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Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met Bangladesh Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr. Hasan Mahud at the Chattogram Airport during a brief stopover.
He was on way to Cambodia to attend the 29th Ministerial meeting of ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) being held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 4-6 August. said the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka.
Bangladesh Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr. Hasan Mahmud presented a book about Bangladesh to Bilawal Bhutto while the Pakistan Foreign Minister also gifted him a book about Pakistan. The Pakistan Foreign Minister stayed at the airport for about 40 minutes.
The Pakistan Foreign Minister conveyed his compliments and best wishes to the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Dr. A K Abdul Momen.
It is alleged that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s ( Grand father of Bilawal Bhutto) decision (on February 15, 1971) to boycott the inaugural session of the newly elected National Assembly led to the breakup of Pakistan. Bhutto’s opponents, still refer to “Idhar hum, udhar tum”, a slogan, they allege, Bhutto raised for the division of the country. The slogan literally meant, you on that side and us on this side.