Now Amu Perceives Conspiracy

I felt this like one of the funniest satire in my life I have ever learnt when I heard Amir Hussain Amu to say there is being a conspiracy against the party. Huh! Amir Hussain discovers conspiracy in Awami League. My feeling about his discovery has been proved almost similar to that of Afghan people when they learnt that their beloved ultra-violent Taliban regime has banned the national sport ‘Buzkashi’ because of it’s violence (!?!). The overall present standpoint of Awami League shows their adamancy in the issue of their demand to release Sheikh Hasina. Months ago, when the mistreatment with Hasina started, I wrote in a post that I was seeing BNP leadership being more vocal in the issue of Hasina’s release. After Khandoker Delwar & Rizvi Ahmed separately demanded the unconditional release of two ladies, it really looked Awami League leadership like being in a perplexity, where they were not even being vocal in the issue of their President’s release. But, things have changed in last few months. Many of incidents those were not really expectable or expected, now those are happening everyday. Awami League’s working General Secretary Ashraful Islam has come with his own voice where we see no compromise in himself about the unconditional release of Sheikh Hasina. I remember when Zillur Rahman showed up with is statements in front of the press he remained surrounded by Tofael Ahmed, Abdur Razzak, Amir Hussain Amu, Mukul Bose. These Tofael, Amu, Mukul thought they have successfully infiltrated Hasina’s trusted circle, without creating any nuisances like BNP reformists did. The common thing which was abating the discomfort of both this regime & mentioned conspirators was the state of emergency. But time is now in the way to change now. The government itself has realized no talk with politicians will give no good results. And that is the thing which is now continuously bringing dramatic events in our national politics everyday. That is the reason of BNP reformist’s extreme enthusiasm of Begum Zia’s release and to reconcile with the main stream BNP. That is reason of Tofael gang now wants nothing but Hasina’s release. Not only that, today’s sudden cancellation of EC dialogue with Maj. Hafiz faction and Maj. Hafiz’s declaration that  they asked for permission to meet Begum Zia, all these things are well related.

But Amir Hussain Amu only himself knows what he meant by saying,

“Extreme enthusiasm of some leaders in the demand of Hasina’s release is probably a well planned conspiracy against the party. Grass-root activists & supporters should be aware of any conspiracy against Awami League.”

Awami League’s once capo régime Jainal Hazari, who has been in exile for quite a long time since BNP’s triumph in 2001, was contacted by a Jai Jai Din reporter in October last year. Hazari told him,

“Amu has enough names in his pocket that can form a complete Awami League presidium. He has even contacted with a ‘mora’ (মরা) like me. As soon he gets the chance he will show up.

Not only that, to run a gamut of all these, Amir Hussain Amu allegedly met Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan when Mannan has been in Singapore to do a medical checkup. Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan was then one of masters of reformist-puppets (or he himself was the biggest puppet?), though he has now gone undercover.

But now what happened to this Amir Hussain Amu? Which one to be counted as the disillusioned? his position in present? Or, the role he played all along the last year?

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Galumphing Imprudents

Now everything gets into perspective themselves. Now we can understand what election our advisers have been talking about for years. They are talking about an election that will have Maj. Hafizuddin Ahmed, that overfed rat to represent the party that had two third majorities in the assembly. Not only that, we have also been served with the valuable presentation of the free judiciary of our country. Goebbels once told about one of his tricks of a propagandist, “When you’ll tell a lie for first time, people won’t believe it; when you will lie for second time, people won’t believe it; when you will lie for the third time, people will be confused; when you will lie for the fourth time, people will believe it.” This is a propagandist explaining himself.

No difference is happening in Bangladesh right this moment.

