Anyone linked to Awami League ‘no longer safe in Bangladesh’
The party warned that the international community's silence on the matter might push Bangladesh further into brutality and prolonged political violence.
The party warned that the international community's silence on the matter might push Bangladesh further into brutality and prolonged political violence.
Bangladesh’s tryst with elections slated for Thursday is not merely a test for the South Asian nation’s democratic will, but also a test of how things will evolve on the larger South Asian canvas.
The Mohammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh has banned the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League from participating in the elections.
In an exclusive interview to the United News of India, Prof AK Abdul Momen, who served as Bangladesh’s foreign minister from 2019-2024, said that the Bangladesh-Pakistan-China axis building up could prove deeply destabilising, not just for Dhaka, but for the wider South and South East Asia
Her political career was moulded by military rule, mass movements, electoral politics and prolonged legal and political standoffs
Former Bangladesh Minister and Awami League leader Mohammad Ali Arafat on Tuesday slammed the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, asserting that a government backed by Islamist extremists would never understand the party’s relationship with India.
The Indian government’s message to Dhaka, following the latest judgment, appears unmistakable: “You may place any demand you wish, but India will take its own decisions in its own way.”
At least 21 leaders and activists of the Awami League were arrested by Bangladesh police across Narayanganj district over the past 36 hours, as of Monday morning, local media reported.
In the continuing crackdown on Awami League, several leaders of the party were on Wednesday placed under police remand for interrogation by the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh.
An Awami League supporter, who'd intruded into the country with the help of some local brokers operating in Burdwan and Asansol, was intercepted by the police today and slapped with cases under the specific sections of the Foreigner's Act against the infiltrator and the brokers.
