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Abstract: In this paper, we have attempted to examine and evaluate the role of civil society and political party in framing the electoral democracy of Bangladesh. We have given a theoretical framework of their respective role in developing the nascence democracy and have tried to depict to what extent both civil society and political parties were able to perform their role and to what extent they were unsuccessful. We also have endeavored to uncover the reasons for failure in reaching their desired goals.
Keywords: Civil Society, Political Party and Electoral Democracy.
Political party and civil society have special importance in electoral democracy. It is true to any nascent democracy, particularly country like Bangladesh. In a democratic electoral process, civil society and political party are inseparable parts, they work together. When political parties publish their election manifestoes regarding their plans and policy, the civil society analyze these manifestoes and aware the masses politically. Moreover, the role of civil society and political party is inevitably important to develop a nation’s political institutions. Their role indicates the weakness or strength of democratic development of a country.
After a successful mass movement against the autocratic military regime in 1990, parliamentary system of government was reinstituted in Bangladesh. Unfortunately democracy is yet to be consolidated in Bangladesh. During the 1990s, the major political blocs were seen divided over the issues. Such as conflicting definitions of Bangladeshi identity, national heroes and liberation war symbols. Such division did not remain confined within the political elites but has influenced all social groups as well. Ultimately such polarization affected the democratic growth of both political party and civil society. This was just opposite to democratic culture that was expected to develop through the reintroduction of democracy in 1990 (Jahan:2000). After reintroduction of electoral democracy, public policy domain has always been bureaucratized or maneuvered by the ruling party. It dictates to serve vested political and economic interest. Moreover, intrusion of civil society into policy arena is looked on suspiciously. Civil society organizations were biased because of their links to ruling party or the opponents. Educational institutions, especially universities and colleges, had been used by the major political parties to further their political objectives (Alam:1985), Jahan: 2000). The press and private electronic media were relatively free but each news paper had tilted to either side of the political coalitions and often the private television channels were owned by the political business tycoons. However, confrontational politics is played by the two major political parties through the instruments of clientelism, patronage, nepotism, and corruption. Sometimes, violence has co-opted, politicized, weakened and polarized the civil society groups and undermined their ability to participate in political process. The winning party enjoys monopoly of power during their electoral tenure. Political decision making power centers around Prime Minister’s office. The society and civil society are politicized according to political line. Such features are common in rule of either of the two major political parties or of their coalitions (Ahmed: 1995). And such a party-society relation is against of the spirit of democracy. Under this situation, there need an evaluation of the role of civil society and political party in developing the electoral democracy of Bangladesh. This is currently missing in academic literature to the best of our knowledge. So, the main aim of this paper is to review the role of civil society and political party in framing the electoral democracy of Bangladesh.
This research uses the literature review method where different secondary materials were reviewed. The secondary materials were books, journal articles, and newspaper articles linked to our research topic. Observations are discussed in the textual format related to our research objectives. At first, the concepts of civil society, political party, and electoral democracy are defined. Then in the next two consecutive sections, role of civil society and political party in an electoral democracy are discussed. At last in the conclusion, we try to depict an ideal scenario of interaction between civil society and political parties for an effective electoral democracy. All the discussions are mainly focused here in the context of Bangladesh.
Key Concepts Defined – Civil Society
Civil society is a conscious part of society. It encompasses the entire range of organized groups and institutions that are independent in the state. It forms voluntarily and to some extent is self-generating and self-reliant. This type of groups could be any association, professional group, and pressure group. These groups such as non-governmental organizations, independent mass media, think tanks, university teachers, and other social groups could be permanent or organized temporarily on any issue. They can express their views on related with education, health, employment, games, elections, and so on. Overall they can express their opinion on any national issue on behalf of the interest of citizen. Even they can talk about any international issue. But, when a group or association, functions by the order of government, or advocates on behalf of government then it can not be considered as civil society such as, bureaucrats – civil and military. Apart from that civil society must meet some other conditions as well. This society must have respect for the law, the rights of individuals and the rights of other groups to express their interests and opinions.
Collins English Dictionary defines civil society as 1) the aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens or 2) individuals and organizations in a society which are independent of the government. Sometimes the term is used in the more general sense of the elements such as freedom of speech, an independent judiciary, etc, that make up a democratic society. Larry Diamond points out that civil society is made up of a vast arrangement of organizations, both formal and informal. There are ethnic, religious and communal institutions; commercial associations; interest groups representing workers, professionals, pensioners and others. Civil Society is issue-oriented groups that promote environmental, human rights, and other causes; developmental organizations that work to improve the quality of life of the community; and nonpartisan civic groups that work to make the political and economic system more accountable and transparent.
