Bangladesh

Bangladesh and Pakistan officially begin meeting at the foreign ministerial level, photo: Collected A meeting is currently underway between Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain and Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar at Hotel Sonargaon in Dhaka. Dar arrived in the Bangladeshi capital on Saturday for a two-day official visit at the invitation of the government of ...

A high-level delegation of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami met with Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday afternoon during his ongoing official visit to Dhaka. The meeting took place at the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka at around 4:45 PM and was led by Jamaat-e-Islami’s Nayeb-e-Ameer (Vice Chairman) Abdullah Muhammad Taher. The delegation included prominent party leaders: Dr. ...

The Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP) has called for unresolved issues from the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War to be addressed as a prerequisite for improving relations between Bangladesh and Pakistan. The appeal came during a meeting with Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Muhammad Ishaq Dar, who is visiting Dhaka. The meeting, held on Saturday evening at Pakistan High Commission ...

Akhtar Hossain, member secretary of the Jatiya Nagorik Party (NCP), has said that they will not participate in any upcoming national elections unless a new constitution is adopted. Speaking at a press conference held at the party’s temporary central office at Bangla Motor in Dhaka on Saturday, Akhtar emphasized that holding elections under the existing constitutional framework would undermine democratic ...

Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has said that strict steps will be taken to prevent entering any kind of weapons in the country, not only during the election period, but also at other times. Jahangir Alam, also the adviser of the ministry of agriculture, made the remark while responding to reporters’ queries after visiting the Bangladesh ...

Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar arrived in Dhaka on Saturday afternoon for a two-day official visit. He landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka via a special flight, where he was received by Foreign Ministry Secretary Asad Al Siam. During his visit, Ishaq Dar is scheduled to meet with Bangladesh’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Tawhid Hossain, ...

BNP Standing Committee member Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has said that democracy cannot flourish without political democracy, economic democracy and freedom of expression. ”Forming a government simply by voting will not create democracy.” He said their party will form a commission to ensure free and transparent journalism if it returns to power. Speaking at a seminar at Dhaka Reporters Unity ...

An autopsy conducted on the body of journalist Bibhuranjan Sarkar has revealed no signs of external or internal injuries, leading to new questions about the circumstances of his death. The post-mortem was conducted at Munshiganj General Hospital on Saturday around 11:30 AM in the presence of police and family members. Dr Sheikh Md Ehsanul Islam, residential medical officer (RMO) of ...

Shariful M Khan has become the first Bangladeshi-origin officer to rise to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States military. He was promoted to the rank at a ceremony at the Pentagon on August 20, according to M Osman Siddique, the first Muslim to serve as a US ambassador. The oath was administered by Gen Sean Bratton, vice ...

An eight-member delegation from the National Citizens Party (NCP) is set to visit China next week, continuing a series of high-level diplomatic engagements by Bangladeshi political parties with Chinese leadership. Led by NCP Convener Nahid Islam, the delegation will depart for China on Tuesday, 26 August 2025, following a brief official trip to Malaysia from 22 to 24 August. In ...