Bangladesh home minister to skip BIMSTEC meet in India amid strained ties
Dhaka will send a senior bureaucrat as tensions with India persist over Sheikh Hasina’s presence and extradition request, officials said.
- Bangladesh Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed will not attend the inaugural Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation home ministers meeting in New Delhi starting Monday. Home Affairs Senior Secretary Manzur Morshed Chowdhury will lead the Bangladeshi delegation instead.
- Ahmed's absence occurs amid strained India-Bangladesh ties following the August 2024 ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina's presence in India and Dhaka's extradition request remain major points of contention between the two countries.
- BIMSTEC aims to strengthen security and economic cooperation across South and Southeast Asia. The inaugural ministerial meeting follows a joint working group session held on September 28-29, 2026.
- Last month, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman skipped an outreach session of the BRICS summit in New Delhi. Bangladesh's foreign ministry stated the atmosphere for such visits had been "vitiated" by Hasina's virtual press interaction.
- Member states will convene on Tuesday to address regional security, though the decision to send a bureaucrat instead of a minister from Dhaka signals a cooling in high-level bilateral engagement. Bangladesh assumed BIMSTEC chairmanship in April 2025.
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Bangladesh home minister to skip BIMSTEC meet in India amid strained ties
Bangladesh home minister to skip BIMSTEC meet in India amid strained ties
Dhaka: Bangladesh Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has left the first BIMSTEC Home Ministers' meeting in New Delhi amid strained relations between India and Bangladesh.
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