Jamaat Wants to Push Bangladesh Toward the Path of Afghanistan: Mirza Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General and Sheaf of Paddy symbol candidate for the Thakurgaon-1 constituency, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, has said that Jamaat-e-Islami wants to push Bangladesh backward and turn it into a state like Afghanistan. He said that Jamaat is standing in the way of women’s equal rights and the vision of building a modern Bangladesh.
Mousiké technē: Why Chhayanaut Matters
Audity Falguni traces the long, defiant journey of Bangladesh’s most influential cultural institution ‘Chhayanaut’ as a guardian of music, secular values, and resistance through art, from the Pakistan era to the present. Audity argues that the recent attack on Chhayanaut is not mere vandalism but a continuation of extremist assaults on music, memory, and cultural freedom echoing past violence and posing a grave threat to Bangladesh’s secular cultural heritage.
Bloody Retaliation in Dhaka After Bikrampuri Arrest as Moghbazar Attack Kills One
Security analysts do not view the horrific violence that took place in the capital Dhaka following the arrest of al-Qaeda–linked militant leader Ataur Rahman Bikrampuri as merely an isolated criminal incident. According to them, it is a planned militant reaction and a message of retaliation—aimed at the state, society, and the space for free thought.
Romanticising violence and silencing dissent have emerged as the new face of Bangladeshi politics
Bangladesh’s political discourse is increasingly shaped by social media, online sermons, and populist rhetoric as two rising extremist strands—nationalist and religious—converge in portraying rivals as enemies, rejecting pluralism, and normalising violent expressions in public life.
Bangladesh Is a South Asian Time Bomb: Chellaney Warns of Islamist Violence, Repression, and Economic Collapse
Bangladesh is facing a deepening crisis marked by escalating human rights violations, rising Islamist influence, and economic decline, according to a recent opinion piece by Brahma Chellaney, Professor Emeritus of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi and Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin.
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