“To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.” For the past thirteen years, Bangladesh has been suffering from two acute syndromes: Indian hegemony and fascism under its protégé, Sheikh Hasina. Let’s take a look. Indian Eye on Bangladesh From day one of the partition of British India on religious divide in 1947, India continued to cast […]
After nearly 20 long years without bloodshed by the Taliban, the conquest of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has changed many geopolitical dilemmas, including those of South Asia. Military and social science analyses are underway on what factors have worked behind the rapid success of the Taliban. However, international political analysts have kept track of […]
The Taliban may have been fighting to regain power for the past 20 years, but having lost most of those who misgoverned Afghanistan the last time around, their cave-dwelling leadership has no idea what to do with a victory that surprised them more than it surprised the outside world. These are people whose organizational experience […]
Shadow government as an insurgent organization is one thing; official rule quite another. The Taliban movement took about ten days to overrun Afghanistan and capture its capital with extraordinary ease. Some ten days later, however, they have yet to announce a government. This might seem a paradox, but reflects the circumstances in which the Taliban […]
US Vice-President Kamala Harris starts a tour of Asia on Sunday in a bid to recapture the Biden team’s foreign policy momentum after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. The White House has been rocked by the fall of Ashraf Ghani’s administration, with comparisons made with the trauma of the US experience in Vietnam in the […]
We are being told that the Taliban of today are not the same as the Taliban of 1996. Fair enough but the Afghanistan of today is not the same as the Afghanistan of 1996, either. The Taliban were able to capture the country with more ease than anyone imagined, and certainly more ease than in […]
The Awami administration under Sheikh Hasina Wazed observes August 15 as a Mourning Day. On this day in 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, then President and Hasina’s father, died in a military coup that ousted the BAKSAL dictatorship. The day has been made a national holiday. From 2009, when Sheikh Hasina returned to power, said to […]
Now well into the first year of his presidency, Joe Biden has offered very few clues about his approach to foreign policymaking. This is surprising. For someone who has spent half a century in government, including stints as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as Vice President during the Obama administration, it is […]
The complete restoration of the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) would come “at the appropriate time”, said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in response to the Kashmiri leaders’ plea for the restoration of Article last week. This came in a multi-party meeting summoned by PM Modi. Previously, Home Minister Amit Shah has also made similar […]
The BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) and its Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, face an integrated frequent disinformation campaign let loose by the incumbent Awami League (AL). Right from the AL’s chief, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina down to the grassroots level activists, repeat multifarious deliberate propaganda round the clock through electronic and print media. This propaganda is directed […]