By Minnie Chan in South China Morning Post, Nov 6, 2017 China’s ruling Communist Party, focused on ensuring stability and concerned about mass protests by military veterans, has announced plans for an administrative body similar to the US’ Department of Veteran Affairs to take better care of the country’s 57 million veterans. However, former soldiers, accustomed to decades of disappointment and neglect, remain sceptical about the plan announced by party general secretary Xi Jinping on…
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Report in bdnews24.com, Nov 6, 2017 BNP National Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy told a discussion on Sunday: “Jamaat was not established during (president) Ziaur Rahman’s rule. The Jamaat was registered and emerged as a political party in 1984 during HM Ershad’s regime.” “The Jamaat-e-Islami was not in the parliamentary election in 1979 after the BKSAL period. It was Islamic Democratic League or IDL led by Maulana Abdur Rahim.” But according to the Banglapedia,…