Pakistan Views

Bangladesh’s military-backed emergency government said on Wednesday it hoped Pakistan’s parliamentary elections signalled ‘a new dawn of stability’ for the country.
“We congratulate those who have won for their victory and also those who have lost for the spirit in which they have accepted the results,” Bangladesh’s foreign minister Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said.
“We hope that this will usher in a new dawn of stability and prosperity in Pakistan,” he said in a statement.
Muslim-majority Bangladesh is a longstanding ally of Pakistan from which it won independence after a nine-month war in 1971.
Bangladesh is being ruled by a military-backed caretaker government after the country’s president cancelled general elections and declared a state of emergency in January 2007 following months of political turmoil.
The Bangladesh government has promised polls by the end of the year after pushing through major electoral, political and administrative reforms and cleaning up the country’s notoriously corrupt politics.