Many delegations from the liberated areas of the North go to the international roads and receive a statement in Maarana al-Nu'man
Whilst lamenting over three decades of economic failure, on 24 January 2019, the Finance Minister, Asad Umar, revealed the government’s economic focus on addressing, “budget deficit due to an imbalance between government expenditures and revenues, increasing trajectory of imports vis-a-vis exports, and an increase in investments.”
The second mini-budget presented on 23 January 2019 is certainly not a cause for rejoicing and praise. The second mini-budget became a practical necessity because the regime strangled the economy so hard with taxation, in its first mini-budget, that the economy choked to the point that its ability to cough up tax revenues was itself compromised.
Several Bangladeshi newspapers reported on January 18, 2019 that Indian Border Security Force (BSF) was trying to force 31 Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh from the Kasba Upazila border area in Brahmanbaria. These stateless and forgotten part of the Muslim Ummah were stranded under the open sky in the Indian side of the “no man's land”.
