Category: Diplomacy
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Pro-Pakistani Yunus’ hatred against Awami League and Hindus is not new
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus has said that the attacks on minorities, particularly Hindus, following the August 5 changeover were politically, not religiously, motivated. During a meeting with US Senator Gary Peters on March 18, he claimed that the interim government had taken swift action against the perpetrators. Yunus’ statement implies that “revenge attacks”…
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Jihad in Bangladesh: AQIS vs ISIS
The strategies and focus of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Bangladesh reflect their broader organizational goals, operational approaches, and ideological underpinnings, tailored to the local context. While both groups aim to establish Islamic governance and wage jihad, their methods, priorities, and engagement with Bangladesh…
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Sheik Moinuddin—Yunus’ special assistant—was demoted for inefficiency, irregularities
The interim government appointed Sheik Moinuddin as a special assistant to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, according to a Cabinet Division notification issued on March 5. He has been given executive authority over the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges. A US expatriate, Sheik Moinuddin, has extensive experience of working in the public infrastructure sector. According…
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Could Volker Türk threaten Bangladesh Army under UN mandate?
Under international law and the United Nations mandate, Volker Türk, as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, does not have the authority to unilaterally threaten or warn the Bangladesh Army about their participation in UN peacekeeping missions based on their internal actions, such as the July-August riots. Such decisions fall under the purview of the…
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Yunus lied about his complicity in govt-ouster plot
Conspiracy, lies, treachery, diversion, ungratefulness, and blame games are the common features of Nobel laureate and former Grameen Bank managing director Prof Muhammad Yunus. He would take credit for positive elements and never admit his faults or crimes—be it a tax evasion case or benefits from a friend or well-wisher. He has no shame. The…
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Bangladesh’s power dynamics: Yunus and Hasina’s similar tactics
The most notable distinction lies in their external support: Yunus is propped up by Islamists, Pakistan, the West, and the United Nations, while Hasina drew strength from secularists, India, and Russia
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Brief timeline: 1971 Liberation War and birth of Bangladesh
Starting from mid-February till January 10, 1972, this brief timeline mentions every important event of the Bangalee’s struggle for independence and efforts to thwart it through genocide by Pakistan, its allies, and local collaborators, like the Pace Committee, Razakar, and al-Bard forces. This timeline will remind you about diplomacy and dirty politics, the deadliest genocide…
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How US State Department spread rumors to fuel Bangladesh’s July uprising
As discussions over the alleged role of the US deep state in overthrowing the Awami League government keep growing, many of the mysterious activities that took place during the July-August movement are unfolding every day. Since early February, some student coordinators and Islami Chhatra Shibir leaders have revealed on social media how they planned the…
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Al Jazeera reporter reveals role of US embassy, BNP-Jamaat, journalists, NGO owners to overthrow Sheikh Hasina
The high voltage fluctuations in Bangladesh’s political landscape in the last few weeks give a clear indication of the Joe Biden administration, the USAID and the intelligence conspiracy to unseat the Awami League government in August 2024. It began several years ago but reached momentum with US Ambassador Peter Haas coordinating all the stakeholders after…
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Yunus administration pondering clean chit to al-Qaeda terrorist Syed Zia
The interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof Muhammad Yunus released Jasimuddin Rahmani, the spiritual leader of al-Qaeda affiliate Ansar al-Islam, dozens of jihadists and notorious terrorists after coming to power. Many other extremists also managed to flee the prisons as their groups launched fatal attacks in July-August. Since then, Rahmani and other…
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What’s Monica Yunus doing in the US?
