In the complex field of international relations, juggling diplomatic connections with competing superpowers is rather difficult. Under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh has deftly balanced itself to keep strong ties with China and India. Her most recent trips to these countries show the strategic grace needed to preserve Bangladesh's sove...
That BNP rejects the memoranda of understanding (MoUs) and agreements made with India during the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent visit to India terming them “against Bangladesh’s interests” is a foregone conclusion. They have expressed concern over the MoUs and agreements that may, to their way of thinking, put the ...
Regarding bilateral ties and international diplomacy, the idea of mutual benefit usually takes the front stage. This background helps one to understand the current Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing on transit between Bangladesh and India. On the other hand, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has adopted a somewhat opposite position a...
Since its inception, Bangladesh's government has followed a foreign policy based on the notion of "friendship to all, malice towards none" -- which Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's founding father, ingrained in the 1972 Constitution. Till today, the country carries on upholding this diplomatic concept to promote economic developm...
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has sadly got his history wrong. The Trojan Horse of legend was a trick played on the people of Troy by the Greeks at a point where the Greeks, having besieged the Trojans for years and unable to vanquish them, settled on the nasty idea of concealing their soldiers inside a wooden horse, terming it as a gift for the Trojans, an...
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