Shafiqul Alam, press secretary to the chief advisor, has pushed back against allegations that the government was covering up casualty figures from the deadly fighter jet crash at Milestone School and College in Dhaka's Uttara. Shafiqul visited the crash-hit campus on Tuesday, alongside Law Advisor Asif Nazrul and Education Advisor CR Abrar. But they were confined inside Milestone School for nearly nine hours by angry student protests. We visited Milestone College to meet with the bereaved families, as well as the students and teachers who are still reeling from the tragedy. "From my experience covering major disasters between 2002 and 2024, I can say that hiding the actual number of casualties in Bangladesh is virtually impossible.