There are several different concepts of the civil society in Bangladesh. According to B. K. Jahangir, “Civil society is to be understood in opposition to the military society, which they create after having seized the state power and established themselves in it (Khan and Kabir: 2003).” The values of the military, he writes, are anti-democratic, their logic and legitimacy is force and not mediation and peoples consent, and their motive is to suppress popular politics and political supremacy in the conventional sense (Khan and Kabir:2003). Rehman Sobhan comes up with a view on civil society that is diametrically opposite to Jahangir’s concept. Both parties and civil society organizations mediate between the individual and the state, but they do so in different ways and have different functions. Former President of Bangladesh Justice Sahabuddin Ahmed indicates both the unorganized masses as well as the professional groups as members of civil society. Thus, he has broadened the concept of the civil society (Ahmed: 1997). However, ideally civil society is a group that may establish ties among political parties and the state, but they must retain their independence, and should not seek political power for themselves. The roles of civil society can be summarized as:
- to limit and control the power of the state;
- to raise public concern about any abuse of power;
- to promote political participation;
- to develop other values of democratic life such as tolerance, moderation, compromise, and respect for the views of others;
- to spread democratic civic education into the masses;
- to establish a dialogue with relevant government ministries and agencies to lobby for their interests and concerns and
- to play an important role in mediating to resolve conflict between the ruling party and the opposition (Diamond: 1994, Mirsky: 1993).
A democratic state cannot be stable unless it is effective and legitimate with the respect and support of its citizens. Civil society is a check, a monitor, but also a vital partner in quest for this kind of positive relationship between the democratic state and its citizens (Roduetal: 1976
Generally political party is defined in terms of its purpose, characteristics of its membership, and its structure or functions it performs(Roduetal: 1976). There are several popular definitions exist in scholarly literature about political party, like R. J. Gettell, Leslie Lipson, Edmund Burke, Joseph Schumpeter and others. Among all, the Gettell’s one is widely accepted as “A political party consists of a group of citizens, more or less organized, who acts as a political unit and who, by the use of their voting power, aims to control the government and carry out their general policies (Gettell: 1950).” Apart from this, we can also summarize some salient features related with a political party as:
- it has a common interest to organize (Lipson:1964);
- it operates upon some particular principles (Burke:1907);
- it mostly struggles to attain political power by constitutional means through periodic elections (Schumpeter: 1961, Ashraf:1995);
- it may try to achieve political power either singly or in coalition with other political parties (Ball:1994);
- 5. it maintains a continuous connection between the people and those who represent themselves either in the government or in the opposition and
- 6. it has to endeavor to promote national interests and national welfare.
Political parties are indispensable part of an electoral democracy. In the absence of political parties, it is difficult to run the government in a parliament and a presidential system of governments (Ball: 1994).
The concept of electoral democracy is derived from the broad concept of democracy. The aim of electoral democracy is to ensure a free and fair electoral process to choose the representatives of people who assume the task of governance. The election is the lifeline of democracy. Though election is an important step towards attaining congenial democracy, it needs to be emphasized that electoral democracy does not necessarily mean full-blown democracy. There is hardly any country in the world today that does not practice some kind of electoral democracy. Even the most oppressive of the autocracies stage-manage shows of electoral processes at regular intervals to legitimize their stranglehold on power. A common mandate for all the electoral bodies is to hold free and fair elections. For an electoral process to be considered free and fair, it must be taken place under the conditions that will permit to vote freely, equally, directly and secretly. The following conditions must be guaranteed for electoral democracy:
- each and every eligible citizen has the right to participate as a voter and as a candidate;
- freely asserted democratic rights and freedom of expression, especially related to the will of the people;
- electoral processes should be held regularly and periodically ;
- neutrality of the authority administering elections and
- procedures that ensures votes will be cast freely and counted accurately and an independent control system ensuring honesty of the process (Hussain: 1994).
Role of Civil Society in Electoral Democracy
Civil Society, democracy and election are closely interconnected. Civil societies play their role to build smooth democratic environment. It has been observed that the civil society played rational role in all the elections that took place in Bangladesh. Unfortunately, the parties in power could not utilize that support of the civil society to build up a democratically oriented civil society.
To achieve democratic consolidation in Bangladesh, it is important to discuss the combined effect of four major interacting factors that are essential for the development of democracy: political institutionalization, stable economic growth, formation of a democratic culture and a participatory civil society. It has also been identified that a participatory civil society has four main tasks to realize democratic consolidation. These are civic education on political and human rights, interest aggregation, monitoring of state apparatus and economic society, and ensuring better participation and representation of all segments of society in political decision making. However, such activities have been found to be performed at a far low rate than the CSOs’involvement in service providing functions like education, economic empowerment etc. It is to be noted that compare to other service providing functions, raising political awareness has become a part of the grass-root projects of civil society organizations, particularly among NGOs as the donors have put emphasis on such activities (www.academic.edu). The high rate of voters’ turn out (over 70%) during the 1996, 2001 and 2008 elections due to such awareness programs of CSOs (Jahan:2008). In the result of such awareness, the high percentage of voters participation encourage by CSOs has made democratic environment in Bangladesh. But, it has been seen that in the various national elections, members of civil societies took a stance for or against the government. In Bangladesh, most of the civil society members belong to two major political parties in accordance with their political beliefs. Theoretically, members of civil society should not have such a belonging. They belong to political parties for their self- interest, that is to say, to get a better position in government when their desired party will win in the election.
