This gorgeous 14 yr old little girl was another victim of bullying. The
article explains it all. Sherokee lived 2 houses from me. As a mother of
two, It is ripping my heart apart to see the anguish and pain this
family is going through. In honor of Sherokee and the countless children
who are bullied everyday I would like to get the required signatures to
make "Sherokee's Law" pass making it illegal to bully anyone in School
or off school grounds. Zero tolerance policies are in place, but, they
are not correctly utilized. As parents in our communities we feel enough
is enough, and we are ready for big changes f. Children who are
relentlessly tormented and who are to scared to say a word should not
have to live in fear. Passing this law will give bullied children the
relief they need and extra protection from bullies. Retaliation and be
ganged upon by the bullies friends will also be included. This Law will
also help clarify and set the rules and consequences in plain sight and
on paper. Let children who bully know this behavior is not and will not
be tolerated. This will create a more stable and non-violent environment
for ALL school children across the country. If a child does not have to
worry about who is going to attack them on a daily basis in a place
that should be safe they are able to focus and do much better in school
academically and socially. We as a
Parents/Guardians/Aunts/Uncles/Advocates have the opportunity to set a
precedence for everyone. It is time to put "what if's" aside, put this
together and protect our children, grandchildren, nieces & nephews.
We as adults have the power to fix this and no one else.
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WAR TRIAL - Mojaheed to hang
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed waves while being taken to International Crimes Tribunal-2 Wednesday morning for pronouncement of verdict in war crimes case. Photo: Focus Bangla
A special court in Dhaka has awarded death penalty to Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed for offences during Bangladesh’s war of independence 42 years back.
Five out of seven charges have been proved beyond doubt, Justice Obaidul Hassan, head judge of International Crimes Tribunal-2, announced in a jam-packed courtroom Wednesday afternoon.
The Jamaat linchpin, who led the infamous Al-Badr force in killing intellectuals of the land at the fag end of the 1971 Liberation War, received death penalty for three charges, and life sentence and five-year imprisonment for two others.
Standing in the dock wearing a Panjabi, the 65-year-old shook his head in disapproval of the judgement.
This is the sixth verdict in the sensational war crimes trial that was initiated 40 years into the country’s birth, which the Jamaat was strongly against and instrumental to negate.
His party has enforced a countrywide daylong hartal (shutdown) to protest the verdict.
Mojaheed’s verdict came couple of days after another war crimes tribunal, ICT-1, awarded former Jamaat chief Ghulam Azam 90 years jail.
Tight security was arranged in and around the ICT-2 building as the court prepared to deliver judgement on Mojaheed Wednesday.
A contingent of securitymen guarded the Jamaat top leader as he was taken to the prison cell of the court at 9:42am in a white microbus.
He was taken to the tribunal dock just one hour later.
The court started its proceedings at 10:48am.
After a brief description of the case, Justice Md Shahinur Islam, a judge on the three-member panel, started reading out from the 209-page verdict.
A 37-page excerpt was read out.
BACKGROUND
Mojaheed, a former technocrat minister of the last BNP-led alliance government, was arrested on June 29, 2010, in connection with hurting religious sentiments of Muslims.
The investigation agency, designated to probe war crimes, started investigation his alleged crimes during the war on July 21, 2010, and completed its probe in October, 2011.
Mojaheed was shown arrested in the war crimes case on August 2, 2010.
On January 16, 2012, the prosecution submitted 34 charges against him and the tribunal took the charges into cognisance on January 26.
The case was transferred to Tribunal-2 on April 25, 2012.
On June 21, 2012, Mojaheed, who was a top leader of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the student wing of Jamaat in 1971, was indicted on seven charges.
As per the indictment order, Mojaheed in October 1971 was elected provincial president of Chhatra Sangha and became the chief of Al-Badr, an auxiliary force of the Pakistan army that was especially responsible for the planned killings of the intellectuals at the fag-end of the nine-month-long war.
Al-Badr was an “action section” and “armed wing” of Jamaat and was formed mainly with the members of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the Tribunal-2 observed during the proceeding of another war crime suspect Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman’s verdict.
As many as 17 prosecution witnesses including the investigation officer of the case testified against Mojaheed, while his younger son gave testimony as the lone defence witness.
The prosecution and the defence placed closing arguments between May 7 and June 5.
Earlier on June 5, the tribunal kept the Mojaheed case CAV (Curia Advisari Vult, a Latin legal term meaning verdict would be delivered anytime).
WAR TRIAL PROGRESS REPORT
The two tribunals dealing with the war crimes cases have so far delivered verdicts in five cases.
The Tribunal-1 on July 15 awarded 90-year jail to former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam for his war time offences.
The Tribunal-2 awarded expelled Jamaat leader Abul Kalam Azad and Jamaat Assistant Secretary General Muhammad Kamaruzzaman death sentence and another Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah life sentence, while the Tribunal-1 awarded Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee capital punishment.
Source : DailyStart
Amateur radio enthusiast reaching for the moon
Sending a voice signal 239,200 miles to the lunar surface and back, is
not an easy task. But for amateur radio buffs or “hams”, as they call
themselves, the ultimate dream is to reach for the moon.
“Earth-moon-earth (EME) radio communication has been my life-long
ambition. For an amateur radio enthusiast, EME is similar to what Mount
Everest means for a mountaineer,” said Muneem Hossain Rana. Further
likening his hobby to mountaineering, the Dallas-based expatriate said,
“There is no pecuniary interest involved in this amateur radio thing. It
is an expensive hobby that requires real technical expertise and lot of
time.”
Rana said hams could be very useful in assisting emergency efforts and working with public service agencies, during times of disaster, when regular communications channels are disrupted. “This is because radio amateurs use a variety of voice, text, image and data communications. They also have access to frequency allocations, throughout the radio frequency (RF) spectrum, to enable communication across a city, region, country, continent, or even into space,” he added.
