Pakistan Navy Chief arrives in Dhaka to bolster Defence Cooperation

Pakistan’s Navy Chief Admiral Naveed Ashraf on Sunday (November 9, 2025) met Bangladesh’s Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman and held talks along with his counterpart Admiral M. Nazmul Hassan, throughout his go to to bolster bilateral defence ties, based on an official assertion.

“They (Ashraf and Zaman) mentioned methods to strengthen bilateral defence cooperation and army capabilities. They additionally mentioned prospects of expanded army cooperation by bilateral coaching, seminars, and visits,” Defence Ministry’s Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) directorate or media wing stated in a press release.

The four-day go to got here a day after a Pakistani naval ship, PNS SAIF, anchored off Bangladesh’s predominant port in southeastern Chattogram for a four-day goodwill go to.

Pakistan Navy, stated in a press release, the event is a coordinated engagement that underscored Islamabad’s “dedication to strengthen longstanding ties and enhance maritime collaboration with Bangladesh”.

Earlier within the day, Hassan obtained his Pakistani counterpart on the airport, the place a Bangladeshi naval contingent supplied him an honour guard. Ashraf paid homage to the 1971 Liberation War martyrs of the armed forces, inserting wreaths at their memorial, Shikha Anirban, in Dhaka Cantonment.

The ISPR stated the 2 navy chiefs’ assembly featured issues associated to coaching {and professional} collaboration. The assembly was additionally attended by visiting Pakistani navy delegation members, its excessive commissioner in Dhaka and senior Bangladeshi navy officers.

Mr. Ashraf’s Bangladesh go to got here two weeks after Pakistan’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) chairman General Sahir Shamshad Mirza visited Bangladesh and met interim Government Chief Muhammad Yunus and three armed forces chiefs.

Bangladesh-Pakistan ties witnessed a fast improvement after the ouster of deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, in a student-led avenue protest known as the July Uprising, which put in Mr. Yunus as the pinnacle of the interim administration.

According to ISPR, the Pakistan Navy Chief is scheduled to satisfy Bangladesh’s Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal Hasan Mahmood Khan and the principal workers officer of the Armed Forces Division, the commandant of the National Defence College, and naval administrative authorities within the southwestern port metropolis of Chattogram.