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...story on rebuilding Bangladesh [April 10] should be applauded for viewing the country in a global context and showcasing its success in attracting foreign investment, developing social welfare and promoting economic prosperity. But thanks for those accomplishments should go to the people of Bangladesh, not to Prime Minister Khaleda Zia or even to the leader of the opposition, Sheikh Hasina. As for the rise of the Islamic insurgency, how can the Prime Minister state that she didn't know about it until the Aug. 17, 2005, bombings, when there had been news reports about Bangla Bhai [the founder...
...order, never good in Bangladesh, has deteriorated to frightening levels. Last month, India forced the cancellation of the annual South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit, citing poor security in the host city, Dhaka. Islamic violence is also awkward for ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party Prime Minister Khaleda Zia because her coalition includes two conservative Islamic parties. But the catalyst for the crackdown appears to have been a donor meeting in Washington last week, attended by representatives from the U.S., the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank, at which the rising tide of violence and Islamic militancy...
...Hours later, a shaken Hasina accused Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's four-party coalition government, which includes two fundamentalist Islamic parties, of carrying out the attack in a bid to destroy the Awami League, traditionally the country's liberal, non-Islamist party. "How can a well-planned assassination attempt take place in the heart of Dhaka without the complicity and involvement of the government?" she told TIME. The government flatly denies the charge, calling it "ridiculous," but Hasina's followers are in no mood to believe this. Bangladesh's already polarized political culture?in which the ruling party...
...basis resist the spread of extremism, and the religious tolerance of a large number of its people. Yet its strengths might prove useless unless its political leaders stop fighting among themselves and start reining in the fundamentalists?while there is still time. Says security expert Ibrahim: "Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia must meet at once and start talking, before this country sinks into the Bay of Bengal...
...KHALEDA AKTHAR, survivor of a ferry accident in Bangladesh, which left more than 530 people missing and presumed dead, including her five-month...