"Greatest Strategic Challenge Since 1971": S Tharoor-Led Panel On Bangladesh

Evolving situation in Bangladesh poses 'greatest strategic challenge' for India since 1971: Tharoor-led panel

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs led by Shashi Tharoor on Thursday warned that the evolving political situation in Bangladesh poses ‘greatest strategic challenge’ for India since the Liberation war of 1971 and added that even as the situation "will not descend into chaos and anarchy", India needs to be careful in handling it. The committee said, "While the challenge in 1971 was existential, a humanitarian and a birth of a…

"Greatest Strategic Challenge Since 1971": S Tharoor-Led Panel On Bangladesh

The current situation in Bangladesh poses the "greatest strategic challenge" for India since the Liberation war of 1971, said a parliamentary committee headed by Congress's Shashi Tharoor.

Parliamentary panel urges Centre to make ‘stable’ relation with Bangladesh: Shashi Tharoor

Tharoor, who is also the chairman of the panel, said: ‘I am very disappointed by this news coming from Bangladesh. The Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament just issued a report in which we urged the government to engage constructively with the government of Bangladesh and try to move relations to a stable level’

Current situation in Bangladesh complex and evolving: Par panel

New Delhi, Dec 18 (PTI) The current situation in Bangladesh is "complex and evolving", a parliamentary committee on external affairs has said. The Ministry of External Affairs informed the panel that the government "remains concerned" about the attacks on minorities in Bangladesh. The committee in its report titled 'Future of India-Bangladesh Relationship' has also said that with regard to the impact of recent political developments on broader b…