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Bangladesh and its near-abroad
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Posted By:
Firoz_Kamal
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12/Jan/2013
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SITTING squarely in the most densely populated part of the planet, the extent of Bangladesh’s physical isolation is staggering. The country shares a 4,100km (2,550-mile) border with India, the world’s fifth-longest. Yet the militarised, two-metre-high fence on the Indian side ensures that one half of Bangladesh’s 64 districts—those bordering India—are also its poorest. Matters are even worse in Ba
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Bangladesh-India Relations by Faruk Ahmed
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Posted By:
Firoz_Kamal
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23/Dec/2012
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a. Indian political analyst MV Kamath’s view on Bangladesh. MV Kamath wrote2 in Mail, India in 2003, "Let it be said in simple and plain language: Bangladesh has no business to exist. Its creation in 1947 was as historic a mistake as Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal was in 1905. Curzon's plan to divide Bengal was annulled because in the end Bengal's sense of unity prevailed. Bangladesh, if it wan
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International Community Urged to Stop
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Posted By:
Firoz_Kamal
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1/Nov/2012
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The trial of Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP leaders in Bangladesh as war criminals has divided the Muslim country. Supporters of the ruling Awami League government alleged the arrested opposition leaders were behind the killings, rapes and other atrocities that occurred during the 1971 liberation war while opponents insist that the trials are politically-motivated as the Hasina government wants to weaken
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India’s Blood-Stained Democracy by MIRZA WAHEED
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Posted By:
Firoz_Kamal
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10/Jul/2012
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Kashmiri women attend a protest organized by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons in Srinagar in November 2010. LAST September, a lawmaker in Indian-controlled Kashmir stood up in the state’s legislative assembly and spoke of a valley filled with human carcasses near his home constituency in the mountains: “In our area, there are big gorges, where there are the bones of several hundre
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