Day: September 24, 2017

    Bangladeshi police officers escort Hasnat Karim, centre, to a court appearance in Dhaka in August 2016. It was supposed to be a celebration. On 1 July 2016, Hasnat Karim, a British-Bangladeshi businessman, and his wife, Sharmina Parveen, took their two children out for their daughter’s 13th birthday at Holey Artisan Bakery Cafe, an upscale Dhaka restaurant. They had gone early so their son could later watch a cartoon at home, where a birthday cake was waiting. As they scanned the menu, gunmen claiming allegiance to the Islamic State stormed the cafe. Over 10 hours, they murdered more than 20 people, mostly foreigners, and held the others hostage. If we had been late, just five or 10 minutes, then we would not have been able to enter the restaurant, Parveen, a soft-spoken w...

    Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TCCA) Coordinator Ahmed Rafiq on Sunday said his country will build refugee camps for one lakh Rohingyas, who fled the persecution in Rakhine state of Myanmar, in the southeastern districts of Bangladesh. He disclosed this while paying a courtesy call on Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury (Maya) at his office at the Secretariat in the city, said an official release. During the meeting, they discussed different bilateral issues, including site selection for the refugee camps, and expressed optimism for a peaceful resolution to the crisis as soon as possible. The minister informed the TCCA representative that Bangladesh has given shelter to Myanmar refugees only on humanitarian grounds. Turkey will ...