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Mohammad Yunus, head of the interim government of Bangladesh, has taken a big step by raising the flag against India. Yunus, along with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and CDF Asim Munir, has decided to restart the direct flight service which was closed for 14 years. Bangladesh and Pakistan are set to resume direct flights after more than a decade, Dhaka’s national airline announced on Thursday.
According to Pakistani newspaper ‘Dawn’, Biman Bangladesh Airlines is going to start its first flight between Dhaka-Karachi on January 29 and this flight will operate twice a week, which will be the first regular flights since 2012.
Bangladesh Airlines announced
“We are restarting the Dhaka-Karachi route with two flights a week,” airline manager Bosra Islam told AFP on Thursday.
“The resumption of direct flights will significantly improve connectivity between Bangladesh and Pakistan, thereby promoting business travel, tourism and family reunions,” Biman Bangladesh Airlines said in a statement.
How to reach Karachi from Dhaka till now?
Passengers traveling between Bangladesh and Pakistan currently have to use connecting flights through major airports in the Gulf countries such as Dubai and Doha. Apart from this, in November 2024, the movement of cargo ships from Karachi to Chittagong, the major port of Bangladesh, started again.
Pak-Bangladesh relations were unstable during Sheikh Hasina’s time
Last month, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Haider, during a meeting with Chief Advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus, had expressed hope that direct flights between Karachi and Dhaka would start in January. Let us tell you that relations between Pakistan and Bangladesh always remained unstable when Sheikh Hasina was the Prime Minister. However, after the coup, the friendship between the two countries increased so much that the leaders of Bangladesh are now rejecting the country which gave them independence.
Ishaq Dar had met Yunus
Recently, Pakistan National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq had gone to Dhaka to attend the funeral of the country’s first woman Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. In August 2025, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar also visited Dhaka and met Yunus.