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<title>Counterpoint &#45; Omar Shehab</title>
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<title>One More System We Don’t Need to Build</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The real problem is not device ownership. It is device access. And how you design that difference determines whether a policy quietly succeeds or loudly fails ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 14:32:02 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
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<title>Will Dr. Zahid go after Facebook and YouTube?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ He can keep the portfolio as a badge of party confidence. Or he can turn it into something rarer in our politics: A record. And if he wants that record to mean anything, he should begin by demanding answers from Facebook and YouTube. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:42:46 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Youtube, Facebook, Dr Zahid, child law</media:keywords>
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<title>Wait. We Don’t Have a Strategic Petroleum Reserve?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ If Bangladesh builds an SPR, it must not repeat either failure mode: Not scarcity through neglect, and not expansion without scrutiny. That, finally, is the real argument for a Bangladeshi reserve. Not a monument. Not another expensive ribbon-cutting exercise. A shield. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:55:57 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Oil, Fuel, Iran War, Strait of Hormuz</media:keywords>
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<title>10 Questions for Bobby Hajjaj</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The education system of Bangladesh is not merely a ministry. It is one of the largest social systems in the world. Running such a system is not simply a policy challenge. It is an administrative challenge of almost unimaginable scale. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:25:20 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>National Education Policy, Ministry of Education, Bobby Hajjaj</media:keywords>
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<title>Should the Police Killings Be Investigated?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Police-Killings</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ If unlawful killings by police are prosecuted while unlawful killings of police are ignored, the law becomes partisan. If mob killings are investigated while state killings are diluted, the law becomes cynical. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:51:42 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>NCP, BNP, Police, July Uprising</media:keywords>
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<title>They Knew</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Who is the Facebook or Instagram of this era? Which AI platforms are being deployed into children’s bedrooms, classrooms and social lives without full transparency about internal research? Which companies are already measuring how certain prompts, filters or recommendation engines affect adolescent self-image, loneliness, or compulsive use? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:16:57 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>AI, Bangladesh, Digital Literacy</media:keywords>
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<title>Should Mahfuj Alam Get a Second Chance?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Should-Mahfuj-Alam-Get-a-Second-Chance</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Second chances are possible. But history does not reward clever positioning or carefully worded distance. It honors courage, sacrifice, and fidelity to truth -- especially inconvenient truth. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:52:56 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Mahfuj Alam</media:keywords>
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<title>The State Had a Full Year. The Students Never Do.</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/You-Had-a-Full-Year</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Governments have changed. Elections have come and gone. Political narratives have shifted -- sometimes dramatically. Yet NCTB has remained reliably unable to perform its most basic function. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:26:30 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Textbooks, Accountability, Education, NCTB</media:keywords>
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<title>A Curious Case of Justice</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ That is the real horror. If one clearly innocent doctor required thirteen layers of influence to secure bail, how many other innocent people are still inside -- unseen, unheard, and unrescued? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:23:16 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Corruption</media:keywords>
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<title>The True Story of December 16, 1971</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ On this day, Bangladesh did not yet know what it would become. It only knew what it had endured. The newspapers recorded surrender, denial, diplomacy, return, and rebirth. The people carried something else entirely -- a heavy, wordless knowledge of survival. That knowledge, more than any headline, is what remains. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>December 16, 1971, Victory Day</media:keywords>
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<title>How Rich Are Our Princes?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Neither Tarique Rahman nor Sajeeb Wazed Joy can claim moral leadership without embracing financial transparency. They owe the public answers not because they are accused men, but because they are influential men. They owe the public honesty because they seek to shape the future of Bangladesh. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:28:53 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tarique Rahman, Sajeeb Wazed Joy</media:keywords>
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<title>A Call From The Past</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/A-Call-From-The-Past</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ If our leaders want to know where this road leads, they do not need to look far. Pakistan chose the path of appeasing extremists. The consequences have been catastrophic. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:04:02 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Ahmadiyya</media:keywords>
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<title>The Erasure of Jahanara Imam</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ At SUST, Bangladesh has chosen to forget Jahanara Imam. It has chosen to betray its mother to appease its murderers. It has chosen to sanctify cowardice with religion. The dormitory that should have carried her name now bears the name of a saint, not because the country lacks martyrs, but because it lacks the courage to honor them. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 06:26:18 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Jahanara Imam, SUST</media:keywords>
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<title>A Matter of Life and Death</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-power-of-coloring-someone-Nastik</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Democracy depends on two simple protections: that people can speak, and that they will not be killed for speaking. In Bangladesh, labeling someone a nastik is painting a target on his back, and should be seen for the incitement to violence that it is. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 05:08:43 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Zahedur Rahman, Islamism, Nastik</media:keywords>
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<title>Who Will Pay Bangladesh?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Who-will-pay-Bangladesh</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh needs to protect itself and its intellectual property in the age of artificial intelligence. Do our leaders and decision-makers understand what is at stake? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 05:47:41 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>AI, Artificial Intelligence</media:keywords>
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<title>Is the Bangladesh Public Service Commission Dead?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Is-the-Bangladesh-Public-Service-Commission-Dead</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ An institution can perish through through abdication and silence while the house burns. By every meaningful measure -- the ability to reassure the public, to clarify recruitment, to protect fairness -- the PSC has ceased to function. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:34:51 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>PSC</media:keywords>
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<title>We Need a National Artificial Intelligence Policy</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/What-should-be-our-national-Artificial-Intelligence-policy</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ We are already behind, but it is not too late and it need not continue to be that way. AI can help Bangladesh take a quantum leap into the future. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:13:09 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>AI, Artificial Intelligence</media:keywords>
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