"It is particularly important that we keep our eye on the overall direction of developments, rather than get excessively fixated with individual events." The comment is seen as a reference to the Jul 1 terror attack at an upscale café in Dhaka's diplomatic zone Gulshan. India has said before that Bangladesh's efforts to fight back terror after the attack, which left 22 people, mostly foreigners killed, should be seen in the right perspective. Jaishankar's pitch was broadly supported by Angela Aggeler, US State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. But 'Ananda Bazar Patrika' quoted Aggeler as saying that though the US was 'firmly behind' Bangladesh's fight against terror, it had reservations about the war crimes trials and the way Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali was recently hanged.

Source: bd News24 September 10, 2016 07:30 UTC