Bangladesh's interim government has recalled five envoys, including the ambassador to neighbouring India, in a major diplomatic reshuffle, a foreign ministry official said on Thursday. Major political changes in the South Asian nation ushered in the interim government led by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus after weeks of violent protests forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign on August 5 and flee to India.

The interim government in Bangladesh withdrew its high commissioner to India, Mustafizur Rahman with immediate effect, a day after the Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka, Pranay Verma met and discussed ways to promote bilateral relations between two neighbouring countries with the Foreign Affairs Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh,

The orders issued by the administration division of Bangladesh’s foreign ministry have not gone down well within the country’s foreign service