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Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday reiterated his government’s firm stance on press freedom.

He made the remark at a meeting with members of the Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) at the Public Administration meeting room of the Cabinet Division at the Bangladesh Secretariat, said the prime minister’s additional press secretary, Atikur Rahman Ruman, according to a BSS report.

Tarique, also chairman of the ruling BNP, said he regularly reads newspapers and watches television, This

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