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He worked as a staff correspondent of The Bangladesh Observer , the country's main English-language daily at the time. He later served as assistant editor of The Bangladesh Times. They secured funding from investors Azimur Rahman, A. Mahmud, Latifur Rahman , A. Rouf Chowdhury and Shamsur Rahman. It started in the 80s, with the frantic exchange of letters between S.

The plan was that he would retire, in , and I would resign, in , and both of us would return to Bangladesh and launch our paper. The two-year advance presence of Ali Bhai coupled with my frequent visits from Bangkok, sometimes once every month, gave us the chance to finalise investments with Mahmud Bhai [A S Mahmud], our founding managing director, acting as the catalyst , finalise our plans for the paper, wrap up major recruitments, rent the premises, and most importantly, get the 'declaration'—the official permission to start a newspaper".

The Daily Star was founded during Bangladesh's transition to parliamentary democracy in The period coincided with economic liberalization reforms. The newspaper quickly gained popularity in the capital Dhaka and the port city of Chittagong. It became the largest circulating English-language daily in the country, out-beating rivals like The Bangladesh Observer and Holiday.

Its editorial views became highly influential. It emerged as a symbol of Bangladesh's outspoken, diverse and privately owned press which flourished between and the late s. It was launched as Bangladesh returned to parliamentary democracy a quarter of a century ago, and has always had a reputation for journalistic integrity and liberal and progressive views — a kind of Bangladeshi New York Times ".

Ali's death in , Anam began leading the journalistic operations of the newspaper. The newspaper's parent company Mediaworld Ltd appointed Anam as publisher in Anam worked closely with Syed Fahim Munaim , who was the newspaper's Managing Editor and responsible for revenue matters. Anam has been described as a libertarian. Anam became a fierce critic of both Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia on issues like parliament boycotts, corruption and human rights abuses.

Anam's economic views have been generally pro-free market but he has been criticized for ignoring the Awami League's socialist past and censoring Bangladesh's history of free market reforms between and During the s, Anam interviewed key political figures, including erstwhile Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina. When the Awami League was elected in , Anam wrote that "those who once considered us their favourite felt outraged and betrayed", with AL leaders lodging complaints about Anam to the director of the company.

Anam's lawyer was Kamal Hossain. Anam was also found to be in contempt of court for reporting that a recently appointed judge had falsified his academic credentials; the court action had been filed by the judge's father. During the — Bangladeshi political crisis , Anam openly criticized the army chief despite restrictions on press freedom under a state of emergency.

In response to General Moeen U Ahmed 's suggestions for a Bangladeshi brand of democracy, Anam wrote "On the questions of the Chief of Army Staff's idea of 'having our own brand of democracy' we want to point out that our first brush with a General in politics was with Ayub Khan back in and he wanted to 'reinvent democracy according to the genius of the people' and we ended up having 'basic democracy' that was thoroughly rejected by our people, though it took a while.

Much later in Pakistan came General Zia-ul-Huq who also wanted to redefine democracy. His was quite a clever ploy and very original. In order to deprive the Pakistanis of exercising their right to elect a government Zia said 'I cannot accept democracy where sovereignty belongs to the people. In my book sovereignty only belongs to Allah'.

So Zia-ul-Huq ran Pakistan under his personal fiat, as accepting the sovereignty of the people was against his belief. Ask any Pakistani for the great and irreparable damage he had caused to their country". Anam's article was written amid fears of a direct military takeover in Bangladesh; the army chief later ruled out any possibility of grabbing power.

One of Anam's most influential articles was "This is no way to strengthen democracy", [ 26 ] which he wrote in response to Sheikh Hasina's detention by the military-backed caretaker government in But what do we do when we receive reports from our correspondents that district administrators are making lists of so-called clean politicians and that many of them are being visited by the powers that be goading them to join the new so-called king's party?

What do we do when senior leaders of both the BNP and the AL tell us of powerful visitors asking them to move against their party leaders or face corruption charges? We would like to strongly suggest that this is no way to strengthen democracy. Just as ' command economy ' failed so will 'command politics'. The core of democracy is people's right to choose their leaders and those who will represent them in the government".

Anam is traditionally seen as a defender of the values of democracy which inspired Bangladesh's independence movement. Anam was involved in creating a citizens' platform with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. During Sheikh Hasina's authoritarian premiership from to , Anam faced as many as 83 lawsuits, including 68 counts of criminal defamation and claims worth millions of dollars; as well as 16 sedition cases.

Anam criticized the Awami League for fascism after the fall of Sheikh Hasina. We always supported democracy and free and fair election. We strongly opposed the abolition of the caretaker government system and wrote editorials and post-editorials criticising the move. On 2nd July , after the abolition of the caretaker government system, we wrote -- may be the only paper doing so -- an editorial titled "It's a mistake".

We opposed the 15th amendment and various provisions incorporated in it. When BNP decided to boycott the election, we urged the government to postpone the polls to allow more dialogue to have BNP and Jamaat participate. We strongly criticised the election of , editorially stating that it was "All for an empty victory" and that an election that produces uncontested MPs of a house of members cannot but be a sham.

We again criticised the ruling party for the absence of a level playing field in The election was totally one-sided and not one that can be accepted as an expression of public will. We questioned the role of the Election Commission in all three elections. We never gave any element of credibility to these controversial and clearly questionable elections.

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