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India is hosting erstwhile Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, who killed young people, said Prof. Mohammed Yunus, Chief Adviser of the interim authorities of Bangladesh, connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025), connected the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s yearly league successful New York.
Speaking astatine an Asia Society speech that was moderated by Asia Society’s President and erstwhile Foreign Minister of South Korea, Kyung Wha Kang, Prof. Yunus blamed “one country” for the deficiency of question successful the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and said India did not similar the student-people movement that has led to the current downturn successful India-Bangladesh relation.
“We person problems with India close present due to the fact that of what the students person done. They are hosting Hasina, the erstwhile Prime Minister, who created each these problems and killed the young people, and that creates a batch of hostility betwixt India and Bangladesh. There is simply a batch of fake quality coming from the different broadside that these are Islamists and that they are Taliban,” said Prof. Yunus, referring to the governmental occupation that has been continuing since erstwhile Prime Minister Hasina fled to India connected August 5, 2024 aft her authorities was overthrown successful the student-people movement.
Mr. Yunus, who is travelling successful the United States for the UNGA’s yearly session, held a fig of meetings implicit the past fewer days and connected September 23 met with Sergio Gor, Special Envoy of U.S. President Donald Trump for South and Central Asia and raised the value of connecting Nepal, Bhutan, arsenic good arsenic India’s northeast.
He besides told Mr. Gor, who is besides the Ambassador-Designate of the United States for India, that Bangladesh has “intensified” efforts to restart the SAARC.
In his conversation, helium highlighted the value of SAARC successful the South Asian portion and said the grouping is important for aggregate reasons successful South Asia, similar education, concern and connectivity.
“You tin put successful Bangladesh. SAARC is made of precise adjacent household members. The full thought of SAARC was calved successful Bangladesh. We promoted this thought from superior to superior successful the South Asian region, promoting SAARC. Our past gives america the accidental but someway it did not acceptable into the authorities of 1 country. We consciousness precise atrocious for that,” said Chief Adviser Yunus.
The past SAARC acme was held successful Kathmandu successful November 2014. The adjacent acme was owed successful Islamabad, but India cancelled information successful the gathering aft a panic onslaught successful Uri. After India decided to retreat from the summit, citing “cross borderline terrorism” from Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan besides withdrew from the summit.
