New Delhi: India and Bangladesh held a crucial security-level meeting in New Delhi on Wednesday as Bangladesh escalated its push to extradite ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India. Bangladesh’s National Security Advisor Khalilur Rahman met Indian NSA Ajit Doval. This meeting has been the highest level engagement ever since the interim government under Muhammad Yunus took charge.

The meeting comes just days after Bangladesh formally asked India to hand over Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal. He called them “fugitive accused.” Bangladesh invoked its extradition treaty with India and said it is India’s “obligatory responsibility” to return the former leaders.

Key bilateral issues discussed

A press release by the Bangladesh government said that the count

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