Bangladesh

Enclave populations: The humanitarian angle

Bangladesh and India are neighbouring countries with a shared history and common cultural and linguistic ties. Although all countries in the world have some inter-state problems at one level or another, the enclave problem between Bangladesh and India is unique in its complex and unresolved nature. read more : http://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2013/aug/24/enclave-populations-humanitarian-angle

Bangladesh v. Radical Islam

Source: Undivided US Blog In the ongoing debate over Islam and democracy, Bangladesh, the eighth largest country in the world, with 164 million people—90 percent of them Muslim—is, oddly enough, seldom discussed. Yet Bangladesh has been a democratic, parliamentary republic since 1991. The country will hold new general elections no […]

HRW comment on Azam verdict

Source: BDNews 24 By Suliman Niloy Dhaka: Barrister Tureen Afroz, a prosecutor in former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam’s case in the war crimes tribunal, has harshly criticised New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) for questioning the trial process in the most sensational war crimes case in Bangladesh. In a statement on Friday, […]

Before Amy Pickering, PhD, left Bangladesh, she stuffed a bright green, 70-pound iron water pump into her suitcase, carefully bolstering a key piece of her

Before Amy Pickering, PhD, left Bangladesh, she stuffed a bright green, 70-pound iron water pump into her suitcase, carefully bolstering a key piece of her research project, which aims to improve the health and save the lives of children in the Dhaka slums. Pickering and her colleagues at Stanford, including an […]

Bangladesh court disqualifies Islamic party

Source: Miami Herald By FARID HOSSAIN ASSOCIATED PRESS   DHAKA, Bangladesh — A Bangladesh court has disqualified the country’s largest Islamic party from taking part in the next general election, saying it opposes secularism. The High Court panel ruled Thursday that the opposition Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party’s regulations violate the constitutional […]

Encounters of the Dark Kind

Source: Daily Star Op Ed By Syed Badrul Ahsan Let us talk about Razakars today. And we need to do that because of all the nonsense Chowdhury Mueen Uddin has lately been spewing about a country he betrayed back in 1971. The man, accused of having led some leading Bengali intellectuals […]

Mujaheed guilty of war crimes

Source: BD News 24 By Suliman Niloy, Golam Mujtaba Dhrubo, Quazi Shahreen Haq and Kamal Hossain Talukder,  bdnews24.com Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed has been found guilty of five war crimes charges, including mass murder of intellectuals during the 1971 Liberation War. International Crimes Tribunal-2 said although two other incidents […]

Violence in protest of Ghulam Azam verdict

Collection of news items from Dhaka regarding Opposition protests for ICT verdict on Jamat e Islami leaders.   Could Bangladesh protests upend the government? (+video) Christian Science Monitor Protests continued for a second day in Bangladesh after a war crimes tribunal investigating the country’s 1971 war of independence sentenced a top Islamist politician to […]

MIXING RELIGION WITH POLITICS

Source: Daily Star MIXING RELIGION WITH POLITICS An otherwise little known group Hefazat-e-Islam has become instrumental in winning election, especially at a time when everyone has thought that secularism in Bangladesh taking a strong foothold. Political use of religion–especially Islam–is back, and it seems to have all the ingredients to […]