ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar arrived in Bangladesh on Saturday for the most senior visit by a Pakistani official to the country in years, in a sign of warming ties since the ouster of longtime leader Sheikh Hasina.
Dar’s visit follows months of increased contact between the two South Asian nations. Pakistan’s commerce minister Jam Kamal has been in Dhaka this week discussing trade and agricultural collaboration, while Pakistan’s foreign secretary Amna Baloch held the first bilateral consultations in 15 years in April.
Baloch’s visit covered political, economic, trade, agricultural, education and defense ties, as well as regional integration and a revival of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
“Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar, arrived in Dhaka today on a landmark official visit from 23–24 August 2025, at the invitation of the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh,” the foreign office said in a statement.
Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar arrives in Dhaka on August 23, 2025, on a two-day official visit to Bangladesh. (Handout/MoFA)
