09/01/2021
Pakistan 🇵🇰 has all restrictions on visas for Bangladeshi 🇧🇩 citizens, a move being seen as an ice 💣 in the Frosty Relations between the two Muslim majority countries in South Asia.
Pakistan has already all Restrictions on Pakistani visas for Bangladeshi citizens, said a statement by the Pakistan High Commission in Bangladesh after a meeting 🤝 between Pakistani High Commissioner Imran Ahmed Siddiqui & Bangladesh’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam.
The two sides agreed to intensify Bilateral at all Levels, the statement added.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency after the meeting, Siddiqui said Pakistan is for the same Response from the Bangladeshi side.
Bangladesh’s Restrictions 🛑 on Pakistani nationals are in Place, and that is why I informed the state minister that we have already Lifted All Bars from our side, he said.
Bangladesh, East Pakistan, Gained independence after a Bloody war in 1971 over popular resentment against Power being concentrated in West Pakistan.
Bilateral relations between the two Nations have remained ⚠️ since, but Reached a peak in 2009 when Bangladesh established a tribunal to those accused of war crimes in 1971.
India 🇮🇳, Pakistan’s Regional Rival, had the Bangladeshi Fighters for independence.
But analysts say Bangladesh 🇧🇩 began seeking relations with Pakistan 🇵🇰 over India’s Partial attitude recently, including monopoly control over shared Rivers, of unarmed Bangladeshi civilians on the Borders & the passing of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act.
In July last year, Pakistani PM Imran Khan made a Rare Phone call 📞 to his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina as Dhaka declared pursuing a foreign policy of to all & malice to None.
On Thursday, the Pakistani envoy also called on Hasina and Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen in Dhaka and Reportedly various bilateral issues.
⚠️ from Pakistan : Alam also urged Pakistan 🇵🇰 to offer an Apology “for the Genocide committed in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971”.