Bangladesh Politico

Bangladesh’s governing party officials are threatening voters with the loss of state benefits if they don’t show up at the polling centres i...

[Original English version can be read here ] ১লা ফেব্রুয়ারি আল জাজিরা ‘অল দা প্রাইম মিনিস্টারস মেন’ (বাংলা শিরোনাম – ‘ওরা প্রধানমন্ত্রীর লোক...

  Bdnews24 published an oped which was titled “An open letter to David Bergman.” It contains a series of factual inaccuracies as well as m...

On February 1 st , Al Jazeera broadcast the documentary, “ All the Prime Minister’s Men” and since then the investigative film has been wat...

Rayhan Rashid wrote a long critique of Al Jazeera's film, comments which were directed specifically at me, and so I thought I should fin...

Awami League UK leaders outside Tulip Siddiq's election campaign office on the first day  of the UK national election campaign. Dozens o...

Bangladesh, an authoritarian regime, notorious for arbitrary detentions, false cases, extra judicial killings and disappearances would no...

The story about what has happened to Colonel (rtd) Shahid Khan over the last fourteen months  published on this blog (and previously by A...

Colonel (rtd) Shahid Khan with the President of Bangladesh at the Hilton Hotel in London, April 26, 2017 Colonel Shahid Khan is a reti...

This is a story about a recorded conversation that says a lot about judicial independence and media freedom in Bangladesh - or the ...

A month ago, Gowher Rizvi, the Bangladesh prime minister's foreign affairs advisor was questioned on Al Jazeera's Head to Head p...

On the evening of December 4, 2017, Maroof Zaman, a former Bangladeshi ambassador to Qatar and Vietnam, (as well as previously Counse...

This is going to make interesting and engrossing television. The suave Gowher Rizvi, the Bangladesh Prime Minister's internationa...

Abdur Razzaq, until Friday an assistant general secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami resigned from the party in a bold and surprising move. M...

Why hold a free and fair election which you risk losing, when you can rig it to ensure certain victory, and get away with it? This was ...

Yesterday, Al Jazeera published my story on the recent arrest of a US citizen of Bangladeshi descent for allegedly committing internation...

If any more proof were needed of the government's rigging of the  election, you can find it if you dig down into the constituency resu...

The UK, EU and USA have all now issued statements concerning the Bangladesh elections which will concern the government as they accept th...

There is now no satire in Bangladesh. Only reality. Or is that what we thought could only be satire is now reality. Six months ago,...

The Economist has an uncanny ability of distilling a country's complex politics into 500 words - and yesterday's article on the e...