Shafquat Rabbee

It’s the pol­i­tics, stu­pid. A cock­tail of dy­nas­tic rule, crony­ism and debt-fu­elled van­i­ty projects, to be pre­cise.

Over the past four decades, Gen­er­al Er­shad demon­strat­ed he was a mas­ter of po­lit­i­cal sur­vival.

The out­come of the De­cem­ber 30 vote should not come as a sur­prise giv­en the lev­el of state cap­ture in Bangladesh.

At­tacks on free­dom of ex­pres­sion in Bangladesh con­tin­ue even af­ter the re­lease of the renowned pho­to­jour­nal­ist.

As the poll date nears, hopes for a free and fair elec­tion, and a de­mo­c­ra­t­ic fu­ture, di­min­ish fur­ther in Bangladesh.