Major General Abdul Quayyum Mollah has been in a somewhat precarious position ever since he was appointed head of Bangladesh's own "NSA", the National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC), just a few weeks ago. His predecessor, General Ziaul Ahsan, was arrested on 6 August at Dhaka airport as he tried to flee the country after the "July Revolution" that ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Since taking up the job, Mollah has had to tread carefully among the pitfalls created by the plethora of