By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, October 9, 2023Ten Nepali students have been killed while four others were injured in armed attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israel on Saturday. …. As per the Nepali embassy in Tel Aviv, one student is still missing. While the attack spread terror across the country, 17 Nepali students in Kibbutz Alumim, an area near the Gaza Strip, came under direct attack by the militants. Of…
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by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in The Daily Star, July 21, 2023The Awami League has decided to forge a new electoral alliance eying the upcoming national polls, after facing backlash from some of its 14-party alliance partners over the planned inclusion of some Islamist parties in it. The current 14-party alliance is pro-left — the majority of it being comprised of leftist organisations. The new political alliance is likely to include five to six registered Islamist…
by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee/Ashik Abdullah Apu in The Daily Star, Mar 14, 2023Left-leaning parties in the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday took a firm stance against any possible inclusion of Islamist political parties in the combine. Even an Islamist political party, Bangladesh Tariqat Federation, opposed inclusion of any other Islamist party in the alliance. Partners of the 14-party alliance expressed their reservations in this regard at a meeting at the New Eskaton house of…
by Quamrul Islam Rubaiyat in The Daily Star, Mar 6, 2023People of the Ahmadiyya community in Panchagarh have been spending their days amid fears of further attacks by Islamist outfits. Many of them, especially the elderly, women and children, have already fled their houses and taken shelter in mosques, educational institutions or their relatives’ homes. They even took their cattle, household essentials and other valuables with them, villagers said. Ahmednagar, Shalsheri and Phultala — the…