Role of Political Party in Electoral Democracy
Political parties are the indispensable part of an electoral democracy that links between the people and their representative machinery to the government. One of their main roles is that they perform when the election is held. This role is very much obvious to make a democratic system effective. They select candidates for the upcoming election and direct the election campaign. Theoretically the candidates should be selected democratically inside the party from the party members, who are popular, experienced, and honest. Democratic countries like UK, USA, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands and France follow these norms in selecting their candidates. On the contrary, in Bangladesh, the nomination process is not very much transparent. Here the decision comes from the head of the party or from a small higher committee that does not follow the rules and regulations of a democratic system. So, democratic process is completely absent here. Sometimes nominations are traded in exchange of substantial amount of money to party fund. As a result, dishonest unpopular and inexperienced people enter into political arena. Even both muscle and financial ability are considered as principal criteria in selecting candidates. Apart from the candidate selection, the political parties also pollute the election campaign by allowing their candidates to violate election code of conducts. Politics has been snatched by the bad evils of politics day by day due to money and muscle power. These type of people up playing an instrumental role during the election campaign in the name of donations to the political parties and they are destroying the whole democratic political culture.
The parliament is the focal point of all national activities in the electoral democracy. It would be effective with the active participation of both ruling and opposition parties. In the Jatio Sangsad, legislation should be passed after a lively and constructive debate between the contending parties. Opposition party generally criticizes the act of ruling party, and the ruling party respects opposition’s their views and try to correct themselves accordingly in the line of democratic norms and manner. All disputes are settled here on the basis of compromise. But, in Bangladesh, this ideal scenario of parliamentary democracy is mostly absent. Opposition usually boycotts the parliament and mostly abstained from the business session. During 2001-2006, the parliament went about its business for 373 days while main opposition AL boycotted the parliament for 223 days and they walked out from the parliament 74 times out of 150 working days. Like the same, till June 2011, BNP has boycotted the parliament 122 out of 135 working days (Jahan:2008). Not only that, the opposition party often criticizes the ruling party, without any acceptable logic and argument. They are doing such a type of work just for the sake of opposing. They never find any good deed done by the government. At the same time, the ruling party never pays any attention to opposition’s views. So the opposition starts protesting against the government through hartal and strike, demonstration, public meeting, human chain and others programs. On the other hand, government tries to suppress the oppositions with strong hands and brutal. As a result, the country becomes a hotbed that makes the whole political system unwanted.
A sound financial base has an utmost importance for any political party of any electoral democracy. In ideal case, the political party maintains its fund from members’ fees and donations. But experiences suggest that there is no clear-cut and transparent financial system of the political parties in Bangladesh. Here, they obtain their funds through improper and unethical manner. Party members are engaged in different unethical activities to collect funds for party. Political party condones such offences very conspicuously.
One of important roles of political party is to establish a link between the government and the people. It is responsible to establish a channel of communication. But in Bangladesh, it only communicates with the masses during the election, after that they become completely isolated because they cannot penetrate into the people’s mind of their constituencies.
Both the civil society and the political parties’ role are very much important for en effective democracy. There must be a mutual respect and trust between them. Civil society would appreciate the good deeds and also criticize the wrong doings of political parties. On the other hand political parties would appreciate both criticism and appreciation, and act accordingly. Even sometimes they may take suggestion from civil society in related with some important issues. But these are very much absent in Bangladesh. The civil societies are biased toward a particular political party. They even support and defend the wrong doing of that political party. On the contrary they criticize the works of other. They sometimes backed the political party in election openly. For example, the city corporation election 2013 (Five city corporation: Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet, Barisal and Gajipur) where we see that the major political parties of Bangladesh are backed by civil society groups like ‘Nagorik Committee’ and ‘Nagorik Forum’. Under their banner political parties took part in elections.
The rights of the members of civil society are also have to be maintained. But in Bangladesh, it has been violated by both the civilians and the government officials very often who are backed by political parties. To establish law and order as well as peace in the society is not only the function of the state, but also it is the responsibility of the civil society and the political parties. But the civil society does not have the capacity or the power to force the political parties and the state apparatus to maintain civility in the society of Bangladesh. On the other hand, the political parties and their leaders very often choose to solve any disputes by the course of strike, demonstration and even violence by ignoring the rights of others in the society. Even the behavior of political leaders in the parliament sometimes embarrasses the common people. Use of abusive and indecent language, rush towards the speaker and damage the camera are the examples of such behavior. The way they acted cannot be justified as democratic functions.
In the conclusion, it is fair enough to ask that what kind of behavior did the civil society members and political party leaders learn from each other in Bangladesh? But it should be remembered that the potential of civil society and political party to contribute to democracy is not determined not by any single factor. It can be achieved through the combination of different factors such as history, culture, external influence, regulatory framework and so on. Though the nature of democracy and political structures influence both the civil society and the political party, but the strong civil society necessarily facilitates capable political parties, so as capable political party lead to consolidated electoral democracy.
Ahmed, Moudud, Democracy and the Challenge of Development: A Study of Politics and Military Interventions in Bangladesh (Dhaka: The University Press Limited, 1995), pp.47-49.
Alam, M. Badiul, “Democracy and Authoritarianism in New States: The Case of Bangladesh” Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis ( New Delhi: Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, 1985), Rounaq Jahan, Ibid, pp. 134-139.
Asharf, Ali & Sharma, L. N, Political Sociology (New Delhi: University Press Ltd. 1995) , p. 89.l
Ball, Alan R., Modern Politics & Government (London: The MacMillan Press Ltd, 1994), p. 79.
Burke, Edmund, Thought on the Cause of the Present Discontents, in works– II (London: Oxford University Press, 1907), p. 82.
CSOs means Civil Society Organizations.
Gettell, R G, Political Science (Calcutta: The World Press Private Ltd. 1950), p.289.
