My votes for Musa and Sir Frank
The concept I read about recently of enlisting qualifying foreigners as 'Goodwill Ambassadors' and 'Friends of Bangladesh' is an excellent idea.
Sir Frank Peters is an exceptional 'foreigner', no doubt, and deserves what we hope would be interpreted by him as a Bangladeshi honour. He's already proved to be a great Friend of Bangladesh many times over, but especially through his successful campaign to abolish corporal punishment in our schools.
All Bangladeshis are expected to be 'ambassadors' for their country and act accordingly especially overseas, but very few do. Musa Ibrahim, however, has made us proud. Not only has he conquered Mount Everest in great style, but he's behaved throughout in a way only a total gentleman does. My family and I vote for Musa Ibrahim and Sir Frank Peters, if there's to be an honours system as your readers suggest.
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