Bangladesh is poised to witness a rare political milestone. Following a decisive parliamentary victory by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), party chairman Tarique Rahman is expected to assume office as Prime Minister. Should this transition proceed as anticipated, the Zia family will enter an exclusive global club: political dynasties in which three members have served […]

The 13th National Parliamentary Election was “participatory and inclusive to an acceptable degree” and did not exhibit signs of systematic “election engineering”, according to Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). Speaking at a press conference in Dhaka on Monday, the organisation’s Executive Director, Iftekharuzzaman, stated that, in TIB’s assessment, the overall process was “largely acceptable, reasonably fair, […]