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[Saif]

But he was not killed by mob or military. In rogue nation, mob does the justce. They had the plan to kill Hasina but India saved her.

Hasina's misgovernance is responsible for mob justice in Bangladesh. She destroyed the judiciary system of Bangladesh by politicizing it. The interim government rescued the judiciary from Awami thugs.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Hasina's misgovernance is responsible for mob justice in Bangladesh. She destroyed the judiciary system of Bangladesh by politicizing it. The interim government rescued the judiciary from Awami thugs.

That happens only in Rogue nation. You are saying as if the toppling of Government has happened for the first time in BD.

First Coup happened in 1975 just 4 years later followed by counter coup in 6 months. In 1981, Ziaur Rahaman assassinated. in 1982, Army chief Hussain Muhammad Ershad overthrew President Abdus Sattar. His authoritarian ruled lasted for 8 years. In 1990, so called student moment overthrew Irshad. In 2007, once again BD went into crisis. In 2024, Hasina was overthrown.

You are saying this as if this has happened for the first time in BD. Your country was always politically instable and every elected and non-elected government same fate as the fate of Hasian. Tarique Rahman suddenly para dropped and made P.M. of BD. He too will meet the same fate like the fate of Hasina. BD is a nation full of radicals, and they keep justifying every anti democracy action like you do. After few days, when you will fed-up with current P.M., you will say same about him. BD and Pakistan were made on the base of religion and that too Islam. They are bound to fail. In no Islamist nation, democracy can every survive and flourish. They can survive only under kings like saudi and other Gulf nation. BD has only 3 options. 1) Leave Islam, or 2) Leave democracy or, 3) Adopt Amir sort of system prevailing in Gulf. Democracy ka tamasha Muslim nations main chal nahi sakata.

 

[Saif]

That happens only in Rogue nation. You are saying as if the toppling of Government has happened for the first time in BD.

First Coup happened in 1975 just 4 years later followed by counter coup in 6 months. In 1981, Ziaur Rahaman assassinated. in 1982, Army chief Hussain Muhammad Ershad overthrew President Abdus Sattar. His authoritarian ruled lasted for 8 years. In 1990, so called student moment overthrew Irshad. In 2007, once again BD went into crisis. In 2024, Hasina was overthrown.

You are saying this as if this has happened for the first time in BD. Your country was always politically instable and every elected and non-elected government same fate as the fate of Hasian. Tarique Rahman suddenly para dropped and made P.M. of BD. He too will meet the same fate like the fate of Hasina. BD is a nation full of radicals, and they keep justifying every anti democracy action like you do. After few days, when you will fed-up with current P.M., you will say same about him. BD and Pakistan were made on the base of religion and that too Islam. They are bound to fail. In no Islamist nation, democracy can every survive and flourish. They can survive only under kings like saudi and other Gulf nation. BD has only 3 options. 1) Leave Islam, 2) Leave democracy 3) Adopt Amir sort of system prevailing in Gulf. Democracy ka tamasha Muslim nations main chal nahe sakata.

You have killed two of your finest prime ministers (Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi) and your father of the nation(Mahatma Gandhi). So, India is also a rogue nation.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

You have killed two of your finest prime ministers (Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi) and your father of the nation(Mahatma Gandhi). So, India is also a rogue nation.

They were killed by terrorist and not by mobs and army generals by manufacturing a coup. Whosoever killed them were brought to justice and tried in court of law and punished. You compare both because you are from a rogue nation who cannot differentiate between institutional killing and death in terrorism. Tomorrow, you may compare genocide of Hindus in BD with killing of Pahalgam genocide of Hindus to Justify violence against minority in BD. You have a lot of freedom to make illogical comparison as you don't have to take your country anywhere. What you have to do is justify institutional radicalism and violence and compare it with individual crime in other nation and compare BD with India and US like democracy.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Ashastriya asanatani sects are exposed by Nigrahacharya ji Maharaj.

 

[Saif]

They were killed by terrorist and not by mobs and army generals by manufacturing a coup. Whosoever killed them were brought to justice and tried in court of law and punished. You compare both because you are from a rogue nation who cannot differentiate between institutional killing and death in terrorism. Tomorrow, you may compare genocide of Hindus in BD with killing of Pahalgam genocide of Hindus to Justify violence against minority in BD. You have a lot of freedom to make illogical comparison as you don't have to take your country anywhere. What you have to do is justify institutional radicalism and violence and compare it with individual crime in other nation and compare BD with India and US like democracy.

The killers of Mujib and Zia were also brought to justice. Indira Gandhi was killed by her own bodyguards. They were not terrorists.

