Pakistan seeks new South Asian bloc to cut India out: Will it work?
Pakistan says an emerging three-way cooperation with Bangladesh and China could be ‘expanded and duplicated’.
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Pakistan says an emerging three-way cooperation with Bangladesh and China could be ‘expanded and duplicated’.
![Mohammad Touhid Hossain, foreign affairs adviser of Bangladesh's interim government and Ishaq Dar, Pakistan's foreign minister, attend a bilateral meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh [File: Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Handout via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-08-25T130517Z_833717084_RC2CEGAMDIVR_RTRMADP_3_BANGLADESH-PAKISTAN-POLITICS-1764892848.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)


![Field Marshal Asim Munir (centre) is flanked by Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Baber Sidhu (left) and Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf (right) on May 19, a day before he was awarded the five-star rank by the government [Handout/Inter-Services Public Relations]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/14329-1763072724.jpeg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)




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