30 opposition leaders in Kashimpur jail
The jail authorities on Friday shifted 30 out of 37 18-party alliance leaders, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, accused in hartal violence, from Dhaka Central Jail to Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur. Masud Hasan, a deputy jailer at Dhaka Central Jail, told The Daily Star that the 30 leaders were transferred [...]
By: K R Chowdhury Intellectuals in Bangladesh recall the dark night in which Islamist extremists came for them in an apparent bid to cripple the nation ahead of its independence Serajul Islam Chowdhury vividly remembers the killing spree carried out by Islamist extremists just prior to the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971. “I was on [...]
Continue reading …The BNP-led 18-party alliance has cancelled a mass procession which was scheduled for Monday evening as police did not permit it for the programme. The opposition, meanwhile, staged a massive rally in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office in the capital to press home its demands including return of missing BNP leader M Elias Ali. [...]
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The former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Ghulam Azam has been indicted by a special court — International War Crimes Tribunal — set up by the Awami League government in Bangladesh for the crimes committed during the war in then-East Pakistan in 1971. He has been charged with complicity in the “killing of three million [...]
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Pakistan said Friday (May 11th) it would host the next round of talks with India over the disputed Siachen Glacier, dubbed the world’s highest battlefield, on June 11th and 12th in Islamabad, AFP reported. Troops from India and Pakistan have faced off on the glacier in the mountains of disputed Kashmir since the 1980s but [...]
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By: Irfan Chowdhury Once again, we read that things are hotting up in the political sphere, as if to keep up with the unbearable summer. Many people in the country suffer from the incessant load-shedding, boundless inflation, endemic unemployment and corruption that is exacerbated by recent Hartals. Our generation did not see the Liberation [...]
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BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday said their party is ready to join dialogue on non-party government either in or outside parliament if the government announces to accept their demand in principle, reports UNB. Mirza Fakhrul came up with the remark replying to a question from reporters when he (Fakhrul) went [...]
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The fate of the Teesta deal has become uncertain, BBC Bangla radio reported quoting a ‘highly-placed’ official of the Indian government. The Indian government has also informed Bangladesh’s foreign minister Dipu Moni that the signing has been put off for now, it said on Wednesday. Even though the Teesta water sharing pact was to be [...]
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The European Union has joined the United States in calling the major parties in Bangladesh for a political dialogue to ease an increasingly volatile situation. The EU on Wednesday advocated talks between the ruling coalition and the opposition to purge Bangladesh of what it says an ‘image crisis’ and lure in foreign investment in its [...]
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By Syed Zain Al-Mahmood Bangladesh’s business community is getting sick of the “hartal,” or general strike, that has crippled the country’s economy in recent decades and now is back. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party is calling for a shutdown of businesses to protest the disappearance last month of one of its senior party members in [...]
Continue reading …No arrest in a week: HC Split verdict orders not harassing Fakhrul, 29 other opposition leaders in 2 cases;
May 7, 2012 No Comment
By: The Daily Star Staff Correspondent The High Court yesterday ordered police not to arrest within a week around 30 opposition leaders, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, who are accused in two cases over hartal violence. The ruling came as a two-member HC bench delivered dissenting orders on seven separate bail [...]
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is due to arrive in Dhaka early Saturday afternoon, will have a meeting with Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia in the evening. Hillary will call on the BNP chairperson at her Gulshan residence at 8:30pm to discuss different bilateral issues, Khaleda’s press secretary Maruf Kamal Khan Sohel [...]
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