As Bangladesh prepares for its February 12, 2026 parliamentary elections, once-marginalized political forces are gaining momentum—and none more unexpectedly than Jamaat-e-Islami. Long excluded from mainstream politics, Jamaat has transformed its public image and political strategy so dramatically that analysts and
By Dr Md Momtazur Rahman, Bangladesh’s political arena is undergoing a significant realignment, and few developments illustrate this more clearly than the re-emergence of Jamaat-e-Islami. After more than a decade of exclusion from electoral politics, the country’s largest Islamist party
By DST’s Editorial Team, An Analysis from Reuters After being barred from electoral politics for more than a decade, Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, has re-emerged ahead of the next parliamentary election by reinventing itself—and, in the process, appears