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Jahan, Rounaq, “The Challenges of Institutionalising Democracy in Bangladesh”, Ibid.
Jahan, Rounaq, Bangladesh: Promise and Performance (Dhaka: The University Press Ltd., 2000), p.123.
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (New York: Harper & Row, 1961), p. 283.
Lipson, Leslie, The Democratic Civilization (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964), p.120.
Quoted in Mizan R. Khan and Muhammad Humayun Kabir, Civil Society and Democracy in Bangladesh (Dhaka: Academic Press and Publishers Limited, 2002), p.23.
Quoted in Mizan R. Khan and Muhammad Humayun Kabir, Ibid, p.167.
Rodee, C. C, Anderson, T.J. & Green, Thomas H. (ed), Introduction to Political Science (New York: McGraw- Hill Book Company, 1976), p. 317.
See for President Justice Sahabuddin Ahmed’s Inaugural Address at the Asia- Pacific Civil Society Forum held in Dhaka on 24 July 1997.
See Larry Diamond. “Rethinking Civil Society: Toward Democratic Consolidation”, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1994, pp. 4-17; Yehudah Mirsky, “Democratic Politics, Democratic Culture”. Orbis, Vol. 37, No. 4, 1993, pp. 567-580.

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A study by the No! GMO Campaign has revealed that Japan’s supermarket chains are refusing to sell genetically modified papaya.
The No! GMO Campaign was set up in 1996 to stop genetically modified foods. 16 years later, there is no commercial GM farming in Japan. Consumers and civic groups are continuing the battle against imported GM foods. In December, 2011 the government approved GM papaya and soon, the American producers in Hawaii were promoting the expensive fruit at a trade fair near Tokyo, giving out slices as free samples. The No! GMO Campaign started an effort to investigate if the GM papaya from Hawaii was actually sold in Japan or not.
Citizen and activists all around the country approached their local supermarket chains and the result was revealing. Not a single supermarket chain has decided to introduce the controversial virus-resistant papaya from Hawaii. Could it be that the Americans are hoping that people will simply forget about GM papaya, before they start the marketing introduction?
On July 25, 2012, the No! GMO Campaign sent a press release to thank the 210 supermarket chains, expressing appreciation that they do not sell GM papaya. “We will continue monitoring to make sure that no stores sell GM papaya in Japan, ” says Amagasa Keisuke, No! GMO Campaign director. “Illegal GM papaya seeds from Taiwan were also imported to Okinawa, causing financial damage to papaya growers in Okinawa, southern Japan. The farmers brought GM papaya to the Japanese market without knowing that it was genetically modified. So far, 35 growers were forced to cut down their illegal GM papaya trees,” notes Amagasa Keisuke. Better legal protection is needed to compensate farmers in such unfortunate cases.
Consumer Reaction To Genetically Modified papaya (Dec. 20, 2011)
Non-approved GM papaya distributed in Okinawa and Miyazaki (Apr. 2011)

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A woman looking for a new beginning. A man looking for the right direction. A girl looking for a streak of sunshine. A story in three parts, along with a medley of 31 poems, revolves around three characters, Kiran Malhotra and her children, Samay Malhotra and Samaira Malhotra. This family lives together and shares a secret. How do they find their individual miracles? How do their chameleon souls, unexpectedly, reach out to each one of them when they need them the most? Have you shaped a lifespan for yourself that you can actually follow? These three have!Come, fall in love with Kiran�s intrinsic kindness, Samaira�s purity and Samay, simply because he's crazy!
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10th April 2017
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The six essays collected here explore the enduring impact of the America Civil War on that nation's national consciousness. Contributors examine subjects as diverse as tactics, the uses of autobiography and the power of myth-making in the southern tradition. Their work should help to refocus the view of the third day at Gettysburg, illustrating the rewards of imaginative scholarship - even for the most intensely studied battle in America's history. The contributors are Robert L. Bee, A. Wilson Greene, Gary W. Gallagher, Robert K. Krick, Willian Garrett Piston and Carol Reardon.
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I was up early, went for my walk and then headed to the “office” to see what was going on. Forty Ford day is Sunday and I am trying to get people to attend. Dick is doing the Barrett-Jackson auction in Orange County so he won’t be there and Bobo is probably busy Sunday also. Jane and I are going as we do every year. The Forties Limited put on a very nice event at La Palma Park in Anaheim. Walt called and is planning on bringing his new car to the event so we should have a great time. They offer a good lunch around noon so we will eat and then head home.
I still have lots of pictures from the LARS and will share them with you today. I read where the attendance was up 25% this year which is good news for the LA Roadsters. The event attracts people from all over the world and I hope they keep this up for many years to come.
This trio of customs looked nice sitting out in the sunshine. Merc’s and Caddies are real popular in LA.
I thought this 40 pickup was a good deal at $20K. Dropped axle, ZZ4, 350, 9 inch and driven in from Oregon. The body was real solid and had lots of patina.
My favorite sedan from AZ was in the preferred parking lot. The H.A.M.B. had a special parking section in the preferred parking lot. Mike is a nice guy and talked to me while I drooled over his car.
This Brookville 3 window belongs to Bill and is very nice. I watched Joe chop the top 2 1/2 inches a few months ago. His metal work is flawless. I really like the look of this Ardun powered hiboy coupe. Yes, it has a Quick Change.
