Bangladesh Chief Adviser Mohammad Yunus’ Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam applied pressure on a senior journalist of Dhaka-based Aajkar Patrika newspaper to remove an article headlined ‘History’s multi-instanced month of August’ (‘Itihaser ghatanabahul August maas’), which appeared on August 14, from the Bengali daily’s online edition. Multiple sources confirmed today that Alam called up the Aajker Patrika senior journalist who eventually succumbed to the pressures and threats from the Press Secretary. A BBC report today said that the Press Secretary’s office refrained from commenting on the issue of senior journalist Bibhuranjan Sarkar’s death and the circumstances surrounding it. Sarkar, 71, was a senior Joint Editor at Aajker Patrika. He also referred to the article authored by Dhaka-based senior journalist and columnist Mazharul Islam Babla that appeared in Aajker Patrika’s print edition and online on August 14.
