ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is ready to provide assistance to Bangladesh to copewith the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis if asked, foreign minister KhwajaAsif has said.
“If Bangladesh wants us to help in refugee crisis, we are ready to help.But the state of our relationship with Bangladesh is not the way it shouldbe. Bur as far as refugees are concerned, we will be glad to provide helpto Bangladesh,” Asif said.
The recent outbreak of violence in Rakine and subsequent influx of refugeesto Bangladesh started in August 2017.
Then the country’s authorities launched an operation against Rohingyamilitants in response to coordinated attacks on several police posts.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), morethan 650,000 refugees have fled to Bangladesh in the recent months fleeingfrom violence.