I have seen this car at the LARS for the past several years. I believe he drives the car from back east.
Parked in the back of SO-CAL was this maroon 40 coupe with a nice engine compartment. I used to cut holes in the fenders for the cut-outs. This owner wisely chose the running boards for his.
Bob O should do this to his new coupe. The car sounded very nice when he started it for us to hear.
This bad boy coupe from AZ had really great sounding 502 stuffed under the hood of his super coupe.
The between the buildings at SO-CAL was very crowded but you could still walk around the cars.
Metal wizard Terry had his Merc parked in the back for all to admire. This is one of the nicest Merc’s built in the past few years.
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In class on Monday, we played “Shade” by Andrew Plotkin. I found it very impressive, not only because it was emotionally affecting – at least for me, it created a powerful sense of dread – but also because it accomplished that emotional effect within a fairly small fictional world. Video games with a focus on roleplaying are often praised for having long storylines and creating large worlds for the player to explore (note how often “epic” is used as a positive descriptor for new games). In “Shade,” however, the player character never leaves their apartment, which is one room with three separate alcoves. The environment itself changes, but the player does not explore a geographical distance beyond the size of a cramped apartment.
This is not a drawback to “Shade” but an important constructive feature of its gameplay and narrative. Because the player cannot make the character step out of the apartment, and can only explore within that area, all the mundane features of the apartment become important in themselves. Instead of walking out the door and starting a quest, which I might expect to do, I examined the character’s computer, refrigerator, futon, etc., and the statements the character gives in response to commands to interact with those things. The world of “Shade” is very small in a geographic sense, but this gives that small setting more weight, and allows the narrative to create its distinctive psychological effects, like the eventual, horrific sense of vastness.
Playing “Shade” made me realize how much better I could have done on my creative project, “Grandma’s House.” I wasn’t attempting anything narratively similar, but I did focus on creating the environment on a small scale. I hoped that the player would enjoy exploring the world and reading the descriptions of objects, and that this would both create a sense of who the player character was and raise questions about them. I do feel that the world I created is much too limited, and the game as a whole is very undirected, but I believe that it is possible to create a compelling piece of IF in which the main activity is exploring your surroundings.


text: In this paper we study stochastic dynamic games with many players; these are a fundamental model for a wide range of economic applications. The standard solution concept for such games is Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE), but it is well known that MPE computation becomes intractable as the number of players increases. We instead consider the notion of stationary equilibrium (SE), where players optimize assuming the empirical distribution of others’ states remains constant at its long run average. We make two main contributions. First, we provide a rigorous justification for using SE. In particular, we provide a parsimonious collection of exogenous conditions over model primitives that guarantee existence of SE, and ensure that an appropriate approximation property to MPE holds, in a general model with possibly unbounded state spaces. Second, we draw a significant connection between the validity of SE, and market structure: under the same conditions that imply SE exist and approximates MPE well, the market becomes fragmented in the limit of many firms. To illustrate this connection, we study in detail a series of dynamic oligopoly examples. These examples show that our conditions enforce a form of “decreasing returns to larger states;” this yields fragmented industries in the SE limit. By contrast, violation of these conditions suggests “increasing returns to larger states” and potential market concentration. In that sense, our work uses a fully dynamic framework to also contribute to a longstanding issue in industrial organization: understanding the determinants of market structure in different industries.

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Khursheed Shah says ‘new Pakistan’ envisioned by Z.A. Bhutto
SUKKUR: Opposition leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Sunday said that the new and developed Pakistan was envisioned by late Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) founder and former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
Addressing an a party event in Rohri, Shah said that the PPP is the sole political party in the entire history of the country to complete 50 years of its existence, without splitting into factions.
He said the slogans for a new Pakistan (naya Pakistan) are beyond his understanding since Z.A Bhutto had conceived these ideas long ago. “It was the founding leader of PPP [who] laid the foundation stone of democracy in the country,” he asserted.
The youth should raise their concerns over the Z.A Bhutto’s martyrdom rather than falling prey to barren slogans, Shah urged.
He said the PPP is has completed fifty years of existence and has undergone tremendous sacrifices on the long journey.
Expressing complete confidence in Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Shah said that he would become the popular leader like his grandfather in future.
Those who helped flourishing anti-democratic forces in the country are reaping what they sowed back in 1980s during Zia-ul-Haq’s dictatorial era, Shah underlined.
He said that intervention in Afghanistan was the biggest mistake and the country is still facing its repercussion for past three decades.
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Umpires are required by rule to wait at least 75 minutes to see if conditions improve; this is referred to as a rain delay and is not counted as part of the length of the game listed in the box score.
If rain impacts a game before it is deemed “official,” the game is suspended and will be resumed at a later date. If a game is suspended due to weather after the game is deemed “official,” the team who was leading when the game was suspended will be declared the winner.
Most leagues will proceed as planned if it is simply sprinkling or if the rain is fairly moderate, but on days when there is a heavy downpour or a lightning storm, the league will reschedule the game. It is not safe for baseball players to be running around the field when visibility is low and traction is impossible.
Spectators who have bought tickets for a game which becomes a rainout are issued a “rain check” (usually, the ticket stub is considered the rain check). This can usually be exchanged for a ticket for the make-up date, or for another game later that season.
