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Analysts await Dhaka-Islamabad FOC follow up at political level

Foreign relation analysts in Dhaka have said they would await the follow up developments of the official level foreign office consultation (FOC) between Bangladesh and Pakistan at the political level as the issues of apology for 1971 genocide and asset sharing came up in the talks.

Cost of airborne apathy

THERE is a slow violence unravelling in the capital — not through war or terrorism but through every breath that people take. Dhaka, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, is gasping, literally, for air. The city’s sky, once merely hazy in winter, has become a year-round cloak of poison. The air is not just unhealthy. It is a weapon of mass disablement...