{"id":6646,"date":"2025-11-14T10:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2025-11-14T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:52:28","slug":"excluding-women-from-development-is-a-mistake-says-bangladesh-army-chief-at-joypurhat-girls-cadet-college-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6646","title":{"rendered":"Excluding Women From Development Is a Mistake, Says Bangladesh Army Chief at Joypurhat Girls\u2019 Cadet College Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bangladesh Army chief <strong>General Waker-uz-Zaman<\/strong> said on Friday that leaving women out of national development is \u201ca mistake,\u201d noting that women make up roughly half the country\u2019s population and must be equipped with skills to drive progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at the reunion of <strong>Joypurhat Girls\u2019 Cadet College<\/strong>, Gen Waker-uz-Zaman stressed that empowering women is integral to Bangladesh\u2019s growth agenda. \u201cFor the country\u2019s development, women must be developed with the right skills,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing former cadets, the army chief urged them to lead with character and service. \u201cBe good human beings first,\u201d he said. \u201cWork for the nation with ethics and integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event was attended by former cadets, <strong>Deputy Commissioner Afroza Akter Chowdhury<\/strong>, <strong>Superintendent of Police Muhammad Abdul Wahab<\/strong>, faculty members and local journalists. Organisers said the reunion highlighted the college\u2019s role in nurturing disciplined, civic-minded graduates\u2014and underscored a broader call to ensure women\u2019s full and equal participation in Bangladesh\u2019s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman said on Friday that leaving women out of national development is \u201ca mistake,\u201d noting that women make up roughly half the country\u2019s population and must be equipped with skills to drive progress. Speaking at the reunion of Joypurhat Girls\u2019 Cadet College, Gen Waker-uz-Zaman stressed that empowering women is integral to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6649,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions\/6649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}