Explaining about EME communication, he said the technique relies on propagation of radio waves from an earth-based transmitter, directed via reflection from the surface of the moon, back to an earth-based receiver. “In other words, it is a two-way communication via radio, where the moon surface is used, instead of atmosphere, to bounce back the signal,” he said.
EME requires a higher grade of ham-radio technology than that used for traditional earth-bound communication, across parts of the radio spectrum approved by governments for amateur use, he added.
“At present, EME provides the longest bi-directional communication path between two stations on Earth. Only about 1,000 hams worldwide have stations capable of moon-bouncing,” Rana said. “My proposal is unique, because I plan to transmit signal from my house at Dallas, Texas, which will be received by a team stationed in Bangladesh, after the signal bounces back from the moon”, he said.
According to websites on EME, the use of the moon as a passive communication satellite was proposed by WJ Bray of the British General Post Office in 1940. It was calculated that with the available microwave transmission power and low noise receivers, it would be possible to beam microwave signals up from the Earth and reflect off the moon.
The “moon bounce” technique, however, was developed by the US military after World War II, with the first successful reception of echoes off the moon being carried out at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, on January 10, 1946, by John H DeWitt, as part of Project Diana. Later, the technique was used by non-military commercial users, and the first amateur detection of signals from the moon took place in 1953.
So why this particular EME communication planned by Rana is unique? He explained that the moon must be above the horizon, in order for EME communications to be possible. But Bangladesh and the US are opposite directions in reference to the moon. “We will get only a couple of minutes at early morning or evening to release the signal, when moon can be sighted both from the US and Bangladesh. No one in the amateur radio community has tried this sort of communication, so far”, he said.
Rana said EME communication needs absolute precision, as the moon is a poor sounding board as it is spinning and has a rough surface that can disrupt signals. The hams’ voices must survive atmospheric interference over the long round-trip journey in a discernible form, he said.
In the backyard of his Dallas house, Rana has already started arrangements to establish the set-up for his communication. At first, he will try it with a 32-element beam antenna, and then it will be an array of four beam antennas. He will start transmit an array of signals from the MHz frequency band to the G Hz band.
Rana, who recently visited Bangladesh, said he already had meetings with the Bangladeshi team. “There are about 100 registered hams in Bangladesh. I have teamed up with some of them. We are now doing groundwork to select a suitable location in Bangladesh, where the signal can be received without interruption, after it bounces back from the moon”, he said.
Considering all the complexities involved, Rana said that their experiment needed a lot of patience. “We may pass six months or even a year without success, but that is the way our hobby is. Theoretically it is possible, so we will keep on trying,” he said.
Rana said that he has been an amateur radio enthusiast from his early years. “I was one of the first hams in Bangladesh. We started the movement in Bangladesh from the early 70s. It was due to our constant persuasion that the government gave official permission to have communication, through the amateur radio in 1992,” he added.
Rana said hams could be very useful in assisting emergency efforts and working with public service agencies, during times of disaster, when regular communications channels are disrupted. “This is because radio amateurs use a variety of voice, text, image and data communications. They also have access to frequency allocations, throughout the radio frequency (RF) spectrum, to enable communication across a city, region, country, continent, or even into space,” he added.
Explaining about EME communication, he said the technique relies on propagation of radio waves from an earth-based transmitter, directed via reflection from the surface of the moon, back to an earth-based receiver. “In other words, it is a two-way communication via radio, where the moon surface is used, instead of atmosphere, to bounce back the signal,” he said.
EME requires a higher grade of ham-radio technology than that used for traditional earth-bound communication, across parts of the radio spectrum approved by governments for amateur use, he added.
“At present, EME provides the longest bi-directional communication path between two stations on Earth. Only about 1,000 hams worldwide have stations capable of moon-bouncing,” Rana said. “My proposal is unique, because I plan to transmit signal from my house at Dallas, Texas, which will be received by a team stationed in Bangladesh, after the signal bounces back from the moon”, he said.
According to websites on EME, the use of the moon as a passive communication satellite was proposed by WJ Bray of the British General Post Office in 1940. It was calculated that with the available microwave transmission power and low noise receivers, it would be possible to beam microwave signals up from the Earth and reflect off the moon.
The “moon bounce” technique, however, was developed by the US military after World War II, with the first successful reception of echoes off the moon being carried out at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, on January 10, 1946, by John H DeWitt, as part of Project Diana. Later, the technique was used by non-military commercial users, and the first amateur detection of signals from the moon took place in 1953.
So why this particular EME communication planned by Rana is unique? He explained that the moon must be above the horizon, in order for EME communications to be possible. But Bangladesh and the US are opposite directions in reference to the moon. “We will get only a couple of minutes at early morning or evening to release the signal, when moon can be sighted both from the US and Bangladesh. No one in the amateur radio community has tried this sort of communication, so far”, he said.
Rana said EME communication needs absolute precision, as the moon is a poor sounding board as it is spinning and has a rough surface that can disrupt signals. The hams’ voices must survive atmospheric interference over the long round-trip journey in a discernible form, he said.
In the backyard of his Dallas house, Rana has already started arrangements to establish the set-up for his communication. At first, he will try it with a 32-element beam antenna, and then it will be an array of four beam antennas. He will start transmit an array of signals from the MHz frequency band to the G Hz band.
Rana, who recently visited Bangladesh, said he already had meetings with the Bangladeshi team. “There are about 100 registered hams in Bangladesh. I have teamed up with some of them. We are now doing groundwork to select a suitable location in Bangladesh, where the signal can be received without interruption, after it bounces back from the moon”, he said.
Considering all the complexities involved, Rana said that their experiment needed a lot of patience. “We may pass six months or even a year without success, but that is the way our hobby is. Theoretically it is possible, so we will keep on trying,” he said.
Rana said that he has been an amateur radio enthusiast from his early years. “I was one of the first hams in Bangladesh. We started the movement in Bangladesh from the early 70s. It was due to our constant persuasion that the government gave official permission to have communication, through the amateur radio in 1992,” he added.
