Journalist AAM Saleh, widely known as Saleh Shibly, has been fulfilling duties as Press Secretary to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman.

His appointment to the coveted post was announced through a notification issued by the Ministry of Public Administration on February 18, within a week of the BNP's resounding election victory. Saleh Shibly has long been handling key press and administrative responsibilities for Tarique Rahman, and is clearly trusted by the PM. He was made the chief of a BNP press coordination team formed on November 1 last year ahead of the election.

He began his journalism career as a campus reporter for the Daily Banglabazar while studying at Dhaka University. Although he joined journalism as a profession during his student life, he studied Public Administration at Dhaka University and completed his Master's degree in the subject.

Over the years, he gained experience across different branches of the media, working with our sister news agency United News of Bangladesh (UNB), the Daily Manab Zamin, Radio Today and Channel i.

During the tenure of the four-party alliance government (2001-6), he served as First Secretary (Press) at the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata, India.

Several of his articles on women's empowerment in Bangladesh were published in Asian Bridge, a magazine published by the Japan-based Kitakyushu Forum on Asian Women (KFAW).

During his stay abroad, he worked as Executive Editor of London-based Bengali-language television channel Channel S. At the same time, he earned a PhD degree focusing on media and public administration.

Shibly also served as a Non-Resident Fellow at the Australia-based political research organisation, the Sydney Policy and Analysis Centre (SPAC). He returned to Bangladesh on December 25 on the same flight as Tarique Rahman from the United Kingdom.

Saleh Shibly is the author of the book 'Tarique Rahmaner Nishiddha Bhashan' (The Forbidden Speeches of Tarique Rahman). He was also made a member of the BNP's central election steering committee for the 13th parliamentary election.