"False hopes or achievements falsified?"

I took an exception to General's comments which state "Although concerted efforts have been made at home and abroad to portray our country as a fundamentalist nation, there have been statements from Washington and London branding Bangladesh as a religiously moderate country, despite the letter mailed to US Secretary of State by 19 US Congressmen (pro-AL lobby) suggesting to call us as such, what a shame!" The General then writes, "Those that made a desperate bid to falsify the achievements of the present government would regret the partisan view that they took." General, how does one falsify achievements? You are not suggesting that Professor Bayes broke into the office of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. Are you?

What are those achievements, General? Forget about the Awami League now. Let me tell you a story. A child returned from school and showed his math and English grade to his parents. He received 11 in English and 13 in math out of 100 in each subject. The parents started dancing because of their son's strength in mathematics.

No one takes any pleasure that the level of corruption is so deeply pervasive in Bangladesh that it maintained its lowest ranking in corruption for the fifth consecutive year. However, that is the only statistics one needs to know to see everything else inside out about a country; all other indices or statistics simply reinforce the notion about the country's economic, social and political health. For example, based on Freedom House's 2004 Legal System and Property Rights Index, rule of law index dipped from 5.0 to 3.2; judicial independence dipped from 3.7 to 3.2; impartial courts index dipped from 4.2 to 2.8; integrity of the legal system index dipped from 7.0 to 3.3. This degradation happened during the last five years and the meter is running for the worse. These and all other worsening statistics are discouraging FDI and straining relationships with WB, IMF and all development partners worldwide. No sir, I have absolutely no allegiance to any political party but to my place of birth.

Is there anything else you would like to know?