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In the MLB, a game will end early due to weather if one team is ahead after 5 innings (or 15 outs) have been completed by each team. Whoever has the most runs after those 15 outs will be declared the winner.
4-2-2 The game ends when the team behind in score has completed its turn at bat in the seventh inning, or any inning thereafter if extra innings are necessary. If the home team scores a go-ahead run in the bottom of the seventh inning, or in any extra inning, the game is terminated at that point.
In either case, no statistics are counted until the game becomes official. Since most professional baseball games are nine innings long, the fifth inning is used as the threshold for an official game. If the visiting team is leading, or the game is tied, the end of the fifth inning marks this point.
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Refund Policy for Unplayed Games
In the event that the series for which this ticket is issued concludes before the date on which the Game was scheduled to occur, a refund will automatically be posted to the payment card used for payment of the ticket. No credits will be issued and the ticket will have no cash value.
It’s been a common sight at Wrigley Field and ballparks across the country this year. In the 2018 season, 53 games have been postponed because of weather, tied for the second most since Major League Baseball began keeping track in 1986.
Rainout Policy: If legal game is not replayed or not rescheduled with same ticket valid, the rain check must be exchanged at the Red Sox ticket office in person by the lawful holder or by mail for a ticket of the same price, if available, for any future regularly scheduled game of the current season.
Definition. A suspended game is a game that is stopped early and must be completed at a later date from the point of termination, though not all terminated games become suspended games.
Let’s go, Mets – the meteorologists, that is…
Major League Baseball does not have a set criterion for lightning, like the NCAA or high school leagues do. Before the game begins, home teams are in charge of deciding whether a game should proceed.
If the game is postponed due to inclement weather, the most important thing is to hold on to your tickets, and someone will contact you with your ticket options. There are no refunds.
When the canceled game is rescheduled to an open date or as part of a split (day-night) doubleheader, this rain check (original ticket) will be valid for entry to the rescheduled game only.
Heavy rains postponed the Cardinals’ Wednesday night game against the Cubs at Busch Stadium. Thursday’s games will be a split doubleheader, with Wednesday’s game rescheduled for 12:15 p.m., and the original Thursday game still slated for a 6:45 p.m. start time.
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In the case of a nine-inning game, if your team (or opponent) is winning by 10 runs after seven innings (or after the top of the sixth if you are the home team) the game ends. The Mercy Rule is in play after five innings (or after the top of the fourth if you are the home team) if your team is ahead by ten runs.
In the American League, the longest 0–0 game was played between the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers on July 16, 1909. The game was called after 18 innings due to darkness at Bennett Park in Detroit.
The Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings, two teams from the Triple-A International League, played the longest game in professional baseball history. It lasted 33 innings, with 8 hours and 25 minutes of playing time.
Baseball begins with the first pitch Although it’s just for show, first pitches of this type can be very important. Politicians, in particular, are believed to be judged by their ability to throw out a good first pitch.


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GREEK HELSINKI MONITOR (GHM)
9 March 2007
Greece: Commissioner for Human Rights on Roma evictions, neighbors’ racism and negligence of police and authorities in Patras. Hypocritical stance of Greek government.
Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) welcomes the recently made public letter of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg to the Greek government. The Commissioner reports his observations, during his September 2006 visit, on the illegal evictions of Roma in Patras; the aggressive, threatening and racist attitude of the non-Roma neighbors who disturbed his visit; the lack of obvious protection from the police present; and the non-condemnation by local authorities of anti-Roma racism. The letter was sent to the Minister for Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation Prokopis Pavlopoulos on 1 December 2006.
On 24 January 2007, during his speech to the Plenary of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, the Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis extolled the institution of the Commissioner, affirmed Greece’s support to it and to Thomas Hammarberg and pledged that Greece will do everything in its power to ensure the success of this institution. Furthermore, he had a non-scheduled meeting with the Commissioner, in the presence of the Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs Dora Bakoyanni. The meeting may have been a form of apology on behalf of the Greek government for the unacceptable conduct of local authorities towards the Commissioner, who had been compelled to denounce then the Municipality of Patras for “disrespect for an international official”, “most unusual and unacceptable putting in my mouth of statements which I never made”, “attempt to use his credibility against an NGO” etc (statement available at http://cm.greekhelsinki.gr/index.php?sec=192&cid=2695)
It appears however that all the above were hypocritical, since, until today, the government has not answered the Commissioner’s letter, thus demonstrating its de facto disregard to his work and to human rights. Nor of course did the government take measures to compensate and relocate most of the Roma families following the eviction or the “administrative suspension” they experienced, as well as to ensure that those families living in apartment and whose rent is being subsidized enjoy security of tenure in their current housing.
GHM hopes that the ex officio preliminary investigation for the illegal evictions ordered by the First Instance Court Prosecutor’s Office of Patras, following GHM complaint reports will include all what the Commissioner mentions in his letter on the evictions, the racism of non-Roma residents as well as the breach of duty of police in providing adequate protection to the international official. GHM furthermore hopes that the Greek Police will launch a Sworn Administrative Inquiry (and not a routine unofficial preliminary investigation that is conducted with the participation of only the police officers concerned) on the same issue.
The Commissioner’s letter, an excerpt from the statement of Prime Minister Karamanlis and photos from his meeting with the Commissioner follow.
