Muhammad Yunus and Sheikh Hasina (File ph Sanjeeb Wazed, son of ousted Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina, has accused the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of “weaponising the judiciary” to carry out a “political witch hunt” against the Awami League leadership.His allegations made in a detailed post on X, came shortly after the Bangladeshi interim government sent…
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina set up a war crime tribunal, International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), in 2010, to investigate atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s liberation war against Pakistan in 1971. Now, the ICT has initiated three investigations into “mass murder” against her, according to the tribunal’s investigator, Ataur Rahman. The probes are in response to…
After former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country on Monday, Taslima Nasreen pointed out the ironic but similar conditions the exiled author was subjected to in 1999 in a post on social media.Nasreen said that Hasina expelled her from Bangladesh in 1999 to please Islamists when she returned to see her dying mother…
DHAKA: At least 105 people have been killed in Bangladesh as police cracked down on unrelenting student-led protests against govt job quotas despite a ban on public gatherings, AFP said on Friday, citing hospitals. The govt has decided to impose a nationwide curfew and deploy the army, BBC Bangla reported, citing the PM’s press secretary.Earlier…
