Bangladesh Nationalist Party

MILITANT SEASON

Less than three weeks after Kazi Arif, deputy chief of the leftist Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) party, was gunned down along with five others while addressing a peace rally in

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Apr 1999

DYING IN DHAKA

The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is a killer city and shows no sign of letting up on its homicidal spree. Every day, newspapers report of one death or another as

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Mar 1999

Dhaka Deja Vu

Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has declared that she will begin her movement to dislodge Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League after the Eid festival

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 1998

Farhad Mazhar: Left for what?

The Bangladesh government's 1995 case against poet and activist Farhad Mazhar resulted from the publication of his article, "The Ansar Rebellion", in the Bengali magazine Chinta.

By Naeem Mohaiemen

/ 1 Jan 1998

Hartal in the Time of War

The general elections held last year merely changed the seats of the belligerent parties and not the state of political war within Bangladesh. For the moment, the political tension in

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 1997

A President Who Set Precedents

Ever since he hit the headlines, Hussain Mohammad Ershad has been setting one precedent after another. Never before in the short history of Bangladesh had a leader taken over without

By Talat Kamal

/ 1 May 1997

The successful conclusion of elections in Bangladesh on 12 June can be credited largely to a constitutional innovation—the provision included by the 13th constitutional amendment earlier this year which

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1996

MILITANT SEASON

DYING IN DHAKA

Dhaka Deja Vu

Farhad Mazhar: Left for what?

Hartal in the Time of War

A President Who Set Precedents

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