Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch arrived in Bangladesh on Wednesday (April 16, 2025) to hold the Foreign Office Consultation (FOC) on Thursday (April 17, 2025) after a niche of 15 years.
A Bangladesh Foreign Ministry spokesman stated that the Director General of the South Asia Wing, Ishrat Jahan, welcomed Ms. Baloch upon arrival at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
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Ms. Baloch will hold talks together with her Bangladesh counterpart M. Jashim Uddin on the state visitor home ‘Padma’ on Thursday (April 17, 2025).
Officials conversant in the matter stated no particular agenda was fastened for the talks as all areas of mutual curiosity had been probably to be coated throughout the dialogue.
“After such a long hiatus, it is difficult to prioritize topics in advance, but the talks will be comprehensive,” a foreign office spokesman stated on Tuesday (April 15, 2025).
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The final FOC between Bangladesh and Pakistan was held in 2010.
Ms. Baloch will even pay courtesy calls on interim authorities Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus and Foreign Affairs Adviser M. Touhid Hossain following the FOC.
Dhaka-Islamabad relations had been on the lowest ebb throughout the deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s regime, significantly since 2010 when Dhaka initiated the trial of hardened collaborators of Pakistani troops throughout Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War.
However, the ties took a optimistic course since Mr. Yunus’ interim authorities assumed energy after the ouster of Ms. Hasina in a student-led rebellion on August 5 final 12 months.
The foreign secretary-level assembly is being held forward of the deliberate go to of deputy Prime Minister and foreign Minister Ishaq Dar to Dhaka later this month, which would be the maiden go to by a Pakistani foreign Minister since 2012.
