....patting own arse.
"VognoDuut167" <dawn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Pakistan visit fruitful
> Says foreign adviser
> Unb, Dhaka
>
>
> Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury has described his two-day visit to
Pakistan
> as 'most fruitful'.
>
> "Mine was mainly a goodwill mission after the transition in
Pakistan.
> I was most warmly received at every level of government and also by the
> media and Pakistani society," he told newsmen on Friday prior to his
> departure from Islamabad for Oman.
>
> Iftekhar mentioned that he met with President Pervez Musharraf,
Prime
> Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah
Mahmood
> Qureshi, Commerce Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Information Minister
> Sherry Rehman.
>
> "Besides, I also had a rewarding session with PPP (Pakistan
People's
> Party) Co-Chair Asif Ali Zardari. All these meetings deepened our mutual
> understanding and widened our relationship," he said.
>
> The foreign adviser said, "Bangladesh sees Pakistan as a very
> important player in the region. It is our wish to develop our ties, as a
> part of our foreign policy thrust to build relations with Asian
countries
in
> general and Islamic countries in particular."
>
> Replying to a question, he said, "We encourage the process of
> reconciliation, democracy and development in Pakistan. We hope for the
> restoration of calm in the tribal region. We want to work with Pakistan
to
> make whatever modest contribution we can to help stabilize another
brotherly
> Muslim country of the region, Afghanistan."
>
> Iftekhar said Bangladesh's soft power lies in ideas like
micro-credit
> and non-formal education. "We are already spreading these concepts to
> countries with which we share commonalities, for we believe these are
values
> that will bring about poverty alleviation, women's empowerment,
development
> and progress that are our ultimate goals."
>
> The foreign adviser, who is now in Muscat, will sign an agreement
on
> manpower export and another on avoidance of double taxation with Oman,
said
> a Foreign Ministry press release here yesterday.
>
>
>
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