Pakistan’s strength should be measured by the well-being of its people. The poverty figures reported by Dawn expose an urgent failure: 38.3 percent of Pakistanis face overlapping deprivation in health, education, and living standards. Another 12.9 percent are vulnerable.
Bangladesh’s High Court has, on the facts reported, turned the Constitution upside down. Justices Sashanka Shekhar Sarkar and Faysal Hasan Arif declared any strike or hartal protesting a court verdict illegal, even though Article 37 protects peaceful, unarmed assembly, subject to reasonable restrictions imposed by law for public order or public health.
Bangladesh’s proposed Cyber Protection Act amendments raise a troubling question for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government: How can a government that claims to defend freedom of expression justify criminalizing information merely because it is unverified?
Bangladesh should stand with India in rejecting China’s attempt to strengthen its territorial claims over Arunachal Pradesh through repeated renaming of places.
Bangladesh’s major television networks and newspapers failed their audiences when they refused to report meaningfully on Sheikh Hasina’s Aug. 5 speech in New Delhi.
Maftun Ahmed Khan Rubel should withdraw his complaint against Gazi Salahuddin Tanvir.
Ishraque Hossain is young. That is no excuse for being careless about the Constitution he serves under.
More than three months have passed since 30-year-old fisherman Miraj Sheikh was reportedly taken away by Bangladesh Coast Guard officers. His family still does not know whether he is alive, where he is being held or what, if anything, he is accused of doing.
AM Hasan Nasim should be released, and prime minister Tarique Rahman should make clear that freedom of speech in Bangladesh will not be sacrificed to political sensitivity. Nasim was sent to jail after a Dhaka court rejected a seven-day remand request in a case tied to social media posts and alleged blackmail involving Jatiya Sangsad […]
