Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd)

How long does it take to bring down a 15-storeyed building? Certainly not three years.

According to President Donald Trump, a great wave of change is blowing over the huge landmass of America.

Eight years have passed since the gruesome BDR massacre in 2009. The trial is in the process of conclusion, although several under trial BDR mutineers have died during the process, some due to heart attack.

The anti-immigrant protagonists forget that the country is a nation of immigrants, although there has been periodic enactment of anti-migrant policies. Immigrants were at times unwelcome, out of fear and anger.

So where is the flaw? When the crème de la crème from all the three services are supposed to be selected for employment in the special force, how is it that we find many of them indulging in behaviour unbecoming of their calling?

The issue of reassessing RAB's operation was dwelt on in these very columns when the gruesome murders came to light in April 2014.

The two major parties celebrated January 5 this year in different ways, as they have been doing since 2014. But to start with, the BNP's

There are good reasons to call 2016 a horrible year, and I am sure most of us will be glad to see the back of 2016. To say that it was a

Are we reading too much into the involvement of women in terrorist acts in Bangladesh? This by no means is a new spectacle. The so

Today is being observed as Democracy Day in the country, although given the moribund state democracy is in at present, one wonders whether the appellation for the day is justified at this point in time.

Although the CHT Land Commission Act has been amended, land issue remains the nub of the problem that must be addressed with honesty and transparency.

The details of the case, the investigation in particular, will shame anyone claiming to be living in a civilised society ordered by a rule of law that seeks to deliver justice to the victims. But this is not the first case dealing with the production of toxic drugs.

Illegal migration has been an election issue and has been cleverly exploited by some political parties in India particularly to seek votes in the Northeastern States. And predictably this was also used by the BJP in the 2014 Indian elections when Modi had threatened to pack off all illegal Bangladeshis.

While some of the 27 points were related to public interest, and one must appreciate the police's concern in this regard, one wonders whether such conditions had also been put on other political parties holding public gathering in the past; and will this be applicable to all such meetings in the future.

It is the underlying message that the anti-Trump protesters are trying to convey – and that is the fear of uncertainty, particularly about the immigration policy and what Trump has said about doing with the illegal immigrants within the first 100 days of his presidency.

It was beyond the imagination, even of the many diehard 'Trumpians' who, reportedly, were invoking a miracle for a Trump win.

We are now confronted with two very different findings of two investigations on the killing of the Italian Aid worker Cesare Tavella, shot dead by some assailants in Gulshan diplomatic zone on September 28 last year.

First it was an Indian government official belonging to the “National Institution for Transforming India” berating SAARC mercilessly and

When we speak of SAARC, we usually hear two reactions – cynicism and skepticism,” Modi had told the 18th Kathmandu summit, which was to be held in 2012 but postponed to 2014.

Peace in South Asia is a direct function of the Indo--Pak relational dynamics.