable alliance.

 

[Nabil365]

Is what we should do about every other guy, super power BD is punishing but I am happy with that, BD judiciary has been turned into a joke. If a sane person with basic knowledge of Judicial proceedings will witness these trials he will be rolling over the floor due to laughter.


we don't desire any favour from BD.But the truth is mate,BD is going to be single party state and may be cult following like North Korea.

Yep north korea.Well BD is in friendly relationship with both China, Japan, Nepal, Bhutan and India.
As for Pakistan its just sad, they brought trouble to India then Bangladesh and then Afghanistan.Always trying to play that religious guy but in the inside full of sins.

 

[Sine Nomine]

We don't have any capability to do any favor to Pakistan.What I mean was that BNP govt. used to have good relation with Pakistan.

I am in favor of ending all relations with each other,what we have to gain from these foreign relations.It's better to end diplomatic missions and save money.

No single party state.2014 election was an unusual one due to stupidity of BNP.They should not have boycotted that election.Other than boycotting by BNP, there was no other fault in that election.BNP boycotted that election with a demand which no other democratic country follow.Now they are biting their hands.It is allmost certain that in 2019 election,BNP will participate in general election.They may loose or win.But if Awami League try to influence that election by illegal means,then people will take to the street.Our people will certainly not allow anyone to linger on power by illegal means.We don't think AL will do anything like that.Small scale irregularity possible,but large scale vote rigging on a nationwide isn't possible in current Bangladesh.So if BNP can appeal to the people,it have a chance.But I think,AL don't need to do anything illegal to win the next election.Most of the people still have more confidence with AL than BNP. BNP is a party of stupidity,incompetence,corruption and questionable alliance.

Will not comment,citing the fact it's a single party state,no party is going to contest an election under a Government which is also running in election.

As for Pakistan its just sad, they brought trouble to India then Bangladesh and then Afghanistan.

India is our enemy and we have disputes with them.Bangladesh we gave a fu@k about a satellite state of India.
Afghanistan we share a lot and an Hindian and Bdeshi has no iota about it.

 

[Mage]

India is our enemy and we have disputes with them.

Maybe try to solve disputes with dialogue? Having an enemy is not a mandatory thing.

Bangladesh we gave a fu@k about a satellite state of India.

Another useless baseless claim. Want me to get stated about drone strikes?

Afghanistan we share a lot and an Hindian and Bdeshi has no iota about it.

That's why you guys talk sh!t about Afghanistan and Afghans in every Afghanistan related threads. Got it. So much for having a lot in common.

 

[Sine Nomine]

Maybe try to solve disputes with dialogue? Having an enemy is not a mandatory thing.

Dialogue with whom,a country who's masses have started to think being of super power and who's forces are involved in systematic killing of people's in occupied region.

Another useless baseless claim. Want me to get stated about drone strikes?

Well on everyone occasion of Indo-BD PM meetings you silent rhetoric against Pakistan are enough to tell that,always Dhaka is hell bent on pleasing Delhi when it comes to Pakistan.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

I am in favor of ending all relations with each other,what we have to gain from these foreign relations.It's better to end diplomatic missions and save money.

No relation is worthless.There is a news today,Bangladesh is establishing diplomatic relation with San Marino. A microstate in Europe with barely 33 thousand people.Obviously there are some benefit with establishing diplomatic relation with San Marino,otherwise why BD will be eager to do that when that microstate is half the world away?

Bangladesh and Pakistan may not share direct border,but the impact of presence is felt as both are within the same region in south Asia.You may not know,Bangladesh is the 8th largest destination of Pakistani export.What will be the fate of this vibrant trade if all relation is cutoff? Or what about the many Pakistani investors who have invested their capital in BD? Awami League said ,diplomatic relation with Pakistan will continue despite all the provocation from Pakistan.This is the way to do things.

