Dhaka, March 13 -- Journalist AAM Saleh, widely known as Saleh Shibly, has been fulfilling duties as Press Secretary to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman.

His appointment to the coveted post was announced through a notification issued by the Ministry of Public Administration on February 18, within a week of the BNP's resounding election victory. Saleh Shibly has long been handling key press and administrative responsibilities for Tarique Rahman, and is clearly trusted by the PM. He was made the chief of a BNP press coordination team formed on November 1 last year ahead of the election.

He began his journalism career as a campus reporter for the Daily Banglabazar while studying at Dhaka University. Although he joined journalism as a professi...