Violence has been the preferred path to bring about political change in the 53 years of independent Bangladesh. In the wee hours of August 15, 1975, a bunch of junior army officers brutally killed the Bangladesh President and the country’s founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and 36 others, including his family, living in his private residence at 32 Dhanmondi, Dhaka. The […]

Pakistani and Afghan Taliban forces traded cross-border fire near a key northwestern crossing, killing a woman and two children on the Afghan side of the border, officials said Tuesday. There was no immediate word on casualties on the Pakistani side of the Torkham border which was shut, disrupting trade and movement of people between the two countries, local Pakistani official […]