DHAKA:

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar on Saturday touched down in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka in a landmark visit that seeks to rebuild ties between two brotherly countries.

Dar is the most senior Pakistani official to visit Dhaka since 2012, with Islamabad calling it a "significant milestone in Pakistan-Bangladesh relations".

Hina Rabbani Khar was the last foreign minister to travel to Dhaka, where she extended an invitation to then prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wajid, for the D-8 summit. Relations between Pakistan and Bangladesh remained tense during Hasina's 15-year tenure.

The two countries are expected to sign several agreements, including on trade, on Sunday.

While addressing a news conference at Pakistan's High Commission in Dhaka soon after his arr

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