In Praise of Sheikh Hasina’s BDR Crisis Management

In a Darbar (meeting) at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Headquarters at Peelkhana, Dhaka on March 3, 2010, its Director General Major General (DG) Moinul Islam said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s handling of the BDR crises last year was the…

Posted on March 7, 2010 | Leave your comment

Pakistan Phobia and Bashing after 40 Years!

A few vocal among a limited circle but covered sufficiently in media in Dhaka remain unimpressed though in overwhelmingly majority people’s psyche what I see is the Pakistan phobia and bashing. The pitch goes high at times in obvious information…

Posted on March 7, 2010 | Leave your comment

Sheikh Mujib: Pakistan and Bangladesh

School reading materials, history books and documents are being revised and rewritten with full governmental energy and huge money from the public exchequer sponsored with renewed vigor by the all powerful Bangladesh P.M. Sheikh Hasina everything for eulogizing her late…

Posted on March 7, 2010 | Leave your comment

Who’s not Killer? ‘KE KHUNI AR KE NOI’: ‘RAW AND HASINA’

Earlier in late1990s I used to write columns for a Bengali daily not as a professional journalist but as an aged teacher purely out of my own conscience. Hasina was there since 23 June 1996 as the top boss of…

Posted on March 5, 2010 | Leave your comment

The misery on our faces

We were Muslims in 1947; we are Muslims now. There is a difference, however. Today we wear our religion on our sleeves and shout it from the housetops.

Times may be hard but why add to the sum of national misery?…

Posted on March 5, 2010 | Leave your comment

Commentary: Country needs strong judges to fight corruption in high places

A Counsel of the Anti-Corruption Commission was yesterday told by a judge of a High Court Division Bench that the ACC commissioners were themselves involved in corruption in the name of inquiring corruption by others.

The terse observation came as the…

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US-China new strategic equation

What happens when country A owns $800 billion worth of bonds from an international rival, country B? Country A starts to call the shots.

Yes, there’s a strong mutuality about that position - neither can afford the deterioration of that financial…

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Safiullah and Associates first and then Fugitives

Media reports say that the vengeful Hasina has set priority for the government to bring back the six fugitives of the “Mujib Murder Case” for immediate execution. She has for the job engaged the Indian Intelligence R &AW specialists and…

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Isolated Hasina after Hanging Anti BKSAL Coup Leaders

Reading through the interview contents of Syed Tarek Reehman, son of hanged Col Syed Farook Reehman, I got in the Internet, many legal, moral and ethical points lost in the propaganda galore became clear. The point being that the spineless…

Posted on March 4, 2010 | Leave your comment

No Intelligence Failure

There is a saying and a sort of belief among certain section that the toppling and killing of President Mujib in August 1975, Killing of President Zia in 1981 and the BDR Head Quarter Massacre on 25-26 February 2009 etc.…

Posted on March 4, 2010 | Leave your comment