DHAKA: Bangladesh seeks to increase trade and economic cooperation with Pakistan, the office of Chief Adviser Prof. Muhammad Yunus said on Saturday as Dhaka began hosting Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar in the highest-level trip from Islamabad in years.
Dar’s two-day visit to Bangladesh will include meetings with Yunus and Touhid Hossain, the country’s adviser for foreign affairs, with discussions expected to cover bilateral relations as well as regional and international issues.
“During the visit of the Pakistan deputy prime minister, Bangladesh will focus on increasing bilateral trade and commerce and economic cooperation,” Azad Majumder, Yunus’ deputy press secretary, told Arab News on Saturday.
Dar’s trip follows Yunus’ meetings with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif over the past year. The two have met twice since Yunus took office last August, after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted in a student-led uprising.
The leaders met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in September, and then again during the D-8 Summit in Cairo in December.
