Khaleda Zia's regime: Juba Dal leaders cut people into pieces on the streets

BNP-Jamaat terrorists established a reign of terror across the country during their regime from 2001 to 2006. Under the direct command of Tarique Rahman, four MPs Mirza Abbas, Salahuddin, Nasiruddin Pintu and SA Khaleque divided Dhaka city into four underground areas to control the terrorist groups. The unruly terrorists of Dhaka Chhatra Dal and...

Chhatra Dal terror: Businessman kidnapped for not getting free computers, Construction of orphanage stopped over extortion

The Chhatra Dal terrorists started anarchy and harassment of female students in different universities and colleges after coming to power in 2001. In Sylhet’s Shahjalal University, they continued spreading supremacy on campus under BNP leaders even after a rape attempt that created a public outcry across the country. On April 18, 2004, th...

The BNP government hurled bombs on women leaders to thwart Awami League programs

Awami League announced fresh programs to protest the countrywide persecution and killing of more than 10,000 leaders and activists in the first three years of the BNP-Jamaat government. As the opposition Awami League tried to organize the party leaders and activists, BNP-Jamaat terrorists carried out bomb attacks targeting the meetings and ralli...

BNP MPs ran riots all night for building private housing project in vested property

The BNP-Jamaat started violence in December, the month of victory. In December 2004, they attacked nearly one thousand slum dwellers and set fire to their houses and businesses at midnight to evict them from the vested properties in Savar and Ashulia. MPs, close to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, led the attacks to build housing projects in g...

Khaleda's government arrests 10,000 in 7 days to thwart Awami League program

BNP-Jamaat leaders started looting, extorting and repressing across the country soon after they formed the government in October 2001. Their mass anomalies badly affected the country’s economy. In a bid to foil the protests against their corruption and misdeeds, the BNP-Jamaat government ran crackdowns, arrested at least 10,000 Awami Leagu...

Curiosity Killed the Cat: Peter Haas’ Bangladesh Mission and Russia’s Reaction

Dr. Rashid Askari:  The US envoy to Bangladesh Peter D. Haas’ clandestine visit to a BNP leader’s house, its leak to the press, his facing angry unwanted protesters airing grievances and beating a hasty retreat have had a knock-on effect on the political environment of the country. The day was December 14, 2022—the Martyr...

Bangladesh in Development and Progress

Hiren Pandit: Bangabandhu turned the Awami League into a popular grassroots political party. After his brutal killing, his exiled daughter Sheikh Hasina has taken the lead as Awami League president as a symbol of unity in extremely difficult times. She has walked a long way in the struggle for democracy. She came back from the face of death...

2022 a year of setting milestones for Bangladesh: Sajeeb Wazed

2022 was a year of setting milestones for the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy said Saturday while wishing everyone a happy new year. In a video, posted on his verified Facebook page, Joy also placed a resolve to make 2023 full of new accomplishments under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The ...

Metrorail: A New Dimension in City’s Communication System

One of the prerequisites for the economic prosperity of a country is the development of a communication system. Improvements in road connectivity within the country opened up new horizons of possibilities. The task of facilitating road connectivity in a riverine country like Bangladesh is not easy. For this purpose, there is a need to build brid...

Khaleda Zia's commerce minister Amir Khasru plundered Tk 128 crore of the state

BNP leaders started plundering government resources after forming the government in 2001. Commerce Minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Public Works Minister Mirza Abbas and Khaleda Zia's Political Secretary Harris Chowdhury jointly misappropriated money while allotting government plots. Due to selling 18 government houses in the elite area of...

Metro rail is pride of Bangladesh: PM Sheikh Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said through metro rail the Awami League government added another feather of pride to the crown of Bangladesh’s people. “We have added another feather of pride to the crown of Bangladesh’s people today. Another feather added to the crown of the development of Bangladesh,” she sai...

Burden of Bangladesh’s economic and political stability must be shared

Barrister Shah Ali Farhad: Like many developing countries across the world, Bangladesh has been hit hard by the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Compared to many of its neighbours, however, the South Asian nation was able to handle the first, and still ongoing, public health crisis quite well. So far, the country has fully vaccinated ...

BNP used to shoot bullets and bombs at Awami League programs, and senior leaders were thrashed on the streets and beaten with sticks

The BNP-Jamaat alliance used to attack every peaceful program of the Awami League from 2001 to 2006. They used to disperse the Awami League program by throwing bombs and bullets. Senior leaders of the party were battered on the streets and brutally beaten with sticks. When the central leaders of Awami League went to hold a program in a district ...

December: Why does BNP hesitate to celebrate Bangladesh's victory?

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s magical and legendary leadership freed the Bengali nation from the shackles of repression and injustice through the Liberation War. He gave birth to Bangladesh as a heroic nation on the world map. But, BNP has been creating confusion and fear among ordinary people by regularly distorting the history of ...

From 2001 to 2006: Nizami unduly recommended selling government assets to his nephew without tender for five times

During the BNP-Jamaat coalition rule, their party leaders and activists embezzled thousands of crores of government money by tender manipulation across the country. Khaleda Zia's MPs and ministers directly intervened in the government institutions for such anomalies. Jamaat Amir Motiur Rahman Nizami recommended the government unduly for selling ...

Khaleda Zia's regime: Tarique ordered police recruitment based on party considerations, PM office took the graft money

The BNP-Jamaat alliance government recruited a total of 26, 259 policemen in the five years from 2001 to 2006. Out of this, more than 5,000 were Chhatra Dal-Shibir leaders and relatives of BNP-Jamaat MPs and ministers. In most of the remaining 21,000 recruitments were completed in exchange for money. The then Minister of State for Home Affairs L...

BNP-Jamaat arson cost Tk 150 crore loss in the RMG sector in 21 days

The country’s readymade garments incurred losses worth Tk 150 crore in the first 21 days of petrol bomb attacks on vehicles, burning of business establishments, killing of day labourers and widespread vandalism by BNP-Jamaat alliance leaders and activists. Foreign buyers cancelled orders worth USD 79.83 lakhs in the first week of the BNP-J...

BNP-Jamaat arson terror: Two lakh students could not sit for SSC exams due to insecurity

A total of one lakh 87 thousand 378 students could not sit for the SSC exams due to arson attacks by the BNP-Jamaat alliance. These students could not go to the exam centre as the Jamaat-BNP activists were hurling crude and petrol bombs on vehicles and roads, leaving students, guardians and day labourers burnt to death. The Prothom Alo reported...

BNP-Jamaat regime: Taliban and al-Qaeda militants were trained in Bangladesh

Immediately after winning the elections on October 1, 2001, the BNP-Jamaat alliance spread extremism and militancy across the country. During Khaleda Zia's regime, leaders of the international militant groups Taliban and al-Qaeda travelled to Bangladesh with her consent and under the patronage of Tarique Rahman. Following their footsteps, severa...

Razakars directly helped Pakistanis carry out genocide and rapes

When the Pakistani military started the brutal genocide and rape of the Bengali nation in March 1971, a special force consisting of a handful of Bengalis was formed to assist them. The Ipkaf consisted of 13,000 members, mainly non-Bengalis living here, with General Jamshed as its head. Mujahid and Razakar forces were formed with local Bengali co...