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Yunus finally forms his political party with Islamist elements

Nearly 78 years after chanting the slogan “Pakistan Zindabad” with much enthusiasm, the son of Dula Mia Saudagar, a Chittagong-based goldsmith and member of the Pakistan Muslim League National Guard, 85-year-old Muhammad Yunus successfully finalized his own political organization, the Jatiya Nagorik Party or the National Citizens’ Party (NCP), on February 27, a day before…

27/02/2025
WikiLeaks: Yunus in 2009 urged US to mediate with Awami League

Here is the verbatim of a cable sent to Washington by Chargé d’Affaires Nicholas Dean on Yunus and Awami League government. Only the sections have been rearranged. Date: November 30, 2009. Title: BANGLADESH PM REMAINS COOL TOWARD NOBEL LAUREATE (CONFIDENTIAL) Ambassador weighs in with Prime Minister ¶5. (C) Fearing GOB displeasure with him would jeopardize Grameen Bank…

13/09/2014
WikiLeaks 2: The beginning of 2006 pre-polls dialogue

এখন থেকে নিয়মিতভাবে উইকিলিকসের ফাঁস করা মার্কিন দূতাবসের তারবার্তা হুবুহু ছাপা হবে এই সাইটে। সাথে থাকবে মূল কেবল-এর লিংক। Sheikh Hasina rejected outright the dialogue offer made by Khaleda Zia, demanded that her proposals be accepted without discussion RECENT FACTBOX: AL-led alliance cancels caretaker government provision in June 2011; BNP-led alliance demands its restoration; AL proposes polls…

19/12/2013
BNP creates issue to endorse Jamaat violence!

Though they’re allies, the BNP had been looking for an ISSUE to legitimise its bond with war criminal Jamaat-e-Islami. And throughout February, it tried to malign the OCCUPY SHAHBAGH movement as Jamaat and its like-minded Islamist parties are doing through different propaganda. The BNP’s latest programme was announced Monday afternoon just after the explosion of…

11/03/2013
The ‘best’ election formula

:> The next general elections can never be held under a non-party interim government, we (the EC) are efficient to ensure a fair one — under my leadership. Some of you from the opposition may be included in the interim govt. Don’ worry dear rival! Trust me dear, it’d be better than those army-baked apolitical…

31/12/2012
Why don’t you punish Fakhruddin-Moeenuddin?

Honorable Prime Minister, at different occasions you have mentioned the miseries you faced during the 2007-2008 era (1/11) under the military-backed caretaker government. You are also warning people and the chief of main opposition BNP of a possible comeback of similar unelected ‘government’, claiming that they, under the cover of the so-called civil society, harass…

07/10/2012

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