A scandal based on flimsy grounds
14 February 2017
Three business executives have been acquitted on February 9 in a major foreign corruption case involving SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., known otherwise as the Padma Bridge scam, after an Ontario judge threw out wiretap evidence key to the case, saying the wiretap applications were based on gossip and rumour.
14 February 2017
A visionary leader
14 August 2016
The Legal Framework Order (LFO) was issued as President's Order No. 2 of 1970 by the President of Pakistan and Chief Martial Law Administrator General A.M. Yahya Khan on March 30, 1970.
14 August 2016
Shedding our prejudices
20 July 2016
If you are in a drawing room and any other gathering of your friends or acquaintances, naturally the talk of the day would lurk around what is going on around the world.
20 July 2016
Pakistan's Illogical Stance
12 May 2016
Pakistan's national Parliament once again sided with war criminals by passing a resolution that drew condemnation in Bangladesh.
12 May 2016
F R Khan - A Bangalee legend from the golden chapter of our history
3 April 2016
In the limited scope of this piece, I intend to remember the role of a great Bangalee in our Liberation War of 1971 - the Bangalee who, through his contributions..
3 April 2016
It just doesn't add up
25 February 2016
We are fighting ceaselessly against the distortion of our history; let us not do the same ourselves. As far as the DS is concerned, when none of the AL leaders, none of the newspapers of the country dared to open their mouths against the Chief of Army Staff's (CAS) tacit intention to create 'our own' brand of democracy, it was only Mahfuz Anam who had the bravado to write a commentary under the heading, “Gen Moeen goes public on politics.”
25 February 2016
Would someone stop the madness of these sycophants, please?
15 February 2016
There are many in our land, living either at home or abroad, who possess the unflinching dedication to the values of our Liberation War...
15 February 2016
Let the truth speak for itself
8 February 2016
It came to my knowledge through social media that The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam in a TV interview has admitted to his “biggest
8 February 2016
Development and Democracy: Time to look to the East
It was December 6, 1971 in the White House situation room when the joint forces of Bangladesh and India were quickly marching towards Dhaka.
1 February 2016
ENOUGH WITH THE DENIAL
The BNP chief, in her first public address in more than a year on Monday said, “There is still a controversy about the exact number of
24 December 2015
THE UN'S SILENCE
Despite history's numerous precedents, the word “genocide” did not exist until legal scholar Raphael Lemkin, a
15 December 2015
War crimes trials: The lobbyists are at work again
The much-awaited verdict on the review petition against convicted war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mojaheed (incidentally, my
21 November 2015
War Crimes Trials And now the Amnesty International
And now the Amnesty International (AI), the watchdog body for world-wide human rights has come up with a statement on its website under the title Bangladesh...
30 October 2015
Canadian election and Trudeau's victory speech
The general election that took place on October 19 ushers in a new era for Canada, as Justin Trudeau, the son a former Prime Minister and Canadian ...
22 October 2015
Should our professors 'hang' themselves?
As I write this piece, a picture of a stunned Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, drenched in rain, after an assault on a teachers' demo at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) on August 30 has gone viral, thanks to social networking sites and the media.
31 August 2015
THE SHEPHERD KING OF HISTORY
The tragic hero, Aristotle wrote, suffers a change in fortune because of a mistaken act to which is led by his “error in judgement” or his “tragic flaw”.
14 August 2015
Why do our politicians consider themselves indispensable?
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis resigned on July 6, saying he was told shortly after Greece's decisive referendum result that
1 August 2015
BNP's current policy towards India
After its failed violent movement to unseat the government in its demand for a fresh general election under a caretaker government,
6 June 2015
Has the country turned into a killing ground for free thinkers?
If one analyses why criminality and corruption are so pervasive in the society, the first and foremost answer would be the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators.
17 May 2015
Portrait of a patriot
KM Shehabuddin, former Bangladeshi ambassador to the United States and an iconic patriot and diplomat, passed away on
16 April 2015
The debate over war crimes trials: Is there any merit?
IF the formalities are completed as expected, war criminal Muhammad Kamruzzaman's execution might have been carried out by the
11 April 2015
A moment of introspection for BNP
In my article for The Daily Star (January 27, 2015), titled “War for democracy: For the people or on the people”, I concluded with these words: “The BNP-led alliance's war for democracy has turned out to be not for the people but on the people.”
5 April 2015
A Shocking Crime
It was with devastating shock and disbelief that I received the news of the brutal killing of our very well-known blogger and writer Avijit Roy and the severe injury to his wife, blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonna.
27 February 2015