Padma Bridge possibly received the highest media attention, as well as millions of citizens, mostly proletariat and working class were enthusiastsof the landmark communication in this century. Of course zeal of the leaders, members and sympathisers of the Awami League fervour was at a different height. The bridge’s pre and post-inauguration
Author: Saleem Samad
History cannot be changed
Few days after the commemoration of the death anniversary of a General turned President Ziaur Rahman, my school friend, a liberation war veteran and was with the ‘Crack Platoon’, which wrecked the morale of marauding Pakistan military and their cohorts wanted me to review an article which he plans to
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Mujibnagar Day: Better late than never
After 50 years, finally, the government declares historic April 17 as the‘Mujibnagar Day” instead of ‘Republic Day’ and makes it a public holiday only in Mujibnagar, Meherpur. A gazette notification caused a cross-section of people excited as a liberation war history has been finally recognised. Earlier, Tanjim Ahmad Sohel Taj, son of
Naya Pakistan’s ‘Kaaptan’ back to ‘Purana’ Pakistan
Despite nationwide unflinching support among millions of young citizens, expatriate Pakistanis and albeit the blessing of the military hawks of Rawalpindi, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan had to bow down to a decision of the National Assembly ‘no-trust’ vote had to return to the pavilion. Following the parliament’s no-confidence vote, the
Time’s up for Imran Khan
Elections that broke Pakistan
The controversial 'two-nation theory’ a brainchild of Mohammad Ali Jinnah collapsed after 24 years when the eastern province of Pakistan bifurcated and became Bangladesh. The so-called ‘two-nation theory’ envisaged a separate state for Indian Muslims to “live happily ever after” in Pakistan was proven tobe wrong when Bangladesh was liberated in
Why did Pakistan crackdown in Bangladesh, Balochistan in March?
It may be coincidental that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has a weakness for the month of March! The Islamic nation-state possibly felt the month of March was a ‘holy’ month or lucky month for the ruthless crackdown in Balochistan and after 23 years sadistically repeated it in Bangladesh. Maybe the fortune-tellers
Unsung heroes for 50 years
Nothing was forgotten in the past 50 years by a daughter Lubna and a son Bulbul, nothing will be forgotten until this generation dies with the loving memories. Shahreen Rahman, popularly known as Lubna, is the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Dr Abul Fazal Ziaur Rahman, who has served the Pakistan Army
As Kabul burns, need to talk about Pakistan
It was certain that the suicide bombings at the Kabul airport during the crucial evacuation of tens of thousands of stranded foreign nationals and NATO troops, was an act of the Islamic State’s “Khorasan Province” (IS-KP), the branch of the organisation in Afghanistan and Pakistan that was officially recognised by