Failing states?
The US Congressional committee has published a list of failing states. Bangladesh has been put in the tail of a dirty dozen. In the inglorious list of 12, eight countries are from Africa and the rest four from Asia. Seven of such countries have a Muslim majority and three are from Saarc region.
Eminent personalities and think tanks have already raised question on the veracity of the list. Inclusion of Bangladesh will definitely be protested by the government and other organisations.
Our people will not like to see their dear motherland bracketed with countries marred by civil war and other conflicts. But the underlying fact remains that our failings have blurred our image abroad.
Fifteen crore people of this country are patriots. Only four decades back, three million people sacrificed their lives and many other suffered a lot to liberate this country. We are not ready to see our country being included in such a list even by mistake. Our politicians and government functionaries concerned should realise the sentiment of the general people. Otherwise, they may find themselves in the darkest corner of history.
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