Dhaka, Aug. 18 -- A query from Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus prompted the foreign ministry to direct all the missions of Bangladesh abroad to remove the portrait of the President, sources told the FE on Sunday adding that after August 5, a good number of missions removed the portrait on their own initiatives.

During his recent visit to Kuala Lumpur, when the CA found the portrait of the President in the Bangladesh High Commission there, he asked the officials concerned why the portrait hung there as he did not find it in many other missions, said officials on condition of anonymity.

When the query from the CA was relayed to the foreign ministry, they decided to remove the President's portrait from all the missions and gave verbal inst...