DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A UN fact-finding team will visit Bangladesh next week to set up a probe of hundreds of deaths during recent student-led protests which led the prime minister to step down, UN officials have announced. An independent inquiry commission will be funded and led by the UN, said Gwyn Lewis, the UN […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Blindfolded, handcuffed and bundled out of his secret prison for the first time in eight years, Bangladeshi barrister Ahmad Bin Quasem held his breath and listened for the sound of a cocked pistol. Instead, he was tossed from a car and into a muddy ditch on Dhaka’s outskirts — alive, at […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A case has been filed against Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, eight members of her now-dissolved cabinet and police officers on charges of “crimes against humanity” and “genocide,” according to an official. The case was filed at the local International Crimes Tribun...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named as a suspect in a murder case, related to the killing of a grocery store owner in a police firing incident on July 19. This is the first murder case filed against Hasina, who fled to neighboring India on August 5. The […]
Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused the US of orchestrating her removal from power earlier this month. She alleges that it was linked to her refusal to cede control of Saint Martin Island, the southernmost part of Bangladesh, to the U.S. According to a recent report, Hasina claimed the U.S. wanted her to […]
A deadly drone strike near the border of Bangladesh and Burma has devastated the Rohingya community, killing more than 200 and forcing hundreds to return to their hometowns. The attack, carried out by the Arakan Army rebel group, targeted fleeing Rohingya Muslims near the Naf River, which separates the two countries. Despite risks, many Rohing...
New Delhi, India– AFP The son of Bangladesh’s toppled leader has thanked New Delhi for “saving her life”, accused caretaker authorities of allowing “mob rule” and warned of chaos ahead without swift elections. Sheikh Hasina, 76, quit as prime minister last Monday after a student-led uprising and fled by heli...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladeshi teen Mahir Sarowar Megh was five years old when he woke up to discover his parents, a prominent journalist couple, had been stabbed to death in their family home. The gruesome 2012 murder outraged the country’s close-knit media fraternity and has never been solved, though rumours persist that the...
ISLAMABAD/ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistan has said that it wants to “deepen cooperation” with Bangladesh, a day after Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was sworn in to lead a 17-member transitional government in Dhaka. Extending “heartiest felicitations” to Yunus, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said: “I look forward to working with him to ...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Thursday welcomed the new interim government in Bangladesh led by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, saying it hoped to work together to advance democracy. “We welcome Dr. Yunus’s call for an end to the recent violence and we stand ready to work with the interim governmen...