Monica Yunus is currently serving as a spokesperson for the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in the United States. She was appointed to this role by President Joe Biden, though specific details about the timing and scope of her appointment are not widely detailed in available sources beyond mentions on platforms like X.…
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Grok 3 reveals how the US money is being spent in Bangladesh
The United States has a long history of providing financial assistance to Bangladesh, including funds aimed at political projects, governance, and democratic development. Below is an overview of U.S. money spent and promised for such initiatives based on available information as of February 20, 2025. Historical Spending on Political and Related Projects The U.S. has…
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Russia’s prediction was right: Biden-Hillary conspired to unseat Sheikh Hasina
Now that the Trump administration is taking extensive actions to uncover the Democrat’s conspiracy behind the Russia-Ukraine war, people are starting to believe that the disinformation campaign against Vladimir Putin was a conspiracy. Putin was right about Bangladesh, that the US was conspiring an uprising after the January 7 elections last year to overthrow Sheikh…
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US embassy was complicit in Sheikh Mujib’s assassination plot
Some pro-Pakistan army officers of the Bangladesh Army, unable to cope with their defeat in the Liberation War, carried out a brutal massacre at Dhanmondi No. 32 on August 15, 1975, resulting in the death of the then President Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members. Secret documents of the US State Department reveal…
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Yes, it was a US-backed army coup on August 5 to recreate 1/11 after 17 years
From 2005 till January 1, 2007, the same civil society leaders linked to the US embassy were highlighting the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) as a corrupt political entity that patronizes pro-Pakistani jihadist elements, even though the Jamaat-e-Islami and Hefazat Islam’s mother organization Islami Oikyo Jote–a pro-Taliban Qawmi madrasa platform–were also part of that coalition government.…
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As rivalry grows, role of Yunus, US embassy, expat journos, Chhatra Shibir in July-August anarchy is exposed
On February 17, SM Shahed Emon, a student coordinator of the July Uprising, posted a detailed post on Facebook about the role of Jamaat-e-Islami’s student organization Islami Chhatra Shibir and Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, who later became the Chief Adviser to the interim government formed after the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.…
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How Hillary Clinton abused power to help Prof Yunus and punish Sheikh Hasina
After the Awami League came to power in 2009, when the irregularities and misdeeds of Grameen Bank started to be exposed, Prof Yunus sought Hillary Clinton’s help. In an email on September 17, Dr Yunus asked Hillary to “find a way to clear her [Sheikh Hasina] mind of all the terrifying thoughts” she had about…
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ইউনূস সরকার পারফর্ম করতে পারছে না, পর্যবেক্ষণ সাংবাদিকদের
বর্তমান অন্তর্বর্তীকালীন সরকারের কর্মকান্ড নিয়ে সবাই এখন চুলচেরা বিশ্লেষণ করছে। মূলত রাজনীতিবিদরা নির্বাচনের জন্য সরকারের উপর চাপ প্রয়োগ করার কারনে এবং সংস্কার কমিশনগুলোতে রাজনৈতিক দলের প্রতিনিধি না রাখায় সম্প্রতি সরকারের উপদেষ্টাদের সাথে বিভিন্ন দল এবং সাংবাদিকদের মতানৈক্য হচ্ছে। কিছু সাংবাদিক সম্প্রতি সরকারের অনিয়ম, দূুর্নীতি ও অদক্ষতা নিয়ে কথা বললেও সংখ্যায় তারা অনেক কম এবং এ…
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How is the International Crimes Tribunal functioning in a peculiar situation?
The International Crimes Tribunal was formed in 1973, but the trials of the Pakistan Army’s collaborators for genocide, murder, rape, loot and arson couldn’t be launched due to the assassination of then-President Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975. The subsequent governments rehabilitated them in politics and society. After the Awami League returned to power in…
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Yunus and Grameen Bank won Nobel Prize despite massive blunders for years
A glimpse of management style of Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus:-He was far above accountability due to his fame and prestige-A sign of personal interest, arbitrariness and nepotism-He frequently traveled abroad for personal gain and publicity-He acted capriciously even during the bank’s deep crisis-He disabled Board members by destroying chain of command-He was reluctant to hand…
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2001-06: The Dark Prince and his Hawa Bhaban
This is the compilation of a three-part series on corruption, politics and violence during the 2001-06 period based on secret US embassy documents. It was first published in Dhaka Tribune. BNP leaders claim that all charges of corruption, election engineering and patronization of terrorist activities against the party’s acting chairman, Tarique Rahman and his Hawa…
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How India and Bangladesh can stop border killings
For decades, India’s trigger-happy Border Security Force (BSF) has been shooting hundreds of Bangladeshis dead in the name of maintaining law and order along a nearly 4,100km porous land border. While organized gangs from both countries are involved in crimes, many ordinary citizens cross the border casually with both paramilitary forces widely accused of having…
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Why has the US been dismayed with Sheikh Hasina since 2009?
Even though the two countries have maintained a bilateral relationship, the United States, under three different presidents, has always been critical of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League for some of her major political decisions that hurt US interests related to Grameen Bank founder Dr Muhammad Yunus, the trial of war criminals linked to Jamaat-e-Islami, the hanging…
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US interests, accusations of ‘Arab Spring’, and Bangladesh’s path forward
In a recent twist of geopolitics, Russia has accused the United States of planning events to destabilize its close ally Bangladesh following the January 7 elections. The allegations, drawing parallels with the “Arab Spring”, shed light on the intricate dynamics of great power competition in South Asia. Earlier, China slammed the US for its alleged…
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What did the Biden administration seek from Sheikh Hasina?
Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League came under great pressure at home and abroad from the very beginning regarding the dramatic results of the 2018 parliamentary elections and allegations of vote rigging—that too after a lopsided election in 2014. Her government had to face one rumor after another, harsh controversies and criticisms for corruption, irregularities, inefficiency, nepotism…
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How US is modernizing Bangladesh Army
Despite calls by US politicians and Human Rights Watch to exclude members of the Bangladesh Army and police from the UN Peacekeeping missions, accusing them of violating human rights, the United States has continued providing Bangladesh with numerous new military capabilities to support the Army, Navy, Air Force and Special Operations units. This assistance comes…
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2023: Will the BNP be victorious between Eids?
The ruling Awami League has been in power since 2009. Its archrival BNP has often declared dates during intense public protests, notably before the general elections of 2014 and 2018, but has been unable to overthrow the ruling party. They abstained from the 2014 elections but decided to participate in the following one as a…
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