{"id":3119,"date":"2026-02-16T07:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:59:26","slug":"ahsan-iqbal-to-attend-bangladeshs-pm-elect-tarique-rehmans-oath-taking-ceremony-in-dhaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=3119","title":{"rendered":"Ahsan Iqbal to attend Bangladesh\u2019s PM-elect Tarique Rehman\u2019s oath-taking ceremony in Dhaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/02\/161254395335145.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal is set to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Bangladesh\u2019s Prime Minister-elect Tarique Rahman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who won a landslide victory in last week\u2019s elections, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The election was the first since a deadly 2024 uprising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1850245\"><u>ousted<\/u><\/a> the iron-fisted rule of Sheikh Hasina. Rahman is a scion of one of Bangladesh\u2019s most powerful political dynasties.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued today, the FO said that Iqbal will represent Pakistan at the oath-taking ceremony, scheduled to be held on February 17 in Dhaka.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--left  media--embed  media--uneven media--tweet\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ForeignOfficePk\/status\/2023286119165825305\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--twitter  \"><span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForeignOfficePk\/status\/2023286119165825305\"><\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>More to follow<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1973651\/ahsan-iqbal-to-attend-bangladeshs-pm-elect-tarique-rehmans-oath-taking-ceremony-in-dhaka\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal is set to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Bangladesh\u2019s Prime Minister-elect Tarique Rahman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who won&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}