Digital Bangladesh: From Fiery March to the World’s Wonder

Who could have ever thought that Bangladesh would share the realm in the space from the state of the bottomless basket? But it is now the reality that our Bangabandhu Satellite-1 is orbiting the earth as the 57th country in the world. It has made things possible to extend internet and satellite facilities, telemedicine, e-learning, e-banking and...

Bangladesh kept the economy strong despite COVD19 and Russia-Ukraine war: HPM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said it is very regretful that Bangladesh's advancement is somewhat barred due to the coronavirus pandemic, global recession and subsequently Ukraine-Russia war. She said, "The world is suffering from economic recession due to that. The price of essentials and transportation cost increased significantly. Price...

Wazed Miah: An ever-shining lighthouse

Shoeb Chowdhury: Timeless Russian author Leo Tolstoy once said, "There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth." I recalled these words while thinking about Wazed Miah. Yesterday was his 79th birthday which was celebrated in a very modest way. On February 16 in 1942, Wazed Miah affectionately called 'Sudha Miah' was bor...

No room for confusion over whether the president’s post is profitable or not

Hiren Pandit: The Awami League candidate Md Shahabuddin was elected unopposed in the recent presidential election. Shahabuddin is a former commissioner of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). According to the ACC Act, no commissioner shall be eligible for appointment to any office of profit in the republic after retirement. Now after Shahabuddin ...

Khaleda Zia's Regime 2001-2006: Identified Murderers Used to Surround Tarique Rahman in Bogra

Tarique Rahman, a senior member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the son of Khaleda Zia, roamed Bogra town with identified murderers from 2001 to 2006. One incident that gained widespread attention was the public beating to death of Juba Dal activist Mohan on November 22, 2006, in a BNP party conflict. Although video footage identif...

Tarique-Lalu Syndicate Plundered Crores of Money from a Road Renovation Project in Bogra

Under the BNP-Jamaat regime, Tarique Rahman, the son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and then Senior General Secretary of BNP engaged in arbitrary activities that resulted in the demolition of Bogra's traditional Shaheed Minar. Despite being a site of cultural activities for years, various English inscriptions were installed in the city while Ben...

BNP-Jamaat Corruption: Criminals, Close to Tarique, Became Millionaires from Nothing

Between 2001 and 2006, Tarique Rahman allocated around 15 billion takas for the development of roads and infrastructure in Bogra. However, he distributed these funds among the party's cadre-based leaders, who then became overnight millionaires, looting people's money on a massive scale. For instance, in Gabtali alone, Tarique distributed Tk 500...

On February 15th, Khaleda Zia set a disgraceful record in world history

Let's examine the historical context of how BNP leader Khaleda Zia became one of the world's shortest-serving prime ministers, yet again through coercion. On this day, February 15th in 1996, the dictator BNP plunged Bangladesh's electoral system and democracy into the darkness like its founded dictator Ziaur Rahman did during his tenure. The ru...

2001 BNP-Jamaat Pre-Election Sabotage: Attacks & Massacres on Awami League Supporters to Seize Power

Prior to the 2001 national elections, BNP-Jamaat initiated widespread violence, including beatings, torture, and killings, against Awami League leaders, activists, and supporters. The Awami League, led by President Sheikh Hasina, had just completed a five-year term in government and peacefully transferred power to the caretaker government to ens...

2001 Election Campaigns Marred by BNP-Jamaat Subversion: Minority Women Persecuted, Villagers Threatened with Death for Supporting Awami League

Before the 2001 national elections, the BNP-Jamaat alliance armed notorious criminals and extremists. Under the direction of Khaleda Zia, the alliance leaders made a deal with these terrorists, promising them acquittal in exchange for working on behalf of the BNP. From Hawa Bhaban in Dhaka, Tarique Rahman reassured the capital's top terrorists t...

BNP-Jamaat’s Pre-Election Violence in 2001 Marred by Brutality on Freedom Fighters, Rampant Takeovers of University Campuses

Jamaat-Shibir, in collaboration with BNP, terrorized the country in the name of anti-government protests, leading to the murder, rape, and looting of freedom fighters and Awami League activists like the brutality of 2014 with arson and petrol bomb attacks. On September 18, 2001, the Janakantha reported that Jamaat leaders Motiur Rahman Nizami a...

BNP-Jamaat Pre-Election Brutality: Targeting Awami League Candidates & Supporters through Bombings & Death Threats

One week before the election, the BNP-Jamaat alliance launched a campaign of violence against the Awami League through bombings in public. Under the direct control of Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman, the alliance hired terrorists from extremist groups like the Taliban and Al-Qaeda to carry out the violence. Khaleda Zia even selected leaders from ...

BNP-Jamaat Pre-Election Terror in 2001: Minorities Barred from Going to Polling Centers, Fatwas on Religion & Brutality on Awami League Candidates

A week before the 2001 general elections, the BNP-Jamaat terrorists became reckless in seizing the power illegally. These criminals began attacking, vandalizing, and looting the homes of over one crore minority voters to prevent them from casting their votes. The cadres of Khaleda Zia even targeted the election campaign booths of Awami League an...

Terror Diary 2001: Shibir rampages in classrooms at daylight, Khaleda campaigns for Jamaat at night

Chhatra Shibir and Chhatra Dal started carrying out violence and subversive activities on educational campuses across the country before the general elections in October 2001. And Khaleda Zia sought votes for Jamaat candidates by holding public meetings at night. When the teachers and students of the university and medical colleges were helpless...

Creating panic before elections are BNP’s old tactics

It is an old tactic of BNP-Jamaat to carry out arson attacks and killing missions against the Awami League across the country whenever an election approaches. They try to prevent people from going to polling stations during the election through subversive activities, as these miscreants are always skeptical about being elected by the people's vo...

How BNP-Jamaat candidates trade religion: Fatwa says listening to militant speeches worthy of performing Hajj

  BNP-Jamaat leaders always try to deceive ordinary religious-minded people using fabricated sermons. They even hit one of the main pillars of Islam, Hajj, issuing an extremist fatwa guided by Khaleda Zia. The Janakantha reported on September 8, 2001, that the BNP-Jamaat alliance nominated Taliban militant Mufti Shahidul from the Narsingd...

2001: Militant who tried to assassinate Sheikh Hasina got Khaleda’s nomination for election race in Narail

2001: Militant who tried to assassin Sheikh Hasina got Khaleda’s nomination for election race in Narail The BNP-Jamaat alliance nominated Mufti Sahidul Islam, the leader of the banned militant outfit Harkat-ul Jihad (Huji), to run against Sheikh Hasina in the 2001 general elections. Sahidul took pro-Taliban madrasa students from all over the...

When elections approach, BNP starts politics with dead bodies by spreading terror

BNP-Jamaat alliance does not believe in people's vote due to their widespread killing, rape, terrorism, extortion and looting. As they doubt whether people will vote for them, they create terror with bullets, bombs and arson during election times. Before every election, they plan to seize power by preventing people from voting and rigging ballo...

Was Our Independence a Game of Chance?

Dr. Rashid Askari: One of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) top brass and its standing committee members--Babu Gayeshwar Chandra Roy recently passed a comment in public that has stirred up a real hornet’s nest. While addressing a gathering of reporters in the capital, he opined that Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan by cha...

Bangladesh Surprise: Peaceful protests welcomed

The article was originally published in the Washington Times on 20th January 2023 ------------- Shah Ali Farhad:  Bangladesh’s main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), spent months preparing for weekend protests in December in the capital, Dhaka. BNP Standing Committee member Dr. Khondker Mosharraf Hossai...