Staff Correspondent

Chief Adviser’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam has sharply criticised the media outlets that are giving platforms to people like former home minister Asaduzzamn Khan Kamal, describing Kamal as the “butcher” of Bangladesh.

“Asaduzzamn Khan Kamal is the butcher of Bangladesh,” he said on Sunday, referring to the killings of children, students, workers and rickshaw-pullers.

Responding to a question at a media briefing at the Foreign Service Academy in the evening, Alam said no one in the world gives a platform to a “butcher” and interviews a “butcher”.

“You can realise the quality of those who are giving him a platform,” said the Press Secretary, adding that it is a big international propaganda campaign.

Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretaries Apurba Jahangir and Abul Kalam Azad Majumder were also present at the briefing where the Press Secretary shared the highlights of CA’s engagements at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Chief Adviser Dr Yunus on Saturday arrived in Dhaka from Switzerland after attending the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos where he was hailed as a "beacon, hero and an amazing image of stability."

The interview of fugitive mass-murder accused Asaduzzamn Khan Kamal carried by The Indian Express is full of lies and misinformation, said the CA’s press wing.

Former home minister Kamal, a close associate of fallen dictator Sheikh Hasina, who is reportedly hiding in India, is one of the masterminds of the July-August killings. Indian Express carried his lies without verifying the information, the press wing said.