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.
It is heartening to note that many large demonstrations held in Western capitals and major cities were participated in by people of all religions.
After the investigating officer being changed six times, the case has, in all probability, stalled.
The recent by-polls represent the state of democracy in our country fairly accurately.
It is unfortunate that security agencies have been used in a manner that has generated more fear in people’s mind than confidence and faith in them.
We do not know what exactly the Awami League general secretary means when he warns the BNP and advises his cadres to gird for khela on December 10.
It is apparent, from what has transpired in the last fortnight, that any attempt to exercise political rights, and to seek space, will be curbed by force.
Strategic assets are those that demand attention from the highest levels of the state.
Unfortunately, winning an election has become the synonym for achieving power.
Governments in the Western world were galvanised by the “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”) slogan after the shooting at the office of the ill-famous sleazy French magazine in Paris in 2015 by Muslim extremists, which ended in twelve of its staff members being killed.
It is a rare piece of good luck for one to witness two historic events in one’s lifetime—the 50th anniversary of the nation’s independence and the birth centenary of its founding father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. March 26, 2021 was one such day.
More than a decade ago in July 2010, I wrote an article titled “When state is the cause of its own insecurity”.
There were two senior-level meetings between Bangladesh and India so far in 2021.
On February 25, the most reviled and draconian Digital Security Act (DSA) claimed its first victim, and gave the nation its first Digital Security Act “martyr”.
It has been twelve years since the day 57 brilliant army officers were brutally killed by the BDR mutineers.
I believe that every statement of a prime minister contains substance and carries weight, more so when it has to do with politics and the opposition.
The five-year ride on the tiger by Aung San Suu Kyi is over. She is back to where she had been used to living during the greater part of her political career (except for a brief interregnum of pseudo-democracy): behind bars.
The tumul-tuous departure of Donald Trump from office has left an awful lot of wrecks in its wake, both internally and externally.
Finally President Trump has accepted the inevitable, but not before wreaking havoc, as we had predicted he would four years ago, both at home and abroad.