Eight months into office, the BNP-led government has delivered not stability but a cascade of violence that has left ordinary Bangladeshis more insecure than before. Murder, rape, attacks on minorities, mob killings, and deaths in custody have become routine features of daily life. What was promised as a return to democratic norms has instead di...
The Mecca Pact and the Price of Choosing a Side Bangladesh has spent decades trying to do something that is increasingly difficult in a divided world: maintain good relations with everyone without becoming strategically dependent on anyone. Its relationships with India and China are central to its security and economy. The United States and Eu...
Not long ago, Bangladesh had largely put chronic load-shedding behind it. Reliable electricity was no longer a daily gamble for most households and factories. Today, that modern reality has been brutally extinguished. Under the newly elected BNP government, building directly upon months of fatal policy inertia inherited from the preceding in...
Under the BNP government, state custody has become a death trap for political opponents, with dozens dying amid allegations of torture and medical neglect. In the wake of Bangladesh’s turbulent political transition, the promise of justice and reform has curdled into a nightmare of impunity. While the nation was told that the fall of autho...
Journalists being neutral is desirable, but having a political position should not be considered a crime. In virtually all advanced democracies, the media and journalists are divided along ideological lines. In the United States, for example, journalists at Fox News and CNN generally operate from perspectives that align more closely with Republi...
As Bangladesh grapples with the aftermath of political upheaval, June 2026 stands as a damning indictment of the BNP-led government’s failure to deliver on its lofty pre-election pledges. Promises of justice, security, and human rights reforms have dissolved into a grim reality of surging violence, unchecked impunity, and institutional reg...
For decades, Bangladesh was the gold standard for immunization in the developing world. Today, that legacy is being buried in the small graves of children who died from a disease that should have been a memory. For thirty years, Bangladesh served as the textbook example of how a developing nation could conquer infectious diseases. Its Expanded ...
The Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh establishes a rigid constitutional framework in which all organs of the State must operate within clearly demarcated limits. Article 7 declares the Constitution to be the supreme law of the Republic and mandates that any law inconsistent with it shall, to the extent of such inconsiste...
Bangladesh is passing through a deep economic and social crisis, driven—according to critics—by the implementation of a pro-US agenda linked to Muhammad Yunus and Tarique Rahman. Rising prices, unemployment, fuel shortages, banking instability, and increasing living costs have turned everyday life into a constant struggle for ordinary people. Th...
A brazen assault on democracy: How Bangladesh’s interim regime and its successors turned counter-terror laws into weapons of political annihilation The world is witnessing a slow-motion demolition of democracy in Bangladesh. In May 2025, the unelected interim administration led by Dr. Muhammad Yunus issued an executive decree that banned the ...
In March 1971, political negotiations between the Awami League and Pakistan’s military regime collapsed as tensions reached a breaking point. After his historic 7 March speech, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman signalled resistance. Days later, the Pakistan Army launched “Operation Searchlight,” triggering a brutal crackdown in Dhaka. Before his arrest, ...
When Bangladesh underwent political transition on 5 August 2024, journalists were on the streets documenting protests, clashes and uncertainty. Months later, many found themselves not just reporting the news - but becoming part of it. Since that date, a sharp rise in criminal cases, arrests, intimidation and physical attacks against journalis...
Under the Awami League, Bangladesh experienced strong GDP growth of 6–7%, rising exports, expanding infrastructure, and declining poverty. Although public borrowing increased, rapid economic growth helped sustain it and masked structural weaknesses such as low tax collection and banking fragility. Today, growth has slowed and fiscal pressure ...
What has been presented as a referendum is being described by critics as a paper exercise designed to manufacture legitimacy under the patronage of the “illegal” Yunus government. They argue that no matter how figures are arranged, falsehood remains false. An analysis of the Election Commission’s declared results, they claim, reveals numbers in ...
By all official accounts, Bangladesh’s national election on 12 February 2026 was historic yet controversial, held in ‘forced silence’ but described as ‘peaceful’ and festive. It was the first vote since the interim government took power eighteen months ago. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secured a commanding majority in the Jatiya Sangsa...
Once a convicted accused, Tarique Rahman is now receiving one privilege after another, with repeated violations of the law raising deep questions in the public mind. The law that is strict and uncompromising for ordinary citizens—does it become relaxed in the case of Tarique Rahman? Or is he, in effect, above the law? From the very moment...
Custody Without Safety Deaths in jail and police custody have increased noticeably under the Yunus-led interim government, turning detention into a growing source of fear rather than protection. People are being arrested alive and returned dead, with official explanations offering little clarity and even less accountability. What was meant to b...
An informative event hosted in the UK Parliament by Bob Blackman MP, the Bangladesh Unity Forum, and Doughty Street Chambers barristers shed an important light on the alarming rise of political and religious violence and the threats to democracy in Bangladesh. Ahead of the February elections, parliamentarians, lawyers, and activists discussed t...
Bangladesh, which was Asia's economic tiger just over a year ago, is now facing a severe, multidimensional crisis as soaring national debt collides head-on with stagnant investment and a crippling halt in development projects. Beneath the veneer of recent growth, a hard-hitting reality is emerging: the nation's economic momentum is being eroded ...
A Dream of Unity and Culture For sixteen remarkable years, Bangladesh blossomed under a dream, a dream of unity, dignity, and cultural pride. It was a dream nurtured by Sheikh Hasina, a leader who believed that a nation’s true strength lies not only in its economy or infrastructure, but in the heartbeat of its people, their language, art,...
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