After decades of tense relations, Dhaka said Tuesday that Pakistan and Bangladesh had resumed direct government-to-government trade with imports of 50,000 tons of rice.
The most recent development occurs months after Sheikh Hasina, the longtime prime minister of Bangladesh, was overthrown in a revolution in August 2024 and fled by helicopter to her former ally, India, where she has refused extradition requests and is being charged with crimes against humanity.
Since then, relations between India and the new administration in Bangladesh have remained chilly, allowing Islamabad and Dhaka to gradually mend fences.
When a container ship sailed from Karachi to Chittagong, Bangladesh, in November 2024, direct private trade between the two nations resumed.
It was the first freight ship to travel straight between the two nations in decades.
