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’.
![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)
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)








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