Nizami-Khaleda Govt.’s Earnings (Top 25)

The present government will finish its tenure this October. Meantime,names of most corrupt ministers are already coming in circulation, with figures of cash they minted during the five-year term of the BNP government since 2001. The corrupt ministers are:

01. Barrister Nazmul Huda, amount earned - US$ 0.5 billion
02. Mirza Abbas, amount earned - US$ 43 million
03. Begum Khurshid Jahan Haque (sister of PM), amount earned - US$ 40 million
04. Tariqul Islam, amount earned - US$ 38 million
05. Abdul Mannan Buiyan, amount earned - US$ 35 million
06. Salahuddin Ahmed, amount earned - US$ 32 million
07. Barrister Aminul Huq, amount earned - US$ 31 million
08. Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf, amount earned - US$ 30 million
09. Altaf Hussain Chowdhury, amount earned - US$ 28 million
10. Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku, amount earned - US$ 26 million
11. Dr. Khandekar Musharraf Hussain, amount earned - US$ 25 million
12. Barkatulla Bulu, amount earned - US$ 24 million
13. Abdullah Al Noman, amount earned - US$ 23 million
14. Lt.Col Akber Hussain, amount earned - US$ 22 million
15. Major (Retired) Qamrul Islam, amount earned - US$ 21 million
16. Shajahan Siraj, amount earned - US$ 20 million
17. Advocate Gautam Chakracarty, amount earned - US$ 17 million
18. Amanullah Aman, amount earned - US$ 15 million
19. Ziaul Haque Zia, amount earned - US$ 14 million
20. Jafrul Islam Chowdhury, amount earned - US$ 13 million
21. ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon,amount earned - US$ 11 million
22. Asadul Habib Dulu, amount earned - US$ 10 million
23. Fazlur Rahman Patal, amount earned - US$ 9 million
24. Advocate Ruhul Quddus Talikder Dulu, amount earned - US$ 8 million
25. Lutfur Rahman Khan Azad, amount earned - US$ 6 million

Something that concern me the most

I know I am being cursed probably by some as they read this but hear me out.I know people talk about escalating cost of living, Tarique Zia, corruption of ministers, no power/electricity etc but I worry about BNP-Jamaat for another reason.As long as this alliance stays in power, Bangladesh will continue to move to the right.

Does that mean every BNP supporter is a fundamentalist? Offcourse not. In the long run, this government's close ties with Pakistan and middle-eastern sheikhs and their oil money is bad news for the moderate muslims in Bangladesh.Sufism, to which most of us belong, is under threat from its radical offshoot.Bangladeshi's are mostly Sufis. That's a very spiritual form, very differrent from the clerical-based system. With BNP-Jamaat, what is being imported into Bangladesh is the more radical deobandism from India-Pakistan and Wahabism from the middle-east.

As gas prices go up, the oil-rich middle eastern countries get richer and more money flows into promoting these radical forms of Islam in countries like Bangladesh. They find a close freind in BNP-Jamaat.Some of my closest freinds are BNP supporters and we have a blast urguing politically. What scares me to death is the continous dose of radical Islam that is tied to the bundle of money that flows into Bangladesh from the middle-east and Pakistan in the name of investment.This to me is the real fight ahead for our generation.

-A conscious citizen