A resilient state

Ms. Wallich's most recent behaviour takes the cake. First, she left the country because she received a threatening email and while leaving , she did Bangladesh a great service by giving us a tag of a country breeding Islamic fundamentalism. Now, she did us another service after coming back from her "flight to freedom" and calling us a fragile state, not a failed one! A country that has shown such resilience, as Julfia Hasan has mentioned in her letter, deserves more respect than what has been shown by this WB official. If a few blasts as we see in Bangladesh, none of which has any root in international terrorism, can lead Ms. Wallich to such criticism, what would her counterparts in Pakistan and India term those states where acts of terrorism are commonplace and are happening with greater frequency than here?

Readers have given opinion here and in other newspapers on un-diplomatic behaviour of diplomats in openly criticising the government and thereby embarrassing not just the government but the nation as well. In the past, the US showed such tendency which, given its superpower status, no one protested. However, in the aftermath of the August 21 blasts others are showing the same attitude. It is time the foreign ministry strictly enforced diplomatic norms.