I really don’t know what I should write on this matter. Today’s high court’s hearing, that Election Commission’s invitation to Hafiz has been valid, has been a very obscene move of this government, that is pushing the court system or the judiciary to a position far away from the reliability & trust of people. People are starving though; they are crazy for the truth. And this is what they got from the high court today. Can you think of an election that has BNP fighting for victory with the names like Saifur Rahman for Chairperson & Maj. Hafizuddin for General Secretary? Stupidity initially creates anger, but consequent stupid moves led people to laughter. I am sure Khandoker Delwar Hussain is not very furious at this hearing from the court, he just has been confirmed that the present situation has no room for decency. May be BNP supporters across the country want the head of Hafiz, but supporters & experts those have foresight, are having smiles on their face. I don’t know from where they have got the idea that people are going to poll centers to stand in the queue for an election that doesn’t have Begum Zia & Sheikh Hasina. Geeta Pasi told America is not to accept an election without participation of major parties. Now this government thinks, they will have the court to say that Maj. Hafiz is the GS of one of the major parties and he is participating the election, so “the election is valid, isn’t it Boss?” They are concentrating on pulling all parties to the election, but what they ain’t concentrating for is, pulling & encouraging people to come to polling centers rather discouraging them by validating the geniuses like Hafiz, Saifur & Mannan. They think that people’s rushing to National ID Card distribution camps show that how eagerly they are looking forward to the election. But this government is getting fooled of this interest of people. People are not going there for their interest of an election to come, they are being there to see their names & photos in the printed & laminated cards, to have the National ID Card.

Why Election Commission sent the letter to Hafiz? Because he has been named the GS in the tea party held inside Saifur Rahman’s residence “Jalalabad House”. Now, that has been a tea party, this has been made clear by Khandoker Mahboob Uddin Ahmed, R.A. Ghani and other of BNP Presidium who were present their. That has not been a party meeting at any condition. Even though the presence of the Chairperson herself couldn’t turn that into a party meeting, because the residence of a dirty betrayer named “Jalalabad House” is not the place for a party meeting to be held. But, the high court has named EC’s invitation valid that ratified the decision of that stupid meeting. Who has been turned a clown here? The high court, the election commissioners, Maj. Hafiz, all these men have been turned into clowns by this decision.

I will put full stop at my post just by saying this, lift the emergency rule up, and then feel which one is the real BNP and which one is the real Awami League. You don’t have to trouble Maj. Shamsul Haider Siddiqui by ordering release of Begum Khaleda Zia & Sheikh Hasina, just lift the state of emergency, and then feel who the real are.

Things show this incident has effected turncoats by no mean

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This is an extension of the post I wrote earlier today. Things have started to run based on the high court decision to see Hafiz as the legal GS of BNP. The Chief Election Commissioner has unveiled some of government wills about BNP deliberately or unconsciously, that this regime still holds whatever plan they took that showed up on 29^th October last year. No matter how unbelievable & absurd this sound, this regime has made to summon the judiciary helpful to ratify the unlawful & ill-fated appearance of Hafiz, Mannan & Saifur gang. The CEC, the person who has already lost reliability of people, sounds like the high court verdict has been a great magnitude of evocation to the free-fair election efforts. The thing I never can understand how the kingpins of this regime can be optimistic about the result of an election that will have a BNP led by Hafiz? How do they expect people to go to polling centers to vote for an Awami League led by Tofael-Amu and a BNP led by Hafiz-Mannan? No matter who lead these parties, the only thing that matters is whether those persons are approved by two ladies.

The reputation of this regime as a selector suffers badly. They chose some people to rise as ‘reformists’ at very earlier stage of their appearances. But pathetically their choices have been so poor that in some cases names of reformists did not seem familiar to most of people of Bangladesh. They have chosen Amir Hussain Amu, the guy who dreamt to be an MP and that dream got kicked out of the scene by neutral candidate Late Benazir Bhutto. After Bhutto died, there was a by-election during the Awami League regime and Amu won that though, he was again kicked out along with his dreams by the widow of his previous rival, Mrs. Ellen Bhutto. On the other hand, this regime’s choice in BNP is poorer than that of Awami League, they have chosen Maj. Hafiz. Unfortunately, the child who was born in the day of Hafiz’s joining in BNP is not a teenager yet, that child is still 7 years old. This is understandable that weak fellows are easy to be run. Weak small rats have thinner throats that require not a long rope to be tied off. Though this regime showed they had a smart stock of rope to tie out Mannan & Saifur. But what this regime doesn’t no is, throats in politics get thinner & broader everyday. Public cut broader throats to a thinner one whenever it seems required.

