- Trade follows the eviction of the longtime PM of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina.
- India’s relations with the new government of Bangladesh Frosty since then.
- The first container carrier left Karachi in Chittagong in November 2024.
Pakistan and Bangladesh began direct government trade in government after decades of troubled relations with imports of 50,000 tonnes of rice, Dacca said on Tuesday.
The last development comes from months after the Prime Minister of Bangladais for a long time, Sheikh Hasina, was ousted in a revolution of August 2024, fleeing the helicopter to her former Ally India, where she made requests for extradition To deal with accusations of crimes against humanity.
Relations between India and the new Bangladesh government have been freezing since then, allowing Islamabad and Dhaka to slowly reconstruct the links.
Direct private trade between countries restarted in November 2024, when a container carrier sailed from Karachi to Chittagong in Bangladesh.
It was the first cargo cargo for decades to navigate directly between countries.
“For the first time, we import 50,000 tonnes of rice from Pakistan, and this is the first government agreement to government between the two countries,” Ziauddin Ahmed, a senior Ministry of Food in Food on Tuesday, DACCA.
The Bangladesh General Directorate of Foods signed a memorandum of understanding with the trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) in January for rice imports.
Ahmed has said that trade with Pakistan offers a “new competitive source and price avenue”, state authorities in recent years the India, Thailand and Vietnam clip.
Imports are essential for Bangladesh Bas, a nation that is among the most vulnerable in the world to climate change, with large areas made up of Deltas where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers wrap towards the sea.
The country of 170 million is particularly at risk of devastating floods and cyclones – disasters that are only accelerating while the planet continues to warm up.
Private Bangladais companies imported Pakistani rice for years, but Pakistani products had to be discharged on food ships – generally in Sri Lanka, Malaysia or Singapore – before traveling.
