Top stories
![Pakistan Cyber Force [Official]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_s0sZK_ZvM2ZFAqVR4Z-0De0rzkOx5S0Y84HCNJB4SHiVyqW5utm1Lxyayl6-0FDhtOuKHM5ivTB3BoqW_D2JNUbmKfXUyrzBlmxwmDXvVxFYTJYygSlg=s0-d)
Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bangladesh. Show all posts
Monday, September 8, 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Hundreds rushed to hospital with suspected poisoning at Bangladeshi garment factory
- Subscribe to PCF Networked Blog Daily Updates
- Subscribe to our Twitter / Google / Yahoo Daily Updates
“We are suspecting that it was poisoning of the water. It could be some sort of pesticide,” S M Mannan, a vice president of the BGMEA, told AFP. He went on to state that the factory has its own water supply from a deep-tube well so the scope for contamination was almost nil. “Someone might have mixed poison in the water,” he said. Global scrutiny over the conditions under which a number of Bangladesh-produced items are made is intensifying after a cluster of disasters at factories producing commercial goods. 1,129 people died in a disaster at the Rana Plaza Bangladeshi garment factory in April, with bodies still being dragged from the collapsed wreckage over a week later. The building was also located in a northern suburb of Dhaka, called Savar. It was the world’s most lethal industrial accident since the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India.
Fires are common in the factories of Bangladesh’s garment industry, which comprises about 80 percent of the country’s exports. Bangladesh houses more than 4,500 factories dedicated to churning out such goods. A fire last November killed 112 people. The latest was in an 11-story building in Mirpu, located between Dhaka and Savar, killing the company’s managing director and some of his personal staff and friends.
Despite Bangladesh factories’ proneness to disaster, Walmart and Gap, both voiced opposition to a broad safety upgrade agreement in mid-May, which included “dispute resolution mechanisms.” The new pact additionally called for retailers to pay up to $500,000 a year toward the effort, and to halt business with any Bangladesh factory that refuses to make safety improvements.
If Walmart and Gap become signatories to the agreement, they may leave themselves open to cases filed by US lawyers on behalf of the workers in Bangladesh who suffer as a result of unsafe working conditions.
Earlier on Wednesday, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at families protesting the death of their relatives in the April disaster, who had gathered where the building once stood. They have been calling for the authorities to publish a list of missing workers so that their relatives can claim compensation.
“There were up to 1,000 protesters, they blocked a key highway and staged a sit-in in front of the ruined site for nearly three hours,” local industrial police inspector Amjad Hossain told Reuters.
“Primarily we suspect the water supply of the Starlight Sweaters factory was poisoned or contaminated,” local industrial police officer Mahfuzur Rahman told AFP on Wednesday. The factory is located in Gazipur, a suburb just north of the capital, Dhaka. The estimate of 600 was cited to the news agency by the administrative officer of the factory, with an official from Bangladesh's Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), stating that the contamination could well have been deliberate.
(RT)
Pakistan Cyber ForceThursday, December 13, 2012
Did Pakistan commit genocide and kill 3 million people in East Pakistan in 1971?
- Subscribe to PCF Networked Blog Daily Updates
- Subscribe to our Twitter / Google / Yahoo Daily Updates
 |
| Time Magazine 1971 |
He questions the conventional narrative of an oppressed, downtrodden Bengali nation fighting a brave and noble war of “liberation” from a tyrannical regime in the face of impossible hardship only to emerge as a free nation to whom the future now belonged. He says that greed for personal power and Indian predatory ambitions against its only regional counterweight were the only things that motivated the players who incited the breakup of the only homeland created for the Muslims of the subcontinent.
He explains how the allegations of genocide were artificially cooked up and from where the “absolutely impossible” 3 million figure was hatched, and anyone who tried to dig for the real truth in those days was murdered. He gives research-based details of each major incident that was blamed on Pakistan: the killing of intellectuals in Dhaka University, killings elsewhere in Dhaka, the murder of 5,000 Buddhists and 17,000 Awami Leaguers, the massacres and destruction visited on Kushtia, Jessore, Khulna and Chittagong, and the rapes of 400,000 women resulting in 200,000 pregnancies.
He then goes on to explain another category of atrocities committed by the so-called “liberators” that anti-Pakistan propagandists have whitewashed from all historic record, these were carried out against large numbers of East Pakistanis that fought for Pakistan and just about everyone who did not support Mukti Bahini. He describes the savage and gruesome ways they (he gives actual names and credentials of the victims) were murdered and otherwise brutalized and recounts the stories survivors themselves told, and apportions responsibility directly to Mukti Bahini and Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rehman, who was an Indian collaborator since the mid-1950s.
He says the true story must be told otherwise Bangladesh will never be a truly free nation and a normal member of the international community or the comity of Islamic nations. He says only the truth will enable reconciliation between Pakistanis and Bengalis and enable them to move on from the past and move toward the future together as brotherly nations like they used to be at one time.
