The USA's Oregon Governor Theodore Kulongoski, accompanied by the Oregon National Guard State Partnership Program team is in Dhaka for a four-day visit with Bangladeshi political, civilian and military leaders. According to information available from US National Guard website, www.ngb.army.mil, the State Partnership Program, which started in 1993, is a program under each State National Guard's Combatant Commander. The value of the SPP is its ability to focus the attention…

According to a foreign ministry news release, America has asked Bangladesh to deploy combat troops in Afghanistan. The US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke made this demand in his meeting with foreign minister Dr. Dipu Moni who is in New York attending the 65th UN General Assembly. The news release also said that Dipu Moni assured Holbrooke that Bangladesh would do whatever it can to help restore…

The government arrested four more members and activists of Hizb ut-Tahrir yesterday night from Kalabagan, Dhaka. Before that they took senior member of the party, Professor Dr Syed Golam Mawla in remand for three days. They are also spreading false information about the party's links with Jamat-e-Islam, despite the fact that Hizb ut-Tahrir has no remote connection with Jamat-e-Islam, war criminals or militants. These actions of the government show clearly…

Newspapers have reported that yesterday (07 June, 2010) the government filed a case against the acting editor of Daily Amar Desh, Mahmudur Rahman, naming his as an accused in the false case filed against the Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh in April under the Anti-Terrorism Act. This is the 5th case against Mahmudur Rahman after the government closed down his newspaper and arrested him in the beginning of…