by Diplomatic Correspondent
News Text"
"There is no minority problem in Bangladesh", Foreign Minister M
Morshed
Khan told newsmen here yesterday when his attention was drawn to a news item
published in a Bengali Daily yesterday in which US Congressman Benjamin
Gillman suggested enactment of a specific law to ensure security of the
minority community in Bangladesh.
Gillman, Chairman of the South Asian Affairs Committee of the Congress and
also Co-chairman of the Bangladesh Caucus, gave the suggestion while
addressing an international seminar in New York on Monday. Bangladeshi
minority community in America organised the seminar.
The Foreign Minister said that in Bangladesh all citizens irrespective of
religion, caste and creed were treated equally and there was no religious
discrimination in the eye of law. Therefore, the question of enacting
particular law in this regard did not arise. He described Bangladesh as "a
land of absolute peace and communal harmony".
Morshed Khan also rejected the US Congressman's allegation that the members
of the minority community in Bangladesh were being tortured under the
shelter of the BNP-led four-party alliance government.