Right this moment, I am not too tensed about future of BNP or Awami League. You can call it conspiracy or whatever, a politics in Bangladesh without Sheikh Hasina & Begum Khaleda Zia is unimaginable to the time they will remain alive. This is completely impossible & incredible, like one of universal truths. So, what time it takes, may be a year or years, this effort will fail surely. So, there is anger, there is depression, there are things to be told, but there is no tension about the future of these two parties. What I am tensed about is the whole of us, Bangladesh herself. I don’t remember it was who, told in very initial stages of this government when mass people didn’t have much hatred on this regime. Let me translate,

“This regime is not a constitutional one, rather they are some sort of unlawful and can be called as de facto. All these are true. But, we, in no condition, expect failure of this regime. Because, already they have taken birth out of a tremendously ugly atmosphere, now their unpleasant exit from the power will lead Bangladesh into a murky fortune rather great danger that none of us has ever imagined. So this regime should be absolutely careful to this fact and should be ultra-cautious to deal with what they have taken over. Because, what they have taken over, is a very difficult one to deal with.”

Whoever told this, I don’t remember, has been fully ignored by this government, today’s verdict from the High Court bench clearly shows us. Now why I am tensed about Bangladesh, is well explicated in that statement, that is the “murky fortune rather great danger that none of us has ever imagined.”

Another F-7 Goes Down

Air Force fighter aircraft F-7 crashes killing pilot at Ghatail

DHAKA, Bangladesh, April 8 (BSS)-A F-7 fighter aircraft of Bangladesh
Air Force was crashed due to mechanical fault at Paharipara village under Dhalpur union of Ghatail in Tangail district at about 12.30 pm killing pilot Squadron Leader Morshed Hassan.

Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal SM Ziaur Rahman soon after the incident visited the spot and gave necessary directives to the rescue authorities, said an ISPR press release.

A high level 3-member committee was formed to investigate into the accident.

The ISPR press release said, the fighter plane crushed at about 12.30 pm when it was returning after completing successful firing training from Rasulpur Firing Range. The aircraft left the Air Force base of Kurmitola at 11.46 am.

The pilot managed to jump out from the aircraft with parachute immediately after the accident, but only to land on a roof of a teen-shade house.

Getting information of the incident, a search and rescue helicopter with medical and technical team rushed to the spot and recovered the pilot in senseless condition and admitted him to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka. But, pilot Morshed Hassan succumbed to his injuries at the CMH.

Initially, it was assumed that the accident took place due to mechanical fault.

Born on June 15 of 1979, Squadron Leader Morshed Hassan was commissioned in the Bangladesh Air Force on December 6, 1998 and proved himself as a skilled pilot.

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Courtesy: BSS

Image Shows a Demonstration of Martin-Baker Ejection System at 0 ft. Altitude

Fighter jets of Bangladesh Air Forces are all well equipped with the Martin-Baker Ejection System instead of the built-in safe ejection apparatus (if there is one). These ejection system costs more than $150000 that is more than 10 million taka in Bangladesh. Martin Baker is recognized as one of the most secured ejection systems that can be utilized even in the 0 ft. altitude that means from a grounded jet. At least the demonstration of this system shows a pilot can eject from his ship that is parked beside a runway in an air field that was filmed in 1964.

This information leads us to confusions that what really happened to our aviator Sq.Lr. Morshed Hassan, the tragic hero. Experts, considering situation after the pilot decided to bail out, that, the altitude of the jet was too low for a safe bail out utilizing Martin-Baker ejection facilities. One reason can be that the jet was going down at a tremendous high speed that the Martin-Baker facility that throws the bailed out pilot up to the cockpit, didn’t help Sq.Lr. Morshed Hassan.

An F-7MG. The jet Sq.Lr. Morshed had was F-7MB. Bangladesh Air Forces initially bought 47 F-7MBs whereas only 22 now remain okay. Its producer China herself has ceased the production in 2006 and has now send some models to her air museums, as the photo below is of an F-7MG (Chinese Chengdu J-7) which is on display in a museum.

Moreover this is assumed that his fall over the tin-shade has been a free fall due to his faulty parachute. It does mean that whatever altitude he had during the ejection, he has fallen over the tin shade just like a projectile at full velocity along with the gravitational acceleration from that very height. It’s considered that this is quite earlier to make final decisions about what really happened to our aviator. There has been made a committee of 3 members who will investigate through this whole tragic accident that happened to our pilot Sq.Lr. Morshed Hassan. This has been a real sad day for Bangladesh especially for the Air Forces.

