Make public everything you know about me
Star editor invites Huda
Mr Nazmul Huda's threat (published yesterday in full), triggered by our story that the ACC has decided to investigate his alleged corruption, can best be described as pathetic and desperate. Fearful of his dirty linen being washed in public, he is trying to threaten and intimidate so that this paper desists from doing its public duty. No threat will silence us.One can only pity a man who, in order to hit out against someone, drags in his or her parents, which in my case is my late father who passed away 28 years ago and who was a minister half a century ago. He does not appear to know even his name properly, nor its spelling. Abul Mansur Ahmad is a political and literary figure of undivided Bengal and subsequently of Pakistan and Bangladesh whose place in history cannot be dirtied by the likes of Mr Huda. Mr Huda's statement reveals, more than anything else, his nature, level of sophistication and sense of decency. It is full of innuendoes and malice and contains not a single fact. Since Mr Huda seems to know a lot about my personal wealth, I invite him to publish everything he knows about me, my "mischievous" ventures and my moveable and immovable properties so that the whole world can know what Mr Huda is talking about. Mr Huda has chosen a wrong person to silence with his threats. We will continue to perform our journalistic task "without fear or favour".
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