The interim government in Bangladesh has issued orders recalling envoys to key capitals, including High Commissioner to India Mustafizur Rahman. The others recalled are the permanent representative to the UN in New York and the envoys to Australia, Belgium and Portuga, as per a government order. Some of the envoys who were recalled, including Rahman, were set to retire in the coming months.
Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus is running the interim government in Bangladesh after weeks of violent protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India on August 5.
Recently, Saida Muna Tasneem, the high commissioner to the UK, was asked to return to Dhaka.
Soon after the unrest in the country, Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs in August instructed seven of its envoys posted overseas, including those in the United States and Russia, to return to Dhaka immediately. These envoys were on contractual postings and had been appointed by the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led government.
The envoys who were recalled included Ambassador Mohammad Imran in Washington, Ambassador Javed Patwary in Saudi Arabia, Ambassador Kamrul Hasan in Russia, Ambassador Shahabuddin Ahmed in Japan, Ambassador Abu Zafar in the UAE, Ambassador Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan in Germany, and High Commissioner Rear Admiral SM Abul Kalam Azad in the Maldives.
The foreign ministry had served a separate notice to each of these envoys, asking them to relinquish their current responsibilities and promptly report back to the headquarters in Dhaka.
Besides these seven envoys, five other officials who were posted abroad were instructed to return home.