Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd)
STRATEGICALLY SPEAKING
The writer is Associate Editor, The Daily Star.
March 4, 2021
Mushtaq: DSA’s First ‘Martyr’
On February 25, the most reviled and draconian Digital Security Act (DSA) claimed its first victim, and gave the nation its first Digital Security Act “martyr”.
February 25, 2021
12th Anniversary of BDR Massacre: Delving into the probe report
It has been twelve years since the day 57 brilliant army officers were brutally killed by the BDR mutineers.
February 14, 2021
Need for a strong and effective opposition
I believe that every statement of a prime minister contains substance and carries weight, more so when it has to do with politics and the opposition.
February 5, 2021
Myanmar Back to Square One
The five-year ride on the tiger by Aung San Suu Kyi is over. She is back to where she had been used to living during the greater part of her political career (except for a brief interregnum of...
January 28, 2021
Biden’s Internal Challenges
The tumul-tuous departure of Donald Trump from office has left an awful lot of wrecks in its wake, both internally and externally.
January 18, 2021
America under siege from within!
Finally President Trump has accepted the inevitable, but not before wreaking havoc, as we had predicted he would four years ago, both at home and abroad.
January 7, 2021
Bangladesh-India border relations fifty years on
Two important Bangladesh-India meetings at the national level took place in the last month of 2020.
December 29, 2020
The Hasina–Modi December summit
We are on the cusp of our 50th anniversary. Come March 26, 2021, it will be 50 years since Bangladesh had declared its Independence.
December 22, 2020
A sad day for RAOWA
The Department of Social Welfare (DSW) vide their letter of December 14, 2020, “temporarily dismissed” the Executive Committee (EC) of the Retired Armed Forces Officers’ Welfare Association (RAOWA)...
December 10, 2020
Why can’t Iran have its own Samson Option?
It is now officially known that Israel carried out the targeted killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.