Download this book to know the true story:
BEHIND THE MYTH OF THREE MILLION
By Dr. M. Abdul Mu’min Chowdhury
Behind the myth of 3 million: True story of bloody birth of Bangladesh
***********
Pakistan Cyber Force
Friday, November 30, 2012
Is Wal-Mart behind Bangladesh Factory Fire?
- Subscribe to PCF Networked Blog Daily Updates
- Subscribe to our Twitter / Google / Yahoo Daily Updates
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), the world’s
largest retailer, fired a supplier that made apparel at a
Bangladesh factory where more than 100 people died in the
country’s deadliest ever blaze at a garment facility. However critics believe that this is a cover-up and Wal-Mart is trying to whitewash its dirt.
The factory, owned by Tazreen Fashion Ltd., had no emergency exits, and many workers were burnt alive, as they got trapped in heavy smoke, said Muhammad Mahboob, a director at the Fire Service and Civil Defence. Some workers jumped from the eight-story building to escape the flames, according to Mohammad Sharif, who runs a local grocery store and whose parents-in-law worked at the plant.
At least 124 people were killed in the fire on Nov. 24, said Habibur Rahman, superintendent of police for Dhaka. Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin, president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, estimates the death toll at 113.
Textiles contribute more than 10 percent of Bangladesh’s gross domestic product and about 80 percent of the nation’s exports, mainly to the U.S. and the EU, according to the manufacturers’ association.
Unsafe Buildings
Bangladesh’s High Court yesterday opened a probe into the nation’s worst garment factory fire. After four human rights organizations filed a writ petition, two judges in a ruling asked the government to explain what steps it has taken to implement an earlier High Court directive to ensure the safety of garment workers.About 700 apparel industry workers have died since 2005 because of unsafe buildings in the Asian country, the International Labor Rights Forum said in a statement. The second deadliest fire was in 2006 when 54 people died at KTS Textile and Garments in the port city of Chittagong, according to the manufacturers’ association. As wages have risen in China, companies such as Li & Fung Ltd., the world’s largest supplier of clothes and toys to retailers, are tapping Bangladesh and other lower-cost Asian countries.
Li & Fung
The factory that burned down has produced apparel for Li & Fung (494), which has said it is in contact with the factory’s owner and that it will conduct its own investigation. The fire won’t have any material impact on the company’s financial performance and the total value of orders placed by its U.S. subsidiary for the year amounted to $111,000, Li & Fung said yesterday. It hasn’t placed orders for other customers with Tazreen, it said.Wal-Mart has visited supplier factories to identify those deemed “high risk for fire safety hazards,” it said on its website. In 2011, the company stopped working with 49 factories in Bangladesh due to fire safety issues, it said. Tazreen Fashion, a unit of textile manufacturer Tuba Group, employs 1,200 workers and exports goods worth $36 million a year, mainly to the U.S. and Europe, according to the company’s website.
Pakistan Cyber Force
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Butchery of Muslims along Bangladesh-India Border
- Subscribe to PCF Networked Blog Daily Updates
- Subscribe to our Twitter / Google / Yahoo Daily Updates
I thought that the BSF soldiers would shoot Habibur Rehman at the end and I had no courage to see a man dying. Thanks to Ishtiaq Hassan, the press counselor at Bangladesh High Commission Islamabad who offered me some newspapers from Bangladesh to go through when I was there in his office, waiting for my visa to be processed. Through those newspapers I came to know that Habibur Rehman had somehow escaped from the brutal clutches of those villains of Indian BSF. Maltreatment with Habibur Rehman is not the only example of Indian brutality against the people of Bangladesh. There are so many other examples also, more heartrending and more frightening. The killing of Felani, a 15 years old Bangladeshi girl is also one of such terrible incidents. It was 7th of January, 2011 when she was returning to Bangladesh with her father from Nayadilli, India.
Since there was no proper place of crossing the Bangladesh and Indian border, the father and the daughter managed to go across the barbed wire boundary using a ladder. Unfortunately Felani's clothes got entangled in the wire and she started screaming for help. In response to her call for help, the BSF members started shooting at her mercilessly and just in next fifteen minutes she was no more in this world. Such inhuman and callous incidents are a part of the routine at the Bangladesh-Indian border. The people of Bangladesh are so helpless that they could do nothing but raise slogans of dissent and protest against these atrocities. And more painful is the cruel silence of so-called international peace-keepers who never pay any heed to this never-ending series of injustice and brutality.
Written by Professor Ali Sukhanver
Pakistan Cyber Force
Friday, March 30, 2012
Bangladesh lost Asia Cup due to “ISI elements”: PM Hasina Wajid
- Subscribe to PCF Networked Blog Daily Updates
- Subscribe to our Twitter / Google / Yahoo Daily Updates
Pakistan Cyber Force
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
