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PM to Bimstec leaders: Find out mentors, masterminds, financiers of terror
[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister  ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. has urged Bimstec leaders to find out the mentors, criminal masterminds, abettors, financiers, arms suppliers and trainers of "We must be prepared to take strong actions against Sheikh Hasina was delivering her statement at the Bimstec Leaders’ Retreat held at the tourist city of Goa on Sunday. Chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the retreat programme was also addressed by leaders of other Bimstec countries. In Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina said her government has taken a ’zero-tolerance’ approach to terrorism and violent extremism. "We’ve also taken massive awareness programmes for the youth, for families, for educational institutions. We’ve succeeded in disintegrating the homegrown terrorists." Hasina said as she stood there as one of the four founding leaders who had inspired the launching of Bimstec way back in 1997 and during the past 20 years, Bimstec has made progress in connecting our two regions. "Understandably, our progress has been slow, but the groundwork has been done. It’s now time to hasten the process of integration," she added. Hasina said time has come to seriously re-look at how Bimstec could be made more effective and result-oriented one as well as to draw synergies with other groupings. "While we’ve 14 areas of cooperation under Bimstec, I believe we should try to focus more on some key areas like trade and investment, energy, connectivity and counter-terrorism for next five years. Regular ministerial meetings on the key areas of cooperation are important for building momentum," she said. Posted by: Fred 2016-10-17 |
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