PM's adviser meets Indian security adviser

5 May 2010, 18:00 PM

Our Correspondent, New Delhi

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Economic Affairs Adviser Dr Mashiur Rahman yesterday had a meeting with Indian National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon and discussed bilateral security cooperation. The hour-long meeting between Mashiur and Menon, who has the rank of a minister of state, held at the latter's office kicked off a series of meetings Hasina's adviser is going to have with Indian ministers aiming to expeditiously implement various decisions taken during her visit to India in January. There was no official word from either side on what transpired at the meeting between Mashiur and Menon, but the two deliberated at length security cooperation between the two countries. Mashiur, who is leading a high-level team of officials as a follow-up of the talks between Hasina and Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the 16th Saarc Summit in Thimphu, is expected to call Indian Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today to discuss the proposal for export of 200MW of electricity to Bangladesh. He is also expected to call on Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal but the date and timing for them are yet to be finalised, sources said.