PAKISTAN
MUSLIM MOB KILLS WIFE, CHILDREN OF CHRISTIAN
July 8 (Compass Direct News) - A Muslim mob in Jhelum, Pakistan murdered the wife and four children of a Christian last month, but local authorities are too afraid of the local Muslim leader to file charges, according to area Muslim and Christian sources. Jamshed Masih, a police officer […]
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165th Issue Mar.-Apr., 2010
Baby Politics in Bangladesh (Conted)
Hotline’s policy from the beginning has always been non-partisan, so we had to pay attention when a reader of the last issue acused us of being partisan because it was mostly directed against one of the two main parties pitted against each other in the national political […]
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164th Issue Dec.’09-Jan.’10
Editorial
The Attorney General Mahbubey Alam stated on Nov. 18th and 19th that the High Court had passed orders on more than 700 bail petitions, granting bail to over 700 persons, mostly convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for different terms. Forty of them had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the […]
Hotline Newsletter
163rd issue Oct. - Nov., 2009
Editorial
Who forgets what?
On Nov. 26 the former Prime Minister Kheleda Zia, during her triumphal parade through the hundreds of arches in Bogra on the occasion of her eldest son Tarique’s 45th birthday, announced that he would be returning soon from abroad to take on an active role in […]
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161st Issue June-July, 2009
Editorial
‘Crossfire’ Legal or Illegal?
Awami League has come to power with more than three-forth seats in the parliament and having promised to eradicate corruption, improve human rights and stop extra-judicial killing. The gap between the AL’s professional election manifesto and practice has been widening since it came to power early this year. […]
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Issue 160th April-May 2009
Editorial
Bodies of Migrant Workers : Duty of the State
Over the past few months hundreds of dead bodies of thee Bangladeshi workers have return to the country. During the more than a decade thousands of Bangladeshi youths either faced problems in going abroad for seeking better jobs of have been forced to […]
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Issue 159th Feb.-Mar., 2009
Editorial
BDR Mutiny and its continued effect
The big news of February 25-26 was the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutiny at the Pilkhana Headquarters in Dhaka. Bangladesh Rifles are Border guards. They killed at least 74 of their officer, including BDR jawans and some civil personnel. There are about 45,000 personnel in BDR […]
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158th Issue Dec. 2008-Jan. 2009
Editorial
Post-election reaction : advise for the government
The parliamentary election is already one month in the past. Hence we can get a very good idea from the reactions of the government and the opposition of the direction that national politics will head in the future - just the way it […]