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BUSINESS and POLITICS in the MUSLIM WORLD ASIA REPORT First Quarter 2009 Volume: 2. No.-2 Reports of February, 2009 Table Of BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD ASIA REPORT First Quarter 2009 Volume: 2. No.-2 Reports of February, 2009 Table of contents Reports for the month of February Week-3 February 18, 2009 03 Week-4 February 25, 2009 173 Country profiles Sources 2 BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD ASIA REPORT February 18, 2009 Nadia Tasleem: Report on Asia 04 Ashia Rehman: Report on Fertile Crescent 11 Madiha Kaukub: Report on GCC 60 Tatheer Zehra: Report on South East Asia 75 Sadia Khanum: Report on India 143 3 BUSINESS AND POLITICS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD SOUTH & EAST ASIA and GCC & Fertile Crescent Nadia Tasleem Weekly Report from 7 February 2009 to 13 February 2009 Presentation: 18 February 2009 This report is based on the review of news items focusing on political, economic, social and geo‐ strategic developments in various regions namely; India, East Asia, GCC and Fertile Crescent from 7 February 2009 to 13 February 2009 as have been collected by interns. Summary India: Political Front: All political parties in India remained active in propagating their ideas to gain votes. In this regard UPA, led by Congress has again raised the slogan of ‘secularism’ to win support of people belonging to various religions. Meanwhile BJP has again raised the issue of reconstruction of Ram temple in Ayodhya in order to provoke Hindu extremists to favour them. CPI (M) however accused Congress for increased US influence in the region; that according to them has left India isolated. Meanwhile as far as Mumbai attacks are concerned, efforts are being carried out by both Pakistan and India to find culprits. In this regard Pakistani recent response to Indian dossier has been taken positively by Indian government. Meanwhile UN General Secretary also appreciated Pakistani commitment to counter terrorism. Some Indian police men however accused Pakistani military and ISI for its involvement in planning and executing Mumbai attacks. On this ground BJP has demanded ruling regime to cut off all sort of economic, social and cultural ties with Pakistan. Pakistani government however denies such allegations and reported that people belonging to different countries including India and Pakistan have played their role in terrorist act of 26/11. Meanwhile the Anjuman Minhaj‐e‐Rasool has passed a resolution demanding the public hanging of Mohammad Ajmal ‘Kasab,’ by claiming that there is no space for terrorism in Islam. 4 Social Front: As far as urbanization in India is concerned, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) sponsored study said an estimated 23.7 per cent urban populace was living in slums amid squalor, crime, disease and tension, but not all slum dwellers exist below the poverty line. Poor city planning and poorer urban land management and laws are to be blamed for the rise in numbers of urban poor. Report further adds that urban poverty in India is not an overflow of the poverty in villages but result of “poorly planned” urbanization. Meanwhile the All‐India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has decided to oppose an amendment to the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reform Act, 1950, which entitles only unmarried daughters of property owners the right to inherit property. All the while extremist Hindus launched protest against the celebrations of Valentine’s Day in India and took serious action against those who were involved in its celebration. Geo‐strategic Front: India has expressed serious concerns regarding release of Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan. Meanwhile responding to New Delhi's concerns, Bangladesh gave a commitment of not allowing its territory to be used for anti‐India activities as the two countries discussed a proposal for setting up a regional task force to tackle the menace. Economic Front: Around 20 lakh people have lost their jobs in India amidst economic crisis. Meanwhile sales in the Indian automobile market observed an overall 7.4 per cent decline in January this year. East Asia: Political Front: Indonesian government has serious security concerns particularly regarding upcoming elections in 2009. Two significant developments at Malaysian political front include refusal of PAS to recognize government of Barisan National in Perak and news regarding expected take over of Najib as PM on 31 March this year. In Philippines use of force by government to crush Muslim rebels as well as communists in South appeared as potent development. National Assembly in Laos has been carrying out study to improve various set of laws. In Cambodia opposition party 5 remained busy in carrying struggle to obtain parliamentary recognition but hasn’t achieved its objectives till now. Social Front: Apart from earthquake few other social issues in Indonesia also remained significant. In this regard rally arranged by Papuans against Indonesian regime remained important as they could successfully grab attention of German human rights activists. Meanwhile