Former Foreign Secretary of India Kanwal Sibal has sharply criticised the Bangladesh government after it issued a press statement demanding the immediate extradition of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India. Hasina, who has been living in India since her ouster last year, was recently handed the death penalty in absentia by a Bangladesh tribunal over the violent anti-government protests that engulfed the country in August 2024. Advertisement

Calling the current Bangladesh administration “Islamic, anti-India oriented and unelected,” Sibal said in a social media post that the Bangladesh government was “playing to the gallery” by attempting to escalate tensions with New Delhi.

He argued that Dhaka’s public demand for Hasina’s extradition—made even before formally approaching the I

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