【引用:Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already said her government did not receive any formal proposal from the US about sending troops. "So there is no question of sending troops," she told her party's advisory council members during a meeting Saturday.All Awami League advisers urged Hasina,
【引用:"(We) believe that the leader of Bangladesh has enough Islamic knowledge and political wit not to involve his people in the fight against Islam and against the Afghan people by sending a few hundred soldiers to Afghanistan," the message said.】
【引用:US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke made the plea before Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at a meeting in New York. Dipu Moni assured the US envoy of further talks on the issue. Diplomatic analysts in Dhaka, however, say it is risky to send troops to Afghanistan righ