Muzaffar Ahmad Bajwaa

Editor-in-chief, The Eastern Herald. Counter terrorism, diplomacy, Middle East affairs, Russian affairs and International policy expert.

Sheikh Hasina addresses reporters at a press conference, speaking from exile in New Delhi

Sheikh Hasina Built Bangladesh – The Evidence No Court Can Erase

Sheikh Hasina oversaw the largest poverty reduction in South Asian history, sheltered more than a million Rohingya refugees, and drove global climate negotiations to a historic result. Guest essayist Muzaffar Ahmad Bajwaa:

August 18, 2026

by Muzaffar Ahmad Bajwaa

Sheikh Hasina and the US role in Bangladesh's August 2024 political crisis

America’s Regime Change Machine: From Tehran to Dhaka, the Paper Trail Does Not Lie

Drawing on declassified CIA operational histories, FARA filings at the Department of Justice, an 87-page Senate committee report, and a diplomatic cipher confirmed by a foreign Supreme Court, this opinion traces America's documented regime change infrastructure from Tehran to Dhaka

August 16, 2026

by Muzaffar Ahmad Bajwaa

Sheikh Hasina, former prime minister of Bangladesh, casts her vote in Dhaka in January 2024

Government and Politics·News

Harvard chooses the first Muslim to chair the editor of its legal magazine

Harvard University Law Magazine chose an American of Egyptian descent to be the first Muslim to chair the editor of the magazine that was previously managed by former US President Barack Obama

February 7, 2021