Rahman, while attacking Sheikh Hasina and warning against ‘hegemonic powers’, also appealed for calm. ‘We must ensure safety of all ages, classes, professions, and religions,’ he said.
Call between Bangladesh’s chief adviser & US Ambassador to India & Special Envoy for South & Central Asia comes after days of violence following death of Sharif Osman Hadi.
The attack on Chhayanaut, newspaper offices, and the public lynching of a Hindu man show that Bangladesh is heading toward Islamist rule, far removed from electoral democracy.
Attack on Osman Hadi resulted in escalation of anti-India rhetoric after unsubstantiated reports claimed his shooters fled to India. Properties linked to Awami League also vandalised.
Hasina fled to India on 5 Aug after protests, which began as a student-led movement against public sector job quotas, escalated into some of the deadliest unrest, resulting in over 700 deaths.
Bangladeshi prof Ali Riaz is currently teaching at US's Illinois State University. He is also an author, ex-journalist & consultant for several international organisations.
On 29 May 1951, Jawaharlal Nehru defended adding 'reasonable restrictions' to Article 19, arguing that free speech must be balanced with national security and unity.
On bilateral ties, Admiral Paparo said India-US ties have an exponential effect on deterrence, because it demonstrates a unity of purpose among us to maintain the peace.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
Did PTI ask him how many seats he has won in the elections? With which “democratic” mandate is he threatening her? Why he has included islamists and known India haters jn his cabinet? Which party is he forming at the grassroot level to fight Jamat-BNP? And finally when will his puppeteers reveal themselves? India is worried about “every other party” because in the past whenever they came to power, they turned the country into a hotbed of antiIndia forces. If his honest intention is to allay that fear, he is going about it all wrong.
Now india need different foreign policy approach towards bangaladesh.
And for God shake , haseena need to seek asylum in other countries like Pacific nation’s
Release terrorists. Whitewash crimes against Hindu miniroties by calling it an “excuse” even as latest footage shows a Hindu teenager killed for blasphemy in the presence of police and Islamists. Educated Mohammad Yunus is showing signs of cowing down to the terrorists in Bangladesh. Is he the moderate grass in which the snakes of poisonous radical Islamist terrorism hiding ?
Did PTI ask him how many seats he has won in the elections? With which “democratic” mandate is he threatening her? Why he has included islamists and known India haters jn his cabinet? Which party is he forming at the grassroot level to fight Jamat-BNP? And finally when will his puppeteers reveal themselves? India is worried about “every other party” because in the past whenever they came to power, they turned the country into a hotbed of antiIndia forces. If his honest intention is to allay that fear, he is going about it all wrong.
Now india need different foreign policy approach towards bangaladesh.
And for God shake , haseena need to seek asylum in other countries like Pacific nation’s
Release terrorists. Whitewash crimes against Hindu miniroties by calling it an “excuse” even as latest footage shows a Hindu teenager killed for blasphemy in the presence of police and Islamists. Educated Mohammad Yunus is showing signs of cowing down to the terrorists in Bangladesh. Is he the moderate grass in which the snakes of poisonous radical Islamist terrorism hiding ?