Bangladesh heading towards absolute uncertainty

There are moments in the life of a nation when the political noise is so deafening, the confusion so layered, that one must pause to examine the deeper tremors beneath the surface. Bangladesh, today, stands at such a crossroads—bruised by reckless rhetoric, weakened by factional zeal, and drifting toward a horizon clouded with perilous uncertainty. And what makes this moment particularly unsettling is not only the chaos emanating from within, but also the dangerously muddled narratives shaping the country from without.

Take, for instance, the astonishing remarks by Lt Gen Ahmed Shareef Chaudhry of Pakistan’s ISPR, who placed Imran Khan and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the same category of “traitors.” That alone would have been offensive, ahistorical, and deeply manipulative. But the real tragedy lies in how certain political factions in Dhaka have begun echoing the same distortions—downgrading our Liberation War to a mere “resistance movement” or, worse, painting it as an Indian conspiracy. If this were simply political mischief, one might ignore it. But it is more than that: it is a calculated attempt to hollow out the moral core of Bangladesh’s sovereignty.

Nations do not crumble only when borders are breached; they crumble when their founding truths are delegitimized from within. When history becomes negotiable, identity becomes unstable. And once identity is unstable, sovereignty becomes a matter of convenience rather than conviction. Bangladesh is now experiencing that slow-motion erosion.

Then comes the reckless bravado of politicians desperate for relevance. A leading figure from the National Citizen Party (NCP), Nasir Uddin Patwary, recently

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