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Monday, August 22, 2005

Joi Bangla to Zindabad, Khuda Hafiz to Allah Hafiz

The constitutional principle of secularism was arbitrarily replaced by a belief in Allah, an act that was later given legal sanction through the fifth amendment to the constitution. Joi Bangla, the rallying cry of the nation in the War of Liberation and after, went fugitive in official circles. The Islamisation of Bangladesh took fresh, almost strident new steps during the regime of the nation’s second military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad, writes ...

Syed Badrul Ahsan

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