A leading daily newspaper of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has highly appreciated Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her humane approach in the Rohingya issue, dubbing her as the "new star of the East".
"The Bangladesh Prime Minister is the new star of the East ... expressions has no better hero than her this week - for her compassion and empathy in opening the border to save thousands of fleeing Rohingya," noted journalist Allan Jacob wrote in an article in the Khaleej Times on Saturday,
"We should have featured Sheikh Hasina on these pages earlier, before despots, tyrants, shamed gurus, and other wannabe nobodies who became somebodies," he acknowledged in the article titled "Sheikh Hasina knows the art of compassion"
"But it's always nice to look at issues and personalities in hindsight, as is my wont. Let me also confess here that my original idea for this week's column revolved around a South Indian actor and his opportunistic pitch at political stardom, but I shifted gears when I realised the Bangladeshi Prime Minister was the new star of the East," Jacob wrote in the article in the longest running English language newspaper published in the UAE.
source – BSS