The situation of Roma in Greece
Letter addressed to Mr Prokopis PAVLOPOULOS, Hellenic Minister for the Interior, Public Administration & Decentralisation
by Mr Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
(available at https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1100661&BackColorInternet=FEC65B&BackColorIntranet=FEC65B&BackColorLogged=FFC679)
Strasbourg, 1 December 2006
I am writing to you about the situation of Roma in Greece. As you know the living conditions of Roma in several countries in Europe is a concern for the Council of Europe and for myself as Commissioner for Human Rights.
My predecessor, Alvaro Gil-Robles, documented poor housing conditions among Roma and referred to cases of their eviction in his reports on Greece (Report on the visit to the Hellenic Republic of 17 July 2002, CommDH(2002)5, and Follow-up report of 29 March 2006, CommDH(2006)13). Also, the European Committee on Social Rights has concluded that there have been situations of non-compliance by Greece of its obligations under the Social Charter to ensure the housing rights of Roma (Decision on the merits of the collective Complaint N° 15/2003 and the corresponding Resolution of the Committee of Ministers ResChS(2005)11; European Committee of Social Rights, Conclusions XVIII-1).
Therefore, I wanted to discuss this matter and also see for myself during my brief visit to Greece in late September. I held talks on the housing situation of Roma with Mr Kaminis, the Greek Ombudsman, Mr Vergygiannis, the Secretary General of the Ministry of the Interior, and Mr Ailianos, Secretary General of the Ministry for Public Order. I also went to see Roma communities and settlements in Makrygiannis and Riganocampos near Patras.
The right to adequate housing is a fundamental right. It is protected by several international legal instruments including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter. Furthermore, the right to adequate housing has to be ensured without discrimination.
Let me emphasise the importance of this. Without a real home, families face difficulties in enjoying other rights, such as the right to education and health. A pattern of social segregation is perpetuated.
Decisions that some people have to move because of new city plans may sometimes be justified. However, the manner in which such initiatives are prepared and implemented should be in accordance with agreed human rights norms and procedural safeguards.
The consequence of these norms is that forced evictions can only be carried out in exceptional cases and in a reasonable manner. Everyone concerned must be able to access courts to review the legality of planned evictions before they are carried out – this requires the existence of both legal remedies and legal aid possibilities. Alternatives to evictions should be sought in genuine consultation with the people affected while compensation and adequate resettlement have to be offered when forced evictions take place.
The norms also apply to local authorities. The fact that abusive decisions are often taken on local level does not absolve the central government from responsibility under its international obligations. The state should exercise oversight and, if necessary, regulate local action.
During my visit, I was informed of the efforts of the Greek Government to improve the housing conditions of Roma through the Integrated Action Plan of 2002 and, in particular, the programme of state-guaranteed housing loans.
However, the brief visit to Patras illustrated to me that there are remaining problems.
I saw Roma families living in very poor conditions. Also, I met with a family whose simple habitat had been bulldozed away that same morning. It was obvious that the “procedures” for making them homeless were in total contradiction to human rights standards I referred to above.
I was also disturbed to notice that non-Roma people appeared on both sites during my visit and behaved in an aggressive, threatening manner to the extent that my interviews with some of the Roma families were disturbed. I had expected that the police would have offered more obvious protection and I did not get the impression of a principled, clear position by the local authorities against such xenophobic, anti-Ziganistic tendencies.
The Patras authorities showed me a flat that had been made available to one Roma family. The parents were positive about this housing, but I understood that they were worried about what would happen after the initial, financially subsidized period was over. They had no money to pay the rent. This seemed to raise the question of sustainability of the housing solutions offered.
The Recommendation Rec(2005)4 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on improving the housing conditions of Roma and Travellers in Europe provides sound guidance to member states in the field of housing.
There also appears to be a need for further work to counter xenophobic and racist tendencies which seriously hinder the social inclusion of Roma.
As regards the current situation in Makrygiannis and Riganocampos, I would like to request further information on the measures taken to compensate and relocate Roma families after eviction or “administrative suspension” and on their security of tenure in current housing.
I look forward to continuing a constructive dialogue with the Hellenic Government on these questions in the future.
Mr. Constantin YEROCOSTOPOULOS, Permanent Representative of Greece to the Council of Europe
Strasbourg, 24 January 2007
SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER KOSTAS KARAMANLIS TO THE PLENARY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
(available at http://www.coe.int/t/dc/files/pa_session/jan_2007/20070124_disc_karamanlis_en.asp)
“[…] The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights represents an institution that is equally important as a court even though it operates in a different way. Its limited financial and human resources must be considerably strengthened, especially in view of the entering into force of Protocol No. 14. We have always strongly supported this institution and we shall continue to lend Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg the same strong support that we offered to his predecessor. Indeed, my country will do everything in its power to ensure the success of this institution in the years to come.”


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The Environmental Protection Agency seemed likely to miss a court-ordered deadline Friday for issuing new rules intended to improve the views and air quality in 156 national parks and wilderness areas.
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Judging from the fulsome praise in much of the world’s media, the Palestinian leader buried in Ramallah last Friday was a combination of Gandhi and Mother Theresa, and not an unrepentant terrorist responsible for more murders than Osama bin Laden.
