Bangladesh and India, two neighboring countries that share the world’s fifth-longest border, were once believed to enjoy a harmonious bilateral relationship. Today, however, they are far from close. Following last year’s bloody uprising in Bangladesh, which resulted in the end of Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year autocratic rule — widely believed toContinue Reading
Within the first three weeks of the mass protests against a quota system in government jobs that swept Bangladesh in July 2024, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s violent crackdown had claimed the lives of over 300 protesters. As anger against the government bubbled over, Nahid Islam, a key leader of theContinue Reading
A gold jewelry businessman was brutally attacked and robbed in Dhaka’s Rampura area on the night of February 23. A group of five to six men, armed with a gun and machetes, are reported to have assaulted him as he returned home from work. They beat him up and thenContinue Reading
Bangladesh is at a pivotal crossroads. The caretaker government of Muhammad Yunus has pledged to hold elections by the end of the year, but a simple return to the ballot box won’t be enough. Without urgent reforms to the country’s justice and security sectors, the country risks backsliding into theContinue Reading
Reforms have become a buzzword in post-Hasina Bangladesh. The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, which took charge of the country on August 8, 2024, days after the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has been pushing for political, economic, and other reforms. A little over a month after taking over theContinue Reading
The recent regime change in Bangladesh has triggered a Pakistan-Bangladesh rapprochement. Since Muhammad Yunus took charge as leader of Bangladesh’s interim government on August 8, several high-level meetings have been held between Bangladesh and Pakistan, paving the way for new linkages and closer cooperation. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif hasContinue Reading
Six months have passed since the Sheikh Hasina government was ousted from power in a student-led mass uprising. Since then, the Awami League (AL), the party she leads, has remained absent from major political events. Many of its leaders, including Hasina, have fled the country. Over the past six months,Continue Reading
On January 15, the Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC) — one of the six reform commissions set up by Bangladesh’s interim government following the ouster of the autocratic Sheikh Hasina regime — submitted its report to the Mohammad Yunus-led government. The CRC has made recommendations to prevent the concentration of powersContinue Reading
Since the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian rule in August of 2024, two shifts in the region are reshaping its geopolitical environment. The first shift has been the steady deterioration in India’s relations with Bangladesh. Troubled by the sudden erosion of its influence, New Delhi has been unable to reduce the speedContinue Reading
Tulip Siddiq, a British-Bangladeshi member of the British Parliament for the Labor Party and formerly a senior anti-corruption minister in Keir Starmer’s government, recently resigned from her ministerial position amid intense scrutiny and public pressure. The niece of Bangladesh’s former authoritarian Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Siddiq faced widespread media scrutinyContinue Reading