KSA urged to recruit more Bangladeshi workers
Leader of the opposition in Parliament Khaleda Zia on Tuesday requested
the Saudi government to recruit more skilled and half-skilled workers
from Bangladesh. She made the request while a Saudi delegation led by
Speaker of Majlis-e-Shura of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Abdullah Bin
Mohammed Bin Ibrahim Al-Sheikh called on the BNP chairperson at her
Gulshan residence in the city. The opposition leader requested the
visiting Speaker to utilize his good office to recruit more Bangladeshis
in Saudi Arabia, said BNP coordinator Tariqul Islam to the reporters
after the meeting.
In response to the call of the BNP chairperson, the Speaker apprised her that massive development for the Holy Kaba Sharif is in progress and the development works will also start for Madina and Khaleda Zia requested the Speaker to employ skilled and half-skilled manpower from Bangladesh to work for those development works.
The BNP leader said, both the leaders discussed several bilateral issues during the meeting which began at 2 pm.
He said, the discussion between the two leaders was a fruitful one.
Talking to the reporters, the Saudi Speaker said, the matter of developing bilateral relations came up in the discussion with the opposition leader.
He highly appreciated the role of Khaleda Zia in strengthening the bilateral relations between the two countries.
The visiting Speaker said, the meeting with the opposition leader was held in a friendly atmosphere and he awarded a crest to the BNP chairperson during the meeting.
BNP standing committee members MK Anwar, BNP chairperson's Advisers Reaz Rahman and Sabih Uddin Ahmed, BNP chairperson's Special Assistant to KSA Enamul Haque were present at the meeting.
Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr Abdullah Bin Naser Al-Busairi was also present with the 13-member parliamentary delegation.
The Saudi Speaker arrived in Dhaka on Sunday on a four-day visit at the invitation of Speaker Abdul Hamid Advocate.
During the visit, the visiting Speaker held meetings with President Md Zillur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Speaker Abdul Hamid Advocate.
In response to the call of the BNP chairperson, the Speaker apprised her that massive development for the Holy Kaba Sharif is in progress and the development works will also start for Madina and Khaleda Zia requested the Speaker to employ skilled and half-skilled manpower from Bangladesh to work for those development works.
The BNP leader said, both the leaders discussed several bilateral issues during the meeting which began at 2 pm.
He said, the discussion between the two leaders was a fruitful one.
Talking to the reporters, the Saudi Speaker said, the matter of developing bilateral relations came up in the discussion with the opposition leader.
He highly appreciated the role of Khaleda Zia in strengthening the bilateral relations between the two countries.
The visiting Speaker said, the meeting with the opposition leader was held in a friendly atmosphere and he awarded a crest to the BNP chairperson during the meeting.
BNP standing committee members MK Anwar, BNP chairperson's Advisers Reaz Rahman and Sabih Uddin Ahmed, BNP chairperson's Special Assistant to KSA Enamul Haque were present at the meeting.
Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr Abdullah Bin Naser Al-Busairi was also present with the 13-member parliamentary delegation.
The Saudi Speaker arrived in Dhaka on Sunday on a four-day visit at the invitation of Speaker Abdul Hamid Advocate.
During the visit, the visiting Speaker held meetings with President Md Zillur Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Speaker Abdul Hamid Advocate.
Gang-raped Tangail school girl recovering slowly
The 14-year-old gang-rape victim in Tangail, now being treated in Dhaka
Medical College Hospital (DMCH), starts recovering slowly from her
illness, physicians said on Tuesday.
"The girl was suffering in fever till last Monday but the fever has been down and came in control from Tuesday," Dr Bilkis Begum, the coordinator of the One-Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) at the DMCH told The Independent. Dr Bilkis, also the member secretary of the seven member medical team which was formed to look after the girl, said that on Tuesday the girl sit on bed and talk with her mother which is a sign that she is recovering slowly.
Besides this the girls wouldn't take anything since December 14 but she starts taking orange juice from January 4, which is better sign for her health," she said, adding that as the juice is not sufficient for her health, so we still giving her saline to fulfil it.
About the physical examination result of the girl, who was admitted to the hospital on the first day of the year in critical condition and was shifted to the OSCC in the evening, Dr Bilkis said that we have done blood test, X-ray and Ultra sonogram of her and found all reports are well excepts some infection on her urine test. We would make some more test of the girl as per medical board decision, she said.
Dr Bilkis also said that they would examine the actual age of the girl by operating Radiology examination. The doctors of the seven member medical team that formed with Neuron Medicine department head Kazi Din Mohammad as a convener of it regularly examining the girls in due time.
Earlier, the girl was abducted on December 7, 2012 and raped for three days, according to the police and the family. She was later found unconscious by the railway at Madhupur in Tangail on December 10.
The girl was admitted to Tangail General Hospital on December 11 from where she was shifted to the DMCH as her conditioned deteriorated. Bithi Akhter, close to the girl, invited her to a wedding ceremony on December 7 from where she was taken to a house in a nearby forest, the victim's mother said.
The police have so far arrested five suspects, including Bithi, in this connection and produced them in court. The court allowed Bithi and the other four Shahjahan Ali, Nuruzzaman Geda, Harunur Rashid, Moniruzzaman Moni for police remand. The victim's brother filed a case with the Madhupur police on December 31, 2012.
"The girl was suffering in fever till last Monday but the fever has been down and came in control from Tuesday," Dr Bilkis Begum, the coordinator of the One-Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) at the DMCH told The Independent. Dr Bilkis, also the member secretary of the seven member medical team which was formed to look after the girl, said that on Tuesday the girl sit on bed and talk with her mother which is a sign that she is recovering slowly.
Besides this the girls wouldn't take anything since December 14 but she starts taking orange juice from January 4, which is better sign for her health," she said, adding that as the juice is not sufficient for her health, so we still giving her saline to fulfil it.
