Professor Muhammad Yunus — Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Founder of Grameen Bank — urged South Asian nations to get closer quickly by resolving conflicts and work collectively towards slashing poverty to zero in the region. His appeal came Saturday as part of his keynote speech at the sixth conference...
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Photo: Dhanmondi 32, August 15, 1975. On a Friday evening more than three decades ago a man named Khondker Mushtaque Ahmed, with blood on his hands, addressed the nation of Bangladesh over television and radio. He declared that he was now President of Bangladesh. He said the Bangladesh military had taken...
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Photo: Ekushe February, 1953. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with Maulana Bhasani. Since its birth, Pakistan has been said to be ruled by triple A: “Allah,” “Army” and “America.” Even today, years after the independence of “East Pakistan,” endless sectarian riots in Karachi confirm the murky influence of religion in Pakistani politics. And...
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Artwork: Anonymity/Graham Lampa. All over the world, there are regimes that discourage free speech and try to suppress dissidents. They keep an eye on its netizens and in recent years many bloggers across the world have been interrogated, arrested, tortured and sent to prison for the “crime” of speaking critically about their...
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Photo: Selling Religion/Bri Vos. This article exposes the mindset of the majoritarian Bangalee Muslim nationalist population in Bangladesh. To consolidate the power base, the political parties, politicians and military dictators, have always used religion as a tool. It is evident from the series of amendment of the Constitution from a secular...
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Days back Sheikh Hasina, former prime minister and president of Awami League, openly started talking about DGFI, questioning their campaign against political parties in Bangladesh. That probably made her the first politician in Bangladesh who dared talking about this taboo. And apparently that was the sin she committed that landed her in jail. Sajeeb...
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In an exclusive email interview with E-Bangladesh.org, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, Bangladesh Awami League’s international lobbyist and son of Sheikh Hasina, has blasted the military-led interim government for persecuting his mother. “In Bangladesh and outside, everyone, with the exception of a few corrupt leaders, is completely united behind Sheikh Hasina,” Joy wrote to Sushanta Das...
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