The editorial warned that journalists would suffer public humiliation if they continue to write about Galib, terming recent reports as character assassination. "Be worshipers of truth and do not write against another's character.

Otherwise, the day is not far when people will throw you to the dustbin like rubbish," it read.

The monthly was published at a time when its editorial chairman, Galib, remains arrested with his documents seized, while its editor Muhammad Shakhawat Hussain and assistant editor Kabirul Islam have fled and its authority remains closed.

Meanwhile, the investigating officials at the joint interrogation cell in Dhaka apparently failed to get any new information from Galib even though seven days of Galib's 10-day remand have already expired.

"There is no significant development today," a top official of an intelligence agency, involved in quizzing Galib and others, replayed his Friday's comment yesterday.

In its Internet edition, the Bengali monthly published an English version of its editorial, under the title 'Lying (falsehood) and journalism'.

It read, "Foreign radios and almost all Bengali and English newspapers, but a few of Islami ideals in the country run reports linking Prof Dr Galib and Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh with militants are false, baseless, intentional and quite laugh provoking [sic]," the editorial starts.