Saturday, July 28th, 2007Army is ready to face any situation arising out of the current flood in cooperation with the civil administration, a senior military official said in Dhaka Friday. Briefing reporters at the Army Headquarters monitoring cell, Lt Col Firoz Rahim, GSO Grade-1, said the army was working with the civil administration from July 23 and joined the rescue and rehabilitation of flood victims in different areas at the instruction of the chief of the army staff. He said monitoring cells had been set up at the army headquarters and divisional headquarters to coordinate their works ...
(read more) Wednesday, June 20th, 2007The chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, has said the present caretaker government is constitutional, accountable to the people and is moving towards holding a free, fair and credible election by the end of the next year. The chief adviser made the remarks when the US ambassador, Patricia A Butenis, made a farewell call on him at his office on Tuesday. Fakhruddin told Butenis, who would leave Bangladesh next week for Iraq to take up her new assignment, that his government was committed to a transparent process, freedom of press and the rule of law. ‘The ...
(read more) Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Businessman Noor Ali is claimed to have admitted to the joint forces that he gave Tk 1 crore to Awami League (AL) chief and the then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and three flats to her cousin Sheikh Helal out of the $ 4 million commission he received from MiG-29 purchase for Bangladesh Air Force during the AL rule.Besides, he gifted Hasina's son Sajeeb Wajed Joy half of a floor at UTC building at Panthapath in the capital for his IT office, and it was registered in the name of AL leader Kazi Zafarullah, sources quoted him as saying during questioning ...
(read more) Friday, May 25th, 2007Army Chief Lt Gen Moeen U Ahmed has been made a four-star general in a major elevation in the military services, an ISPR release said yesterday.Air Chief Vice-Marshal S M Ziaur Rahman has been promoted to air marshal while Navy Chief Rear Admiral Sarwar Zahan Nizam to vice-admiral.Besides, three major generals have been promoted to lieutenant general, while three brigadier generals to major general.Principal Staff Officer (PSO) Major General Mohammad Zahangir Alam Chowdhury has been elevated to lieutenant general with a new posting. He has been made Quarter Master General (QMG).Commandant of the National Defence College (NDC) Major General Abu ...
(read more) Thursday, May 24th, 2007Army chief Lt Gen Moeen U Ahmed yesterday said power takeover by the military or their getting involved in politics is out of the question as the army is not the "proper institution" to run the government.Moeen also reiterated the army's full commitment to press freedom and journalists' right to report freely. "The army respects the free press and takes its suggestions very seriously and often acts on them," he told newspaper editors at a meeting at his office yesterday.He said he wants elections and restoration of an elected government as early as possible. If the army wanted to take ...
(read more) Friday, April 6th, 2007Now that Chief of Army Staff (CAS) Lt Gen Moeen U Ahmed has decided to go public on political issues, he must be ready, willing and open to public debate on them including criticism of his views, if any. To start with, should a sitting CAS speak in public and in presence of the President on the political future of a country? Such speech making will naturally raise questions as to whether or not the army chief or his institution plans to get involved in the country's politics? When such comments touch even the structure of the future government and ...
(read more) Friday, March 30th, 2007It was not the main thrust of his speech. The Army Chief, Lt General Moeen U Ahmed hit a significant chord in the nation's psyche when he said that after 36 years of independence we still have not been able to honour the Father of the Nation. We commend him for his courageous statement and urge the caretaker government to bury our murdered history forever and give our leaders their due places in our national history. This will unite us again as a people to concentrate fully on the task at hand, which is to take Bangladesh forward in economic, ...
(read more) Thursday, March 29th, 2007Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Moeen U Ahmed yesterday said the administration is working towards its objective of holding an acceptable national election."It is the representatives of the people elected through fair election free from the influence of money and muscle can provide the leadership to steer the nation toward progress," the army chief told the meetings of the officials at Habiganj and Moulvibazar.He compared present Bangladesh with a derailed train and said the nation needs an efficient administrator to bring it to the right track for ensuring progress and prosperity.The army chief reminded the officials of the situation ...
(read more) Wednesday, March 28th, 2007Chief of the Armed Forces Lt Gen Moeen U Ahmed yesterday said the country has not achieved its desired progress because of corrupt politicians and the time is now to wage a war against corruption, injustice, and thuggery that have pervaded all levels of the society.Lt Gen Moeen also said corrupt politicians smuggled their money overseas, including at least Tk 20 crore smuggled off shore from the energy sector alone.He made the observations at a tea party he hosted at the National Parade Square in honour of the Freedom Fighters Contingent which had taken part in the national parade on ...
(read more) Monday, March 12th, 2007Soon after the taskforces put on the legal vest yesterday, the all-powerful corruption and crime busting forces vowed to spare none, not even the top two political leaders-- Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina, if graft links found. "Of course, it depends on the complaints that we receive (against them)," Chief Coordinator of the National Coordination Committee Major General Masud Uddin Chowdhury told The Daily Star, coming out of his meeting with the Anti-corruption Commission Chairman Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury yesterday.The general officer commanding (GOC) of Nine Infantry Division went to the ACC for reviewing the ongoing drive against high profile corruption ...
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