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Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd)
The writer is Associate Editor, The Daily Star.
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Education doesn't make girls 'disobedient'
There are many reasons that have been offered from time to time and over the ages by a section of the Muslim clergy to keep women ensconced within the four walls of the house, but never has one heard such a comment that girls should not go to school because doing so would make them “disobedient”. This comment was uttered by the head of Hefazat-e-Islam (HI), a person who is known to be well-versed in various aspects of Islam. And that is what makes the statement all the more surprising. -
Boycotting parliament is not the answer
Despite all the shenanigans that had been resorted to, to win the election, we will have a new parliament for another five years. -
It may amount to a pyrrhic victory
I had concluded my previous column with the assessment that the Awami League would in no way countenance a situation where the BNP secured the second highest number of seats so that it could not lay claim to being the opposition in the parliament. -
The field is as level as the Martian surface
There is only one political party in the country that understands and indulges in professional politics. It can think and plan ahead to achieve a predetermined objective (perpetuation of power). -
When tamarind tastes sweet
Religion-based parties have a canny method of making political space for themselves and becoming a part of the mainstream political system eventually.