Dhaka: Syed Muazzem Ali, Bangladesh’s former foreign secretary and a “good friend” of India, died due to old-age complications at a hospital here on Monday. He was 75.
Ali, who served as Bangladesh’s immediate-past High Commissioner to India, passed away at the Combined Military Hospital in the capital where he was undergoing treatment, family sources were quoted as saying by the Bangladeshi newspapers.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar expressed grief over Ali’s demise, saying he was a “good friend” of India.
Born in 1944, Ali joined the Pakistan Foreign Service in 1968, and retired in December 2001.
While serving in the Pakistan embassy in Washington in 1971, he declared his allegiance to Bangladesh, the Dhaka Tribune reported. (PTI)
