Three countries can celebrate the surprise decision by Israel and the United Arab Emirates to establish formal, normal relations. For Israel, official recognition by a major Arab country is an important achievement. The UAE, for its part, has demonstrated its leadership capabilities by getting out front and setting the agenda for Gulf countries, a few […]
French President Emmanuel Macron not only turns everything he touches into “s**t”, as U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly said but apparently, he is soon going to turn many tepid relations among several nations into real wars in the Eastern Mediterranean. These lukewarm associations have been ready to get very hot, even without Macron’s help, but […]
As India’s relations with its neighbors in the South Asian region deteriorate, old foes Pakistan and Bangladesh are making a push to build diplomatic, economic and cultural ties that could upend decades of historic arrangements in the region, officials and experts in Islamabad and Dhaka have said. Indeed, a number of recent diplomatic developments have hinted at […]
India has gone into overdrive to initiate new projects in Bangladesh and improve cross-border trade. This week it delivered ten broad-gauge locomotives to Dhaka, and earlier this month, that is, July 2020, it launched a multi-modal transport link opening up supply lines from Chittagong port to its northeastern states. This is in the wake of […]
The Indian government, suiting its hegemonic and expansionist blueprint, claims that its annexation of J&K (Jammu and Kashmir) and its changes that were made on August 5, 2019 are internal to India Modi abrogated the special status of J&K, deleted its statehood or partitioned it into two union territories, claiming these are internal affairs of […]
The ground-breaking 5 August ceremony to build a ‘gaganchumbi’, literally ‘sky-kissing’, temple to Lord Rama in Ayodhya has sparked off some unease in neighboring Bangladesh. The event will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several senior BJP leaders. This will come less than two weeks after Bangladesh allowed Indian goods, meant for the northeast region, […]
Four years ago, when Donald Trump challenged Hillary Clinton, I argued that the Palestinians and the Arabs needed to shake up the American election game board. In fact, I suggested voters should throw the board up in the air on the risky chance it might allow for real change, in which the American political system […]
One of India’s most-read and oldest English-language dailies, The Hindu, posted an article by foreign policy journalist Kallol Bhattacherjee early on Saturday about the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s fourth consecutive snub of India’s high commissioner to Dhaka, Riva Ganguly Das. The article reflected the outcry of the Indian foreign policy realm on Bangladesh’s recent […]
A feew days back, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan telephoned the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. According to the various news reports, they primarily discussed the Coronavirus pandemic and the flood situation in Bangladesh. PM Khan also raised the issue of Kashmir in the course of the conversation. Indian sources claim that Hasina remained silent and […]
Bangladesh, since its birth, has gone through too many intra-military and intra-civilian conflicts to mention in one breath. As on 14th July, Bangladeshi Lt General (ret) Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardy revealed in a bold and candid video interview from Dhaka with Kanak Sarwar, a Bangladeshi American journalist in New York (who fled the country of his birth […]