On May 9, 8:05=A0am, Javed Iqbal Kaleem <javediqbalkal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Fair enough. Pakistan did offer a good price and the deal could have
concl=
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> much earlier if an agreement was in place.
Obviously Pakistan didn't offer a good price. The colonial era of
1947-1971 is over as Mr. Zillur Ahmed has rightly observed. It will
never again be as easy to use sweet talks of Muslim brotherhood to
make obscenely excess profit at Bangladesh's expense. Pakistani
vendors (and the Kakul trained thieves) will never again be allowed to
do an Aurangzeb on "Muslim brother" Bangladesh. Enough is enough.
Pakistani vendors need to compete with other vendors and win an
agreement on the basis of commercial merit.
> Because in that case, Bangladesh and
> Pakistan, would offer to each other any excess grains
What excess grains? Pakistan is im****ting essential staples like wheat
and sugar even from India. Of course, Pakistani traders have their own
tricks to make excess profit. Last year they spread the canard that
sugar im****ted from India is unfit for human consumption. But
Pakistan's Court saw thru the ruse and dismissed their demand to have
im****t of Indian sugar banned. It is good that, for once, Pakistan's
court was able to put interests of the common Pakistanis above the
interests of the corrupt profit-driven business class of Pakistan.
> and when the requirements
> of both the countries are met than the remaining grains could be sold
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> highest bidder
>
Pakistan-Bangladesh constitute a net im****ter. So, why is Javed Iqbal
Kaleem making this absurd statement? He is essentially trying to
bypass competition from non-Pakistani vendors so that Pakistani
vendors can make obscenely high profits at the expense of
Banglade****s.
>
> Pakistan sold a good deal of rice to India at quite competitive price
befo=
re the
> need of Bangladesh came to fore. And it was this sale which enabled
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to
> sell rice to Bangladesh, after adding her profit margin. So Bangladesh
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> paying profit to two suppliers instead of one.
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Javed Iqbal Kaleem's fairy tale is unlikely to be bought by Bangladesh
even if it is sweetened with talks of "muslim brotherhood". "Muslim
brother" Bangladesh has first hand experience of the Aurangzeb in
Pakistan's unholy nexus of Punjab's businessmen & soldiers.
India is the third largest ex****ter of rice after Thailand & Vietnam.
Even Burma has more ex****table rice than Pakistan. Why then did
Bangladesh govt. buy rice from India during the present crisis?
Bangladesh has explicitly stated the reason - Rice from India was the
cheapest available in the international market. If India were indeed
reselling Pakistani rice to Bangladesh for a profit, could it have
offered rice to Bangladesh at a price lower than that of competitors?
If Pakistan wants to sell rice to Bangladesh, it must do it the usual
way - compete with vendors from Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, India etc.
by offering rice at a price that Bangladesh will not refuse.
Instead, Pakistan was at its shady best even during the current
crisis. It tried to offload rotten rice on Bangladesh. The rotten rice
from Pakistan had to be dumped as garbage by the ****t authorities in
Bangladesh.
BTW, I have seen Pakistanis who acknowledge with gratitude Mahatma
Gandhi's gesture of going into fast to force the Indian government to
part with Pakistan's share of assets afetr the partition of 1947. But,
Pakistan, I understand, has refused to part with Bangladesh's share of
assets after the partition of 1971. So much for Muslim brotherhood!
Bangladesh verily understands that it has an Aurangzeb in brother
Pakistan!!
And what about the stranded Pakistanis (aka Biharis) who have spent
nealy 4 decades waiting to go home? Pakistan's military had used them
as the cat's paw during 1971. In spite of that, Bangladesh was
generous enough to offer citizen****p to all these Mir Jafars after
liberation in December of 1971. But some of them had truly believed in
the talks of Muslim brotherhood by the Aurangzebs in Islamabad. They
truly believed that their home was Pakistan. They refused to take
Banglade**** citizen****p. Quarter million of these Mir Jafars have
lived in UN run refugee camps for the last 37 years waiting to be
repatriated to Pakistan which is not just their spiritual homeland but
their land of citizen****p as well. But the Aurangzebs in Islamabad
have shown no intention of doing the needful even as they try to sweet
talk other victims in the name of Muslim brotherhood.
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