Pakistan鈥檚 deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar is scheduled to come to Bangladesh on April 27 on a two-day visit.
Before the high-level visit, the foreign secretary of Pakistan, Amna Baloch, is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka today to lead her delegation at the Foreign Office Consultation to be held on April 17 with her Bangladesh counterpart Md Jashim Uddin, officials in Dhaka confirmed on Tuesday.
The foreign-secretary level talks between Dhaka and Islamabad is going to be held after 15 years, according to officials.
Talking to reporters, foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on April 8 at the ministry confirmed that Pakistan鈥檚 deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar would pay an official visit this month, saying that specific date of the visit would be finalised in聽 a couple of days.聽
Asked about the issues to be discussed during the visit, Touhid, also a retired diplomat, said that they would discuss all aspects of the bilateral relations between the two countries.
Ishaq Dar鈥檚 upcoming visit to Bangladesh will be the first visit by a Pakistani foreign minister since 2012.
The last FOC between Bangladesh and Pakistan was held in 2010 in Islamabad.
Both Dhaka and Islamabad appeared keen on enhancing their bilateral relations after the interim government led by Professor Muhammad Yunus took over last year following the fall of Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising bringing an end to her 15-year autocratic regime.聽
Bangladesh on several occasions in the past urged Pakistan to offer a formal apology for the atrocities committed against unarmed Bangladeshis in the War of Independence in 1971.