About the physical examination result of the girl, who was admitted to the hospital on the first day of the year in critical condition and was shifted to the OSCC in the evening, Dr Bilkis said that we have done blood test, X-ray and Ultra sonogram of her and found all reports are well excepts some infection on her urine test. We would make some more test of the girl as per medical board decision, she said.
Dr Bilkis also said that they would examine the actual age of the girl by operating Radiology examination. The doctors of the seven member medical team that formed with Neuron Medicine department head Kazi Din Mohammad as a convener of it regularly examining the girls in due time.
Earlier, the girl was abducted on December 7, 2012 and raped for three days, according to the police and the family. She was later found unconscious by the railway at Madhupur in Tangail on December 10.
The girl was admitted to Tangail General Hospital on December 11 from where she was shifted to the DMCH as her conditioned deteriorated. Bithi Akhter, close to the girl, invited her to a wedding ceremony on December 7 from where she was taken to a house in a nearby forest, the victim's mother said.
The police have so far arrested five suspects, including Bithi, in this connection and produced them in court. The court allowed Bithi and the other four Shahjahan Ali, Nuruzzaman Geda, Harunur Rashid, Moniruzzaman Moni for police remand. The victim's brother filed a case with the Madhupur police on December 31, 2012.
Non-govt primary schools, teachers to be nationalised
The government has decided to nationalise 26,193 non-government primary
schools and its 103,845 teachers across the country. “Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina is expected to declare this today (Wednesday) at the
teachers’ grand rally at National Parade Ground,” Primary and Mass
Education Minister Dr Afsarul Ameen told reporters at a press briefing
at the ministry on Tuesday. He said that jobs of 1,03,885 teachers would
be nationalised in three phases under the scheme.
The minister expected that over one lakh teachers would attend the grand rally.
A total of 22,981 schools that have already been getting Monthly Pay Order (MPO) from the government, will be nationalised in the first phase, the minister said, adding, “A total of 2,252 schools, which are not getting the MPO benefits, will be nationalised in the second phase on July 1.”
He further said that nationalisation of the remaining 960 schools, which have either got approval or have been waiting for approval, will take place in the third phase on January 1, 2014.
Once nationalised, the teachers of these schools will get the same salaries and benefits as those in government primary schools, Dr Ameen said.
“A total of Tk 100 crore will be needed in the first phase, Tk 371 crore in the second and Tk 651 crore in the third phase as an additional cost,” the minister said. Earlier, the Premier assured the primary teachers to meet their demand and directed the ministry to prepare a draft policy to nationalise these schools and teachers on May 27 last year.
The ministry then formed a committee that prepared the draft policy and submitted before the Prime Minister’s office.
The government of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman first nationalised 36,165 primary schools including over one lakh fifty thousand teachers across the country in 1973. Since then, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is going to nationalise 26,193 non-government primary schools and its 103,845 teachers across the country at a time for the second time in the history. There are now over 85,000 government and non-government primary schools across the country.
The minister expected that over one lakh teachers would attend the grand rally.
A total of 22,981 schools that have already been getting Monthly Pay Order (MPO) from the government, will be nationalised in the first phase, the minister said, adding, “A total of 2,252 schools, which are not getting the MPO benefits, will be nationalised in the second phase on July 1.”
He further said that nationalisation of the remaining 960 schools, which have either got approval or have been waiting for approval, will take place in the third phase on January 1, 2014.
Once nationalised, the teachers of these schools will get the same salaries and benefits as those in government primary schools, Dr Ameen said.
“A total of Tk 100 crore will be needed in the first phase, Tk 371 crore in the second and Tk 651 crore in the third phase as an additional cost,” the minister said. Earlier, the Premier assured the primary teachers to meet their demand and directed the ministry to prepare a draft policy to nationalise these schools and teachers on May 27 last year.
The ministry then formed a committee that prepared the draft policy and submitted before the Prime Minister’s office.
The government of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman first nationalised 36,165 primary schools including over one lakh fifty thousand teachers across the country in 1973. Since then, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of the father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is going to nationalise 26,193 non-government primary schools and its 103,845 teachers across the country at a time for the second time in the history. There are now over 85,000 government and non-government primary schools across the country.
India says two soldiers killed in clash with Pakistan
SRINAGAR: Pakistani troops killed two
Indian soldiers on Tuesday near the tense disputed border between the
nuclear-armed neighbours in Kashmir and one of the bodies was badly
mutilated, the Indian army said.
The
firefight broke out at about noon on Tuesday (0630 GMT) after an Indian
patrol discovered Pakistani troops about half a kilometre (1,600 feet)
inside Indian territory, army spokesman Rajesh Kalia told AFP.
A ceasefire has been in place along the Line of Control that divides the countries since 2003, but it is periodically violated by both sides and Pakistan said Indian troops killed a Pakistani soldier on Sunday.
"The government of India considers the incident as a provocative action and we condemn it," said a statement from India's defence ministry over the latest clash. "The government will take up the incident with the Pakistan government."
Relations between the neighbours had been slowly improving over the last few years following a rupture in their slow-moving peace process after the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, which were blamed by India on Pakistan-based militants.
"There was a firefight with Pakistani troops," Kalia told AFP from the mountainous Himalayan region, confirming the names of the men as sergeants Hemraj Singh and Sudhakar Singh.
"We lost two soldiers and one of them has been badly mutilated," he added, declining to give more details on the injuries.
"The intruders were regular (Pakistani) soldiers and they were 400-500 metres (1,300-1,600 feet) inside our territory," he said of the clash in Mendhar sector, 173 kilometres (107 miles) west by road from the city of Jammu.
In Islamabad, a Pakistan military spokesman denied what he called an "Indian allegation of unprovoked firing", adding that the Indian account was "propaganda to divert the attention of the world from Sunday's raid on a Pakistani post".
Pakistan's army says Indian troops crossed the Line of Control on Sunday and stormed a military post in an attack that left one Pakistani soldier dead and another injured.
