National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met his Bangladeshi counterpart Khalilur Rahman in New Delhi on Wednesday, ahead of the Seventh NSA-level Meeting of the Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) in New Delhi on November 20.

The Bangladesh High Commission said the two advisers reviewed the CSC’s ongoing work and exchanged views on bilateral matters, with Rahman also inviting Doval to visit Bangladesh at a suitable time.

Although presented as a routine preparatory discussion, the meeting carries unusual diplomatic weight since he is only the second senior Bangladeshi official to visit India since the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India in August 2024. Hasina was sentenced to death by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal a day before Rahman’s Delhi visit. Dhaka

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