Strengthening ties
December 17, 2020
The Pakistan-Bangladesh relationship, which was strained following the execution of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leaders who sided with Pakistan in the 1971 war of independence, is gradually showing an upward trend these days. The telephonic contact between the prime ministers of the two countries in July this year broke the ice. The recent meeting between the Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid and Pakistani High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Ahmed Siddiqui was hopefully a sign of thaw in the otherwise frosty relations between the two countries. The Bangladeshi premier assured the Pakistani envoy that Bangladesh would take steps to strengthen the fraternal ties and enhance and boost bilateral cooperation with Pakistan in diverse fields. The relations between the two countries may not be restored completely, and the trust deficit between them will continue to exist. The incumbent Hasina-led government still demands that Pakistan offe
The writer Shazia Cheema is an analyst writing for national and international media outlets including Pakistan Observer, Eurasia Diary, InSight, and Mina News Agency. She heads the Thought Center of Dispatch News Desk (DND). She did her MA in Cognitive Semiotics from Aarhus University Denmark and is currently registered as a Ph.D. Scholar of Semiotics and Philosophy of Communication at Charles University Prague. She can be reached at her: Twitter @ShaziaAnwerCh Email: shaziaanwer@yahoo.com
Prof Shazia Cheema
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