Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met Bangladeshi Parliament Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad during his visit to Tehran. The Taliban Foreign Ministry said the talks focused on expanding bilateral ties, particularly trade cooperation.
During the meeting, Muttaqi described the trade potential between Afghanistan and Bangladesh as significant and called for greater use of these opportunities to promote what he described as the two countries’ economic growth.
The Speaker of Bangladesh’s parliament described relations between the two countries as longstanding and expressed hope that Afghanistan’s economic reconstruction would help strengthen bilateral trade.
The meeting comes nearly five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Owing to widespread human rights violations, particularly restrictions on women’s and girls’ rights to work and education, the Taliban administration has not been formally recognised by any Islamic country, including Bangladesh. Taliban officials have sought to reduce the group’s international isolation by expanding economic ties with regional countries.
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