US EditionDar Hold Talks with Bangladesh FM Adviser in Dhaka
The visit includes signing six agreements to enhance trade, culture, education, and visa facilitation, reflecting renewed commitment to cooperation after 13 years of limited engagement.
- On Saturday, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar began a landmark two-day visit beginning August 23, 2025 to Dhaka, Bangladesh to rebuild ties and discuss economic cooperation.
- The political changeover prompted renewed engagement after Sheikh Hasina's ouster, as bilateral ties strained under her Awami League and Dhaka leaned toward New Delhi in recent years.
- During the visit, officials signed one agreement and five MoUs, including a visa abolition for diplomatic and official passport holders and cooperation between Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha and Associated Press of Pakistan.
- The visit accelerated connectivity steps, including direct sea trade, plans for direct Dhaka–Karachi flights, and Pakistan's soon-to-launch Pakistan-Bangladesh Knowledge Corridor offering 500 scholarships; bilateral trade reached $865 million in FY 2024–25.
- On the outstanding 1971 matters, Ishaq Dar said, `The unresolved issues, including seeking apology, were first resolved in 1974 and then when President Pervez Musharraf came here in the early 2000s,' while Md. Touhid Hossain said, `We have raised all three unresolved issues, and they have presented theirs.
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Apology first: Bangladesh presses Pak on 1971 atrocities in bilateral talks - The Tribune
Bangladesh has pressed Pakistan to offer a formal apology for the atrocities committed during the 1971 Liberation War, alongside the resolution of other long-standing issues, as the two countries seek to rebuild relations on a stronger footing.
Pakistan, Bangladesh resolve to revive ‘old connections,’ enhance
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Bangladesh have resolved to revive their “old connections” and enhance trade and youth linkages, the Pakistani foreign office said on Sunday, following Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar’s meeting with Bangladesh’s chief adviser Muhammad Yunus in Dhaka. Dar arrived in Bangladesh on a high-profile visit on Saturday in a bid to reset relations,
Bangladesh and Pakistan bolster ties but war apology ‘unresolved’
Bangladesh and Pakistan, once bitter enemies after they split in 1971, agreed Sunday to bolster long-strained relations, including increasing trade. But Dhaka said a key issue, of wanting an apology from Islamabad for atrocities during the war when East Pakistan broke away to form Bangladesh, remained "unresolved". "The scope and possibility of doing good for
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