Dhaka, April 29 -- Every government that has ever sought power in Bangladesh has promised jobs. The promises arrive reliably with every election cycle and depart once the campaign dust settles. What makes the Bangladesh Nationalist Party's pledge in 2026 different - or claims to make it different - is its extraordinary specificity: ten million new jobs within five years of taking office. Tarique Rahman, addressing a rally in Dhaka-8 on February 9, said the BNP had "already prepared plans and programmes to address the issue" of unemployment. The manifesto, unveiled on February 6, goes further: one million of those ten million jobs would be in the ICT sector alone, including 200,000 positions in cyber-security, business process outsourcing,...