Bangladesh PM highlights efforts underway in Egypt to deepen stability

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Shiek Hasina highlighted her country’s relationship with Egypt in different areas. She said that her government was closely following enormous efforts being made by President Abdel-Fatah el-Sisi to deepen stability and security in his country.

“Stability in Egypt will have a positive impact on the entire region,” the Bangladesh Prime minister said as she underlined Egypt’s central and fundamentally important geopolitical and geo-economic role, regionally and internationally.

The Prime Minister of Bangladesh said that June 30 Revolution had definitely turned a new chapter in the modern history of Egypt. She admired the Egyptian people for rallying behind their political leadership of President el-Sisi to preserve Egypt’s identity and history.

In her statement, Sheikh Hasina praised Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, for his sincere efforts to renew the religious speech. She said that Al-Azhar had always been the beacon of moderate Islam. “Throughout its history, Al-Azhar has been giving top priority to preserve the image of Islam and deliver its peaceful message to humanity,” the Bangladesh Prime Minister asserted. She noted that being the land of Al-Azhar, Egypt had never been a suitable environment for fundamentalism or extremism.

Sheikh Hasina gave her statement during a reception she accorded to journalist Mohssen Arishie, Managing-Editor of the Egyptian Gazette. During the meeting, Arishie presented to the Bangladesh Prime Minister his new book “Sheikh Hasina…Facts and Mythologies”, which highlights the enormous sacrifices given by Bangladesh people during the Liberation War in 1971 to gain their independence. About three million Bengali people were killed and hundreds of women and girls were raped during the Liberation War.

In his book, Arishie revived emotional details Sheikh Hasina was put through in her life, especially when her father Sheikh Mujibur-Rahman and almost his entire family were assassinated by Jamaa Islamiya. Sheikh Hasina and her younger sister Rihana were the only survivors of the massacre, which hit the family on August 15, 1975.

Sheikh Hasina acknowledged Arishie for his honest and thoroughly-reviewed account of her determination to pursue her father’s ambitions by helping her people heal their bleeding wounds and rise from the ashes.