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Bangladesh is South Asia’s ticking time bomb

Bangladesh risks slipping into the kind of military-sanctioned dysfunction that has long plagued Pakistan.
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Hasina’s ouster: One year on, Bangladesh’s future has never looked bleaker. Reuters

IN the year since the violent, military-backed overthrow of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government, Bangladesh has descended into chaos. The economy is reeling, radical Islamist forces are gaining ground, young people are becoming increasingly radicalised, lawlessness is taking hold, and religious and ethnic minorities are under siege. The country’s future has never looked bleaker.

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