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PM Sheikh Hasina seeks more Japanese support to Bangladesh's infrastructure sector

Parliament member of House of Representative of Japan Naoto Sakaguchi & Ms.Mieko Tanaka met with Sheikh Hasina

March 22,2010

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought more Japanese support to the country's infrastructure sector including development

of different tourists attractions to attract foreign tourists. She said her government is working for the development of Coxs Bazar sea beach, the world heritage Sunderbans, Kuakata sea beach and other tourist attractions to this end. "We need more support from Japan to carry forward our development endeavours,' she said when Members of Parliament of House of Representative of Japan Naoto Sakaguchi and Ms. Mieko Tanaka called on her at Ganobhaban here this evening. Sheikh Hasina said her government is working relentlessly for the development of tourist attractions as it wants to project the cultural heritage of different ethnic groups living in Bangladesh. During the meeting, they also discussed various issues of bilateral interest including expansion of trade and business between the two countries for the benefit of their people. Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh always values the country's relations with Japan as it is a major development partner of Bangladesh. "Japan is providing its supports to the development activities of the country," she said. The Prime Minister said excellent bilateral relations are existing between the two friendly countries and hoped that the relations would be further expedited in the days to come. In reciprocation, the Japanese parliament members mentioned their country's cooperation to Bangladesh's development programmes and expressed the hope that Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for Bangladesh would be further expedited in future. Referring to the bilateral trade imbalance, they said Japan would play its role to reduce the trade gap between the two countries. They also assured Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of providing more support to the country's infrastructure development.

Deep-sea port to benefit all neighbours: PM Sheikh Hasina

March 22,2010

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh's proposed deep-sea port in the Bay of Bengal would benefit all neighbours, including China. "We planned to develop the deep-sea port which would benefit all the countries in the region, including China, the premier said such while Governor of Chinese Yunnan Province Qin Guangrong met her ahead of her departure for Bangladesh yesterday morning. She added that the intensified cooperation between the countries like China, India, Myanmar and Bangladesh would accelerate development of the region while she stressed enhanced connectivity for mutual economic benefit. "Bangladesh is ready to put in its best efforts to increase regional connectivity and fight against poverty and other regional problems," she said. Sheikh Hasina said Beijing had proposed the construction of the Chittagong-Kunming Highway through Myanmar which Bangladesh wholeheartedly welcomed but added that because of its economic capability, Beijing would have to take the lead responsibly for the implementation of the proposal. Being the nearest Chinese region to Bangladesh, Yunnan province authorities also has a significant role to play to set the direct link between Bangladesh and China, she said.

Awami League leaders demanded ban on financial institutes & politics of Jamaat

AL leaders strongly condemned remarks of jamaat leaders comparing Nizami with Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (SM)

March 21,2010

Leaders of the Awami League yesterday demanded immediate arrest of Jamaat leaders who, the AL leader said, compared their party chief Nizami with the Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (SM) and imposition of a ban on the religion-based politics of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students front Islamic Chhatra Shibir. Speaking at a public meeting in the city, Awami League presidium member and agriculture minister Begum Matia Chowdhury said that the war criminals and killers of 1971 like Nizami and his accomplices could not escape the long hands of the law as the kingpin of the militant outfit JMB Siddiqur Rahman alias 'Bangla Bhai' and the self-confessed assassins of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman could not escape the gallows. Dhaka City Awami League organised the public rally protesting the audacious remarks of Jamaat leaders who compared Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (SM) with their party chief Nizami. The demonstrators also marched on the city streets after the rally at Bangabandhu Avenue and torched two effigies of Nizami and Mujahid near Noor Hossain Square at Zero Point. Matia Chowdhury alleged that the followers of Jamaat-e-Islami were the sycophants of British regime during the independence movement of the sub-continent from its subjugation and then it opposed the country's independence struggle in 1971 as they were the sycophants of the Pakistani military rulers. They (Jamaat) don't have faith in Islam and used to mislead the people in the name of religion. They neither believe in the Prophet nor have faith in the holy book Quran as they kill people and rape women in the name of religion and now they are comparing the Prophet with their party chief to mislead the people in their bid to create an anarchy at a time when the present government has taken all preparations to try the war criminals, she said. We are the followers of the Prophet and believe Him as the greatest and the last Prophet but the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami Moulana Abul Ala Moududi portrayed him as a common man in his book and they have been giving wrong interpretation of Islam and misleading the people, Matia said urging the people to build a strong resistance against them. Awami League organising secretary and LGRD state minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak said that the whole nation was now in favour of imposing a ban on the financial institutions and other organisations, which financed the Jamaat and some militant outfits to indulge in militancy in the country.

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