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Hasina's statement:
“Our Leader of the Opposition is inviting a country to punish Bangladesh … I leave it to the people to judge whether she can write such an article,” Hasina said in parliament in reply to a supplementary question from Jatiya Party lawmaker Mujibul Haque during the Prime Minister’s question-answer session.
“My question is, being a former Prime Minister how she can write against her country and the countrymen? Doesn’t she believe in the country’s independence and sovereignty?”
The Prime Minister made the observation referring to the opposition leader’s article published recently in the Washington Times, in which Khaleda had expressed concern about the future of democracy in Bangladesh and invited foreign countries including the United States to intervene in Bangladesh.
Khaleda in her article said the United States was one of the first nations to recognise Bangladesh’s right to self-determination.
Mujibul Haque asked Hasina whether there was any political connection behind Khaleda Zia’s article published in the newspaper of the US, which stood beside Pakistan during the Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971, since the article was published days after the Prime Minister’s visit to Russia which had supported Bangladesh during the war.
In response to the query, Hasina said, “The US wasn’t for our independence in 1971. They had favoured the Pakistan occupation forces as they sent the seventh fleet to Bangladesh during the Liberation War.”
Hasina alleged that the opposition leader sought intervention of the US government to cancel the Generalised System of Preference (GSP) facilities to hurt the country’s export sector, to deny visas to the Bangladeshi businessmen and to stand against the people of Bangladesh.
Referring to the Liberation War perspective, the Prime Minister said, “The then Soviet Union Russia (now Russia) had extended its all-out supports and helped us in many ways during the war. It’s the Soviet Union which pressed veto against any proposal that went against the interests of Bangladesh. They’re our friend of bad times.”
Replying to another supplementary question from treasury bench lawmaker Adv M Rahmat Ali of Gazipur-3 constituency, the Prime Minister said the deal to purchase military equipment worth US$ 1 billion from Russia under the Russian state credit was signed to strengthen the capacity of the Bangladesh Armed Forces.
In this regard, she mentioned that Bangladesh purchased military equipment in the past also from many countries including China, the UK and Russia.
Hasina also informed the House that the main work for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant would begin in the first-half of the next year as the preparatory works for the project were likely to be completed by this year-end.
Khaleda wants to punish own people, country: Hasina - bdnews24.com
Hasina is now attacking the US....
Actually I agree with Hasina on this particular issue. Muslim countries future is much more with powers in Eurasian landmass than with the US. US is on its way out from this space. What all Muslim countries need to do is become more allied with SCO and Russia in particular. That will provide the biggest blow to our next door neighbor and also help us in the long run.
Similarly I predict that Japan and S Korea will eventually kick out US bases, make alliance with ASEAN and become more friendly with China.
If this is the long term picture, both China and Russia should not be a bad destination for getting military and nuclear technology. USA will never provide these tech to big Muslim countries anyways.
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also has a stable ideology