It lodged a formal protest with India on Monday.
India denied crossing the line, but a foreign ministry spokesman said Indian troops had undertaken "controlled retaliation" on Sunday after "unprovoked firing" which damaged a civilian home.
The deaths deal a serious blow to efforts to ease tension in South Asia and improve diplomatic relations, such as opening up trade and offering more lenient visa regimes which have been a feature of recent high-level talks.
Muslim-majority Kashmir is a Himalayan region which India and Pakistan both claim in full but rule in part. It was the cause of two of three wars between the neighbours since independence from Britain in 1947.
The chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, condemned the alleged mutilation as "unacceptable in any civilised society".
"Clearly someone up the chain of command (in Pakistan) wants to do everything to derail any dialogue between the two countries," he wrote on Twitter.
A ceasefire has been in place along the Line of Control that divides the countries since 2003, but it is periodically violated by both sides and Pakistan said Indian troops killed a Pakistani soldier on Sunday.
"The government of India considers the incident as a provocative action and we condemn it," said a statement from India's defence ministry over the latest clash. "The government will take up the incident with the Pakistan government."
Relations between the neighbours had been slowly improving over the last few years following a rupture in their slow-moving peace process after the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, which were blamed by India on Pakistan-based militants.
"There was a firefight with Pakistani troops," Kalia told AFP from the mountainous Himalayan region, confirming the names of the men as sergeants Hemraj Singh and Sudhakar Singh.
"We lost two soldiers and one of them has been badly mutilated," he added, declining to give more details on the injuries.
"The intruders were regular (Pakistani) soldiers and they were 400-500 metres (1,300-1,600 feet) inside our territory," he said of the clash in Mendhar sector, 173 kilometres (107 miles) west by road from the city of Jammu.
In Islamabad, a Pakistan military spokesman denied what he called an "Indian allegation of unprovoked firing", adding that the Indian account was "propaganda to divert the attention of the world from Sunday's raid on a Pakistani post".
Pakistan's army says Indian troops crossed the Line of Control on Sunday and stormed a military post in an attack that left one Pakistani soldier dead and another injured.
It lodged a formal protest with India on Monday.
India denied crossing the line, but a foreign ministry spokesman said Indian troops had undertaken "controlled retaliation" on Sunday after "unprovoked firing" which damaged a civilian home.
The deaths deal a serious blow to efforts to ease tension in South Asia and improve diplomatic relations, such as opening up trade and offering more lenient visa regimes which have been a feature of recent high-level talks.
Muslim-majority Kashmir is a Himalayan region which India and Pakistan both claim in full but rule in part. It was the cause of two of three wars between the neighbours since independence from Britain in 1947.
The chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, condemned the alleged mutilation as "unacceptable in any civilised society".
"Clearly someone up the chain of command (in Pakistan) wants to do everything to derail any dialogue between the two countries," he wrote on Twitter.
The 20 Best Ozzie Guillen Misquotes
Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen is currently taking a break from the team’s road trip for a pit stop in Miami to dish out a few thousand apologies for a comment he recently made to Time magazine. If you’re unfamiliar – and chances are you’re not – here’s the comment:
I understand what Guillen was trying to say, but as usual he didn’t put much thought into what he was actually saying and who he was saying it to. So it didn’t take too long for the Internet to react and of course the people who didn’t get it freaked out and called for Guillen’s head and the people who did get it turned it into the joke of the day.
Daniel Tosh got it and he created #OzzieMisquotes on Twitter to mostly humorous results. I say mostly because a lot of people – A LOT – didn’t understand the joke and either took offense to the responses or made terrible jokes in response. I hate being a soap box guy here about Twitter, but whichever presidential candidate vows to clean up bad jokes on Twitter will get my vote.
That said, here are my 20 favorite #OzzieMisquotes from yesterday.
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“I love Fidel Castro. I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that mother*cker is still here.”People in Miami hate Castro, in case you haven’t read a history book in the past 60 years, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that anti-Castro groups are absolutely losing their sh*t over this incredibly stupid comment, and the Marlins already responded by suspending Guillen for 5 games. And the main reason I'm calling it stupid is because you shouldn’t ever say the phrase “I love Fidel Castro.” Even if the guy cures puppy AIDS, your response should still be: "That was cool, but Fidel Castro is still an assbag."
I understand what Guillen was trying to say, but as usual he didn’t put much thought into what he was actually saying and who he was saying it to. So it didn’t take too long for the Internet to react and of course the people who didn’t get it freaked out and called for Guillen’s head and the people who did get it turned it into the joke of the day.
Daniel Tosh got it and he created #OzzieMisquotes on Twitter to mostly humorous results. I say mostly because a lot of people – A LOT – didn’t understand the joke and either took offense to the responses or made terrible jokes in response. I hate being a soap box guy here about Twitter, but whichever presidential candidate vows to clean up bad jokes on Twitter will get my vote.
That said, here are my 20 favorite #OzzieMisquotes from yesterday.
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Ozzie Guillen Suspended By Marlins For Fidel Castro Comments
MIAMI — A contrite Ozzie Guillen sat in the heart of Little Havana seeking forgiveness for what the Miami Marlins manager called the biggest mistake of his life – saying he admired Fidel Castro.
This wasn't some offhanded insult about a sports writer, the type of thing that got the outspoken Guillen in trouble in Chicago. This was personal to the fan base that the Marlins rely on so much that they built their new stadium in the middle of the city's Cuban-American neighborhood.
Castro is the sworn enemy of those fans.
So after being suspended for five games Tuesday, the Marlins manager tried to quell the tempest.
"I'm here on my knees to apologize," Guillen said.
"I'm very sorry about the problem, what happened. I will do everything in my power to make it better. ... When you make a mistake like this, you can't sleep."
A chastened Guillen, who has a history of polarizing comments about gays and immigrants, among others, spoke without a script and made no disclaimers. He said he'll do whatever he can to repair relations with Cuban-Americans angered by his praise of the Cuban dictator, remarks he said he didn't mean.
