Editors' Council for concerted efforts to tackle current crisis

Expressing grave concern over the Gulshan and Sholakia attacks, Editors' Council on Wednesday called for taking concerted efforts to face the current crisis, reports the UNB.

 

The call came from a meeting of the council held at The Daily Star office with its president Golam Sarwar in the chair, said a press release.

 

In a resolution adopted at the meeting, the council noted with concern that a recreational communal evil force is involved in a deep-rooted conspiracy to destabilize the beloved motherland achieved at the cost of lakhs of lives.

 

Their main motive is to send out a wrong message to the world creating an anarchic situation in the country through killing innocent people brutally, it said.

 

The council underscored the need for creating familial, social and cultural awareness alongside law enforcement agencies’ stringent steps to overcome the situation.

 

It also expressed its sympathy to the families of those killed in the attacks on Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan and police at Sholakia in Kihoreganj.

 

The Daily Star editor and Editors’ Council general secretary Mahfuz Anam, Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rahman, News Today editor Reaz Uddin Ahmed, The Financial Express editor AHM Moazzem Hossain, Bangladesh Protidin editor Naim Nizam, Naya Diganta editor Alamgir Mohiduddin, Dainik Azadi editor MA Malek, Sangbad acting editor Khandaker Muniruzzaman, New Age editor Nurul Kabir, The Independent editor M Shamsur Rahman, Jugantor acting editor Saiful Alam, Banik Barta editor Dewan Hanif Mahmud and Dhaka Tribune editor Zafar Sobhan were present at the meeting.