The New British High Commissioner & Mistimed Perception of Hiranmay Karlekar

Being an expert on a country, where there is no sort of relation for more than 22 years, the career is too drowsy. Now, the 9/11 attack and Twin Towers’ getting collapsed couldn’t promulgate him a lot though, the declaration of George W. Bush that the architect of 9/11 is Osama Bin Laden & Osama is in Afghanistan, this finally worked. Now that drowsy career shook itself up & showed up with demand. We are talking about the person who first thought of reopening the British Embassy at Kabul in 2001 which was shut off in 1979 and later shattered by a mob in 1995.

Afghanistan expert and head of the South East Asia Department of United Kingdom’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Mr. Stephen Evans has been chosen as the next British High Commissioner to Bangladesh. Replacing Anwar Chowdhury, Evans will be in the office in this June. Hiranmay Karlekar, the guy who lives on bashing Bangladesh abusively, once wrote a book called “Bangladesh – The Next Afghanistan?”. I don’t know, may be there has been a mistimed perception from Karlekar’s side, or may be there has been United Kingdom’s late realization of the greatness of the author Hiranmay Karlekar. Ultimately they have decided to send somebody who however has been one of the roles of the drama that Karlekar once talked of and agonizingly is being played in Bangladesh in present.

Let’s take a short look at Stephen Evans.

Stephen Evans, a 58 years old diplomat has formerly served in the Tank Regiment of British Army from 1971 to 1974 as an officer. Mr. Evans is the Foreign Office specialist on Afghanistan, normally a diplomatic backwater ignored by the high flyers. The September 11 attacks changed that and Mr Evans has been much in demand. It was from him that ministers, diplomatic colleagues and journalists heard for the first time about the Loya Jirga, the historic Afghan decision-making forum, and the other complexities of Afghan politics. His briefings were delivered in the manner of an academic in love with his subject, desperate to inform, rather than a diplomat cautiously calculating the impact of each word, desperate to avoid controversy. A Foreign Office colleague spoke yesterday about Mr Evans’s enthusiasm for the region: “He has taken on the job with relish.” The colleague added that part of the attraction for Mr Evans was the challenge that a post-Taliban Afghanistan presented: “He knows how many different ways it could go.” He is married with three children.

Now, a third-world country expert and an expert of a country like Afghanistan, have some characteristic differences between them. The properness of power in a country can strictly regulate behaviors of diplomats. Political anarchies are not really the main issue in this particular case. Many developed and well democratized states see political instabilities. After the Iraq war got started, all of the nations who took part have experienced large scale demonstrations against the government. They often have been organized by particular political oppositions of the party in power. Political unrests may come to the streets but not in every case key diplomats lose their passion & the sense of official rights. In those countries, diplomats need to remember the Vienna Convention. Now, Afghanistan is one of the nations of the world, where diplomats enjoy the full freedom to say anything they want about anything. The situation was different from late 70’s to the 2001 US Invasion, but the situation after the US Invasion, diplomats never need to practice what bull shit (in their sense) is written in Vienna Convention or whatever.

Our new (to be) High Commissioner from United Kingdom, Mr. Stephen Evans have been through an atmosphere of complete freedom of speeches that means a compulsive meddling tendency due to the improperness of power in Afghanistan. Rather, he is an expert of that country who was sent their before a week passed after the fall of Kabul from Taleban; an expert of providing unlawful instructions on how inner matters of the host nation should go. Anwar Chowdhury who got the recognition of ‘Lord Clive’ due to his uncontrolled & unauthorized interferences to extreme internal matters of Bangladesh, has been decided to be replaced by such a person, who is by name some sort of ‘meddler’. Anwar Chowdhury at least had no such career backgrounds though he has been one, but this time the British government has decided to get in to the matter quite well exposed by sending somebody officially heeded as not been through the proper practices of a diplomat. He has been an expert of a genre of an nation, which is not used to have elections or any sort of practices of democracy. So I don’t think the appointment of Stephen Evans will be able to add up some optimization for us to get out of the present instable state of Bangladesh.

Hiranmay Karlekar’s “Bangladesh – The Next Afghanistan?” was published in January 2006 from Delhi. But, it was 2 years later, United Kingdom came to think Karlekar is correct or they themselves have realized Bangladesh is now at an optimistic stage to way being Afghanistan. They have sent an Afghanistan Expert to deal with foreign relations between Bangladesh & them. Now we should hail, “Ekhoni Shomoy!” (This is The Time!), eh?

(I am expecting some report to come published in Prothom Alo or Daily Star recognizing Stephen Evans as one of greatest diplomats Bangladesh could ever have.)