[3] On 12 March 2005, Shumi Khan, the Chittagong correspondent of the magazine, received threats from Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh.
This threat was issued after Shumi wrote an article that accused Shahjahan Chowdhury, a Member of Parliament from Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, of supporting terrorism.
[4] In 2007 the magazine published an autobiographical article by Daud Haider, a Bangladesh writer exiled in 1973 for criticising Islam.
[7][8] The Home Ministry secretary Abdul Karim criticised the publication of the article by the magazine.
The decision to close the magazine was taken by the publisher, Mahfuz Anam, due to falling revenue.