Indonesian efforts to provide relief packages to Rohingya refugees; who have migrated form Myanmar, is yet anther development. Lastly growing divorce rate in Indonesia is now being associated with democratic reforms being introduced in the country. Growing need of food for flood victims in Thailand as well as Thai government’s concern regarding Rohingya Muslims can be regarded as important issues. Meanwhile Thai PM has seems optimistic regarding employment of more than I million jobless people. Power International has announced a plan to assist women with disabilities in five provinces in Laos. Geo‐strategic Front: To begin with Indonesia growing defence ties with Thailand and Singapore are significant. Moving towards Philippines; Iran has recently offered to help the Philippines negotiate peace with Muslim rebels in Mindanao. In case of Thai‐Cambodian border issue, Thailand has refused to withdraw its troops from the disputed territory surrounding the Preah Vihear temple. Besides that Vietnamese growing ties with Japan and Laos also grabbed attention. Economic Front: All East Asian countries are engaged in discussions to formulate a strategy to jointly deal with the adverse impact of global economic crisis. Thai PM asked overseas officials to contribute in country’s economy to help her to cope up with economic recession. Thailand has also resumed FTA talks with the US. Stock exchange remained fluctuating in Singapore. Meanwhile government asked its people to put effort to come out of economic turmoil. New financial 6 regulations have been made by Vietnamese regime to govern state‐run business. First Indo‐ china bank ahs got established in Laos. UN has announced to give more aid to Cambodia to support agriculture over there. Fertile Crescent: Political Front: Elections dominated Israeli political scene. Out of 120 seats of Knesset no single party has been able to gain clear majority. Centrist Kadima party though has won 28 seats so far but second to it is right wing Likud party with 27 seats. Meanwhile the radical right party, the labor party and the religious groups won 15, 13 and 21 seats respectively. Unexpectedly huge voters’ turn out and victory of conservative parties has been considered as a blow to peace efforts as none of these parties intend to carry negotiations with Palestinian authority. After observing Israeli political scenario, Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat urged international community to shun any Israeli government that rejects the two‐state solution. Mahmood Abbas also claimed to start negotiations with Israel only on one condition that if new regime stops further settlements in west bank. Lebanese Sunni majority leader Saad Hariri announced to hold parliamentary elections in time. Hence both ruling party and opposition have started political campaigns to win elections. Ruling regime has ruled out any possibility to form coalition government with HezbAllah in case of its victory in upcoming elections. Meanwhile all files concerning investigation of assassination of ex‐Premier Rafik Hariri have been taken to a Special Tribunal for Lebanon in The Hague. At Iraqi political front the results of the provincial council elections that took place in 14 out of Iraq’s 18 provinces over one week ago will be announced within two weeks. As far as Kurdish issue is concerned an Iraqi parliamentarian from the Kurdistan Alliance (KA) called on Prime Minister Nouri al‐Maliki to work out solutions for many pending issues between the governments in Baghdad and the Kurdistan region. Meanwhile members of the Kurdistan National Assembly (parliament) unanimously voted to change its name to Iraq’s Kurdistan Parliament. Social Front: 7 An Israeli film, banned in Lebanon has grasped attention of young Palestinians living in refugee camps. A recently published report by National Centre for Human Rights, has appreciated improved conditions of Jordanian jails. Meanwhile government has recently imposed restrictions against some of the Imams but has denounced any sort of political motivation in this regard. Geo‐strategic Front: UAE and Lebanon have held talks to emphasize on the need of inter‐Arab conciliation and to work on tackling differences between Palestinian factions. Meanwhile US President Barack Obama vowed to support UN moves to bring to justice the killers of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. At Egyptian geo‐strategic front efforts to bring various factions of Palestine and Israel on negotiation table in order to conclude a lasting peace deal overwhelmed the scene. Egypt has asked all factions of Palestine to unify in order to reach at a truce with Israel. Besides that Egypt, with the help of US, has started efforts to build high‐tech security systems to halt arms smuggling through tunnels into Gaza. Jordan has also emphasized on the need of lasting peace between Palestine & Israel. Syrian Foreign Minister has asked UN to compel Israel to abide by UN resolutions urging Israel to withdraw form Arab lands that it had occupied in 1967. Syria has also emphasized greatly on the need of resolution of Arab‐Israel dispute.
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