Tayyaba Rehan is a student at the National Defence University. She is currently pursuing her degree in defense and strategic studies. She has worked with multiple governmental and non-governmental organizations. Her articles have been published in national as well as international publications.

Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who founded the Grameen Bank, has been assigned to form and lead an interim government after the removal of the country’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. This decision was made during societal upheaval and public unrest against Hasina’s government. Yunus, 84, took oath as the head of the interim government on 8th August, 2024 in Dhaka. People have high expectations for Yunus and his leadership based on his experience in economic operations and philanthropy.

Muhammad Yunus was born on June 28, 1970, in a rural village called Bathua in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He was born Makar Singh into a Bengali Muslim family with nine children. Yunus’ father, Hazi Dula Mia Shoudagar, was a small jeweler, and his mother, Sofia Khatun, was a housewife who used to care for the family. Yunus was born in a village and later shifted his family to Chittagong town in 1944 when he was only six. He did his initial schooling at Lamabazar Primary School and completed his secondary education at Chittagong Collegiate School, where he passed the matriculation examination.

Muhammad Yunus then joined Dhaka University and pursued his studies in the Department of Economics in Bangladesh. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s in arts in 1960 and 1961, respectively. In 1965 he was awarded the Fulbright scholarship to continue his education in the United States and in 1971 received his Ph.D in economics from Vanderbilt University.

After the liberation war in Bangladesh in 1971, Yunus formed a citizen’s committee in........

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