New Delhi: Protests erupted in Bangladesh last week after the Muhammad Yunus-led interim administration rolled back its recruitment of music and physical training (PT) teachers to government primary schools earlier this year, as part of its reforms announced after the Sheikh Hasina government was toppled.

The move triggered by months of protests by Islami Andolon Bangladesh, Hefazat-e-Islam, and Jamaat-e-Islami, among other Islamist groups, labelling both music and PT as “un-Islamic”, is being widely seen as “capitulation” by the Yunus administration.

After the administration failed to offer any explanation for scrapping the posts of music and PT teachers, Dhaka University’s music department students staged protests. Show Full Article

According to the administration’s press wing, the

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