Posts published in “Bangladesh”

by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla and Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in The Daily Star, Nov 14, 2017 While the BNP sticks to its demand for holding the next national elections under a non-partisan polls-time government, the ruling Awami League insists the elections will be conducted as per constitutional provisions. The AL presumes that the BNP might take to the streets and carry out destructive activities to press home its demand. Some AL leaders said the government would…

Report in Prothom Alo, Nov 13, 2017 Update: 22:36 Tofail Ahmed, Awami League, BNPRuling Bangladesh Awami League (AL) leader and commerce minister Tofail Ahmed on Monday turned down BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s call for deploying army during the next general elections with magistracy power. “Why will the armed forces get the magistracy power during the polls? The armed forces will only assist other forces during the polls,” said Tofail when a group of newsmen asked…

by Moinul Hoque Chowdhury in bdnews24.com, Nov 13, 2017 at 23:53 BdST The Election Commission says they will not use the Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs in the next general election, a day after Khaleda Zia voiced her opposition to the use of the machines at a public rally. Apparently enjoying the BNP’s confidence nine months into its formation, the commission is, however, positive about the deployment of the army surrounding the polls. But an…

report in BDNews24.com, Nov 13,2017 Rangpur: With 47 fresh arrests, a total of 100 people have now been detained and sent to jail in two cases of arson attacks on Hindu homes in Rangpur following an alleged blasphemous post on social media. Rangpur Superintendent of Police Mizanur Rahman told bdnews24.com that the law enforcers made the new arrests on Sunday. “Most of them are activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and (its student front) Islami Chhatra Shibir,” he…

Report in bdnews24.com, Nov 10, 2017 Families of Bangladesh Janata Party or BJP President Mithun Chowdhury and Ashik Ghosh, another leader of the recently formed political alliance, have alleged police picked the duo up two weeks ago. They made the allegation at a news conference at Bangladesh Crime Reporters’ Association on Thursday. Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Adibasi Party President Mithun announced the new alliance in September. He claimed the alliance had the ‘blessing’ of India’s…

Dhaka: Rights activists have expressed concern over the recent incidents of enforced disappearance. At least 10 people, including a journalist, a university teacher, a publisher and political leaders, have gone missing since August 22. Some of them were picked up by unidentified people, said their family members. Rights body Ain o Salish Kendra says 334 of the 524 people, who allegedly became victims of enforced disappearance between 2010 and October 2017 across the country, are…

by Moonis Ahmar in Daily Times, November 10th 2017. The writer, author of book Pakistan and Bangladesh: From Conflict to Cooperation is Meritorious Professor of International Relations at the University of Karachi and was Asia Fellow in Dhaka University during 2002. Apart from Afghanistan and India, Bangladesh is another country in South Asia whose relations with Pakistan are not friendly and normal. Recent schism in Pakistan-Bangladesh relations occurred when on October 31 Pakistan High Commissioner…

By Arifur Rahman Rabbi in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 9, 2017 at 11.51pm It has been two days since, Dr Mubashar Hasan Cesar, assistant professor at North South University (NSU), went missing after a meeting on Tuesday afternoon. His father Motahar Hossain filed a General Diary (GD) with Khilgaon police station in the early hours of Wednesday. “We filed the GD around 2:30am and reported my son missing to RAB 3 at 9am [on Wednesday]. The…

A North South University teacher has gone missing from the capital on Tuesday afternoon. Mubashar Hasan, assistant professor at the political science department, came out of the university around 4:30pm. Police said he last talked to someone on his mobile phone at 6:41pm when he had been near Lions Eye Hospital at Agargaon. His disappearance, the latest in a series of such incidents in the country, has alarmed many people while his family members, colleagues…

by Manik Miazee, Fazlur Rahman Raju & Bilkis Irani in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 8, 2017 Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) election is going to be the litmus test for the upcoming general elections because this will be the last local elections before the general election. Political parties will be able to assess the Election Commission’s (EC) ability to hold a free and fair election and, after months of dialogues, see any of their recommendations has been…