KAS Murshid

The BNP government has inherited a country at an unusual inflexion point, with a strong electoral mandate, a technically credible reform roadmap, and an international community broadly aligned on what needs to be done.

The report emerges from a critical moment in Bangladesh’s history.

We now have another opportunity to get things right and the challenge is to manage aspirations and expectations.

Once the shouts of "conspiracy" and the routine blame games have subsided, we will have to come to terms with the rapidly changing geopolitics, of which these sanctions are symptomatic.