The newly-appointed Chief of Army Staff General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq today paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the latter's Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban office here.
Bangladesh ranked third in South Asia in terms of peaceful nation, while in the global context, its position is 84 out of 162 countries, according to the nonprofit Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).
The government has launched a development project to minimize the impact and losses caused by the natural calamity like earthquake in Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj and Sylhet cities.
Terming Bangladesh Army as the pride of all countrymen, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today hoped that Bangladesh Army would move forward by upholding the spirit of the War of Liberation.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hosted an iftar for war-wounded freedom fighters (FFs), orphans, physically-challenged children and alem-ulema (Islamic scholars) at her official Ganobhaban residence on the second day of holy Ramadan today.