Meanwhile, it is evident that the interim government’s tenure saw the Election Commission mired in controversy because of its attempts at political engineering, trying desperately to fuel a split in the BNP, in vain. While Fakhruddin Ahmed repeatedly claimed to his international backers that his government had painstakingly allowed the media to exercise freedom, media intimidation and the threat of violence against journalists were one of the defining characteristics of the past two years of governance. Palace intrigues were common, and by the end of the first few months, it had dawned on all but the dullest of political observers that the civilian cabinet was a useful front for the real decision makers in the cantonment, whose intentions were far from evident.
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