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Kargil and India’s role in creation of Bangladesh

Pakistan's former military dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf has said he believes in a tit-for-tat policy on all fronts and claimed that Kargil conflict was in response to India's role in the creation of Bangladesh. musharraf1The 71-year-old former president, who masterminded the Kargil conflict in 1999 and ruled over Pakistan for nine years, said that India had played role in creating Bangladesh and trying to seize Siachin. "They also undertook such operations so Kargil also happened," he told Samaa TV channel. "I believed in a tit-for...

Organizational ego is eating trust

I had reason to visit the International Monetary Fund website recently. Based on its content, the IMF is an organization overflowing with ego. Dominating the homepage was IMF chief Christine Lagarde with a very large picture of herself. In imperious language we are told that Lagarde “welcomes the pledge by the G-20 group of advanced and emerging economies to step up efforts to boost growth and create jobs.” IMFThis archaic, royalist, pre-modern language is so out of step with the world of social media. It is not exceptional. If you visit, for example, t...

Saving Grameen Bank, sustaining the Bangladesh paradox  

Bangladesh today is a global poster child within the Muslim world for women’s development. When it comes to gender equality, it ranks above all South Asian countries and Muslim-majority nations in Asia. The Bangladesh gender paradox – superior status of women despite a patriarchal social structure and strong influence of religion – owes to another paradox: Health conditions and economic participation of women have improved over the last twenty years despite limited public investment in social sectors. grameen bankAt a time when women’s developme...

Inclusive business from bean to brew

What do millions of people around the world enjoy every day at home and in the office, with their friends and their colleagues? Coffee, of course! Coffee has become such a staple of modern life that most of us can’t imagine our day without it. Worldwide, we drink over 500 billion cups of coffee every year, with 90% grown in developing countries where over 25 million people earn their livelihoods from it. With the average price of a latte costing more than a fast food meal, coffee retailers seem to make large profits from coffee sales. But in a competitive market dominated by large traders, it can be hard for small coffee growers to secure a fair price for their product.

Traditional country boats nearing extinction

Bangladesh's traditional country boats are on the brink of extinction as after about four decades since independence, Bangladesh has developed a first class road infrastructure linking almost all rural villages under every union parishad, the lowest tier of local government in Bangladesh. The country, which was set target to become a middle income nation by the year 2021, has attached the utmost priority in its infrastructure development. country boatNow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government and her state machine appear particu...

Political Islam in Bangladeshi democracy

Recently Bangladesh was side-tracked from an electoral democracy. Earlier this year, the ruling party Awami League formed government after a one-sided election. Bangladesh’s major opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), boycotted the election on the grounds that it was not taking place under a neutral caretaker government and that elections held under partisan caretaker governments would not be fair. Since the early 1990s Bangladeshi political parties had agreed to hold national elections under non-partisan, neutral caretaker governments after the collapse of the Ershad regime and the coming of multiparty democracy. The 2014 election marked a sharp break with this tradition.
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