Pakistan and Bangladesh: New Pattern of Military involvement in politics - power without accountability
Baladas Ghoshal
18 Nov 2008
The Bangladeshi military is fast imitating the Pakistani model, albeit in a different form, to place itself as an arbiter in each and every aspect of social, political and economic life of the country. Like in Pakistan, the army in Bangladesh does not necessarily have to come directly to power. It can wield effective power even while remaining in the background and constantly destabilise politics and deprive democratic forces the necessary political space.
