, Feb. 4 -- "I am compelled to address and correct the inaccuracies and misleading assertions made by UNB in their recent report concerning my professional conduct and history. As a former political reporter for UNB, it is disappointing to see my professional integrity questioned based on erroneous information and omissions that compromise the journalistic values UNB professes to uphold.

Contrary to the report's opening claim that labels me merely as "a former press officer of Begum Khaleda Zia," I wish to clarify my role was that of an assistant press secretary to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Begum Khaleda Zia, during her tenure from 2001 to 2006. Post my contract with the government, I joined the UNB as a Political Reporter, a fac...