Bangladesh PM Rahman’s India Visit still uncertain amid Hasina extradition row

Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's office remarked on Friday that Dhaka had yet to decide on his proposed visit to India.

Key points

• It remarked weeks of diplomatic discussions over a potential bilateral visit had been severely disrupted and complicated by Hasina's virtual press conference on August 5, 2026.
• "No decision has been made yet on his India visit, " the prime minister's Press Secretary AAM Saleh Shibly informed PTI.
• She has been living in India since fleeing Dhaka on August 5 that year.
• On Monday, Trivedi remarked the Bangladesh premier's visit to India should take place much sooner despite "our differences".
• "There is no justification for rushing into a top-level visit by going beyond the national interest, " Kobir remarked.

He remarked Bangladesh was awaiting New Delhi's response to its request for the extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and "other fugitive criminals" at present staying in India.

Shibly's comments came a day after the state-run BSS news agency quoted the premier's foreign affairs adviser Humayun Kobir as saying that Dhaka was in "no hurry to arrange a top-level visit without clearly defined national interests".

Bangladesh notes PM Tarique Rahman will visit India only after 'conducive environment' created for Hasina's extradition In recent weeks, Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Trivedi has held a series of meetings with Bangladesh's top political leadership, including Prime Minister Rahman, underscoring the need to create a conducive environment for further advancing bilateral ties.

"Issues can only be sorted out by meeting, and I am very hopeful, " Trivedi remarked at a dinner hosted in his honour by the honorary consul general of a European country.

Bangladesh's foreign ministry had earlier remarked Dhaka wanted a "favourable and propitious environment" before any top-level visit.

It remarked weeks of diplomatic discussions over a potential bilateral visit had been severely disrupted and complicated by Hasina's virtual press conference on August 5, 2026. Hasina, 78, was ousted from power in August 2024 after violent student-led protests.

Meanwhile, the subsequent interim regime led by Muhammad Yunus tried Hasina in absentia before a special tribunal and sentenced her to death for ordering a deadly crackdown to suppress the protests.

On Friday, Leader of the Opposition and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman remarked the prime minister could visit any country, including India, but that such visits should be based on "equality, mutual respect and friendship".

"The individuals of this country will no longer accept anyone's hegemony. They want relations with India based on friendship, mutual respect and equality, " he informed a conference of party leaders in Rajshahi in northwestern Bangladesh.

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