While the royal heads of state of only Jordan and Saudi Arabia took part earlier in Yasser Arafat’s Cairo funeral, some 60 other countries sent representatives to what was truly a world-class spectacle of hypocrisy. How could The Guardian compare Arafat to “Moses” or CNN depict him as a “revolutionary romantic figure comparable to Ho Chi Minh and Nelson Mandela”?
Was this not the same Arafat who scorned an offer of Palestinian statehood at Camp David in 2000 and instead launched a four-year intifada, during which his minions slaughtered more than 1,000 Israeli civilians and thereby became responsible for the deaths of thousands of their fellow Palestinians?
In New York, we were informed, the UN flag was lowered to half-mast to mark what Secretary-General Kofi Annan called "this grave day for the world." Grave day? Where was the outrage at this godfather of world terrorism, the man who took us from airplane hijacking and hostage-taking to the indiscriminate mass murder of suicide bombings? If the maxim of not speaking ill of the dead does not apply to a Hitler or Stalin, it should not apply to their ideological Palestinian successor. At least they took pains to hide their crimes against humanity, while Arafat boasted of his relentless pursuit of the goal of eliminating the State of Israel.
In all the bizarre eulogies of Arafat as a leader who somehow “embodied the peace of the brave,” one central focus of his activities for more than 40 years was conspicuously absent: terrorism. Where was mention of the 12 children and teachers slaughtered on a school bus in Avivim in northern Israel in 1970? Or the 26 passengers murdered in an attack on Lod Airport in 1972? Or the 11 Israeli athletes slain at the 1972 Munich Olympics by the “freedom fighters” he commanded? Or the massacre of 26 schoolchildren and teachers at a high school in Ma’alot in 1974? Or what about the eight hostages murdered in the attack on Tel Aviv’s Savoy Hotel in 1975? Or the 35 Israelis slain along the country’s Coastal Highway in the 1978 massacre? Or the 29 killed in the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires in 1992? Or the 86 killed in the bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish Community Center in 1994? Since September 2000, Arafat’s snipers and suicide bombers have murdered 1,032 Israelis and more than 100 foreign nationals. Why was it suddenly politically incorrect to recall his victims?
This was a man who did not hesitate to send Palestinian children to their deaths as suicide bombers, while making sure his own wife and child were safely ensconced in Paris – not to mention providing her with a $100,000 monthly stipend from Palestinian Authority aid donations. Where was the outrage?
This was the man described by South Africa's City Press as a leader who “marshaled freedom fighters” – and stood by in October 2000 while those same “freedom fighters” murdered two Israeli reservists who had taken a wrong turn, throwing them from a window to a mob below that literally ripped their bodies apart.
The spectacle of Arafat’s funeral and burial took place in an international theater of the absurd during a world festival of hypocrisy. How can we have moral clarity when the godfather of world terrorism is celebrated and mourned? Where is the outrage at this total denial of responsibility?
It was as if an Israeli minister of tourism had not been slain in his hotel at Arafat's command, or an American ambassador and a Jordanian prime minister had never been murdered, or a wheelchair-bound American Jewish pensioner had never been shot and dumped into the Mediterranean from his cruise ship. Or an Israeli mother, Tali Hatuel, eight months pregnant, had not been shot in the head at point blank range by a Fatah killer just last May – along with her four young children.
In the midst of the war in Iraq, how could any American media outlet find words to praise the man who embraced Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War and willingly accepted financial support from him for the families of suicide bombers, in order to encourage more suicide bombers? In the current absence of a Palestinian civil war that is sure to fill the vacuum of his “leadership,” there is perhaps no clearer indication of the chaos that is likely to be Arafat’s legacy than the frenzied mob scene at his burial. The occasion offered the Palestinian Authority its first great chance to display dignity and the rule of law as the entire world watched. Instead, the world saw a mob of thousands clamoring in such disorder at the doors of Arafat’s helicopter that his coffin could not be unloaded for long moments, while terrorists throughout the crowd fired endless submachine-gun rounds into the air.
The masses he misled and looted continued to shout, “We will sacrifice our blood and souls to redeem you, Yasser.” But the world’s media did not notice that all the blood Arafat spilled had placed him beyond redemption and already cost his people its soul.
And finally, Arafat’s long-standing connection to Saddam Hussein became even more concrete with the report on Wednesday from The House Committee on International Relations. The Committee revealed during a hearing on corruption in the Iraqi relief program that funds from the United Nations Oil-for-Food program was given to the families of Palestinian homicide bombers. According to investigators working for Henry Hyde (R, Illinois), chairman of the panel, said funds had been traced from former Saddam Hussein through a Jordanian bank and into the hands of families of bombers who attacked Israeli citizens.
It has long been known that Saddam paid bounties of $15,000 to $25,000 to the Palestinian families of the murderers. According to Hyde's committee, some of the reward money was deposited from illegal profits Saddam made by demanding 10 percent kickbacks on all the contracts of companies that did business with the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program. Those funds were then deposited in Bank of Iraq account at the Rafidain Bank in Amman, Jordan, along with other Iraqi money, such as Jordanian Oil-for-Food oil payments. The funds were then transferred to another account in the bank controlled by Iraq's ambassador to Jordan Sabah Yaseen. Saddam’s officials would draw checks on Yaseen's account and hand out checks to the homicide bombers' families, Hyde's investigators revealed.
Mike Evans is the author of The American Prophecies, and the founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team.

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