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Pakistan’s Navy Chief Admiral Naveed Ashraf connected Sunday (November 9, 2025) met Bangladesh’s Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman and held talks with his counterpart Admiral M. Nazmul Hassan, during his sojourn to bolster bilateral defence ties, according to an authoritative statement.
“They (Ashraf and Zaman) discussed ways to fortify bilateral defence practice and subject capabilities. They besides discussed prospects of expanded subject practice done bilateral training, seminars, and visits,” Defence Ministry’s Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) directorate oregon media helping said successful a statement.
The four-day sojourn came a time aft a Pakistani naval ship, PNS SAIF, anchored disconnected Bangladesh’s main larboard successful southeastern Chattogram for a four-day goodwill visit.
Pakistan Navy, said successful a statement, the improvement is simply a coordinated engagement that underscored Islamabad’s “commitment to fortify longstanding ties and amended maritime collaboration with Bangladesh”.
Earlier successful the day, Hassan received his Pakistani counterpart astatine the airport, wherever a Bangladeshi naval contingent offered him an honour guard. Ashraf paid homage to the 1971 Liberation War martyrs of the equipped forces, placing wreaths astatine their memorial, Shikha Anirban, successful Dhaka Cantonment.
The ISPR said the 2 navy chiefs’ gathering featured matters related to grooming and nonrecreational collaboration. The gathering was besides attended by visiting Pakistani navy delegation members, its precocious commissioner successful Dhaka and elder Bangladeshi navy officers.
Mr. Ashraf’s Bangladesh sojourn came 2 weeks aft Pakistan’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) president General Sahir Shamshad Mirza visited Bangladesh and met interim Government Chief Muhammad Yunus and 3 equipped forces chiefs.
Bangladesh-Pakistan ties witnessed a accelerated improvement aft the ouster of deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League authorities connected August 5, 2024, successful a student-led thoroughfare protestation called the July Uprising, which installed Mr. Yunus arsenic the caput of the interim administration.
According to ISPR, the Pakistan Navy Chief is scheduled to conscionable Bangladesh’s Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal Hasan Mahmood Khan and the main unit serviceman of the Armed Forces Division, the commandant of the National Defence College, and naval administrative authorities successful the southwestern larboard metropolis of Chattogram.
