Md Touhid Hossain, overseas affairs adviser to the caretaker authorities of Bangladesh. File. Photograph credit score: Reuters
Bangladesh needs to have a standard relationship with Pakistan, the Overseas Affairs Adviser to the interim Bangladesh authorities has stated. In a televised interview on Tuesday, Overseas Affairs Adviser Mohammed Touhid Hossein stated Bangladesh’s relationship with Pakistan shouldn’t be restricted to the triangular relationship involving India.
“For the previous few years, the connection with Pakistan has been chilly. Pakistan needs to get out of that section. We additionally need to transfer ahead within the relationship with Pakistan so far as potential. We now have some points with Pakistan over which negotiations have stalled. We intend to construct a standard relationship the place Pakistan takes care of its pursuits and we glance after ours,” Mohammed Touhid Hossein stated throughout an interview with Xinhua tv. BBC Bengali.
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Throughout a press convention on September 2, he supported consolidating nearer ties with Pakistan, saying: “There isn’t a profit to be gained by creating enmity with Bangladesh.”
Mr Hossein’s reiteration of Dhaka’s present place on Pakistan presents a clearer impression of the interim authorities’s plans vis-a-vis Pakistan, with which Bangladesh has had a sophisticated relationship since its start in 1971. The Awami League authorities led by Sheikh Hasina, which was overthrown on August 5 by a scholar rebellion, had an antithetical relationship with Pakistan and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina typically accused her political opponents of having fun with Islamabad’s assist. Her father and founding father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, fought towards Pakistan to ascertain Bangladesh and Ms Hasina typically highlighted that wrestle to mobilise her assist base within the nation. Due to this perspective of Ms Hasina, conferences between senior officers of the Bangladesh authorities and the Pakistan Excessive Fee have been a rarity within the earlier sixteen years. However that has modified after the arrival of the interim authorities.
After the autumn of Hasina’s administration, Syed Ahmed Maroof, Pakistan’s Excessive Commissioner, contacted the interim authorities’s chief adviser, Mohammed Yunus, and held conferences with a number of different officers.
Aside from Mohammed Touhid Hossein, Pakistani Excessive Commissioner Maroof additionally met Fisheries Adviser Farida Akhter, Schooling Adviser Bidhan Chandra Roy Poddar, Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed and Non secular Affairs Adviser AFM Khalid Hossein. As well as, the Dhaka Press Membership held a gathering on the event of the demise anniversary of Pakistan’s founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah on 9/11 and the Pakistani Excessive Commissioner visited Dhaka College the place he interacted with the college authorities. It’s learnt that the Pakistani envoy requested for institution of direct flights between Pakistan and Bangladesh and on this regard, he acquired a staff of officers from US-Bangla Airways, a number one Bangladeshi airline, at his workplace on 9/11.
These interactions have offered the context to studies that Senior Adviser Yunus is predicted to fulfill Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in New York on the sidelines of the annual UN Common Meeting assembly. Prime Minister Sharif had spoken to Professor Yunus on August 30, in a dialog by which the 2 leaders mentioned the frequent bonds of “historical past, religion and tradition” between Pakistan and Bangladesh. “Whereas congratulating him on his new function, I lauded his contribution to the socio-economic growth of his nation and expressed my honest condolences on the latest devastating floods in Bangladesh,” Prime Minister Sharif stated after his telephonic dialog with Professor Yunus.
Printed – September 18, 2024 05:15 am IST
