If the language is too flawless and the writer unknown, if the nit-picking editor cannot put a single mark on the script, chances are that it is too good to be true.

While the country is reeling from the shock over Saturday's knife attack on Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, his nephew Nuhash Humayun is heartbroken as well.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday termed the attackers of Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal fanatics and urged all to keep their children away from militancy, terrorism and drug abuse.

A day after Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal survived a knife attack in Sylhet, counterterrorism officials said the youth who carried out it could be a member of banned militant outfit Ansar al Islam.