Guillen, who is Venezuelan, told Time magazine he loves Castro and respects the retired Cuban leader for staying in power so long. In response, at least two Miami politicians said Guillen should lose his job. Callers on Spanish-language radio in Miami agreed and 100 demonstrators picketed Marlins Park toting signs like "NO APOLOGIES FIRE HIM NOW."
"He is full with hypocrisy," said Luis Martinez, who has lived in Miami since the late 1950s. "I don't accept any kind of pardon from him. They should get him out."
The team didn't consider firing Guillen or asking him to resign five games into his tenure, Marlins president David Samson said.
Guillen was hired to help usher in a new baseball era for the Marlins, saddled in recent years with mediocre teams and worse attendance. The team was to rely on South Florida's large Cuban-American population to help rebuild its fan base with the $634 million ballpark that opened last week.
At the hourlong news conference Tuesday morning, there was little evidence of Guillen's roguish charm or quick wit, which have made him a favorite with fans and reporters since he became a major league manager in 2004. Speaking somberly, he took full responsibility for his comments, but said they were misinterpreted by Time's reporter.
"It was a personal mistake of the thing I had in my mind and what I said," Guillen said in Spanish. "What I wanted to say in Spanish, I said in English in a wrong way."
Guillen said he doesn't love or admire Castro.
"I was saying I cannot believe somebody who hurt so many people over the years is still alive," he said.
Time said Tuesday it stands by its story.
Guillen said the uproar he created has left him sad, embarrassed and feeling stupid. He said he accepted the team's punishment.
"When you're a sportsman, you shouldn't be involved with politics," he said.
"I'm going to be a Miami guy for the rest of my life. I want to walk in the street with my head up and feel not this bad, the way I feel now."
Guillen has gotten in trouble before on issues ranging from sexual orientation to illegal immigration. Just last week, he boasted about getting drunk after games.
Those episodes quickly faded. But on South Florida's scale of political incorrectness, praise for Castro is a home run, and it was unclear how long it would take for anger toward Guillen to subside.
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said the remarks "have no place in our game" and were "offensive to an important part of the Miami community and others throughout the world."
"As I have often said, baseball is a social institution with important social responsibilities," Selig added in a statement. "All of our 30 clubs play significant roles within their local communities, and I expect those who represent Major League Baseball to act with the kind of respect and sensitivity that the game's many cultures deserve."
Marlins officials said Guillen still had the support of the organization.
"We believe in him," said Samson, the team president. "We believe in his apology. We believe everybody deserves a second chance." He said he expected no further punishment from MLB.
Guillen apologized over the weekend after his remarks were published in Time, then left his team in Philadelphia, where the Marlins were playing the Phillies, and flew to Miami.
The teams resume their three-game series Wednesday in Philadelphia. Guillen said he'll be there to apologize to his players, but he won't be in the dugout. Bench coach Joey Cora will be the interim manager.
"The Marlins acknowledge the seriousness of the comments attributed to Guillen," read a statement from the team. "The pain and suffering caused by Fidel Castro cannot be minimized, especially in a community filled with victims of the dictatorship."
The suspension, which takes effect immediately, recalled the punishment given to Marge Schott, the late owner of the Cincinnati Reds. Schott so embarrassed baseball in the 1990s with her inflammatory racial remarks and fond recollections of Adolf Hitler that she was suspended from ownership duties for a season.
"After spending years of my life with Ozzie Guillen, I can honestly say he has never been this apologetic," tweeted former slugger Frank Thomas, who played for Guillen with the Chicago White Sox. "I know he is really hurting inside for what he said. If you really know him this was not his intentions at all."
In Cuba, a column posted on multiple state-run and pro-government websites said the backlash against Guillen showed Miami has become "a banana republic" that censors unpopular opinions.
"The sensationalist and cowed Miami press, the politicians, have used these declaration of his to raise a scandal and in passing try to win visibility and votes for the upcoming elections," wrote Edmundo Garcia. "Some want to prohibit thoughts and opinions that differ from theirs."
About 100 reporters, photographers and cameramen attended Guillen's news conference, a turnout to rival some late-season Marlins crowds in years gone by.
Guillen sat alone at the podium and began in Spanish, speaking without notes for several minutes before taking questions. Shortly after he started, his voice wavered mid-sentence. He paused to take a sip of water and clear his throat.
"This is the biggest mistake I've made so far in my life," Guillen said.
Guillen spoke in Spanish for about 80 percent of the news conference. Guillen said he was suspended without pay, but Samson later said the manager will be paid and will donate the money to Miami human-rights causes.
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Associated Press writers David Ginsburg in Baltimore, Janie McCauley in San Francisco, Peter Orsi in Havana and Gisela Salomon in Miami contributed to this report.
This wasn't some offhanded insult about a sports writer, the type of thing that got the outspoken Guillen in trouble in Chicago. This was personal to the fan base that the Marlins rely on so much that they built their new stadium in the middle of the city's Cuban-American neighborhood.
Castro is the sworn enemy of those fans.
So after being suspended for five games Tuesday, the Marlins manager tried to quell the tempest.
"I'm here on my knees to apologize," Guillen said.
"I'm very sorry about the problem, what happened. I will do everything in my power to make it better. ... When you make a mistake like this, you can't sleep."
A chastened Guillen, who has a history of polarizing comments about gays and immigrants, among others, spoke without a script and made no disclaimers. He said he'll do whatever he can to repair relations with Cuban-Americans angered by his praise of the Cuban dictator, remarks he said he didn't mean.
Guillen, who is Venezuelan, told Time magazine he loves Castro and respects the retired Cuban leader for staying in power so long. In response, at least two Miami politicians said Guillen should lose his job. Callers on Spanish-language radio in Miami agreed and 100 demonstrators picketed Marlins Park toting signs like "NO APOLOGIES FIRE HIM NOW."
