Our image abroad: What image?
Shahjahan Ahmed, Dhanmondi RA, Dhaka
At a moment when the nation is going through a very serious political crisis, we have been provided comic relief from unexpected quarters. This came from the tamasha arranged by the foreign ministry by bringing 7 of the 11 ex-foreign secretaries together for a meeting with the prime minister to tell her what to do about our image crisis! (DS August 28th) This government has to be serious if it wants to come out of this mess. Why does the PM need any ex-foreign secretary to tell her the problem with our image abroad? I am no expert about matters of diplomacy but like me, there are many who know exactly where this crisis originates and it is time to tell this PM about it in plain words. In nearly three years since people sent the alliance to office with a two thirds majority, it has squandered the chance to lead the nation. Madam Prime Minister, your law enforcing agencies have failed to unravel even one of the major blasts and killings in the last one year or so. While your law enforcing agencies were failing around you, you have vacated the Ministry of Home Affairs of the cabinet minister and kept it in charge of a junior minister. You have as your Political Adviser someone who shamed everyone by his recent failure at the OIC-SG election and then followed this shameful defeat with utterances before the press about Sheikh Hasina .Your utterly inept security agencies, to throw you into confusion, brought reports against your senior ministers that you have believed while allowing the agencies to go unquestioned for their failure to nab any criminal connected with the spate of political killings and blasts in recent times. I am sure none of the FS in the meeting with you pointed any of these. Get out of this situation, accept responsibility and show the courage to lead. You and your foreign ministry can worry about our image later, for our image is hardly the issue at the moment.
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