Bangladesh Delays Decision on PM's India Visit Amid Extradition Request Uncertainty

Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's office said on Friday that Dhaka had yet to decide on his proposed visit to India, which could coincide with the BRICS summit next month, amid uncertainty over the trip. "No decision has been made yet on his India visit," the prime minister's Press Secretary AAM Saleh Shibly told PTI. He said Bangladesh was awaiting New Delhi's response to its request for the extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and "other fugitive criminals" currently staying in India. Shibly's comments came a day after the state-run BSS news agency quoted the premier's foreign affairs adviser Humayun Kobir as saying that Dhaka was in "no hurry to arrange a top-level visit without clearly defined national interests". "There is no justification for rushing into a top-level visit by going beyond the national interest," Kobir said.