Tariq Ahmed Karim
Appearance
Tariq Ahmed Karim is a Bangladeshi diplomat and former ambassador to the United States and the former High Commissioner to India. Currently he is the Chairman of Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies.
Quotes
[edit]- After Bangladesh's birth, the first few years the new nation was not recognized as a separate sovereign entity by many of the Arab nations, notably Saudi Arabia which insisted that Bangladesh should adopt an Islamic constitution first
- Tariq Ahmed Karim quoted in Y Rosser, Indoctrinating Minds: Politics of Education in Bangladesh. 2004 page 72
- Bhutto... harangued about Muslim Bengal having been betrayed, and predicted that one day it would return to the fold. This is a philosophy that is subliminally still nurtured by many in Pakistan, not least the military - the ISI still plays its war games accordingly.
- Tariq Ahmed Karim quoted in Y Rosser, Indoctrinating Minds: Politics of Education in Bangladesh. 2004 page 201