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Shahriar Feroze

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Mr. Shahriar Feroze working as Assistant Editor at The Daily Observer

The Cyprus question: What's the actual question?

Shahriar Feroze

Today the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) marks the 44th Anniversary otherwise known as Peace and Freedom Day. The stage for celebrations, as I had witnessed last night was all set. The day is a public holiday in this part of the island. I am participating at the event as an international guest, but ...

United Kingdom's Novichok nemesis

Shahriar Feroze

First it was the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in early March, and now the recent poisoning of two more people in the small town of Amesbury in south-western England has once more fomented diplomatic hostility between the UK and Russia. Though the police said that it was unlikely that the latest victims ...

VIPs, blocked roads and a twisted realty

Shahriar Feroze

Like many times before, it happened last Thursday once more. As this writer attempted to cross the road near the newly renovated Intercontinental hotel, he was barred from crossing. A couple of policemen also locked the exit gates of the Ramna Park since a VIP was travelling along that route with his entourage. That's not ...

Foreigners take away our money ...because we give it to them

Shahriar Feroze

While selecting a topical subject for an editorial couple of days ago, the lead news report of one of the English dailies caught me by surprise. The title referred to how the education sector failed to cater the needs of a booming readymade garment sector. And how some 34, 340 expat workers residing in Bangladesh ...

Why Mrs Zia cannot become Anwar Ibrahim?

Shahriar Feroze

Apparently their political destiny may seem quite the same. Malaysia's future Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and our jailed Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia have respectively endured mental and physical torture in the hands of their political opponents, went behind bars , have been accused on numerous charges while their political parties have been kept at bay ...

Our puzzling defence deals with India!!!

Shahriar Feroze

Last Wednesday, Bangladesh and India signed a framework agreement for utilising a USD 500 million line-of-credit extended by the Modi government last year. The countries also signed a couple of memorandums of understanding (MoU) for collaboration between the naval forces of the two countries. These were signed following back-to-back discussions between our defence delegation team ...

Trump's fear is Iran, not the future of its nuclear weapon

Shahriar Feroze

For the past six months I have been willingly following all the Donald Trump speeches. Not because they are informative or meaningful in nature - but because they are impudent displays of his blatant lies and open admittance of ignorance about the world and US foreign policies. More to it, what's rather amazing about the ...

Yalta Forum 2018

Yalta links Russia with the Islamic world

Shahriar Feroze

Vladimir Putin is reported to have said, "In Russia, Islamic world will always find a reliable ally". If he genuinely means what he said -- he intends to build a strategic partnership with 24.1 per cent of the global population living in 49 Muslim majority countries worth more than USD 5.7 trillion in combined GDP ...

Pohela Baishakh and a motivated citizen!

Shahriar Feroze

Yes, this author is angry to have noticed deliberate attempts to dispirit the first day of the Bengali calendar - Pahela Baishakh. The day's traditional character is fast changing and what are also changing - are the patterns in its observance. In a conventional manner, it is the Hilsa fish, locally designed trendy clothing and ...

The Red Indian, the lizard king and a poet

Shahriar Feroze

Open The Night is young& full of restI can't describethe way she's dress'dShe'll pander to some strangerequestsanything that you suggestanything to please her guestI think I must have been barely a teenager who rode through the stormy night but without "the Riders" nearly some two decades back when Doors and its "Morrison hotel" had prompted ...