Dhaka, July 9 -- This time the Election Commission (EC) will not invite the foreign observers who certified the last three national elections as 'acceptable and credible', said Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Tuesday.

"Why should we invite those foreign observers who certified the last three elections? Should we take all the observers who certified that the last three elections were very good elections, acceptable credible elections?" he told reporters after a meeting with Canadian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Ajit Singh at Nirbachan Bhaban in the capital.

Nasir Uddin said the commission will invite the foreign observers who are dependable and reliable and also have experiences of observing elections in different count...