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India, Pakistan should engage in talks: Bangladeshi experts
Shahidul Islam Chowdhury | Published: 00:00, Feb 28,2019
http://www.newagebd.net/article/66010/india-pakistan-should-engage-in-talks-bangladeshi-experts
Bangladeshi experts on security and foreign relations on Wednesday observed that India and Pakistan should immediately stop skirmish along their borders and resolve whatever problem they had through talks for greater interests of South Asia.
All countries in South Asia will be adversely affected in multiple aspects, including addressing poverty, attracting foreign investment and trade, if India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers, continue to escalate tension with armed conflicts, they said.
‘Bangladesh will certainly be adversely affected by any scale of armed conflict between India and Pakistan as we are a part of the region,’ said former Bangladesh Army chief M Harun-Ar-Rashid.
Continued armed conflict between India and Pakistan will also create security concerns for Bangladesh, said Harun, also a gallantry award winning freedom fighter. ‘Terrorist outfits maintain tentacles here too and we need to stay alert and keep eye on them,’ he added.
‘Foreign countries see South Asia as a region and assess things from regional perspectives,’ he said, adding that Bangladesh’s import from India will be hampered.
Indian Border Security Force has issued an alert along border with Bangladesh amid volatile situation along the borders of the country with Pakistan, according to several Indian media.
The Bangladesh government is, however, yet to make any statement on the ongoing skirmish between Indai and Pakistan.
Bangladesh Enterprise Institute acting president M Humayun Kabir warned that entire South Asia would be adversely affected if India and Pakistan continued skirmish for a longer period.
Anything between India and Pakistan ‘compel us [Bangladesh] to take a position which does not serve our own interests,’ said Kabir, also former foreign secretary.
Poverty is a common enemy in South Asian countries, he said, adding
that all the countries should avoid conflict at all levels.
Dhaka University international relations professor Imtiaz Ahmed said that the two countries must deescalate armed
conflicts as skirmishes had already began to affect the region as several airlines stopped their flights, some airports were shut down and many flights were rerouted.
The two nuclear powers cannot afford to engage in full scale war which will eventually pollute the entire region, he said.
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies chairman Munshi Faiz Ahmad said that armed conflicts and war would serve interests of none of India and Pakistan, let along other countries in South Asia.
Only arms producers and traders, local and foreign quarters which spread fear and jingoism, will be in favour of war and armed conflict, he said, adding that resources used to procure arms and weapons could be spent for fulfilling people’s basic needs.
These two countries could try for creative ideas to resolve crisis what they have been nurturing for over seven decades, he added.
They hoped that the two feuding countries would begin negotiations at the earliest as Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan already offered to resolve the crisis through talks.
Shahidul Islam Chowdhury | Published: 00:00, Feb 28,2019
http://www.newagebd.net/article/66010/india-pakistan-should-engage-in-talks-bangladeshi-experts
Bangladeshi experts on security and foreign relations on Wednesday observed that India and Pakistan should immediately stop skirmish along their borders and resolve whatever problem they had through talks for greater interests of South Asia.
All countries in South Asia will be adversely affected in multiple aspects, including addressing poverty, attracting foreign investment and trade, if India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers, continue to escalate tension with armed conflicts, they said.
‘Bangladesh will certainly be adversely affected by any scale of armed conflict between India and Pakistan as we are a part of the region,’ said former Bangladesh Army chief M Harun-Ar-Rashid.
Continued armed conflict between India and Pakistan will also create security concerns for Bangladesh, said Harun, also a gallantry award winning freedom fighter. ‘Terrorist outfits maintain tentacles here too and we need to stay alert and keep eye on them,’ he added.
‘Foreign countries see South Asia as a region and assess things from regional perspectives,’ he said, adding that Bangladesh’s import from India will be hampered.
Indian Border Security Force has issued an alert along border with Bangladesh amid volatile situation along the borders of the country with Pakistan, according to several Indian media.
The Bangladesh government is, however, yet to make any statement on the ongoing skirmish between Indai and Pakistan.
Bangladesh Enterprise Institute acting president M Humayun Kabir warned that entire South Asia would be adversely affected if India and Pakistan continued skirmish for a longer period.
Anything between India and Pakistan ‘compel us [Bangladesh] to take a position which does not serve our own interests,’ said Kabir, also former foreign secretary.
Poverty is a common enemy in South Asian countries, he said, adding
that all the countries should avoid conflict at all levels.
Dhaka University international relations professor Imtiaz Ahmed said that the two countries must deescalate armed
conflicts as skirmishes had already began to affect the region as several airlines stopped their flights, some airports were shut down and many flights were rerouted.
The two nuclear powers cannot afford to engage in full scale war which will eventually pollute the entire region, he said.
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies chairman Munshi Faiz Ahmad said that armed conflicts and war would serve interests of none of India and Pakistan, let along other countries in South Asia.
Only arms producers and traders, local and foreign quarters which spread fear and jingoism, will be in favour of war and armed conflict, he said, adding that resources used to procure arms and weapons could be spent for fulfilling people’s basic needs.
These two countries could try for creative ideas to resolve crisis what they have been nurturing for over seven decades, he added.
They hoped that the two feuding countries would begin negotiations at the earliest as Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan already offered to resolve the crisis through talks.
