Surprise for BNP policymakers

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Surprise for BNP policymakers
Some of the BNP policymakers were seen whispering at Monday’s press conference while the party chairperson was unveiling the proposal on formation of a non-partisan polls-time government.
They appeared clueless about the contents of the much-talked-about proposal.
“We were glancing at each other in surprise and enquiring whether any of us knew about the proposal’s contents,” a BNP standing committee member told The Daily Star on condition of anonymity.
The opposition policymaker said he also talked to some other members over the phone about the issue later. None of them had any knowledge about the proposal’s contents before attending the press conference at a city hotel.
Another standing committee member said he wouldn’t even acknowledge that he had all along been kept in the dark about the proposal. “It will be a shame for me if I do that.”
The Daily Star yesterday talked to six members of the 18-member committee, highest policymaking body of the party.
They all said the committee neither prepared nor finalised the proposal the party chief announced.
The BNP policymakers said they were not against the spirit of the proposal, but they felt embarrassed by the loopholes in the formula placed to counter the prime minister’s offer to form an all-party polls-time government.
A group of pro-BNP former civil and military bureaucrats, academics and business leaders prepared the proposal and Khaleda’s speech in consultation with some foreign diplomats, anti-terrorism experts and minority community leaders, said sources.
More surprise awaited the majority of the BNP standing committee members yesterday, as they learnt out of the blue that the acting secretary general had written to the AL urging it to initiate talks on Khaleda’s proposal.
“I was watching television. I suddenly noticed a scroll on a TV channel over a letter for talks. I was confused whether the Awami League sent the letter to the BNP. Then I read very carefully and found that it was the BNP that sent the letter,” said a standing committee member.
“Then I phoned some of my colleagues in the committee and asked about it. They said they too were completely unaware of the letter.”
Even at its last meeting on Saturday, the committee didn’t discuss the issue of sending any letter to the AL for holding talks, said the BNP policymaker.

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Indian PM heads to Russia, China

India’s Manmohan Singh embarks on one of his last major foreign trips as prime minister today, heading to Russia and China to strengthen trade ties and address a long-running border dispute.

The 81-year-old, who is expected to stand down after elections next year, will look to clinch energy, defence and other economic deals in both countries as New Delhi tries to boost trade and investment to kick-start sluggish growth.

India, which is spending billions of dollars upgrading its military hardware, has been Russia’s top arms customer for years, but relations have frayed over delays and cost-overruns.

Both countries will be looking to seal accords on the next phase of a Russian-built nuclear power project on India’s southern coast. The project is designed to help meet India’s surging demand for electricity, but has been dogged by delays and protests over safety.

No polls under Hasina, says Khaleda

No polls under Hasina, says Khaleda

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday said the opposition would not allow the next general election to be held with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina remaining head of the polls-time government. "We will neither go to election under Hasina nor allow any election under her leadership," she said while addressing a convention of professionals in the capital. The election would not be fair if held under the incumbent political government, alleged the leader of the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance.

"If we go to the election, BNP would be affected." She strongly criticised the Awami League for not accepting former chief justice KM Hasan as chief of caretaker government in 2007. "If you don't accept the election under KM Hasan, then why we would accept election under Hasina," said Khaleda in the convention. After a spell of uncertainty due to cancellation of booking, pro-BNP professionals finally began their convention at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre (BICC) this afternoon and Khaleda arrived at the venue around 4:15pm. Amid a ban on political gatherings, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) allowed the organisers — Bangladesh Sammilito Peshajibi Parishad — to hold the programme ...

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Malala accoutrements EU rights prize

Malala accoutrements EU rights prize

Pakistan Malala Yousafzai, the boyish activist nominated for this year Nobel Peace Prize, won the EU celebrated Sakharov animal rights cost yesterday, cartoon a beginning blackmail of annihilation by the Taliban.

To clap acclaim announcement the European Parliament prize, the assembly admiral Martin Schulz said Malala bravely stands for the appropriate of all accouchement to be accepted a fair education. This appropriate for girls is far too frequently neglected.

The parliament vote for Malala from a shortlist of three nominees acknowledges the absurd backbone of this adolescent woman, Schulz added.

The 16-year-old has become an adumbration of the action adjoin the a lot of abolitionist forms of Islamism.

She was advance in the arch by the Pakistani Taliban on October 9 endure year for speaking out adjoin them and has gone on to become a all-around agent for the appropriate of all accouchement to go to school.

In Pakistan, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) anon vowed a beginning advance on her activity even in America or the UK.

She was taken to Britain for analysis in the deathwatch of endure year advance and now goes to academy in the axial city-limits of Birmingham.

NEWS OF WAR CRIMINAL VERDICT,TOP NEWS FOR BANGLADESH,NEWS OF TRIBUNAL.

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International Crimes Attorneys on Wednesday said that some parts of the abstract of the judgement which on Tuesday bedevilled BNP continuing board affiliate Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to afterlife had been leaked.

The tribunal agent filed a accepted account with the Shahbagh badge in this attention and the Detective Branch launched an investigation.

The accepted account the ICT agent AKM Nasiruddin Mahmud filed said that it was a amount of affair how some locations of the abstract had been leaked from the attorneys and fabricated accessible online.The amount is a blackmail to the tribunal aegis and transparency.

The accompaniment abbot for law, Quamrul Islam, said that afterwards the filing of the accepted diary, the Detective Branch had started investigating the leak.

This is assertive that the adjudication has not been leaked from the admiral and such an accusation is baseless.People complex in the aperture will be spotted soon,he said at a columnist appointment at the secretariat.

Quamrul accepted that allotment of the adjudication had been leaked, possibly from the attorneys as the admiral was in no way complex in the alertness of the judgement.
International Crimes Attorneys 1 handed BNP baton Salauddin afterlife book in the case of crimes adjoin altruism that he had committed in the war of ability in 1971.

A archetype of the certificate said to be allotment of the adjudication was accessible online, adopting allegations that the judgement had been leaked from a computer in the law secretary office.

Salauddin ancestors declared that they had begin the archetype of the adjudication on two canicule ago and claimed that the certificate had been leaked from the law ministry.

Addressing a columnist conference in his appointment at the tribunal, the ICT agent said that the adventure ability accept taken abode in any stages of drafting and afore  finalising the judgement.

Asked whether they doubt able any of the attorneys employees, he said that they could not doubt able anyone at this point.

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A appropriate attorneys in Dhaka Tuesday awarded action administrator Salauddin Quader Chowdhury after life amends for annihilation and genocide during the country 1971 War of Independence.

Nine out of 23 accuse levelled adjoin the 64-year-old administrator from the capital action party, BNP, were accepted above doubt.Meanwhile, the convicts ancestors and counsels said they would address adjoin it with the Supreme Court.

Chowdhury got afterlife amends in four cases, which were filed for annihilation and genocide, 20-year imprisonment in three cases and five-year in two cases, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told journalists arising from the attorneys about 1:30pm.

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Terming the adjudication “dictated by the law ministry, the convict advocate Fakhrul Islam declared that the acumen was accessible on Internet afore the cloister sat today.
The archetype of the adjudication was begin in a computer of the law ministry. There should be retrial,he told journalists at the attorneys premises.

Asked how the advice was leaked and begin on Internet, the AG termed it as guess work.
As anon as the advertisement ended, Salauddin Quader stood up from his bench and questioned the actuality of the verdict.

This adjudication has appear from the law ministry. I wish to acknowledge the law admiral for the verdict,the Bangla circadian Prothom Alo quoted the BNP baton as saying.

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