
Modi got caught with his pants down deporting Indians
India’s forced return of Sonali Khatun, a nine-month-pregnant woman wrongly deported to Bangladesh, exposes a startling failure of basic governance.

India’s forced return of Sonali Khatun, a nine-month-pregnant woman wrongly deported to Bangladesh, exposes a startling failure of basic governance.
A pregnant Indian woman who was deported to Bangladesh despite holding Indian documents returned to West Bengal on Friday after a Indian Supreme Court directive.
Indian external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina must decide whether she will continue staying in India after fleeing a mass uprising last August. He told NDTV at the HT Leadership Summit that Hasina “came here in a certain circumstance,” adding that those circumstances remain central to her situation.
India’s repeated use of lethal force along the border with Bangladesh demands more than routine diplomatic protests. The latest killings of two Bangladeshi citizens by India’s Border Security Force underscore a long pattern of excessive and unreasonable conduct that Dhaka can no longer treat as isolated incidents. Border security is a legitimate concern for any […]
Two Bangladeshis were shot dead by India’s Border Security Force in separate incidents along borders in Lalmonirhat and Moulvibazar on Thursday.
Prime minister of India Narendra Modi on Monday expressed concern over the health of former Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, saying he was “deeply concerned” after learning she had been placed on ventilation.
A Bangladeshi man was shot dead by India’s Border Security Force at the Gayeshpur border in Chuadanga district on Saturday, according to local officials.
Dhaka has formally asked New Delhi for the second time to extradite former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was sentenced to death by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal on November 17 for crimes against humanity during last year’s July uprising.
Ties between Bangladesh and India, strained for more than a year after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, show early signs of a cautious thaw as senior officials resume contact and cross-border medical travel rebounds.
India now faces a choice that will define its credibility as a regional power committed to justice and the rule of law. With Sheikh Hasina convicted of crimes against humanity by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal, New Delhi should honor its obligations under the 2013 extradition treaty and return her to Dhaka without hesitation.