The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam on Thursday issued a statement clarifying his position regarding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's remark on him on Wednesday centring on the Padma Bridge.
The veteran journalist’s statement read: “Yesterday, Wednesday, 18th May, during her speech marking her homecoming from exile, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made a reference to me and said, “… Dr Yunus—and we have heard that Mahfuz Anam—they went to America, went to the State Department and sent an email to Hillary (Clinton). Anyway the World Bank president, on his last working day, not in any board meeting, stopped the funding of the Padma Bridge”.
Mahfuz Anam categorically stated that he had made no such trip to the US, never visited the State Department, never sent any email to Hillary Clinton, never had any meeting or communication in any form with the World Bank president in any matter directly or indirectly connected with the Padma Bridge funding or any issue relating to the Padma Bridge either in Washington or in any other place or in any other city of the world.
“I respectfully and humbly state that comments made about me are not founded on facts,” he added.