Yunus, founder of Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank, is set to head the interim govt after Sheikh Hasina’s ouster. The Hasina-led administration had slapped over 190 cases on him over the years.
Former Dhaka University student says Bangladeshi Hindu students have no one to turn to but their Muslim peers as attacks on minorities continue unabated in wake of Hasina’s ouster.
Bangladesh’s political life isn’t an irreducible confrontation between secularism and Islamism. Like in Pakistan, Islam has been the language of both power and resistance.
Unlike other leaders, Sheikh Hasina resisted the electoral temptation to mobilise voters around ‘India out’ campaigns. Hence, Delhi found it difficult to ditch her when she was losing domestic support in recent years.
This isn’t just a story about street power and regime change. It is about a new semiotics of takeover. Dhaka protests have a dotted line all the way to Colombo, Lahore, and Washington.
Hasina kept a lid on homegrown Islamic terror in Bangladesh. Her government also made significant efforts to prevent the smuggling of arms to Indian separatist groups.
Just like Frankenstein, Sheikh Hasina has been devoured by her own demon. She has fled Bangladesh and saved herself. Now this demon will seek to crush all progressive thinkers in the country.
Supporting Yunus is crucial, particularly in enabling him to use his influence, ideas, and energy for the common good, and therefore maximise the good he can do for people, institutions, governments, and academia.
Even as India, Pakistan have seemed on the edge of war, their intelligence services have often sought to find space to de-escalate tensions and reduce risks for the two countries.
Speaking at 2nd Investor Connect, CM Vishnu Deo Sai says 'we have been able to attract a lot of investors.' The focus of the event was the steel sector.
In largest overhaul of military command in 5 decades, Field Marshal Asim Munir set to assume post of Chief of Defence Forces tomorrow, as Army claims primacy in Pakistan armed forces.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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