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:lol:. Nah but on a serious note the AL is getting closer and closer to acting like a one party state with actions like this. I don't like the BNP but it's better that there's another strong party around to keep the Awami league in check.

Way too much focus on two years, 1952 and 1971. We have over a thousand years of history but some people make it like those are the ones that matter.

I don't know man I'm sorry for your experience, maybe the guy was generally just a cnut you get them everywhere, because to celebrate terrorist attacks in general is quite a disturbing thing regardless of the context. In my experience there's usually some harmless banter between Pakistanis and...

Not just decades old, the Ming Dynasty and the Bengal Sultanate had very friendly relations too. :tup:

He wasn't actually ethnically Bengali, he was a first generation Ashrafi immigrant to the subcontinent (same as Ali Vardi Khan, Siraj-Ud-Daulah's grandfather). But don't forget his descendant Iskander Mirza grew up to be the first President of Pakistan either.

I'm sure this thread will go down well.:pop:

Most Bangladeshis also have respect for Pakistani culture, hell a significant minority of Bangladeshis spend a good portion of their time reminiscing about East Pakistan :lol:. In the heat of debate and argument it often becomes mud slinging in which Bengalis will insult Pakistan and Pakistanis...

That's a bit too far man, the way your describing it is as if it's some sort of genetic problem and Saudis are physically dispossessed to be cruel and barbaric, which just isn't true. There are plenty of sane, normal Saudi Arabians, it's just that a mixture, of culture, excessive wealth and...

I've heard statistics like this for a while, although it's good, being third in South Asia which is generally not a good region for gender equality is no great accomplishment. We should aim for first and a more significant position in Asia as a whole.

I understand the religious sentiment behind not wanting to have photos being taken but in the modern world it's an inevitability with the existence of CCTV, official documents such as passports and drivers licenses, etc. To follow this would be to handicap yourself in so many different ways. I'm...

Interesting piece of history.

You know what, you finally caught me good sir. It's time for me to reveal my master plan, it's all @Arefin007, every single member on PDF except you. I tried to fool you but your just too good. In fact, every single person in the Bangladeshi consulate in Islamabad is also merely a sockpuppet for...

It's a bit rich that on a thread condemning racism, it becomes a session about taunting Indians about dark skin in a negative manner. Racism in all its forms are bad, I feel sorry for these African expats.

That would have been a good joke if it didn't literally say locals and a Pakistani writer were there.

Caste system is the wrong word for that, that's just plain simple discrimination between different ethnicities. And it happens in other ways not just the hierarchy you stated, for example Bihari and other Indian-origin Muslims have faced discrimination in Bangladesh, but you put Indian Muslims...

Please, the person you are speaking to is Jewish, he is not going to accept our religious views any more than you would accept his if he started quoting the Torah and the Talmud. Muslims and Jews hold different views on this subject, just agree to disagree.

It's foolish to deny the existence of castes amongst South Asian Muslims, you can even see some of it on PDF itself (in which people proudly proclaim themselves to belong to a caste of some esteem, and inversely might refe to others as converts from castes without such esteem). However people...

Identity politics are never any good for anyone, Bangladesh shouldn't get bogged down in this nonsense.

I understand that but most of these people I've met generally fit the appearance of what is typically seen in the NW of the subcontinent, the existence of a moderately sized Sikh community in these nations also tells you that at the very least there was SOME migration from the Punjab. But they...

Maybe not in the Caribbean (those were actually most Gujeratis as a merchant community), but I've met plenty of Indo-Kenyan/Tanzanian/Ugandan who were clearly of North Western origin, both Sikh and Muslim, the Muslims whom had last names like Khan, Bhatt etc. South Indians make up the majority...