"He is full with hypocrisy," said Luis Martinez, who has lived in Miami since the late 1950s. "I don't accept any kind of pardon from him. They should get him out."
Guillen was hired to help usher in a new baseball era for the Marlins, saddled in recent years with mediocre teams and worse attendance. The team was to rely on South Florida's large Cuban-American population to help rebuild its fan base with the $634 million ballpark that opened last week.
At the hourlong news conference Tuesday morning, there was little evidence of Guillen's roguish charm or quick wit, which have made him a favorite with fans and reporters since he became a major league manager in 2004. Speaking somberly, he took full responsibility for his comments, but said they were misinterpreted by Time's reporter.
"It was a personal mistake of the thing I had in my mind and what I said," Guillen said in Spanish. "What I wanted to say in Spanish, I said in English in a wrong way."
Guillen said he doesn't love or admire Castro.
"I was saying I cannot believe somebody who hurt so many people over the years is still alive," he said.
Time said Tuesday it stands by its story.
Guillen said the uproar he created has left him sad, embarrassed and feeling stupid. He said he accepted the team's punishment.
"When you're a sportsman, you shouldn't be involved with politics," he said.
"I'm going to be a Miami guy for the rest of my life. I want to walk in the street with my head up and feel not this bad, the way I feel now."
Guillen has gotten in trouble before on issues ranging from sexual orientation to illegal immigration. Just last week, he boasted about getting drunk after games.
Those episodes quickly faded. But on South Florida's scale of political incorrectness, praise for Castro is a home run, and it was unclear how long it would take for anger toward Guillen to subside.
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said the remarks "have no place in our game" and were "offensive to an important part of the Miami community and others throughout the world."
"As I have often said, baseball is a social institution with important social responsibilities," Selig added in a statement. "All of our 30 clubs play significant roles within their local communities, and I expect those who represent Major League Baseball to act with the kind of respect and sensitivity that the game's many cultures deserve."
Marlins officials said Guillen still had the support of the organization.
"We believe in him," said Samson, the team president. "We believe in his apology. We believe everybody deserves a second chance." He said he expected no further punishment from MLB.
Guillen apologized over the weekend after his remarks were published in Time, then left his team in Philadelphia, where the Marlins were playing the Phillies, and flew to Miami.
The teams resume their three-game series Wednesday in Philadelphia. Guillen said he'll be there to apologize to his players, but he won't be in the dugout. Bench coach Joey Cora will be the interim manager.
"The Marlins acknowledge the seriousness of the comments attributed to Guillen," read a statement from the team. "The pain and suffering caused by Fidel Castro cannot be minimized, especially in a community filled with victims of the dictatorship."
The suspension, which takes effect immediately, recalled the punishment given to Marge Schott, the late owner of the Cincinnati Reds. Schott so embarrassed baseball in the 1990s with her inflammatory racial remarks and fond recollections of Adolf Hitler that she was suspended from ownership duties for a season.
"After spending years of my life with Ozzie Guillen, I can honestly say he has never been this apologetic," tweeted former slugger Frank Thomas, who played for Guillen with the Chicago White Sox. "I know he is really hurting inside for what he said. If you really know him this was not his intentions at all."
In Cuba, a column posted on multiple state-run and pro-government websites said the backlash against Guillen showed Miami has become "a banana republic" that censors unpopular opinions.
"The sensationalist and cowed Miami press, the politicians, have used these declaration of his to raise a scandal and in passing try to win visibility and votes for the upcoming elections," wrote Edmundo Garcia. "Some want to prohibit thoughts and opinions that differ from theirs."
About 100 reporters, photographers and cameramen attended Guillen's news conference, a turnout to rival some late-season Marlins crowds in years gone by.
Guillen sat alone at the podium and began in Spanish, speaking without notes for several minutes before taking questions. Shortly after he started, his voice wavered mid-sentence. He paused to take a sip of water and clear his throat.
"This is the biggest mistake I've made so far in my life," Guillen said.
Guillen spoke in Spanish for about 80 percent of the news conference. Guillen said he was suspended without pay, but Samson later said the manager will be paid and will donate the money to Miami human-rights causes.
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Associated Press writers David Ginsburg in Baltimore, Janie McCauley in San Francisco, Peter Orsi in Havana and Gisela Salomon in Miami contributed to this report.
Islamic Banking System For All
Recently Islamic banking system becomes so much popular that a major number of commercial bank’s in Bangladesh introducing their Islamic banking branches in all important areas. As the advancement of the satellite channel every one can know about the benefits of Islamic banking, and in Bangladesh more over 90% people believes in Islam. So for attracting the huge number of population every commercial bank’s of the country try to perform the Islamic banking. For the persons who are interested about the Islamic banking and for others it is need to know something about the Shariah based banking.
The Islamic banking concept is started from the golden stage of Islam. During the Islamic Golden Age, early forms of proto-capitalism and free markets were present in the Caliphate, where an early market economy and an early form of mercantilism were developed between the 8th-12th centuries, which some refer to as "Islamic capitalism".
Before establishment of the Islamic banking concept, some other issues was established to control that economy which include, bills of exchange, the first forms of partnership (mufawada) such as limited partnerships (mudaraba), and the earliest forms of capital (al-mal), capital accumulation (nama al-mal), cheques, promissory notes, trusts (see Waqf), transactional accounts and loaning. On the basis of these concepts the modern Islamic banking concept is established. In the early stage of 1946 the first Islamic banking concept is thinking by the Anwar Qureshi. On the basis of his proposed interest free banking at present we get this modern banking concept.
At present we define Islamic Bank as “An Islamic Bank is a Financial Institution whose statutes, rules, and regulations expressly state its commitments to the Principles of Islamic Shariah and to the banning of the receipt and payment of interest on any of its operation” According to Islamic Banking Act 1983 of Malaysia: “An Islamic Bank is a company which carrying on Islamic Banking Business. …Islamic Banking Business means banking business whose aims and operations do not involve any element which is not approved by the Religion of Islam.” Riba and Shariah is the most common word of Islamic bank, let’s see what its means, The word "Riba" means excess, increase or addition, which according to Shariah terminology, implies any excess compensation without due consideration (consideration does not include time value of money).
