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BD Parliamentary Panel suggests Indian route for Asian Highway


A parliamentary watchdog has suggested that Bangladesh take the India route to link to the Asian Highway network instead of the route that runs through Myanmar.

However, the parliamentary standing committee on communications ministry stopped short of making final recommendations on the Indian route for the hook-up to the 141,000 kilometres of standardised roadways crisscrossing 32 Asian countries with linkages to Europe.

Nazrul Islam Manju, the lone member of the main opposition BNP, did not oppose the suggestions of the standing committee dominated by ruling Awami League MPs.

The BNP says the Asian Highway must enter Bangladesh from India and then connect China via Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries.

The party says the government was planning to give India transit facilities—a politically sensitive issue in Bangladesh—to help the neighbour to reach its economically backward northeastern states.

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