As if one Pervez Musharraf is not enough. If things go as planned, the world is now set to watch another general taking over a presidential palace in South Asia, sometime in 2008. Religiously following the blueprint by his Pakistani mentor, the Bangladeshi army chief, General...
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
– Henry David Thoreau
In Bangladesh, mouths are not moving these days, it seems. Well, there are exceptions: tongues busy licking military boots stained...
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Photo: Ekushe February, 1953. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with Maulana Bhasani.
Since its birth, Pakistan has been said to be ruled by triple A: “Allah,” “Army” and “America.” Even today, years after the independence of “East Pakistan,” endless sectarian riots in Karachi confirm the murky influence of religion in Pakistani politics. And when Condoleezza...
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