Urgent Political reconciliation.  

Government of Bangladesh experiencing difficulties with its pundits
who once again separating themselves from the general pack by relegating
the sudden surge of plummeting figures to a side note, in addition to
providing the concerned public with an uninformative grim economic outlook
for 2008. which we believe is going to be another difficult year for CTG.
Despite corruption, we've been witnesses to the countries growing
inflation adjusted rate of about 6% is now down to about 4.5%.
In light of the stable political status quo, we must not forget that
persistence is going to be the crucial ingredient in keeping the current
political stability and cementing hope in our countries long but sure for
future. We must ask ourselves, where we were, what we are doing, and what
should we do about?

Like deciphering the earth itself, we foresee another political depression
brewing, which has compelled us to consider an urgent political
reconciliation.

At the surface where we walk, work, worry and the circumstances that we
deal with everyday are not expressed by the Pundit's that millions are
boiling over:

How do we formulate reconciliation?
How do we bring business & FDI confidence?
How do we stop accelerated brain drain?
How do we formulate and impose sustainable policy?
How do we empower independent judicial systems?
How do we empower free trade & control consumer price?
How do we empower domestic production and services?
How do we empower education & neutralize Social problems;

The crimes, political violence, strike and institutionalized corruption
and reduce gap between have and have not.

For the past 10 months numerous local and international pundits have
proposed many options to move the country forward. Of them, many are now
confused and modifying their own statements. They change their
position before the media for political & civil justice. But the
statements and actions have affected the hope of millions and have
destroyed the nation's economy.

Let us not forget, we asked for military intervention for law & order.
They were our only HOPE from a genocide that potentially would have
destroyed thousands of lives. They acted and administered the country as
per pundit's prescription.

We know there will always be partisan politics - after all nobody has all
the right answers, and no one can compare an apple to an orange or a
country to another. Each country has its own characteristics. But that
does not mean there has to be knee jerk policy. That is nothing but
adopting unsustainable policy fails in politics.

When discussing policy and confidence, there is an inherent task in
monitoring the balance. One always remembers to wash ones hand. For
example the officers/magistrate working at NBR are the same people can not purify themselves without sustainable policy?

If the most recent political upheaval told us anything, it's that the
people delivered a strong message against POLITICAL ACTION that lead post on January 11. And the people were hoping to get the military backed CTG would take a serious role as lawmakers and try to get the nation moving again. Now, after a year, the same pundit's seem to be playing a
different drum beat.

Slowly, but surely, the voter list has come along with many logistical
constraints. The Government doesn't have much time between now and perhaps till election expected to hold on November 04 2008. We hope the voter list and the election will be the nations ultimate HOPE for 150 million people. We trust the bureaucrats, pundits and politician has learned the lessons of corruption and political consequences. With that understanding, it's time to put aside the rancor and take the recourse toward an immediate
reconciliatory action. It's time the CTG enforce executives to finalize
key issues and policy to confront any unreasonable politics and urgent
political reconciliation.

Dilawar Hossain
Editor-in-Chief