Nisha Biswal to arrive Dhaka tomorrow

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow. 

 

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow for a two-day official visit in the wake of terrorist attack at a Gulshan café in Dhaka on July 1 that left 22 people including 17 foreigners and two police officers dead.

During her visit to Dhaka, Biswas will meet with the high government officials including the home minister and foreign minister.

She may also call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, diplomatic sources in Dhaka and Washington said.

Biswal will discuss the security situation in Bangladesh following the July 1 attack, US offer for support in investigation into the attack, security for US embassy officials and US facilities in Bangladesh.

She visited Dhaka on May 5 and 6 after the brutal murder of USAID staff Xulhaz Mannan in Dhaka on April 25.

Twenty hostages were brutally murdered during the chilling siege on July 1 before the commandoes stormed the popular hangout in Dhaka's diplomatic zone next morning.

Nine Italians, seven Japanese, two Bangladeshis, one Bangladeshi-American and one Indian were killed among others.

To policemen were also killed on the day of the attack at Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan.

Thirteen hostages were rescued while six of the gunmen, who attacked the upscale eatery on Road 79 Friday night, were killed in the 50-minute army-led joint forces operation codenamed "Operation Thunderbolt".

The seventh attacker was held in the operation beginning at 7:40am, officials said.