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Sherman cancels Khaleda meet

Is there a way BNP could enforce a caretaker government without hurting the national economy? Thats the million dollar question. Elections under this regime is unacceptable in any scenerio and it seems like BNP is extremely ineffective when it comes to protests and strikes and end up looking stupid and confused.
Anyways, given the situation, I am guessing a military coup is almost guaranteed, or I'm guessing 5 more years of AL rule. I don't think BNP will go to the election booth unless caretaker govt is formed(rightly so) and I don't see any other political party having a slight chance.
 
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Weather we choose to accept or not some degree of improvement did happened in last 20 years under these so called democratic (diabolical?) 2 parties. But all that will be ruined if army so much as glance towards the political power field.
I don't understand why do we have such short memory? Why BNP needs to do JALAO PORAO agenda at all?what happened when AL was doing the same s.h.I. t in 96? Alone AL can not run for election. Like BNP in 96 they will eventually bow to justice. No?or is it the mass killing that BNP is afraid of?why? Are their hands clean? I have whitenessed countless indoor /close door secret meeting between AL and BNP in my own house from 1981. Did not see my own father for three years because Ershad got wind of it.it is still on ,in so many small hotels inside gulshan.they're not interested in good of BD.they're here to screw us to eternity.
 
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I'm sorry, but is there an Afghanistan next door? How is the issue of TICFA and GSA even remotely related to the Taliban? Is that even supposed to make any sense?

The US will try to secure its interests in Bangladesh, and nothing more.

USA wants Bangladeshi army in Afghanistan and Iraq, TICFA and GSA is a start of the process. Taliban wasn't there when USA started friendship with Pakistan, now both Pakistan and Afghanistan swarming with Taliban.
 
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Weather we choose to accept or not some degree of improvement did happened in last 20 years under these so called democratic (diabolical?) 2 parties. But all that will be ruined if army so much as glance towards the political power field.
I don't understand why do we have such short memory? Why BNP needs to do JALAO PORAO agenda at all?what happened when AL was doing the same s.h.I. t in 96? Alone AL can not run for election. Like BNP in 96 they will eventually bow to justice. No?or is it the mass killing that BNP is afraid of?why? Are their hands clean? I have whitenessed countless indoor /close door secret meeting between AL and BNP in my own house from 1981. Did not see my own father for three years because Ershad got wind of it.it is still on ,in so many small hotels inside gulshan.they're not interested in good of BD.they're here to screw us to eternity.

We are currently following the British parliamentary system which may be good for British people but not for us. Because of the system, honest and qualified people can't be elected because they gonna need political party and win majority of the sit for it. If we have USA's Congress system where head of the state directly elected by the people, it will ensures that educated and qualified person will have a chance to win.
 
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As if US don't know what's going on in this country? Here this sherman is very much openly supporting awami facism. Did they say a word regarding the banning of rallies in the capital, or the media outlets with opposing views shut down. It seems like they still view BD through the delhi prism or may be Delhi made some inroads in managing US. What business does she really have on whether BNP gives hartal or not. 2007 military coup wouldn't have been possible without US backing. Its better for BNP if they don't try to appease these guys. They will eventually side with the winning side regardless of what delhi wants. Though BNP sucks at organizing hartals but what alternatives do they have. BD is not a democratic country with rallies and media outlets banned along with most top tier opp. leaders in Jail.



Really? :rolleyes: They are not busy with any other country? Are U just intentionally being naive or being sarcastic. Either way its a nice joke.

Sorry for being naive, India is a big country but it also have many big problems. I don't think India is capable of doing all the deeds that you guys claim. Yeah, India favors AL over BNP but that doesn't mean everything happens here is done by the RAW.
 
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Sorry for being naive, India is a big country but it also have many big problems. I don't think India is capable of doing all the deeds that you guys claim. Yeah, India favors AL over BNP but that doesn't mean everything happens here is done by the RAW.

I am not sure who you trying to fool here but here is virtual admission in indian newspaper about what india and its RAW doing.

Opening the next door

The occasional write-ups about Nepal in the international press, including India’s, tend to present the picture of a country where the peace process has been efficiently concluded, and the Maoists democratised and mainstreamed — a country well on its way to normalisation.
None of which is quite true. Under the cunning leadership of Pushpa Kamal Dahal (‘Prachanda’), lately wined and dined in New Delhi, the UCPN-Maoist openly cheated on the peace process and derailed the constitution-making. They have sabotaged the judiciary, compromised the police and army, foisted perpetrators of atrocities on the public, and conspired to polarise society in cross-cutting layers, including hill-plain and caste-ethnic.

The Constituent Assembly which died a year ago ended a farce; without discussion as to its failure, preparations are underway for elections to another assembly that would have a run of five full years. With a four-party oligarchy headed by Dahal dictating national affairs, the elections are being planned without addressing the critical issues of proportional representation, distribution of citizenship certificates, size and function of the forthcoming assembly, and so on.

