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<title>Counterpoint &#45; Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</title>
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<title>A 90&#45;Day Report Card on the Prime Minister</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ All things considered, Mr. Rahman receives a “meets expectations” grade. The BNP government, as a team, receives a “needs improvement” grade, but not a failing one. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 10:09:03 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tarique Rahman, BNP, Jamaat, NCP, Awami League, Parliament</media:keywords>
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<title>The Final Nail in the Coffin</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Former American Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s phrase “unknown unknowns” best captures the near impossibility of predicting what comes next. That said, the ongoing Iran-United States ceasefire,  offers a brief window of opportunity to take stock: A highly precarious, at best partial, cooling-off period in a region that remains very much in turmoil. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:20:29 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Iran, USA, Pakistan, Tel Aviv, Netanyahu</media:keywords>
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<title>Can BNP Deliver a Bangladesh&#45;First Foreign Policy?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh is a small fish in a big pond. Mr. Rahman must show enough courage to defend the country’s sovereignty while recognizing Bangladesh’s limits and acting rationally as a national statesman: That requires him not to design foreign policy based on whatever the prevalent mood is on social media. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:28:05 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Bangladesh, USA, China, Tarique Rahman, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Foreign Policy, Khalil</media:keywords>
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<title>What Dr Yunus Got Right, and What He Didn&amp;apos;t</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh will remember the outgoing Chief Adviser with respect for stepping up when the country desperately needed him. His record in government is, predictably, mixed. Was it fair to have expected more? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:13:55 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Dr Yunus, Interim Government</media:keywords>
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<title>Is Jamaat Coming?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Arithmetic still points to a BNP-led alliance winning, with a Jamaat-led alliance more likely to land as the principal opposition. The caveat is that Bangladesh has not had credible elections since 2008, so any confident prediction about voting behaviour is just that: An informed forecast, not a guarantee. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:54:21 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Jamaat, Elections</media:keywords>
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<title>Begum Khaleda Zia&amp;apos;s Quiet Battle for the Girl Child</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:54:38 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Begum Khaleda Zia, Khaleda Zia, Death, Legacy</media:keywords>
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<title>Bangladesh’s Fake Photo Card Problem</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ As the country gears up for what is going to be the most consequential national election in its independent history, a locally grown form of online harm, deliberately engineered to fuel targeted disinformation campaigns and rampant misinformation among a largely digitally illiterate population, is posing a serious threat to its efforts to transition from authoritarianism to democracy. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:04:33 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Elections, Photo Cards</media:keywords>
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<title>What Bangladesh Can Learn from Dr. Jane Goodall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Her warning that humanity has only a narrow window to reverse the degradation of Earth’s life-support systems, and that unless societies change their ways of living and their overall strategy for economic development, civilization will run out of time, is especially relevant to Bangladesh ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:54:11 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Jane Goodall, Prof Yunus</media:keywords>
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<title>The Disputed Status of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Post&#45;Uprising Bangladesh</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ This August 15 , the country must seek closure by coming to terms with the five chapters of its founding President’s legacy –- reckoning with them collectively, not selectively ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:08:54 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Sheikh Mujib</media:keywords>
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<title>NCP Marching with Maximum Visibility to Gopalganj Was an Unnecessary and Counterproductive Strategic Blunder</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Provoking what was an entirely predictable response from AL activists and supporters in the stronghold of the deposed political regime amounted to a de facto open invitation for confrontation ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:50:13 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Gopalganj, NCP, AL, Interim Government</media:keywords>
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<title>Delaying the Announcement of an Election Roadmap is No Longer Tenable</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Delaying-the-Announcement-of-an-Election-Roadmap-Is-No-Longer-Tenable</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh now stands at the threshold between gridlock and reconstruction — the Chief Adviser must set a specific month for the upcoming elections and do so without hesitation. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:20:28 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Elections</media:keywords>
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