 

[Banglar Bir]

Turkey goes to bat for executed Jamaat leaders again

• Probir Kumar Sarker
• Published at 03:09 PM May 17, 2017
• Last updated at 04:22 PM May 17, 2017

A screenshot of the news published in TRT on May 1
The report also lists police brutality, arbitrary arrests, silencing the opposition and enforced disappearances as being among the present government’s offences
TRT World – the news website of Turkey’s national broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation – published a report on May 1 terming Bangladesh a “rogue state,” and criticising the government for trying and executing war criminals linked to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and arrests of its supporters.

The report titled “Bangladesh’s rogue state: 10 things to know” says the International Crimes Tribunal in Bangladesh is not international enough and accuses the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, of using the tribunal for political gains.

The report also lists police brutality, arbitrary arrests, silencing the opposition and enforced disappearances as being among the present government’s offences. It quotes the daughter of executed war criminal Mir Quasem Ali, Sumaiya Rabeya, to claim that women are raped in the custody of Bangladesh police.

The Bangladesh government has not given any official reaction to the Turkish government’s concerns portrayed in the report, which includes condemnations by sons and daughters of executed war criminals.

The report was published ahead of the apex court’s hearing on the government’s appeal against the life sentence to war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee – the last remaining influential leader of Jamaat.

The Appellate Division upheld its previous judgement (imprisonment till death), also rejecting Sayedee’s petition seeking acquittal.

In the near future, the apex court is likely to begin appeal hearing in the cases of two other senior Jamaat leaders – ATM Azhar and AKM Yusuf. Jamaat’s petition against the cancellation of its party registration is also pending with the top court.

While the Bangladesh government continues to execute the verdicts of the war crimes tribunals, children of the top war criminals linked to Jamaat-e-Islami and its local leaders are campaigning against the trial process at home and abroad – thanks to pro-Islamist governments in Turkey and Pakistan.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the government of Newaz Sharif in Pakistan have expressed concerns over the trials on several occasions since 2010, branding them as their martyrs, and blaming the ruling Awami League for political vengeance to wipe out its opposition.

The Pakistan government has condemned all the executions and war crimes verdicts calling the Jamaat leaders patriots of Pakistan. Its lawmakers proposed resolutions against the executions in parliament while the Foreign Ministry summoned Bangladesh’s high commissioner in Islamabad in protest.

Turkey condemned the execution of Jamaat’s leader Mir Quasem Ali in September last year, when, according to government officials of Bangladesh and Turkey, the bilateral relations had improved after a earlier breakdown.

The stance of Turkey and Pakistan has apparently increased confidence among the supporters of Jamaat and its radical student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir at a time when most of the top Jamaat leaders have been hanged or imprisoned by the International Crimes Tribunal formed in 2010.

Even though Jamaat has got a new leadership after the execution of Motiur Rahman Nizami last year, its political activities have remained limited to surprise processions, clandestine meetings on regrouping the grassroots and social media campaigns on contemporary issues linked to religion.

Leading opposition BNP has refused to sever ties with Jamaat and remains mum over the judgements against Jamaat leaders and their executions.

The Bangladesh wing of Pakistan-based Jamaat has close ties to the Turkish ruling party – Justice and Development Party, abbreviated JDP or AK in English. Egypt’s Brotherhood, Turkish AK Party, and Jamaat in Bangladesh and Pakistan want to establish Islamic rule in their own countries, according to the BBC.

Also Read: Govt protests Turkey’s reaction over Quasem’s execution

Turkey’s concerns for Jamaat
Erdogan issued a statement on the eve of Nizami’s execution in May last year, while demonstrators in Ankara and Istanbul protested against the hanging of the war criminal. Turkey also recalled its ambassador in Dhaka after Nizami was hanged.

“I condemn the mentality that sentences to death a mujahid, who is over the age of 70 and who we believe has no earthly sin. I think that such proliferation of hatred there, and the ordering of such death sentences despite our repeated initiatives, is neither fair governance nor a democratic mentality,” Erdogan said about Nizami.

He also lashed out at Europe for not speaking out against the execution. “Weren’t you against executions? There was no noise [from the EU] because the person who was executed was a Muslim.”

