“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power."

American politician Robert G Ingersoll’s 1883 quote about Abraham Lincoln today perfectly fits a man of much-smaller stature, Bangladesh’s chief advisor to the caretaker government, Muhammad Yunus.

Not only has he struck a Faustian deal with groups like Jamaat-i-Islami and Hizbut Tahrir, released from jail hardened terrorists and Islamists, and presided over the massacre of opponents and minorities, he is now willing to do anything to indefinitely delay elections and stay on in power.

The Nobel laureate today stands like a moral pauper, begging for more time to transfer power, surrendering governance to jihadis, and trying to make wily deals in the backroom. Yunus is even willing to compromise Bangladesh’s security and sovereignty by offering the American Deep State the........

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