Hyderabad: Despite thorny diplomatic relations with Bangladesh, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's call to his counterpart Sheikh Hasina, just ahead of latter's India visit, has raised eyebrows of many.
Political pundits believe that the sudden change in Khan's attitude and friendly behaviour towards Bangladesh must be aiming at something fishy.
After a flop show at the 74th United Nation General Assembly over Kashmir dispute in New York, this might be Khan's new strategy to reignite the long-lasting issue on the international platform.
Khan might have approached Hasina seeking her support over Kashmir just a day before her departure to India, think-tanks believe.
Officials familiar to Islamabad-Dhaka ties said this is the first time when Khan called Hasina ever since he assumed office last year.
The current ties between Bangladesh and Pakistan are described to be worst in the recent decades over the trial and execution of several high-profile collaborators in the past several years on the 1971 war crime charges. The two nations expelled each other's diplomats after war criminals executions.
Diplomatic ties between Dhaka and Islamabad worsened further in 2016 when Pakistan was forced to take back three of its officials, including a woman diplomat, over their alleged links with Islamist militants.
Foreign secretary-level talks have not taken place between the two countries over the last four years.
