Bangladesh’s Secular Facade Crumbles: From Yunus’s Vacuum to BNP’s Islamist Drift

The Yunus-led interim government failed to turn promises of democratic renewal into lasting protection for minorities. Now, the BNP government must prove that religious identity will never matter more than equal citizenship. For decades, international observers lauded Bangladesh as a rare triumph: a Muslim-majority democracy founded on secular ...

Sheikh Hasina only hope against radicals: India Today

Calling Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as "only hope" for holding the country's founding principal secularism, an opinion piece published in India Today took a dig at the BNP-Jamaat alliance for getting political benefit from the gruesome assassination that left Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members dead on the tragic nig...

Do not think yourselves as minority: HPM Sheikh Hasina to Hindu community

Mentioning that Awami League (AL) never believes in religious differences, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged members of the Hindu community not to undermine themselves by saying minority. “The BNP government had made (ill) efforts to create religious differences among the people. But Awami League never believes in such differences &h...