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'Bangladesh will stay beside India because the two countries are
friends and India provides support to Bangladesh in different
issues'
Bangladesh will stand beside India if it comes under any attack,
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told reporters on Tuesday
when asked where Bangladesh stood in the ongoing conflict
between India and Pakistan.
The unrest between two countries began when a militant attack
took place on an army base at Uri in India-controlled Kashmir on
September 22. India claimed to have conducted an anti-militant
drive in Pakistan on September 29, which Pakistan denied
vehemently.
Troops of both the Indian and the Pakistan Armies have been on
standby at the border in Kashmir, exchanging gunfire on a number
of occasion.
Speaking with reporters at his office in the Secretariat, Kamal said
he was first asked about Bangladesh’s position by Indian journalists.
“I told them that Bangladesh would stand beside India if it was
attacked, because the two neighbouring countries are friends and
India has always provided support to Bangladesh on several
occasions and in different issues.”
Asked if Bangladesh was taking any preparation in this regard, he
said: “We do not share a border with Pakistan, and their land
territory is 1,200 miles away from us. What they do does not
affect us.
“We [Bangladesh] defeated them and sent them back in 1971; we
don’t need to think about them any further,” he said.
'Bangladesh will stay beside India because the two countries are
friends and India provides support to Bangladesh in different
issues'
Bangladesh will stand beside India if it comes under any attack,
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told reporters on Tuesday
when asked where Bangladesh stood in the ongoing conflict
between India and Pakistan.
The unrest between two countries began when a militant attack
took place on an army base at Uri in India-controlled Kashmir on
September 22. India claimed to have conducted an anti-militant
drive in Pakistan on September 29, which Pakistan denied
vehemently.
Troops of both the Indian and the Pakistan Armies have been on
standby at the border in Kashmir, exchanging gunfire on a number
of occasion.
Speaking with reporters at his office in the Secretariat, Kamal said
he was first asked about Bangladesh’s position by Indian journalists.
“I told them that Bangladesh would stand beside India if it was
attacked, because the two neighbouring countries are friends and
India has always provided support to Bangladesh on several
occasions and in different issues.”
Asked if Bangladesh was taking any preparation in this regard, he
said: “We do not share a border with Pakistan, and their land
territory is 1,200 miles away from us. What they do does not
affect us.
“We [Bangladesh] defeated them and sent them back in 1971; we
don’t need to think about them any further,” he said.