Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid has refused to come to Pakistan despite being invited in an eight-nation summit on November 22 in Islamabad next week, officials said on Tuesday.
“The prime minister is not going to attend the summit,” Syed Masud Khundoker, a director-general in Bangladesh’s foreign ministry, told AFP.
However, the country’s Foreign Minister Dipu Moni would instead join the summit, an official in Hasina’s office told the news agency requesting anonymity.
But it remained unclear why the prime minister turned down Pakistan’s invitation.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani invited Hasina in person last Friday on a rare visit to Bangladesh by a senior Pakistani.
During Rabbani’s visit, Bangladesh foreign minister asked Pakistan to apologise for war crimes committed by the army, for what they termed as “genocide”.
Hasina’s government says up to three million people were killed in the conflict.
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