Bangladesh say Shakib will not play cricket again after Hasina event
Shakib Al Hasan says he will return home to face trial if safety assured, but Bangladesh rule out cricket comeback.

Shakib Al Hasan says he will return home to face trial if safety assured, but Bangladesh rule out cricket comeback.




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Rahman takes office as other lawmakers are sworn in to parliament days after the BNP’s landslide election victory.
‘Let the practice of democracy continue,’ said Yunus, who has overseen country’s post-uprising transition since 2024.
As BNP’s Rahman ascends to power, young Bangladeshis demand gov’t prioritise their voices and deliver on poll promises.
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Bangladeshi Prime Minister-in-waiting Tarique Rahman urged opposition parties to work with the incoming BNP government.
Results mark a remarkable reversal of fortune for BNP chief who left country in 2008 and returned only two months ago.
The victorious Bangladesh Nationalist Party supporters are jubilant, but analysts warn of challenges ahead.
Jamaat’s surge reshaped the contest, but constituency arithmetic and network power determined the outcome.
Interim leader Muhammad Yunus congratulates Rahman for ‘the landslide victory of his party’.
Tarique Rahman’s decisive victory may redraw regional alignments after years of pro-India policy under ousted PM Hasina.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party wins in a landslide two years after student-led revolt.