Foil plot against democracy: Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged the people to remain alert against any plot by undemocratic forces to destroy the democratic process in the country.
“In the past, evil forces for lust of power repeatedly denied people’s democratic rights and their right to vote,” she told journalists at Gano Bhaban on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of her homecoming from the United States during the army-controlled caretaker government…..

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Journalists To Declare Assets

Sri Lanka’s Media Ministry now of course under new management has begun sending Declaration of  Assets and Liabilities forms to every journalist in the country.

According to a circular issued  by the Ministry last month every journalist in the country from cub reporters at provincial newspapers to the chair persons of major news organisations will now be compelled to  declare their assets to the Ministry.

Given that the vast majority of the country’s ministers who make millions from state assets have not yet declared their assets, the idea that cub reporters earning 10,000 rupees a month at private news organisations need to declare their assets seems patently absurd……

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Sufi wants Islamic rule worldwide

LAHORE: Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Muhammad, who signed a controversial peace deal with the NWFP government on Monday, said he hated democracy and wanted supremacy of Islam over the entire world.

“From the very beginning, I have viewed democracy as a system imposed on us by the infidels. Islam does not allow democracy or elections,” he told Deutsche Presse-Agentur in an interview held a few days before the government accepted his demand of enforcing sharia in the region. “Had the government accepted our demands in 1994, we would have not seen the violence we are seeing today,” he added. Sufi Muhammad’s son-in-law, Mullah Fazlullah, has fostered the violence in the name of Islam.

Sufi Muhammad said he was against shedding the blood of Muslims, however, added the government should have talked to the Taliban instead of taking military action. He pledged to work for complete peace in Swat if the government enforces Islamic laws, a demand which has now been met.

“I believe the Taliban government formed a complete Islamic state, which was an ideal example for other Muslim countries. Had this government remained intact, it could have led to the establishment of similar Islamic governments in many other countries,” he said.
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