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Bangladesh awaits the most important election in December this year0
- Commentary, Featured
- December 10, 2018
By Abdur Rahim 10 December 2018 In December this year, a free and fair election – a rarity in Bangladesh since 2008 – will determine whether the country will follow the path of democracy or authoritarianism. This was the key topic of discussion at the South Asia Journal Special Launching and Seminar at the Woodrow
READ MORE2018 Bangladesh General Election: A Time for Stock-taking and Pondering the Stakes2
- Commentary, Featured
- December 3, 2018
By Adil Khan and Habib Zafarullah* 4 December 2018 The 2018 Bangladesh General Election scheduled on December 30, 2018 marks the end of two consecutive terms of the ruling Awami League (AL), first ever by any political party since 1991, the year a combined opposition movement against a decade long dictatorship resurrected and re-introduced
READ MOREArihant First Successful Deterrent Petrol: Dawn of new era or Nothing New but a Hyped Political Statement0
- Commentary, Featured
- November 27, 2018
By: Ahyousha Khan 27 November 2018 Few days ago on the successful completion of the first deterrence petrol of Arihant, which is SSBN (ship submersible ballistic missile nuclear powered) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave statement that now India possesses “credible nuclear deterrence”. There is no doubt that with INS Arihant, India now possess
READ MOREWill Bangladesh polls sans Begum Zia spell victory for PM Hasina?0
NOV 06 2018 PINAK RANJAN CHAKRAVARTY * 6 November 2018 In a double whammy, Bangladesh’s High Court has dealt another grievous blow to Begum Khaleda Zia, former prime minister and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the major opposition party. The court enhanced her sentence in a corruption case from 5 to 10
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Shadow of India, Hasina govt’s corruption, repression of BNP looms over Bangladesh polls0
by Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty | Sep 07,2018 BANGLADESH will go into election mode in the next few months. Democratic transfer of power in Bangladesh became the norm ever since the overthrow of military dictator General HM Ershad in 1990. The army-backed caretaker government, during 2007–2008, was an exception in Bangladesh’s democratic governance. Bangladesh has never
READ MOREBangladesh: Will this country become Pakistan or Kashmir?1
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 26 – Fall 2018
- July 1, 2018
1. A political group is spreading the perception that the country will again become Pakistan if Awami League loses control of Bangladesh. They even suggested a label “Banglastan” for this supposed nation which transforms into an improvised Pakistan in the East. But symptomatically it appears to become another Kashmir, or in a classical sense
READ MOREThe Rohingyas – Inside Myanmar’s Hidden Genocide, book review0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 24 – Spring 2018, Reviews
- March 4, 2018
The scale and nature of the violence unleashed by the Myanmar authorities against the Rohingya have prompted a top United Nations official to describe the operation as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” Human Rights Watch has concurred, and Amnesty International has called for an investigation into these criminal acts. The violence, underpinned by the
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