The definition of riba in classical Islamic jurisprudence was "surplus value without counterpart", or "to ensure equivalency in real value", and that "numerical value was immaterial." And the Shariah is the Islamic rules enforced in the banking. The rules of Shariah are known as Fiqh al-Muamalat (Islamic rules on transactions).
The basic difference between the conventional banking and the Islamic banking are, the Islamic banking system is based on the profit loss based, where the conventional banking system is purely based on the interest based. In the conventional banking all liabilities are carried by the banks and the customers are not treated as their partner but in the Islamic banking system the customers are treated as the partners of the banks and for the all the liabilities are carried by the both the customers and the banks.
There are some principals of Islamic banks are available, which include
Conventional Banks
By considering all aspects it can be said that, the Islamic banking concept is well balanced for the both owners and the customers. And this concept is well structured for the development of the society and it is beneficiary for all groups of people, for the equal balance of the social economy and help to build the strong economic structure of the country.
The Islamic banking concept is started from the golden stage of Islam. During the Islamic Golden Age, early forms of proto-capitalism and free markets were present in the Caliphate, where an early market economy and an early form of mercantilism were developed between the 8th-12th centuries, which some refer to as "Islamic capitalism".
Before establishment of the Islamic banking concept, some other issues was established to control that economy which include, bills of exchange, the first forms of partnership (mufawada) such as limited partnerships (mudaraba), and the earliest forms of capital (al-mal), capital accumulation (nama al-mal), cheques, promissory notes, trusts (see Waqf), transactional accounts and loaning. On the basis of these concepts the modern Islamic banking concept is established. In the early stage of 1946 the first Islamic banking concept is thinking by the Anwar Qureshi. On the basis of his proposed interest free banking at present we get this modern banking concept.
At present we define Islamic Bank as “An Islamic Bank is a Financial Institution whose statutes, rules, and regulations expressly state its commitments to the Principles of Islamic Shariah and to the banning of the receipt and payment of interest on any of its operation” According to Islamic Banking Act 1983 of Malaysia: “An Islamic Bank is a company which carrying on Islamic Banking Business. …Islamic Banking Business means banking business whose aims and operations do not involve any element which is not approved by the Religion of Islam.” Riba and Shariah is the most common word of Islamic bank, let’s see what its means, The word "Riba" means excess, increase or addition, which according to Shariah terminology, implies any excess compensation without due consideration (consideration does not include time value of money).
The definition of riba in classical Islamic jurisprudence was "surplus value without counterpart", or "to ensure equivalency in real value", and that "numerical value was immaterial." And the Shariah is the Islamic rules enforced in the banking. The rules of Shariah are known as Fiqh al-Muamalat (Islamic rules on transactions).
The basic difference between the conventional banking and the Islamic banking are, the Islamic banking system is based on the profit loss based, where the conventional banking system is purely based on the interest based. In the conventional banking all liabilities are carried by the banks and the customers are not treated as their partner but in the Islamic banking system the customers are treated as the partners of the banks and for the all the liabilities are carried by the both the customers and the banks.
There are some principals of Islamic banks are available, which include
- The absence of interest-based (riba) transactions;
- The avoidance of economic activities involving oppression.
- The avoidance of economic activities involving speculation
- The introduction of an Islamic tax, zakat;
- The discouragement of the production of goods and services which contradict the Islamic value (haram)
Conventional Banks
- The functions and operating modes of conventional banks are based on fully manmade principles.
- It does not deal with Zakat.
- The investor is assured of a predetermined rate of interest.
- A conventional bank has to guarantee all its deposits.
- Lending money and getting it back with compounding interest is the fundamental function of the conventional banks.
- It can charge additional money (penalty and compounded interest) in case of defaulters.
- Very often it results in the bank’s own interest becoming prominent. It makes no effort to ensure growth with equity.
- For interest-based commercial banks, borrowing from the money market is relatively easier.
- Since income from the advances is fixed, it gives little importance to developing expertise in project appraisal and evaluations.
- The conventional banks give greater emphasis on credit-worthiness of the clients.
- The status of a conventional bank, in relation to its clients, is that of creditor and debtors.
- It aims at maximizing profit without any restriction.
- The functions and operating modes of Islamic banks are based on the principles of Islamic Shariah.
- In the modern Islamic banking system, it has become one of the service-oriented functions of the Islamic banks to be a Zakat Collection Centre and they also pay out their Zakat.
- In contrast, it promotes risk sharing between provider of capital (investor) and the user of funds (entrepreneur).
- Islamic bank can only guarantee deposits for deposit account, which is based on the principle of al-wadiah, thus the depositors are guaranteed repayment of their funds, however if the account is based on the mudarabah concept, client have to share in a loss position.
- Participation in partnership business is the fundamental function of the Islamic banks. So we have to understand our customer’s business very well.
- The Islamic banks have no provision to charge any extra money from the defaulters. Only small amount of compensation and these proceeds is given to charity. Rebates are give for early settlement at the Bank’s discretion.
- It gives due importance to the public interest. Its ultimate aim is to ensure growth with equity.
- For the Islamic banks, it must be based on a Shariah approved underlying transaction.
- Since it shares profit and loss, the Islamic banks pay greater attention to developing project appraisal and evaluations.
- The Islamic banks, on the other hand, give greater emphasis on the viability of the projects.
- The status of Islamic bank in relation to its clients is that of partners, investors and trader, buyer and seller.
- It also aims at maximizing profit but subject to Shariah restrictions.
By considering all aspects it can be said that, the Islamic banking concept is well balanced for the both owners and the customers. And this concept is well structured for the development of the society and it is beneficiary for all groups of people, for the equal balance of the social economy and help to build the strong economic structure of the country.
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