Firoz Ahmed

After the British left, bureaucracy emerged as the most powerful force in Pakistan.

On the first day of the reopening of some markets in the capital yesterday amid the Covid-19 outbreak, many shoppers and store staffers were found to have flouted the directives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, laying people’s health safety on the line.

As a photojournalist, I have had many self-satisfactory moments and among those, Tamim Iqbal’s one-handed air-borne catch against West Indies has occupied a special place in my heart.

It was one of the hardest moments in my professional career. I was shell shocked when I read the news in the morning about Mohammad Ashraful’s involvement in match-fixing during the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) in 2013.

Dhaka's traffic system is one of the most chaotic in the world. Due to the city's notorious traffic congestion, people suffer economically, physically and even psychologically.