 

[Saif]

High toll of remittances

OVERSEAS migration outflow and remittance inflow has for long been powering the economic engine, supporting household income of millions and strengthening foreign exchange reserves that drives the overall development...

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High toll of remittances

The state has to take visionary initiatives aiming at improving management throughout the entire migration cycle, writes Md Mukhlesur Rahman Akand

OVERSEAS migration outflow and remittance inflow has for long been powering the economic engine, supporting household income of millions and strengthening foreign exchange reserves that drives the overall development.

The year 2025 witnessed the overseas employment of more than 1.12 million Bangladeshis through formal channels in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Singapore and Kuwait. As such, the gross foreign exchange reserve has exceeded $33 billion, partly because of strong remittance receipts, the highest recent months.

Although there is policy emphasis on increasing skilled labour employment, the majority of migrants go abroad in semi-skilled and low-skilled categories, finding them ensnared into a vicious low skills, low wages and low remittances. Not only this, low-skilled workers are employed in high-risk occupations such as construction sites and open-air menial jobs, compromising personal safety and health. They are often exposed to environmental hazards such as extreme heat, noise and long hours of work under the scorching sun suffering from dehydration, heat stroke, dizziness and fall from heights that results in the loss of lives or fatal injuries.

While independent studies show more than 57,000 deaths of Bangladeshi migrant workers taking place in four decades in Gulf countries, concentrating more than 80 per cent of the total Bangladeshi migrants, nearly 38,000 deaths occurred during in the past decade alone. Moreover, recent Wage Earners’ Welfare Board data show that 500–600 bodies were flown into the country each month, which means nearly 20 death a day. Some argue that compared with the huge presence of workers in destination countries, the number is not alarming, a debate that often labels the issue as a ‘coffin versus remittance’ crisis.Bangladesh country politics

What is of particular concern is the way deaths are reported in host countries. Mostly, routine post-mortem reports record causes of deaths as ‘natural’ or because of a ‘cardiac arrest’ and sometimes as ‘not a workplace accident’ while the sending countries lack a voice to raise because of socio-economic and political reasons despite having inked provisions for labour rights protection in their domestic laws and also their pledges made through the adoption of various international labour conventions and, more specifically, the Global Compact for Migration.

Experts underscore the need for impartial investigation of the incidences of death because each of the workers is diligently checked by medical agencies in the sending countries nominated by the Gulf states. These independent medical centres issue certificates of fitness to the aspirants before their departure. Again, most workers are of working age ranging between 25 and 55. As such, it is questionable that workers of such age group having the agility of body and health happen to die of heart attacks within two to six months of their employment abroad.

They point out to the extreme conditions the workers are exposed to at work, especially in the high labour concentrating occupations such as construction sites, their living conditions at hostels or elsewhere, diet and maladjustment to be real causes of such heavy toll of remittance.

A Guardian reports after the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 reported that the workers from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal had to work 12–18 hours a day before the event to get the massive stadiums ready there and as such, they had to start working at heights even long before dawn to avoid scalding heat of 50 degree Celsius by mid-day. Bangladesh lost more than 1,000 workers then. Additionally, as Gulf countries are not signatories to ILO and IOM conventions and labour rights regulations and welfare guidelines of these global champions do not, therefore, apply there.

Back in sending countries, labour rights protection mechanism and sustainable management of migration do not get prioritised amid other issues of eminent nature. In such an environment, the migration managers seem more prompt in launching increased number of vehicles to carry corpses from the airport rather than delving deep into factors that cause the ever-increasing number of deaths overseas. Facilities now available for migrants’ families in this connection such as providing Tk 35,000 for the family of the deceased in burial cost, setting up migrants’ lounge at the airport, luggage-wrapping services and availing a place for short, emergency stay near the port of departure and arrival are just the minimum on part of the migration governance authorities.

The state has to take visionary initiatives aiming at improving management throughout the entire migration cycle such as establishing migration communications system, developing an appropriate human capital to use it as the bargaining stake at the negotiating table while discussing the skills and competence of workers along with their rights, improving bilateral memorandums and agreements management ecosystem, holding effective dialogues with the host countries and, above all, developing a migration diplomacy in line with a proven, robust system, for example, as developed by the Philippines Overseas Labour Offices.

In addition to the above, issues such as high migration cost, loan dependence of migrants for meeting the cost, anxiety and uncertainty over the family’s future while the workers are abroad, long-term detachment from families and cultural alienation et cetera need to be addressed if the worker welfare is meant to be catered, not treating them only as remittance earners but also as human beings and respectable citizens.

Md Mukhlesur Rahman Akand is a joint secretary to the expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment ministry.​