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
As there was no one who had submitted the nomination for the position, Chuppu, by default became the president-elect.
The administration in Dhaka has seemingly responded to pleas from members of Khaleda’s family and the ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic.
The video message was distinctly addressed to the post-liberation generation (1971) and the Awami League… and not to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, whose support base comprises those who were repatriated from Pakistan, including a few who had helmed the army in liberated Bangladesh.
The Election Commission (EC) has set January 30 as the date for the election of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC).
Fundamentalists, piqued by the alleged blasphemy, have given a sixpoint charter of demands which includes removal of the SP, burial of those killed in police firing without any post mortem examination, best medical treatment for those injured, adequate compensation to those killed in firing, release of those arrested by authorities and the hanging of Biplob and his associates.
