Incumbent Foreign Secretary Asad Alam Siam has been reported as Dhaka’s pick for High Commissioner to India. However, India is yet to give its go-ahead, as required under protocol.
Closer to India’s borders, the BRICS conversation is driven less by the grouping itself than by FOMO—Fear of Missing Out and bilateral angst—over access, exclusion and unresolved tensions with New Delhi.
To deflect public attention from crippling domestic concerns, Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman seems to have fanned anti-India sentiment within his country.
The problem for Pakistan is going to be one of strategic overstretch, considering its military already remains heavily oriented toward India while simultaneously dealing with instability and militancy along its western frontier.
Tarique Rahman wants India to hand over Sheikh Hasina so that his radical non-state actors can carry out their unfinished job from 2004 — eliminating the opposition.
On PM Tarique Rahman possibly visiting India, he said ‘there is no justification for rushing into a top-level visit by going beyond the national interest’.
Ties are at a tense crossroads. Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman, as ThePrint exclusively reported, has ‘no plans’ of undertaking bilateral visit to India & is set to skip BRICS summit too.
Dhaka wants Delhi to move beyond ‘symbolic outreach’. The thinking in Dhaka is that any fresh initiative will have to come from Delhi, possibly with a visit by PM Modi.
Repeated changes in cotton import duty have prioritised textile competitiveness when mills face high input costs. But policy can also put pressure on farmgate prices.
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