President, PM felicitate BNP on election victory
President Asif Ali Zardari extended his felicitations to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its leader, Tarique Rahman, on securing a landslide majority in the national elections.
The BNP won an overwhelming two-thirds majority in the general elections and Tarique Rahman is widely expected to be sworn in as prime minister.
The BNP and its allies have secured at least 212 of the 299 seats up for grabs, local media said. The opposition Jamaat-e-Islami and its allies won 70 seats in the Jatiya Sangsad, or House of the Nation.
The president, in a statement, congratulated the people of Bangladesh on the successful conduct of the polls across 299 seats with the participation of over 127 million registered voters.
Reaffirming Pakistan’s support for the sovereignty and democratic aspirations of Bangladesh, the president said that Pakistan looked forward to working with the new government to strengthen cooperation in trade, defence, cultural exchanges and regional forums.
President Zardari said that the elections in Bangladesh marked an opportunity for South Asia to move beyond past phases in which regional cooperation, including within SAARC was held hostage by India which continued to paralyse the great forum that was born in Bangladesh in 1985.
He expressed the hope that the new political environment in Dhaka would contribute to more balanced, independent and mutually respectful engagement across the region. He also conveyed his best wishes for the continued stability, progress and prosperity of Bangladesh.
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has also extended felicitations to Tarique Rahman on leading the BNP to a resounding victory in the Parliamentary elections in Bangladesh.
In a post on X, the prime minister congratulated the people of Bangladesh on the successful conduct of the elections.
“I look forward to working closely with the new Bangladesh leadership to further strengthen our historic, brotherly multifaceted bilateral relations and advance our shared goals of peace, stability, and development in South Asia and beyond,” he added.