BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, along with a group of top party officials, sat down with Pakistan’s visiting Deputy PM Ishaq Dar on Saturday evening.
The meeting took place around 6:30 p.m. at the Pakistan High Commission. According to a BNP media source, they spoke for about an hour on the relationship between Bangladesh and Pakistan. Afterward, the BNP kept quiet, releasing no official statement on what was discussed.
Before meeting with the BNP delegation, Dar also held separate discussions with leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami and the National Citizen Party.
The Pakistani deputy prime minister is expected to meet BNP Chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan residence, “Feroza,” on Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m., Sayrul added.
Dar flew into Dhaka on Saturday for a two-day visit and was met at the airport by Foreign Secretary Asad Alam Siam. This trip is all about Pakistan’s goal of strengthening its relationships in South Asia.
And while the conversations themselves were private, the meetings with Bangladeshi opposition parties tell their own story—Pakistan wants to talk to everyone, not just the people currently in power.
