fateh became a casualty of bangladesh's complex and shifting political landscape towards the end of his career. as he was closely identified with bangladesh's initial, liberation war era administration fateh was not favoured by the military-backed regimes which followed it. contemporary historians have characterised his ambassadorial assignment to algeria as a premature transfer and a virtual exile in a diplomatic post which was a relative back-water. one commentator voicing the widely held belief that fateh was "a victim of conspiracy hatched against him by anti-liberation forces.