<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057</id><updated>2009-02-21T02:50:29.874-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MuktoBangla</title><subtitle type='html'>With a view to create a truly Free Bengal- an Independent Bangladesh- Free from Poverty, Free from Corruption, Free from Injustice and Free from Rajakars</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>13</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-115597971541988695</id><published>2006-08-19T00:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-19T02:28:35.476-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Social and Political Rehabilitation of the Collaborators of Pakistani Army in Bangladesh</title><summary type='text'>On December 31, 1975, the Army regime of General Ziaur Rahman repealed the Collaborators Order (P.O.8 of 1972), which had been enacted to punish those who had collaborated with the Pakistani army during the war of liberation. Repeal of this law combined with the provision for an amnesty, a large number of those who had already been convicted, around 20,000 for treasons, rape, killing, arsons, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/115597971541988695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=115597971541988695' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/115597971541988695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/115597971541988695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/08/social-and-political-rehabilitation-of.html' title='Social and Political Rehabilitation of the Collaborators of Pakistani Army in Bangladesh'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-115406788151504056</id><published>2006-07-27T23:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-27T23:24:41.533-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nizami-Khaleda Govt.’s Earnings (Top 25)</title><summary type='text'>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 billion02. Mirza Abbas, amount earned - US$ 43 million03. Begum Khurshid Jahan Haque (sister </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/115406788151504056/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=115406788151504056' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/115406788151504056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/115406788151504056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/07/nizami-khaleda-govts-earnings-top-25.html' title='Nizami-Khaleda Govt.’s Earnings (Top 25)'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-115406588614365178</id><published>2006-07-27T22:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-27T22:51:26.156-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Something that concern me the most</title><summary type='text'>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</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/115406588614365178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=115406588614365178' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/115406588614365178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/115406588614365178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/07/something-that-concern-me-most.html' title='Something that concern me the most'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-114503505858289210</id><published>2006-04-14T10:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-02T14:47:19.626-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TIME Sells Lies for Money</title><summary type='text'>ToEditorNewsWeekDear Editor:Recently Mr. Alex Perry wrote a cover news on TIME magazine titled"Rescue Mission" about the current situation in Bangladesh[http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501060410/story.html]. I am a Bangladeshi studying in the USA. Although it felt good to see my country on the cover of a prestigious magazine like the Time, the article itself shocked me as it was full of lies</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/114503505858289210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=114503505858289210' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114503505858289210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114503505858289210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/04/time-sells-lies-for-money.html' title='TIME Sells Lies for Money'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-114494232096011660</id><published>2006-04-13T08:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-14T10:25:23.236-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Proclamation of Independence- 'BNP-Jamaat govt violates constitution'</title><summary type='text'>Speakers at a discussion said those who don't recognise Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the proclaimer of independence and the proclamation by the Mujibnagar government should be considered as 'seditionists'.The Proclamation of Independence made by the Mujibnagar government on April 10 in 1971 is now part of the constitution, they said, adding that those who disregard it is virtually </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-114486581520528054</id><published>2006-04-12T11:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-13T03:11:24.406-07:00</updated><title type='text'>US$ 1 Million for TIME Magazine Cover Story</title><summary type='text'>Released on April 6, 2006, 4:20 amhttp://pressreleaseforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=8301&amp;Press Release Author Christipher WalmoorPress Release Summary "There is an inside story on how Bangladesh government managed the TIME Magazine cover story."Alex Perry, who published a cover story on Bangladesh titled 'Deadly Cargo', a few years back, projecting the rise of Islamist militancy and corruption in the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/114486581520528054/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=114486581520528054' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114486581520528054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114486581520528054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/04/us-1-million-for-time-magazine-cover.html' title='US$ 1 Million for TIME Magazine Cover Story'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-114486540726307364</id><published>2006-04-12T11:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-13T00:17:56.903-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A letter of protest to the Time Magazine</title><summary type='text'>ToThe EditorTime Magazine, AsiaIt is to our great dismay we have noticed that Time Magazine has made a cover story on the recent development on Islamic Militancy issue in Bangladesh where Mr. Alex Perry has given all the credit to the incumbent Government and its Prime Minister Ms. Khaleda Zia for capturing the militant leaders. The fact of the matter is when the oppositions in the parliament and</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/114486540726307364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=114486540726307364' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114486540726307364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114486540726307364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/04/letter-of-protest-to-time-magazine.html' title='A letter of protest to the Time Magazine'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-114469466356813315</id><published>2006-04-10T11:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-10T11:44:23.586-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Compensation for the victims of Islamic militancy and for those arrested on false charges</title><summary type='text'>Under the growing consensus and rage among the people as well as pressure from the development partners from the west against the Islamic militancy, the incumbent 4 party alliance Government was forced to apprehend Shaikh Abdur Rahman, Bangla Bhai and few other leading members of Jamiatul Mujahidin, Harkatul Jihad and Jagroto Muslim Jonota and to ban the activities of four militant organization. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/114469466356813315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=114469466356813315' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114469466356813315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114469466356813315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/04/compensation-for-victims-of-islamic_10.html' title='Compensation for the victims of Islamic militancy and for those arrested on false charges'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-114461794642500605</id><published>2006-04-09T14:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-09T14:25:46.500-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nizami-Khaleda Buys Foreign "Damage Control"</title><summary type='text'>The Nizami-Khaleda government has now made a contract with two US lobbying firms and an individual to help cover up its atrocities over the last five years. In other words, the Nizami-Khaleda government is trying to do damage control by hiring a public relations firm.The government will be spending seven crore taka (about $1m) on this from the people's tax revenues.Read the Daily Janakantha </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/114461794642500605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=114461794642500605' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114461794642500605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114461794642500605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/04/nizami-khaleda-buys-foreign-damage.html' title='Nizami-Khaleda Buys Foreign &quot;Damage Control&quot;'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-114202323621463205</id><published>2006-03-10T12:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-10T12:46:35.356-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Is the freedom struggle over??</title><summary type='text'>Is this the Bangladesh that we freed from the foreign occupation? Was this supposed to be the situation? Then why is this?? Who are responsible for this?? The freedom struggle has not finished yet. We will still have to free our beloved Bangla from so many things. We want a truely Mukto Bangla.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/114202323621463205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=114202323621463205' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114202323621463205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114202323621463205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/03/is-freedom-struggle-over.html' title='Is the freedom struggle over??'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-114147583176395314</id><published>2006-03-04T04:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-04T04:37:11.783-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How divine are Shariah laws?</title><summary type='text'>On September 11, 2005, the Premier of Ontario, Canada's largest province, emphatically declared: "Ontario will reject the use of Shariah law and will move to prohibit all religious-based tribunals to settle family disputes such as divorce." Sharia Court in Toronto, Canada, was the first legal one in Western soil because of political Islam's global ploy that the West was unaware of. His </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/114147583176395314/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=114147583176395314' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114147583176395314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114147583176395314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-divine-are-shariah-laws.html' title='How divine are Shariah laws?'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-114132481866573520</id><published>2006-03-02T09:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-03-03T10:52:47.053-08:00</updated><title type='text'>JMB and the Government</title><summary type='text'>When newspapers started reporting on the activities of Bangla Bhai and JMJB in the northern region of the country about a year ago, the government said it was false. It even blamed the media for "creating" the "fictitious" character of Bangla Bhai. "We do not know officially about the existence of the JMJB. Only some so-called newspapers are publishing reports on it. We do not have their </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/114132481866573520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=114132481866573520' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114132481866573520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114132481866573520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/03/jmb-and-government.html' title='JMB and the Government'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22613057.post-114073071035688674</id><published>2006-02-23T13:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-02-23T13:38:30.373-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Long Way to Freedom</title><summary type='text'>The people of Bangladesh discovered their identity through the Language Movement in 1952. The struggle to establish their  identity and national spirit began soon after 1947 when they realized that  under Pakistan created on the  two nation theory they was little scope for the distance culture of Banglees to flourish . The refusal of the central government to  grant status  to  Bangla language </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/feeds/114073071035688674/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=22613057&amp;postID=114073071035688674' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114073071035688674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/22613057/posts/default/114073071035688674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://muktobangla.blogspot.com/2006/02/long-way-to-freedom.html' title='A Long Way to Freedom'/><author><name>MuktoBangla</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08209717063882036073</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='13259251322502883037'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>