India ties hit as it backs & hosts Hasina: Muhammad Yunus

Slamming India for backing erstwhile Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, main advisor Muhammad Yunus said connected Wednesday that Dhaka's ties with New Delhi are strained besides due to the fact that India didn't similar past year's pupil protests that led to her ouster. "They (India) are hosting Hasina who created each these problems and killed young people," Yunus said during his sojourn to New York to be UNGA. He besides alleged, "lots of fake quality is emanating from the different broadside (India)". The interim govt successful Dhaka has accused Hasina of committing "crimes against humanity" to quell the uprising against her govt during July-Aug past year. It has requested India to extradite her, but determination has been nary effect from the latter.In a abstracted gathering with Finland President Alexander Stubb, Yunus said trials of "Hasina and her cronies are a apical precedence of his govt".Yunus calls reports of rising Islamic fundamentalism successful B'desh 'fake news' While pushing for the revival of Saarc, Yunus laid accent connected determination practice connected the economical front, but said determination are "problems with India close present due to the fact that they did not similar what the students person done successful Bangladesh. And that creates a batch of hostility betwixt the 2 nations," helium said astatine a speech hosted by Asia Society and Asia Society Policy Institute.

The main advisor besides appeared to blasted India for Saarc summits not happening since 2014, but stopped abbreviated of mentioning names. "We wanted to bring this unneurotic truthful that young radical tin get successful interaction with each different - each region, not conscionable 1 country, each the countries - they tin sojourn each other, marque friends with each other, survey successful universities, colleges, wherever they are, they spell bash concern successful each other's countries.

That was the full idea," Yunus said. "Our past gives america the accidental to marque that happen, but someway it didn't acceptable into the authorities of 1 country, truthful we had to halt that. So, we consciousness precise atrocious for that. We privation to marque definite that we unfastened it up and bring radical together," helium said. Yunus dismissed accounts of emergence successful Islamic fundamentalism successful Bangladesh arsenic "fake news".