Bangladesh Politico

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...

So far political leaders from China, India and Bhutan have congratulated Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League government for "winning...

Perhaps the biggest surprise of polling day was how much the Awami League government felt they had to rig the election on the day itself ...

On the eve of the election, this blog reported on the the arrest of seven polling agents from one constituency, raising the possibili...

The next roll of the rigging dice now seems to be the police arresting opposition polling agents and ballot box stuffing - though it rema...

BangladeshPolitico has been sent a copy of a power point presentation that provides new information on what appears to be one part of ...

Awami League allowed to campaign without threats or fear Autocratic governments rig elections before any votes are cast - by restrictin...

Awami League activists campaigning  With my father-in-law, Dr Kamal Hossain deciding (surprisingly) a couple of months ago to lead the...

"Election fraud" In 2014, Bangladesh opposition parties boycotted the national election claiming that a vote taking place und...

On the very same day that Facebook exposed the Bangladesh government over fake news, another of its websites, Banglainsider has publish...