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4 SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017 DT News Like what you’re reading? SUBSCRIBE TODAY Dhaka Tribune Call: 0161-I-WANT-DT (01614926838) | Visit: dhakatribune.com/subscribe 16th Amendment verdict: Awami League awaits president’s response • Pavel Haider Chowdhury POLITICS The ruling Awami League has placed its hopes in the president’s ability to resolve the ongoing crisis over the Supreme Court’s 16th Amendment verdict. “We have shared our stance on the verdict with the president and Chief Justice. We informed them that the people of the country have not accepted the verdict. We hope the president will come up with a solution,” several senior leaders of the Awami League told the Bangla Tribune. The president has the opportunity to provide a solution as he is the guardian of the state, the Awami League leaders said, adding that the Chief Justice can also recall the verdict or invoke the suo moto rule to resolve the matter. “We want an acceptable solution,” they said. Awami League Presidium Member Mohammad Nasim said: “The people rejected the 16th Amendment verdict and we have conveyed their sentiments to the president. He will definitely end this crisis.” According to ruling party policymakers, the president has advised the Chief Justice to recall the verdict. Party sources said that the Chief Justice has the jurisdiction to recall the verdict and he can declare that the ambiguity in the verdict’s observation will be cleared by recalling it. “This is the easiest way to resolve the crisis. The alternatives are too complex,” Awami League policymakers said. Sources have hinted that the Awami League may review the verdict if there are any assurances of a positive outcome. Awami League stalwarts and stakeholders have been criticising the verdict while the Bangladesh National Party says the verdict had exposed the misdeeds of the government. A seven-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, had upheld a High Court judgment that had scrapped the amendment, rejecting an appeal filed by the state back on July 3. The Supreme Court on August 1 released the full text of the verdict. Following the full text’s release, several government stakeholders, including many ministers and Awami League office bearers expressed their discontent with the verdict. • This article was first published on banglatribune.com
News 5 SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017 DT Ousted chief strategist Bannon declares Trump’s presidency is over • Tribune Desk WORLD Ousted White House strategist Steve Bannon has declared the Donald Trump presidency “over”, following his departure from the billionaire’s administration. Bannon, a right-wing ideologue who co-founded the Breitbart News website, pronounced himself “free” and said he now had “my hands back on my weapons” at the outlet. He and Trump’s new chief of staff, John Kelly, agreed he would leave the White House. Bannon said he had given his resignation earlier in the month, though it was also reported Trump had decided to let him go. He told the Weekly Standard, a conservative opinion magazine: “The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over. “We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.” During Trump’s “America first” campaign and his early days in the Oval Office, Bannon was considered a key influencer and was even awarded a place on the National Security Council’s principals committee, the top inter-agency group overseeing national security—though he was later removed. His nationalist stances on issues like immigration, trade and society were reflected in Trump’s speeches and policies, and are widely seen as having drawn together the New Yorker’s support base after he joined the struggling campaign as chief executive last August. But once in power he was forced to compete for influence with other advisers including members of Trump’s family. Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, seen as being able to soften the President’s tone and actions, both occupy official White House posts. Bannon said he believed the Republican Party would now begin to impose a moderating influence on the President, despite his public clashes with senior figures like Senate majority leader Mitch Mc- Connell. He added: “The path forward on things like economic nationalism and immigration, and his ability to kind of move freely ... I just think his ability to get anything done— particularly the bigger things, like the wall, the bigger, broader things that we fought for, it’s just gonna be that much harder.” And he vowed to “crush the opposition”—liberals, the Washington and Republican “establishments”— Tanneries move, waste doesn’t • Rashid Al Ruhani FEATURE It has been five months since rawhide processing was suspended in Hazaribagh, but the area is yet to be rid of tannery waste. The bulk of the waste has remained there for the last five months as no authority has taken any initiative for their disposal. Besides, new waste is making ways to the open spaces as some leather factories have resumed producing finished leather goods in the area, apparently without any planned waste disposal. Residents of Hazaribagh area have complained that the older tannery US President Donald Trump talks to chief strategist Steve Bannon during a swearing in ceremony for senior staff at the White House in Washington, US January 22, 2017 REUTERS wastes have started decomposing in the rain water and spread bad odour all the time. New waste is also showing up on the roadside