A calibrated attempt is ongoing to weaken the Nepali state and society, even as the democratic parties remain paralysed in the face of Maoist momentum and ‘bideshi dabav’, the preferred euphemism. Meanwhile, the impoverishment that began with the start of the ‘peoples’ war’ in 1996 continues, evident in the thousands of citizens departing the country daily for the Gulf, Malaysia and further afield. The poorest continue to teem across into India, to serve as the underclass.

For long, since the days of BP Koirala in the 1950s, Nepal was ‘protected’ by the friendly contact between the Indian and Nepali freedom-fighter democrats. This is now history, with New Delhi’s Nepal policy ‘outsourced’ into the hands, first of the apparatchiks and now the field agents. With the civilian observers in New Delhi either unaware or uncaring, today there is open involvement of the ‘Indian hand’ in Kathmandu, and what seems suspiciously like an attempt to establish a client regime.

India’s involvement in Kathmandu politics goes back to 1947 and Jawaharlal Nehru, but today there is not even the pretence of decorum. Certainly, the intervention that is ongoing is not in support of human rights and democracy; it seems targeted at due process and accountability.

In May 2011, New Delhi pushed for the formation of the Maoist-Madhebadi coalition led by Baburam Bhattarai, on the back of an anti-people agreement that included pardon for perpetrators. India then got enmeshed in defining Nepal’s federalism, supporting the idea of a buffer province 500 miles by 20 miles that would economically devastate the plains-based Madhesi and other citizenry of Nepal. The unaccountable interlocutors even sought to puncture transitional justice procedures for conflict-era human rights abuse by the security forces and the Maoists.

In mid-March, ‘overwhelming force’ was used to demolish the opposition to the appointment of the sitting chief justice Khil Raj Regmi as head-of-government — something expressly prohibited by the Interim Constitution. In early May, Indian agents camped out in Kathmandu to push through the appointment of a royalist ex-bureaucrat certified as corrupt by the anti-graft national commission, to head the self-same commission.

If one were to search for answers as to this astounding level of micro-management of a friendly South Asian neighbour, they would be found in: a) the inability of Nepal’s senior-most politicians to stand tall: Messrs. Koirala, Khanal, Deuba, Oli, et al; b) the inattention of New Delhi’s civil society to the goings-on; and, c) the enthusiasm of the ‘agencies’ for Nepal as a playing field for experimentation and skullduggery.

No one would deny that India has legitimate interests in Nepal. The uniquely open border can be (and has been) misused by third-country infiltrators and by smugglers. Besides its security concerns, India eyes the natural resources of the Central Himalaya (hydropower and, especially, stored water from high dams), access to the Nepali market, and the possibilities of economic synergies with the adjacent Ganga plains. There is exasperation that the consolidation of democracy has not happened in order to push these and other agendas.

The first thing would be for New Delhi to consider its own role in the non-consolidation of Nepali democracy in the decades past. Meanwhile, the thought that interventionism would further the defined Indian interests indicates a failure of intelligence and analysis. Policy-makers in New Delhi may want to study whether the ongoing Nepal adventure can deliver what is sought in terms of national security, natural resources and market.

If the national level politicians are too preoccupied to pay attention, at the very least Indian civil society interested in democracy, social justice, human rights, accountability and downright decency — may want to take a look. India’s Nepal policy must be debated in New Delhi — there is no reason why it should be considered taboo.

Kanak Mani Dixit is the publisher of the Nepali fortnightly news magazine Himal Khabarpatrika The views expressed by the author are personal.

Opening the next door - Hindustan Times


And here is just a sample from Bangladesh

India and Bangladesh - Embraceable you

NOT much noticed by outsiders, long-troubled ties between two neighbours sharing a long border have taken a substantial lurch for the better. Ever since 2008, when the Awami League, helped by bags of Indian cash and advice, triumphed in general elections in Bangladesh, relations with India have blossomed.

India and Bangladesh: Embraceable you | The Economist
 
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I am not sure who you trying to fool here but here is virtual admission in indian newspaper about what india and its RAW doing.

Opening the next door

The occasional write-ups about Nepal in the international press, including India’s, tend to present the picture of a country where the peace process has been efficiently concluded, and the Maoists democratised and mainstreamed — a country well on its way to normalisation.
None of which is quite true. Under the cunning leadership of Pushpa Kamal Dahal (‘Prachanda’), lately wined and dined in New Delhi, the UCPN-Maoist openly cheated on the peace process and derailed the constitution-making. They have sabotaged the judiciary, compromised the police and army, foisted perpetrators of atrocities on the public, and conspired to polarise society in cross-cutting layers, including hill-plain and caste-ethnic.

The Constituent Assembly which died a year ago ended a farce; without discussion as to its failure, preparations are underway for elections to another assembly that would have a run of five full years. With a four-party oligarchy headed by Dahal dictating national affairs, the elections are being planned without addressing the critical issues of proportional representation, distribution of citizenship certificates, size and function of the forthcoming assembly, and so on.

