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Can Nobel laureate help end Bangladesh stalemate?

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Can Nobel laureate help end Bangladesh stalemate?

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By Mahendra Ved. Asia Pacific, 03:32 PM IST With Bangladesh’s major political parties failing to agree on a caretaker government to conduct general elections in January, can Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus help to end the stalemate? According to Bengali daily Gonokontho, the reference to Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace Prize this month, came up as a possible head of an interim government when Awami League Sheikh Hasina was in the US, where she met senior officials in the State Department. It is not known whether Hasina discussed this with the Americans or on her return home with her party leadership. There is no indication whether the idea is still in currency amid political stalemate that has triggered street violence killing 14 people and injured over 1,000 in Dhaka and other places across the country. But one thing is clear: If Yunus’ name is proposed, it would be difficult for anyone to reject it. Yunus, 66, who pioneered Grameen Bank, a network of rural banking among Bangladesh’s poo

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