The highlights this week: The son of a political dynasty is set to return ahead of Bangladesh’s national elections , an Indian investigation implicates Pakistan in the April terrorist attack that triggered a military conflict between the countries, and inflation in Nepal falls to a 22-year-low—but it might reflect a deeper problem.
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The highlights this week: The son of a political dynasty is set to return ahead of Bangladesh’s national elections, an Indian investigation implicates Pakistan in the April terrorist attack that triggered a military conflict between the countries, and inflation in Nepal falls to a 22-year-low—but it might reflect a deeper problem.
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Rahman’s Return to Bangladesh
For more than a year, one of the biggest questions in South Asian politics has been why Tarique Rahman, the acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has not come home after more than 17 years in self-exile in London—particularly with national elections set for early next year.
The August 2024 mass uprising that ousted former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seemingly created an opening for Rahman’s return. Hasina had cracked down hard on the BNP while in power, and the many legal convictions against Rahman—which his supporters called politically motivated—were removed by May.
Rahman’s wife, Zubaida, traveled to Bangladesh that month to care for Rahman’s ailing mo
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