Jaishankar's visit will boost India-Bangladesh ties: Farooq Abdullah

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Jan 1 lauded External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's Bangladesh visit to attend former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's funeral, calling Dhaka "an old friend." “I am happy that our foreign affairs minister has gone there and took part in it (in Former Bangladeshi PM Khaleda Zia's funeral). Bangladesh is an old friend of ours, and we should take it forward. It will give a boost to it,” said Farooq Abdullah. “This is our destiny. Some people have a different aim. They are pursuing Hitler's path, and they want that Hitler-like governance to be here. Hitler shot himself, and Nazism is gone. This time will come here too when these extremists are gone,” he added.