@JonFDanilowicz Agreed Sir, In this context, the Mecca Pact could create new opportunities for defense cooperation and regional security, helping Bangladesh maintain its military capabilities and international role.
PM Tarique Rahman will be murdered by creating an accident in India if he visits there. Again, India is always searching a way to murder the PM like his father.
By the way, the fire accident in Kolkata hotel should be a warning sign for every Bangladeshi who thinks visiting India will solve their health issues. Buddy, by visiting India, you're inviting your death. India is a hell hole. Stop visiting India. #IndiaOut
Sheikh Hasina awarded Adani in India the contract to supply power to #Bangladesh. Following that precedent, @trahmanbnp is now moving toward contracts that would send imported crude oil to a refinery in #India for processing.
Many people describe #Pakistan as an oppressor, yet more than six decades ago Pakistan established the Eastern Refinery Limited (ERL) in what is now Bangladesh. Since then, no major refinery has been built by Bangladeshi or Bengali nationalist governments.
During the British era, jute grown in East Bengal was shipped to Kolkata for processing in its jute mills. A similar pattern is emerging again with crude oil: instead of importing crude oil at lower prices and refining it domestically in Bangladesh, the proposal is to send it to India for refining and then repurchase the refined fuel at a much higher cost that includes India’s profit margin.
We know that ERL currently processes only light-to-medium crude and is unable to handle heavier grades. The government should move on a war footing to establish the planned second unit, ERL-2, enabling the refinery to process a much broader range of crude types, including heavier grades.
During the Pakistan era, East Pakistan’s jute industry expanded rapidly. Within only two decades, the number of jute mills in East Pakistan exceeded those in West Bengal, and many of those mills were equipped with machinery more advanced than that used in the Indian state’s mills. Most of the mill owners in our country were Bengalis from East Pakistan rather than West Pakistanis.
After Bangladesh’s independence in 1971, however, India stripped East Pakistan’s mills of their modern machinery. Some mills, such as Adamjee Jute Mills, had been owned by migrant communities. At a time when the jute industry in East Pakistan was thriving in much the same way Bangladesh’s garment industry thrives today, the industry in independent Bangladesh eventually declined. A major reason for that collapse was that large amounts of machinery were allegedly removed from the mills and taken to India.
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.
This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
Trump's recklessness is needlessly putting our brave service members in harm's way, destroying America's global standing, and making life even more unaffordable for the American people.
We must all stand against this and oppose funding this illegal war of choice.