In September last year, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry floated a press release to protest the hanging of top Jamaat financier Mir Quasem Ali for war crimes.

Turkey also reacted strongly after the execution of convicted Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla in December 2013. Erdogan himself telephoned Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to stop the execution.

After the hanging, Erdogan warned that history would not forgive Bangladesh while his deputy Bekir Bozdag said that justice, human rights and the law had been trampled.

Also Read Nizami execution: Turkey withdraws Bangladesh ambassador

In December 2012, then Turkish president Abdullah Gul wrote to his Bangladeshi counterpart Zillur Rahman, calling on him not to put former Jamaat ameer Ghulam Azam to death if he was found guilty.

Sudden improvement, sudden fall
Despite tension over the war crimes trials, Bangladesh had an export volume of $720 million with Turkey in fiscal 2015 against the import of $158.90m.

“Bilateral trade will exceed $2 billion within short time if cooperation is intensified,” Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said after a meeting with Turkish Ambassador to Bangladesh Devrim Ozturk in September last year.

Lauding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership, Ozturk said Bangladesh was moving ahead with her dynamic leadership and that Turkey would be beside Bangladesh in this journey.

Ozturk was sent back to Dhaka on August 12 last year, three months after Turkey called back the ambassador to Ankara.

After his return, Ozturk at a press briefing condemned the brutal murder of Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and expressed his gratitude to Hasina for her government’s support of the Turkish democracy during the July 15 attempted coup.

He said: “Bangladesh had helped Turkey by expressing its support to Erdogan’s government after the failed coup attempt.”

At another meeting with Bangladesh Ambassador in Ankara M Allama Siddiki held in November last year, Turkish Minister of National Education Ismet Yilmaz described the bilateral relation as warm and traditional.

http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/05/17/63850/

 

[Nabil365]

I am in favor of ending all relations with each other,what we have to gain from these foreign relations.It's better to end diplomatic missions and save money.

Will not comment,citing the fact it's a single party state,no party is going to contest an election under a Government which is also running in election.

India is our enemy and we have disputes with them.Bangladesh we gave a fu@k about a satellite state of India.
Afghanistan we share a lot and an Hindian and Bdeshi has no iota about it.

Yeah we need India for our waters.
We are not barbarians and backstabber like you

I am in favor of ending all relations with each other,what we have to gain from these foreign relations.It's better to end diplomatic missions and save money.

Will not comment,citing the fact it's a single party state,no party is going to contest an election under a Government which is also running in election.

India is our enemy and we have disputes with them.Bangladesh we gave a fu@k about a satellite state of India.
Afghanistan we share a lot and an Hindian and Bdeshi has no iota about it.

We need both India and China.We are not backstabbers and barbaric enough to wage wars.

 

[T-Rex]

Countering extreme ideology with another one is not a good idea.What we need is a secular,democratic and patriotic Bangladeshi ideology/narrative which will uphold our interest above all the partisan/foreign backer's interest.Time has come for Awami League to distance itself from India.They should take note of Indian attitude where India doesn't conduct it's relation with BD with 1971 friendship in mind.Unfortunately some top Awami league leader still see India through the 1971 prism.Which is not very wise.BNP also need to cut it's tendency of favoring Pakistan or Jamat.

Secularism and democracy don't go well together in Muslim countries like BD where secularism is imposed upon the majority by secular despots through rigged elections.

 

[Mage]

Secularism and democracy don't go well together in Muslim countries like BD where secularism is imposed upon the majority by secular despots through rigged elections.

Secularism won't work. We better go with Talibanism

 

[Banglar Bir]

Secularism won't work. We better go with Talibanism

Moderate Muslim Majority Democratic State, is the answer.

 

[Mage]

Moderate Muslim Majority Democratic State, is the answer.

Are we not that already? At least officially?

 

[Banglar Bir]

NOPE, we were before, Awami League unilaterally changed the constitution incorporating SECULARISM, to please whom? Does this require elaboration?.