A calibrated attempt is ongoing to weaken the Nepali state and society, even as the democratic parties remain paralysed in the face of Maoist momentum and ‘bideshi dabav’, the preferred euphemism. Meanwhile, the impoverishment that began with the start of the ‘peoples’ war’ in 1996 continues, evident in the thousands of citizens departing the country daily for the Gulf, Malaysia and further afield. The poorest continue to teem across into India, to serve as the underclass.

For long, since the days of BP Koirala in the 1950s, Nepal was ‘protected’ by the friendly contact between the Indian and Nepali freedom-fighter democrats. This is now history, with New Delhi’s Nepal policy ‘outsourced’ into the hands, first of the apparatchiks and now the field agents. With the civilian observers in New Delhi either unaware or uncaring, today there is open involvement of the ‘Indian hand’ in Kathmandu, and what seems suspiciously like an attempt to establish a client regime.

India’s involvement in Kathmandu politics goes back to 1947 and Jawaharlal Nehru, but today there is not even the pretence of decorum. Certainly, the intervention that is ongoing is not in support of human rights and democracy; it seems targeted at due process and accountability.

In May 2011, New Delhi pushed for the formation of the Maoist-Madhebadi coalition led by Baburam Bhattarai, on the back of an anti-people agreement that included pardon for perpetrators. India then got enmeshed in defining Nepal’s federalism, supporting the idea of a buffer province 500 miles by 20 miles that would economically devastate the plains-based Madhesi and other citizenry of Nepal. The unaccountable interlocutors even sought to puncture transitional justice procedures for conflict-era human rights abuse by the security forces and the Maoists.

In mid-March, ‘overwhelming force’ was used to demolish the opposition to the appointment of the sitting chief justice Khil Raj Regmi as head-of-government — something expressly prohibited by the Interim Constitution. In early May, Indian agents camped out in Kathmandu to push through the appointment of a royalist ex-bureaucrat certified as corrupt by the anti-graft national commission, to head the self-same commission.

If one were to search for answers as to this astounding level of micro-management of a friendly South Asian neighbour, they would be found in: a) the inability of Nepal’s senior-most politicians to stand tall: Messrs. Koirala, Khanal, Deuba, Oli, et al; b) the inattention of New Delhi’s civil society to the goings-on; and, c) the enthusiasm of the ‘agencies’ for Nepal as a playing field for experimentation and skullduggery.

No one would deny that India has legitimate interests in Nepal. The uniquely open border can be (and has been) misused by third-country infiltrators and by smugglers. Besides its security concerns, India eyes the natural resources of the Central Himalaya (hydropower and, especially, stored water from high dams), access to the Nepali market, and the possibilities of economic synergies with the adjacent Ganga plains. There is exasperation that the consolidation of democracy has not happened in order to push these and other agendas.

The first thing would be for New Delhi to consider its own role in the non-consolidation of Nepali democracy in the decades past. Meanwhile, the thought that interventionism would further the defined Indian interests indicates a failure of intelligence and analysis. Policy-makers in New Delhi may want to study whether the ongoing Nepal adventure can deliver what is sought in terms of national security, natural resources and market.

If the national level politicians are too preoccupied to pay attention, at the very least Indian civil society interested in democracy, social justice, human rights, accountability and downright decency — may want to take a look. India’s Nepal policy must be debated in New Delhi — there is no reason why it should be considered taboo.

Kanak Mani Dixit is the publisher of the Nepali fortnightly news magazine Himal Khabarpatrika The views expressed by the author are personal.

Opening the next door - Hindustan Times


And here is just a sample from Bangladesh

What i meant was you give India too much credit.
 
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What i meant was you give India too much credit.

NO I am not I have posted detail evidance of level of RAW interference. Your type of statement and mentality only serve pupose of defending indian interference.
 
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NO I am not I have posted detail evidance of level of RAW interference. Your type of statement and mentality only serve pupose of defending indian interference.

I don't have any intention of defending India. Yes India have interest in Bangladesh, but that doesn't mean Bangladesh is swarming with RAW agents. What i am saying is that your a bit paranoid, you see India in everything. Our politician is quite capable of ruining our country by themselves.
 
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I don't have any intention of defending India. Yes India have interest in Bangladesh, but that doesn't mean Bangladesh is swarming with RAW agents. What i am saying is that your a bit paranoid, you see India in everything. Our politician is quite capable of ruining our country by themselves.

"I don't have any intention of defending India" that is biggest lie you could have said because in very next sentence you contradicted yourself and are asking to look the other way on RAW instigated interference. It is NOT about what I see, it is about what evidence on the ground are telling us. But offcourse your type will defend indian interference by saying people are "peranoid" because that is the line of defending india and masking indian interference. Unfortunately it is for your type of people indians get chance to interfere in Bangladesh.
 
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It is NOT about what I see, it is about ehat evidence on the ground are telling us. But offcourse your type will defend indian interference by saying people are "peranoid" because they talks about indin interference.

And what's my kind may be?
 
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