[🇧🇩] India Out Campaign in Bangladesh

[Azad Kashmir]

No country wants to burden an additional 180 million people by annexing Bangladesh if they can squeeze out the benefits some other way. Bengalis have nothing to worry about suffering the fate of Sikim or Hyderabad, which were not the same things. India is already a very large country anyway.

Chicken Neck has no military significance because there is no physical wall there saying the Indian army can not enter nearby Bangladesh to defend their territory. I am sure that Indians will manage to get military transit to that area over Bangladesh by mutual agreement. Otherwise, they will use the transit without permission anyway. People who talk about this so-called "Chicken Neck" did not attend a good military college. China and India are both Nuclear power and they are unlikely to go to war. India is a big Chinese market too.

However, Pakistan is another story. It is the birthplace of Hinduism and the Indus civilization, and therefore, Indians have a different approach to Pakistan. We are also the gateway to the Middle East and Central Asia since we have cut off The Wakhan Corridor bordering Gilgit-Baltistan from Indian-occupied Kashmir. Indians are upset about this huge strategic loss. There are other ideological issues, too. Hence, we need a powerful deterrent strategy towards Indian expansionism as far as Pakistan is concerned.

thats why pakistan needs mandatory military service and mandatory labor service they get free lunch and taxi.
you will have hordes of indian pajeets making their way into pakistan border crossing like zombies scene from movies, therefore automatic machine gun like gatling gun is needed.

 

[Old School]

thats why pakistan needs mandatory military service and mandatory labor service they get free lunch and taxi.
you will have hordes of indian pajeets making their way into pakistan border crossing like zombies scene from movies, therefore automatic machine gun like gatling gun is needed.

The government won't make the military service mandatory. If we ever have a revolution, then may be.

 

[Azad Kashmir]

The government won't make the military service mandatory. If we ever have a revolution, then may be.

then government and military shall fight on the front and that too to the death while rest of us eat kebabs and watch.

 

[Old School]

then government and military shall fight on the front and that too to the death while rest of us eat kebabs and watch.

Most nations in the world do not have conscription or mandatory military service. We have a big pool of military-eligible age population, just like India, the US, and the UK. When the time comes, the government has many options to fill the military ranks. Nothing to worry. It is worrisome for nations with small populations, and they do have compulsory military service.

 

[Saif]

'That Coca-Cola ad' only proves the power of boycott

A global brand trying to tell us that we are immature or ignorant for feeling this way is not acceptable.

www.thedailystar.net

'That Coca-Cola ad' only proves the power of boycott

Visual: Fatima Jahan Ena

A Coca-Cola Bangladesh ad was launched on June 9, before being hidden from their YouTube channel after severe backlash from the audience on social media, after which it was made public again. Meanwhile, the lead actor featured in the ad, who also directed it, had to issue a statement on social media to defend his stance as a staunch supporter of "humanity" and clarify that his involvement was a strictly "professional" engagement. There have been many criticisms and debates regarding the ad being a PR disaster and the overall effectiveness of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) movement globally and in Bangladesh. But why did Coca-Cola feel the need to launch an ad clarifying its stance in the first place?

The BDS movement has caught on in many countries across the world to hold brands accountable for their affiliations with Israel and their complicity in Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the BDS movement was launched by 170 Palestinian unions, refugee networks, women's organisations, professional associations, popular resistance committees and other Palestinian civil society bodies in 2005, as a form of non-violent pressure on Israel to end their illegal occupation of Palestine.

The movement recently caught on again in the aftermath of October 7. Soon, pro-Palestine groups in Bangladesh also spontaneously participated in the boycott movement as best as they could. The effectiveness of the boycott movement in Bangladesh was questioned by many, but the fact that Coca-Cola found it necessary to launch an ad addressing this only goes to show that it has worked.

The overall rhetoric of the ad also demands some scrutiny. It begins with a shopkeeper asking one of his regular customers if he wants a Coca-Cola, to which he replies that he has stopped drinking the beverage because it comes from "that country".

The shopkeeper then goes on a quest to identify the source of the information, which happens to be an unreliable Facebook page. He explains how Coca-Cola has been in the business for 138 years in 190 countries, including Turkey and Spain. A nice spin, considering Turkey is a Muslim-majority state and Spain is one of the four latest European countries to recognise the Palestinian state. However, what Coca-Cola conveniently forgot to mention is that Turkey is also the country whose parliament mandated Coca-Cola be no longer sold in the parliament campus, as part of a boycott of companies that "support Israel."

Then the bomb drops. "They also have factories in Palestine," says the shopkeeper, and convinces the entire neighbourhood to start drinking the beverage again. Everyone is happy, their conscience clear. But clear of what exactly?

Not once do they mention Israel or the ongoing genocide committed by the country on Palestine. They are right when they say that they are an American company with factories in Palestine. The National Beverage Company Coca-Cola (NBC) obtained a franchise licence in 1998 to manufacture, package, and distribute Coca-Cola products in the Palestinian market from a Ramallah factory. The business expanded to supposedly create jobs for many Palestinians and accelerate the state's economy. However, how does this information translate to the current context? What good is a factory if the entire area is bombed, with thousands dead and the rest being starved? Who's going to work there?

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[Bilal9]

Kolkata economy in dire straits because of Bangladeshi tourist boycott, while Indian media is presenting this as a Visa-related issue.

Kolkata's Mini-Bangla Faces Economic Meltdown Amid Visa Restrictions For Bangladeshis | Kolkata News - Times of India

Kolkata's central area, popular with Bangladeshi tourists, sees a 70% drop in business as visa restrictions impact arrivals, leading to widespread losses for hotels and shops.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

[Bilal9]

 

[Krishna with Flute]

There was a similar boycott campaign in Pakistan. This boycott lasted for one week before Pakistan lifted the ban on Import of Indian medicine. Rest of the things Pakistan stared importing from UAE who imported it from India to sell to Pakistan after adding Margin. Qutar had experiment. There was a crisis in fixing of malfunction of computers and hacking of traffic systems and banking system. Qutar corrected its mistake. They released those 8 Navy officers who were sentenced to death.

 

[Dogun18]

@Bilal9 @Saif @Vikings

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Same way, Pakistan also started boycott India and tried to be befriend with India but that artificial friendship did not last for long and their effort of Roti Beti Rishta ended in Pakistani girls married to Chinese boys ended up in big trouble. Let us see how much BD's experiment successes.

 

[Vsdoc]

@Bilal9 @Saif @Vikings

I think it was a culturally sensitive ad.

The illegals were shown as clean.

Actually bathing.

Washing their clothes and chaddis too.

And actual briefs. Not the striped nada wala kacchas. Free hanging.