Amid warming ties, Bengalis in Pakistan plan family reunions

KARACHI: Shah Alam travelled from his home in Bangladesh to Pakistan for a brief visit nearly three decades ago, but flaring hostility between the two countries and financial woes left him stranded in Karachi. Now the 60-year-old, who makes a modest living selling dried seafood, is determined to return to his birthplace, having already missed the deaths of his parents and first wife in Bangladesh. Direct flights between Pakistan and Bangladesh finally resumed last month after a 14-year pause,...

By none@none.com (AFP)