Bangladesh: Hefazat and the rise of bigotry
FEB 21 2019 SYED BADRUL AHSAN The demand for banishing Ahmadiyyas from Islam carries ugly echoes of the past, originating primarily in Pakistan. Photo: Mohd Firdaus Zulkefili — © […]
Myanmar sees ‘bad consequences’ if U.S. imposes sanctions on military
. Reuters International This content was published on November 3, 2017 Rohingya refugees make their way to a refugee camp after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Palong Khali, near […]
BANGLADESH I am sorry
Courtesy: http://www.thedailystar.net Faheem Younus I was born in Pakistan, a few months before the war which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh on December 16, 1971. And it was only after I moved to the US that I recognised the magnitude of human rights abuses the Pakistani army committed against their […]
Pakistan’s State of Denial
Source: NY Times Op-ED By TAHMIMA ANAM DHAKA, Bangladesh — It was a Pakistani journalist, Anthony Mascarenhas, who gave the world the first detailed account of Bangladesh’s war of independence. In April 1971, soon after the army of Pakistan started suppressing the secessionist movement in what was then still the eastern […]
Pakistan's State of Denial
Source: NY Times Op-ED By TAHMIMA ANAM DHAKA, Bangladesh — It was a Pakistani journalist, Anthony Mascarenhas, who gave the world the first detailed account of Bangladesh’s war of independence. In April 1971, soon after the army of Pakistan started suppressing the secessionist movement in what was then still the eastern […]
Bangladesh finds UK and US citizen guilty of war crimes
Source: http://www.onlinenews.com.pk Dhaka: A UK Muslim leader and a US citizen have been sentenced to death over crimes committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, Bangali media reported on Sunday. UK-Bangladeshi Muslim community leader Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khanwas were being tried in absentia by a special tribunal in Bangladesh. They […]
The Bangladesh poor selling organs to pay debts
Source: BBC News Green rice paddies surround the dusty, narrow road to the heart of Kalai, a village six hours north of Dhaka, in Bangladesh’s Jotpurhat district. Children play naked, hanging off stringy bits of bamboo that hold up the makeshift hut they live in. They, like millions of other […]
Bangladesh Parliament member sentenced to death for crimes against Hindus
Source: Washington Post By Richard S. Ehrlich| Religion News Service,October 03, 2013 RNS () — A court in Muslim-majority Bangladesh sentenced an Islamist member of Parliament to death for genocide and other crimes against Hindus during the country’s 1971 war for independence. Salahuddin Chowdhury is the first opposition party member […]
Maudoodi's son: Jamaat has no right to do politics in Bangladesh
Source: Dhaka Tribune: By Julfikar Ali Manik , Muktasree Chakma Sathi Politics A son of Jamaat-e-Islami founder Syed Abul A’la Maudoodi believes that the religion-based party should not be allowed […]
Maudoodi’s son: Jamaat has no right to do politics in Bangladesh
Source: Dhaka Tribune: By Julfikar Ali Manik , Muktasree Chakma Sathi Politics A son of Jamaat-e-Islami founder Syed Abul A’la Maudoodi believes that the religion-based party should not be allowed […]
Top Bangladesh Opposition Leader Sentenced to Death
Source: Daily Star. Ashutosh Sarkar, Mahbubur Rahman Khan and Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary In the first-ever war crimes verdict against any BNP leader, a special tribunal yesterday sentenced Salauddin Quader Chowdhury to death for committing crimes against humanity and genocide during the country’s Liberation War in 1971. Read more Top Bangladesh Opposition Leader […]
Supreme Court: Butcher of Mirpur, Mollah must die
Source: BD news 24/ The Daily Star Abdul Quader Molla, whose ‘lighter’ life sentence had triggered ‘Bangla Spring’ from Shahbagh, will hang as the Supreme Court has found him guilty of previously unproven murders and rape during the 1971 war. ‘Koshai Quader’ or ‘Butcher Quader’, as he was known then, […]
Bangladesh indicts 4 for posting on Islam
Bangladesh indicts 4 for postings on Islam DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A court in Bangladesh’s capital indicted four bloggers Sunday for their allegedly inflammatory writings about Islam and its Prophet … bigstory.ap.org/article/bangladesh-indicts-4-postings-islam
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
1,100-year-old Pala dynasty temple unearthed in Dinajpur
Source: Dhaka Tribune By Hasibur Rahman Bilu, Archaeologists from Jahangirnagar University (JU) have excavated an ancient Hindu temple at Belwa village of Ghoraghat upazila in Dinajpur. The massive brick structure has […]
‘Money is oxygen for terrorism’
Source: BD News24 The US Ambassador to Bangladesh, Dan Mozena, has stressed the need to cut off money supply to terrorists, saying it acts like oxygen for terrorism. “Money and terrorism can be two sides of the same coin. Money [is] the facilitator of terrorism. Money [is] the enabler of […]
Muslim Missionaries Make Kyrgyz Inroads Through Bangladeshi Madrasah
Source: Radio free Europe By Ron Synovitz, Venera Djumataeva and Gulaiym Ashakeeva A conservative Sunni Muslim movement that is banned in most of Central Asia has made inroads into Kyrgyzstan with […]
Bangladesh: “Religion in our hearts and Secularism on Our Sleeves”
Source: The Diplomat Blog By Sanjay Kumar “Remember Bangladesh is a young country and it is fighting hard to retain the spirit of secularism despite a looming threat from radical elements […]
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, […]
