National Citizen Party (NCP) leader Nasiruddin Patwary said Tarique Rahman had failed to demonstrate that he could lead Bangladesh and should not be given control of the country.
Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina will face legal action if she returns to Bangladesh, law minister Md Asaduzzaman said Thursday, adding that authorities would act within the powers granted by law.
Bangladesh and India have agreed to reset bilateral relations based on sovereign equality and mutual interests, officials said after the newly appointed Indian high commissioner held his first courtesy meetings in Dhaka.
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor rejected a Human Rights Watch report questioning the fairness of tribunal proceedings, calling it “biased” and “one-sided.”
Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina said she plans to return to the country by December despite the possibility that she could be killed, arrested or imprisoned.
Bangladesh’s army has taken brigadier general Miftah Uddin Ahmed into custody after an International Crimes Tribunal complaint accused him and 10 others in the 2018 killing of Teknaf municipal councilor Ekramul Haque.
Bangladesh’s government has released a draft law proposing the death penalty or life imprisonment for the gravest cases of enforced disappearance, including cases in which a victim dies.
International Crimes Tribunal Number 2 has accepted formal charges against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 40 others over their alleged involvement in the attack on Hefazat-e-Islam supporters at Shapla Chattar.
Accusing the elected Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government of betraying the youth and ignoring the public’s mandate for structural change, National Citizen Party (NCP) head Nahid Islam delivered a blistering critique of the ruling party at an 11-party alliance divisional rally in Sylhet.
President Mohammed Shahabuddin may resign soon as discussions surrounding his departure intensify, according to media reports citing government and political sources.