and ditches as the factories that have resumed production are disposing the waste everywhere in a haphazard manner, they added. Asked about the waste disposal from Hazaribagh, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Chief Executive Officer Belal Hossain said: “The waste in Hazaribagh is mainly industrial waste. One is not allowed to dump this waste anywhere. It is the factory owners who were required to arrange for the disposal of the waste. The city corporation mainly cleans household waste.” During visits to the area on Wednesday and Thursday, the Bangla Tribune correspondent discovered stacks of rawhide waste lying on the roadside at several points on the way from Hazaribagh Bazar to Beribadh. Some factories were also in operation. The employees and workers claimed that after the wholesale snapping of the power supply to the tanneries on April 8, the authorities had permitted some of the factories to get the power supply back two months later for resuming the production on some conditions. Contacted, Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA) President Shaheen Ahmed said: “Although the connections (gas, electricity line) were cut off on by using the influence and reach of Breitbart. Breitbart colleague Joel Pollak suggested the site would now go to “war” with the Trump White House following a perceived shift by the President away from the values the outlet espouses. Bannon’s departure came after a liberal magazine published an interview in which he detailed his behind-the-scenes battles with opponents in the administration and appeared to contradict Trump’s public rhetoric on North Korea. He told The American Prospect he was “fighting” internal opposition to his belief the US was locked in “an economic war with China”. He claimed officials at the Treasury and the National Economic Council were “wetting themselves” over his plans to address the fact that “they’re crushing us”. State and Defence Department staff felt similarly because they wanted China’s help to reign in Pyongyang, he said. Trump has repeatedly and publicly threatened military action against North Korea if it continues to menace the US or its allies. But Bannon told the Prospect: “Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that 10 million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s no military solution here, they got us.” • April 8, we received a High Court order the next day that said pollution-free factories can go on with production. Later, we got the power supply back through the Department of Environment (DoE), for pollution-free work.” DoE Assistant Director Saiful Ashraf said: “Power connection has been given only to those factories that can operate without creating pollution.” In keeping with a Supreme Court order, the Department of Environment (DoE) cut off the power, water and gas connections to Hazaribagh tanneries on April 8. The tannery units are being relocated to the Savar Tannery Estate. • This article was first published on banglatribune.com Spain hunts suspect over Barcelona carnage • AFP, Barcelona WORLD Spanish police expanded a manhunt Saturday for a Moroccan man believed to be one of the perpetrators of twin terror attacks in Barcelona and another seaside resort that killed 14 and wounded around 100. With the country in shock after two vehicles ploughed into crowds of pedestrians, Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said the cell behind the carnage claimed by the Islamic State group had been “dismantled”. Police were still hunting for 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub without confirming reports he was the driver who smashed a van into people on Barcelona’s busy Las Ramblas boulevard on Thursday. Thirteen people died at the scene and scores more were injured in scenes of horror witnessed by terrified friends and relatives, with locals and tourists laying flowers, candles and teddies in their memory. Investigators meanwhile were busy unravelling the terror cell of at least 12 young men – some of them teenagers – behind the Barcelona rampage and a second ramming attack with a car in the seaside town of Cambrils early Friday. One woman was killed and six other people wounded in that attack, with police killing five “suspected terrorists” who were in the car and arresting four others. Police also identified another three suspects linked to the attacks, two of whom are thought to have died in a blast on Wednesday night as they tried to make explosives at a house in Alcanar, a town some 200km south of Barcelona. On Saturday, police searched the home of an imam in Ripoll, a small town further north at the foot of the Pyrenees where some of the suspects lived, his flatmate Nourddem said, without wanting to identify him. The El Pais daily, quoting police sources, said the imam could be one of the dead in the explosion. As the hunt for Abouyaaqoub gathers pace, Spanish police tipped off their French counterparts about a white van linked to the attacks that may have crossed the border, a French police source said. • TEMPERATURE FORECAST FOR TODAY HEAVY RAINFALL LIKELY SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017 Dhaka 34 27 Chittagong 33 27 Rajshahi 33 26 Rangpur 32 26 Khulna 32 26 Barisal 33 27 Sylhet 33 25 DHAKA TODAY TOMORROW SUN SETS 6:28PM SUN RISES 5:36AM YESTERDAY’S HIGH AND LOW 35ºC 24ºC Sylhet Rangamati Source: Accuweather/UNB PRAYER TIMES Cox’s Bazar 31 26 Fajr: 5:00am | Zohr: 1:15pm Asr: 5:00pm | Magrib: 6:41pm Esha: 8:30pm Source: Islamic Foundation
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