Dhaka, March 15 -- The public media mauling by Al-Jazeera of PM's adviser Gowher Rizvi and the Bangladesh envoy to the United Kingdom shows the weakness of many positions of the Government. Some of the noted ones are a. an election that hints at a one-party state, b. loss of human rights, and c. arrest of dissidents, d. weak democratic structure and several other issues.

The encounter looked poorly for Dr. Rizvi and the Government of Sheikh Hasina, not to mention the regime which has completed a decade. It also shows that some people are good at certain things and not good at some. This is particularly true when it comes to media and obviously the Bangladesh party was unprepared in more ways than one to respond to Al-Jazeera.

But given ...