
Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd)
STRATEGICALLY SPEAKING
The writer is Associate Editor, The Daily Star.
STRATEGICALLY SPEAKING
The writer is Associate Editor, The Daily Star.
Time and again, it has been proven that, when it comes to justice in Bangladesh, some are more equal than others.
An acceptable election depends on the Election Commission's ability to display its grit and resolve, exercise its writ, remain neutral, and be prompt to address complaints and proactive in detecting violations.
As if a million Rohingya refugees are not enough, we have to now face the prospect of Rohingyas sneaking in through the borders from India into Bangladesh.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made a remark that assumes significance given the rueful undertone that her statement conveyed.
The word is one of the most pejorative terms in the English dictionary; it is the most reviled term, too, as well as an oft-used mechanism handy to the West to twist the tails of those it dislikes.
The prime minister had made a very profound and significant remark at the beginning of this month on the state of the opposition in the country.
The international system changes with the passage of time—strategic, political and economic compulsions act as the causative factors.
The invasion of Ukraine, which Russia chooses to euphemistically call “special operations,” has produced several lessons for us, as much as it has, once again, exposed various negative facets of the existing world order, the fault lines in international relationship, and the skewed international system hogged by the rich and the powerful.
That is a biblical truth which no man can sunder from reality. The havoc being wreaked in Ukraine is the consequence of the wind that the West has sown since the end of the Cold War.
The counterintuitive decision that the government has taken regarding the endorsement in Bangladeshi passports of travel to Israel demands clear answers.